Shanda's shining star – Aion

• Published 28 May 2009

Chinese online games giant enrolled over 1m players just one week after its launch of NCSoft's Aion.

China's leading online game company Shanda (SNDA:Nasdaq) now has every reason to stay there thanks to the success of its recent game release – Aion.

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