Shanghai Storm Information Technology Co., Ltd. or “Storm Entertainment” was founded in July of 2007 by William Zhu, a well-known entrepreneur and professional manager in the Chinese Internet space. Founding team members all came from the development and operational side of many successful Chinese online gaming companies.

Shanghai Storm has pioneered the business model of “Cool Games by Real Players”; therefore, it has attracted many elite class online gaming players to join its professional development team, aiming to build revolutionary games that are suited for the Chinese online gaming population and company brand name.

Since its founding two years ago, Storm Entertainment has released 5 internally developed games ranging from 2.5D MMORPG and web-games to Horizontal Chapter-Style Fighting Games, and has quickly become one of the fastest growing Chinese online gaming companies. In addition, the company’s first internally-developed game, <Yu Yan Online> has attracted and maintained 200,000 active concurrent users (ACU) since its release, and has also been commercially launched in Taiwan and Vietnam, demonstrating a strong following.

During the “2008 Qingdao Chinese Online Gaming Industry Conference”, Storm Entertainment has received the very influential “Most Innovative Chinese Online Gaming Company” Golden Peacock Award due to its superb track record and achievement. Mr. William Zhu, the company Chairman and CEO was also awarded “2008 Most Innovative Person in the Chinese Online Gaming Industry” title.

Storm Entertainment’s Shanghai headquarters occupies an office space of almost 3000 square meters, and has a staff of over 300 people. Changzhou Storm Entertainment, an subsidy established in the beginning of 2009 occupies an office space of almost 2000 square meters and has a planned research and development staff of over 200 people.

In 2009, Storm Entertainment will further step up efforts in developing overseas market and at the current time, the company is in active discussion and negotiation with many foreign gaming distributors in a dozen countries and regions including South East Asia, Mid-East, India and Russia.

Storm Entertainment plans to release 10 to 15 games every year in the next few years, building the company to a true world class online gaming company and providing its gaming customers with outstanding online gaming products and experiences.