gameNgame.com Invites Online Gamers to Four Days of Gaming Events Happening In New York City and Los Angeles

gameNgame.com Invites Online Gamers to Four Days of Gaming Events Happening In New York City and Los Angeles

Participants to Enjoy Free Games, Food and Giveaways Plus Meet with Developers and Have Chances to Win Cool Prizes

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- gameNgame.com (http://www.gamengame.com/), a new web portal dedicated to promoting MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) based games developed in South Korea, invites U.S.-based online gamers to its four day gaming extravaganza, "2004 Happy Christmas LAN Party." The event will be held in New York City on December 7th and 8th at Web2Zone (http://www.web2zone.com/) game center, and in Los Angeles on December 10th and 11th at Internet PC Cafe (http://www.internetpccafe.com/) game center located in Gardena, Calif.

Throughout four days of events, participants will play games for free, meet with the developers, watch game trailers and earn chances to win a series of giveaways and prizes. Prizes will include notebook PCs, MP3 players, video cards, PDAs and much more.

Recently launched by iPark (http://www.iparksv.com/) on November 1, http://www.gamengame.com/ has been providing the details and full version downloads of four pre-released games including, d.o, Legend of Mir3, Navy Field and Shot-Online with "free" nationwide open play scheduled to run until the end of this year. iPark Silicon Valley, a U.S. business development subsidiary of the Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA), is promoting the thriving B2B relationships between South Korea and North America IT leaders. The Government of Republic of Korea -- Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC), operates KIPA.

"The visitor rate so far has been overwhelming with nearly 100,000 visitors over 20,000 registered users accessing at least one of the four latest upcoming Korean game titles," said Kevin Lee, Chief Executive Director, iPark Silicon Valley. "We are very excited about this onsite opportunity to meet with the players as we believe it will be a great way for us to begin building the community of fans for our games and at large, all future games developed in Korea."

With a Christmas theme, event participants will be greeted with free giveaways and guided by Mrs. Claus to each of the cool events on the floor throughout the day including free game-play, mini game tournaments, fan meetings and movie time for game trailers.

For those who cannot participate in the live gameNgame.com onsite events, gamers can still participate via online or directly from seventy participating game centers in North America. Online participants are also offered many chances to win prizes by participating in programs especially designed for them. More event details can be found by visiting http://www.gamengame.com/. To find participating game center locations, please visit http://www.igames.org/iPark.asp, a website for iGames, which is North America's leading game center organization representing independent and franchised game centers in over 20 countries.

Also one of the four gameNgame.com games, Shot-Online, started its first U.S. Open on November 29 at 7:00 PM CST. Following the preliminary round and main online championship scheduled to end on December 3rd at 11:00 PM CST, the four winners from the main championship will be able to play at the offline New York and Los Angeles finals as a part of the "2004 Happy Christmas LAN Party" programs. All North American online game players are invited to participate in Shot-Online's tournament. To learn more about the Shot-Online's U.S. Open, please visit http://www.shot-online.com/ .

About gameNgame.com

gameNgame.com is a free online game service provided by the Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA). The site is a one-stop portal to sample the latest Korea-made beta games and related information, all free. Upon finalizing each beta program, gameNgame.com's listed games will become available as the fee-based services in North America. From the site, North American online gamers can also visit each of the four game company's web site to learn more about how to participate in upcoming promotional events and tournaments and how to earn a chance to win great prizes.

About iPark Silicon Valley

iPark Silicon Valley (iPark SV) is a Korean government agency dedicated to the promotion of Korean's Digital Contents industry in North America. By connecting leading Korean developers with partners, iPark SV creates new business opportunities, accelerate time to market and establish long-term partnerships. iPark helps North America's distributors and publishers to bridge the connection to over 2,100 Korean Digital Content companies, including all the leading developers creating today the state-of-the art Digital Content of tomorrow.

About Participating Korean Games
-- d.o (http://www.doonline.co.kr/eng): Full 3D MMORPG Based Martial Arts
Game
-- Legend of Mir3 (http://www.legendofmir3.co.kr/ ): MMORPG Based Oriental
Fantasy Game
-- Navy Field (http://www.navyfield.com)/ MMO Based Navy Battle Simulation
Game
-- Shot Online (http://www.shot-online.com)/ Full 3D RPG Based Online Golf
Game



Source: iPark Silicon Valley

CONTACT: Jeannie Hong of iPark Silicon Valley, +1-415-713-4281, or
jhong@iparksv.com

Web site: http://www.iparksv.com/
http://www.gamengame.com/
http://www.doonline.co.kr/eng
http://www.legendofmir3.co.kr/
http://www.navyfield.com/
http://www.shot-online.com/
http://www.web2zone.com/
http://www.internetpccafe.com/


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