Mainland China's World of Warcraft (WoW) operator The9 continues to beef up its game pipeline. The9 announced on Monday that it has licensed MMOFPS Huxley from Korean online game developer Webzen. The announcement comes a few days before The9 (Nasdaq: NCTY) announces fourth quarter 2006 earnings and a month after The9 announced its licensing deal with Gravity for MMORPG Ragnarok Online 2 . China Cyber Port (CCP), who also owns the China publishing license to CounterStrike, is set to launch open beta testing of Sudden Attack. CDC Corporation, the operator of popular MMORPG Yulgang, has licensed Special Forces. The two games have replaced CounterStrike as the most popular FPS in Korea. If these two games can break CounterStrike's stranglehold on China's FPS market, The9's two games may have a future.  Buy cheap wow gold here !

The9 and WoW's developer Blizzard Entertainment had been arguing over the license to the expansion for nearly a year. The two companies' quarrel became public when Blizzard released an ambiguous announcement concerning The Burning Crusade in April 2006. While The9 and most investors thought the company already had the rights to the expansion when it signed the licensing contract in 2004, Blizzard's announcement in 2006 asked The9 to negotiate for the rights to the expansion. The9 currently receives 99 percent of its revenues from WoW, and is anxious to lose its "one game company" stigma. Currently, The9 has NCsoft's Guild Wars in open beta testing and Webzen's Soul of The Ultimate Nation (SUN) in closed beta testing. Huxley and RO2 add to a strong pipeline that also includes Flagship Studio's Hellgate: London. Hellgate: London is an FPS game as well, giving The9 two chances to break into China's FPS market.   You can buy cheap wow gold here ,we have cheap wow gold for sale !