Sohu.com Announces Open Beta Testing for 'Zhong Hua Ying Xiong' by Changyou.com on May 20, 2010

BEIJING, May 20 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sohu.com Inc. (Nasdaq: SOHU), China's leading online media, communications, search, online games and mobile value-added services group, today announced that its massively multi-player online role-playing game ("MMORPG") subsidiary, Changyou.com Limited ("Changyou") (Nasdaq: CYOU), will begin open-beta testing of Zhong Hua Ying Xiong, the Company's first 3D martial arts-themed massively multi-player online role-playing game ("MMORPG"), on May 20, 2010.

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Zhong Hua Ying Xiong, a game developed by a leading online game developer in Taiwan, is based on a popular Hong Kong comic book of the same name. With advanced 3D graphics, cinematic cutscenes, and dynamic real-time fighting movements, online game players will have the opportunity to relive the heroic and epic struggles of Asian Americans in the 1930s.

Mr. Dewen Chen, Changyou's president and chief operating officer, commented, "As our first licensed 3D martial arts-themed MMORPG, this game advances our product diversification efforts. We believe the game's realistic visual effects and creative free-style fighting game-play will help Changyou draw new online game players who are looking for a unique gaming experience."

About Changyou.com

Changyou.com Limited's massively multi-player online role-playing games ("MMORPG") business began operations as a business unit within Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) in 2003. Changyou, a leading developer and operator of online games in China, was carved out as a separate, stand-alone company in December 2007, completed an initial public offering on April 7, 2009. Changyou currently operates five online games, including the in-house developed Tian Long Ba Bu, one of the most popular online games in China, and the licensed Blade Online, Blade Hero 2, Da Hua Shui Hu and Zhong Hua Ying Xiong. Changyou has a diversified pipeline of games with various graphic styles and themes, including the licensed Immortal Faith, Legend of the Ancient World, and the in-house developed Duke of Mount Deer, which received an award as one of China's most anticipated online games. Changyou's advanced technology platform includes advanced 2.5D and 3D graphics engines, a uniform game development platform, effective anti-cheating and anti-hacking technologies, proprietary cross-networking technology and advanced data protection technology. For more information about Changyou, please visit http://www.changyou.com/en/.

About Sohu.com

Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU) is China's premier online brand and indispensable to the daily life of millions of Chinese, providing a network of web properties and community based/web 2.0 products which offer the vast Sohu user community a broad array of choices regarding information, entertainment and communication. Sohu has built one of the most comprehensive matrices of Chinese language web properties and proprietary search engines, consisting of the mass portal and leading online media destination http://www.sohu.com; interactive search engine http://www.sogou.com; #1 games information portal http://www.17173.com; the top real estate website http://www.focus.cn; #1 online alumni club http://www.chinaren.com; wireless value-added services provider http://www.goodfeel.com.cn; leading online mapping service provider http://www.go2map.com; and developer and operator of online games http://www.changyou.com.

Sohu corporate services consist of brand advertising on its matrix of websites as well as paid listing and bid listing on its in-house developed search directory and engine. Sohu also offers wireless value-added services such as news, information, music, ringtone and picture content sent over mobile phones. Sohu's massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) subsidiary, Changyou.com (NASDAQ: CYOU), currently operates five online games, including Tian Long Ba Bu, Blade Online, Blade Hero 2, Da Hua Shui Hu and Zhong Hua Ying Xiong. Sohu.com, established by Dr. Charles Zhang, one of China's internet pioneers, is in its fourteenth year of operation.

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