Digital River Handles Online Sales of NCsoft Products through oneNetwork Marketplace
Expands downloadable game catalog with a variety of titles from leading online game publisher
MINNEAPOLIS, May 31, 2006 -- Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced that it recently signed an agreement with NCsoft® North America to launch several online game titles, including Lineage® II, City of Heroes®, City of Villains™ and Auto Assault® in the Digital River oneNetwork™ marketplace. These titles are available for online sale and digital delivery through online retail, content and portal sites in oneNetwork. Digital River’s oneNetwork marketplace offers publishers the opportunity to generate increased visibility and incremental sales for their digital products through an established indirect online sales channel.
“It is important to our online retail partners that we continue to add diverse digital products to our downloadable catalog – a catalog they resell to mainstream consumers,” said Tom Venable, Digital River’s senior vice president of retail sales. “OneNetwork offers access to a broad consumer audience, making it a compelling sales channel for popular online games.”
The NCsoft titles recently added to oneNetwork represent a few of many additions to Digital River’s growing downloadable game catalog. Recently, Digital River also added a wide variety of PC and casual games from publishers, such as Planetwide Games, Fusion Games, Funkitron and Sandlot Games, among others.
“We are excited to work with Digital River to ensure that our products will be easily available to our customers,” said Dorothy Ferguson, vice president of marketing and sales at NCsoft North America. “Our goal was to reach not only the hard-core gamer market, but also a mainstream audience. Digital River’s oneNetwork offers us a significant online sales channel to accomplish that goal in a cost-effective way.”
About NCsoft
NCsoft North America is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation. NCsoft, with its own development and publishing offices in Texas and California, also works with other NCsoft subsidiaries and third-party developers throughout North America to develop and publish innovative online entertainment software products. The company has successfully launched multiple online titles in the last three years and continues to support its AAA franchises that include Lineage/Lineage II, City of Heroes/City of Villains, Guild Wars®/Guild Wars Factions™ and Auto Assault. More information about NCsoft can be found at http://www.plaync.com.
About Digital River, Inc.
Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The companys comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.
Digital River is a registered trademark of Digital River, Inc. NCsoft, the interlocking NC logo, PlayNC, Guild Wars, Guild Wars Factions, Lineage, Auto Assault and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCsoft Corporation. City of Heroes, City of Villains and all associated logos and designs are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cryptic Studios, Inc. and NCsoft Corporation. Cryptic Studios is a trademark of Cryptic Studios, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks, registrations or copyrights of their respective owners.
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