Recently, Tang jun, CEO of Shanda Interative announced the plan to operate over 20 online games in 2008, soon after the joining-in of Korean MMO Dragonnest. He also reaveled 15 games separately coming for 2009 and 2010. According to plan, Shanda is going to operate over 50 online games in the future market. A online game giant which based on platform is now emerging.

At the earlier Q3 conference call, Chen Tianqiao, president of Shanda had made clear of the four key points for licensing, self-development, investment and co-development, which showed the strong appeal of Shanda as the No.1 in online game industry. Let''s check what Shanda has in hand:

Licensing: Cangtian, Aion, Grangonnest, freejack...

Co-development: DOA, Company of Heroes...

Invest in development: X-Pingpong and more games cooperated with Korean Actoz, Adventure of Tomb Raider, Legend of Apotheosize and more games in plan.

Self-develop: Disney Magicboard Online, Over the World, and several secret projects.

Industry insider said: ''With so many games coming, Shanda has not only showed its financial strength and power, the identification of platform advantage is the key.'' Analyst also pointed out that the join force of new games will bring the development of shanda into the next step, and making its position as the No.1 more stable.