IRVINE, Calif. – July 22, 2010 –To combat the growing zombie infestation in Soldier Front, the free-to-play modern military multi-player online first-person shooter (MOFPS) game, ijji.com has introduced new weapons for players to add to their arsenal. But ijji gamers beware –the new Zombie Pack also includes upgraded abilities for the undead, allowing players to harness a deadly new power.

This new update to Soldier Front includes:

• Gold M4A1: The sleek, gold-plated luxury weapon allows players to blast away their enemies in style while enjoying improved durability on the weapon, which players can use in any mode.
• Zombie Pack:
o Silver Bullets: To combat relentless waves of zombies, these unique bullets make exterminating undead a breeze.
o Vampire Power: This life leeching item allows zombie players to regain HP as they do damage to opposing players.
o Zombie Grenade: This high-powered grenade will devastate the undead masses unfortunate enough to be in its range.

“Soldier Front is an extremely competitive shooter with intense action and there’s nothing more brutal than Horror Mode, where teams of soldiers and teams of zombie’s go head-to-head,” said Calvin Yang, vice president of marketing for NHN USA, which hosts ijji.com. “With the addition of these new items, players can enjoy an enhanced experience as they fight in the zombie-ridden streets of Soldier Front’s Horror Mode.”

Soldier Front is ijji.com’s action-packed answer to the modern warfare FPS. Players take on the likeness of various Special Forces unit leaders, such as SAS, Seal, Delta Force, among others, and implement distinctive task force strategies found in today’s modern combat. Additional information about Soldier Front is available at http://sfront.ijji.com/.

To learn more about this Soldier Front offer, visit http://sfront.ijji.com/event/consecutiveplay.nhn.

Popular FPS Puts Price on Players’ Heads with Random Item Bonuses and Introduces Horrifying New Multiplayer Map

IRVINE, Calif. – July 1, 2010 – With itchy trigger fingers and blazing guns, battle-savvy players now have the chance to receive rare in-game weapons by participating in Soldier Front’s Armory Event. The latest update to ijji.com’s popular modern military multi-player online first-person shooter (MOFPS) introduces new Weapon Boxes that randomly drop from dead foes, giving players more incentive than ever to join the fray. The heightened bounty on players’ heads will test even the most combat-hardened warrior’s will to survive.

Kicking off today, the Armory Event will last until July 21, 2010 and is available in any game mode. The update tasks players with taking out the enemy in order to receive a randomly dropped Weapon Box, which gives them the chance to acquire one of eleven highly sought after in-game items, including the event exclusive Gold M4A1, a luxury gun with a special gold coating that improves durability making it a valuable status symbol among Soldier Front players. Armory Boxes may also contain a variety of weapon bonuses that players will be able to use for three days and lucky players may even find upgraded weapons that their character will be able to use permanently.

“Soldier Front is one of the most intense and visceral shooters out there and the Armory Event provides even more motivation for players to get online and battle it out,” said Calvin Yang, vice president of marketing, NHN USA, which hosts ijji.com. “The chance of discovering rare and powerful new items ensures that no one is safe in Soldier Front.”

To add to the thrills, ijji.com is also introducing the Horror Plasma map – a nightmarish take on the fan favorite Plasma map for use in Soldier Front’s Horror Mode.

Soldier Front is ijji.com’s action-packed answer to the modern warfare FPS. Players take on the likeness of various Special Forces unit leaders, such as SAS, Seal, Delta Force, among others, and implement distinctive task force strategies found in today’s modern combat. For more information about the Armory Event, head to http://forums.ijji.com/showthread.php?t=913433. To visit the Official Soldier Front website, visit http://sfront.ijji.com/.

IRVINE, Calif. – June 21, 2010 – School is out…and now is the optimal time for Soldier Front players to crank up the adrenaline and earn extra rewards in the fast, explosive online shooter. ijji.com is offering bonus G Coin, the site’s in-game currency, and an bounty of other premium items to avid players of and newcomers to Soldier Front™, its popular modern military multi-player online first-person shooter (MOFPS) game. Gamers that log into the shooter for five consecutive days or more will receive handsome rewards through the end of June.

“With summer kicking off, players now have the opportunity to spend some quality time with their friends in their favorite games – and ijji.com is here to facilitate the fun,” said Calvin Yang, vice president of marketing, NHN USA, which hosts ijji.com. “We appreciate our loyal fans, and are always looking for ways to reward their patronage.”

From now until Wednesday, June 30 any Soldier Front player can take advantage of the free G Coin and more promotion. Depending on how many consecutive days are played, the rewards vary:

• Five consecutive days of gameplay earns every player a Double Up Item, which multiplies future EXP and in-game currency gained by the player over three days
• 200 Soldier Front players who rack up five consecutive days with 500 minutes of playtime will receive 50 G Coins to spend in the game
• 10 consecutive days of play yields seven days of Points x2, allowing players to garner even more upside from in-game conquests
• The illustrious few how achieve ten consecutive days of gameplay with 1,000 accumulated minutes of gameplay will collect 500 G Coin

Soldier Front is ijji.com’s action-packed answer to the modern warfare FPS. Players take on the likeness of various Special Forces unit leaders, such as SAS, Seal, Delta Force, among others, and implement distinctive task force strategies found in today’s modern combat. Additional information about Soldier Front is available at http://sfront.ijji.com/.

To learn more about this Soldier Front offer, visit http://sfront.ijji.com/event/consecutiveplay.nhn.

IRVINE, CALIF. – June 7, 2010 – ijji.com launched its brand new Facebook Connect integration platform – allowing ijji gamers and Facebook users to connect, socialize and share in-game achievements. The Facebook Connect option is now available for both the 10 million-strong hardcore gaming portal’s current and future members to utilize.

Now the ijji.com community can connect with friends and gaming rivals alike, across multiple platforms, keeping gamers’ Facebook friends in the loop and up-to-date on which enemy they are annihilating and what achievements they just earned. ijji.com members can now login using their Facebook accounts, making signing into the games easier than ever, and allowing gamers to send invitations, see which Facebook friends are also ijji gamers and keep track of user’s rewards, achievements and character status.

“Times are changing, and our community is too – avidly using social media technologies to help bring their gaming experience to another level,” said Calvin Yang, vice president of marketing, NHN USA, which hosts ijji.com. “We are growing with them. As we have always promised our players, ijji.com will continue to evolve with the industry whether it is gaming or social media – our community deserves only the best.”

ijji.com users who sign up and use Facebook Connect between now and June 25, 2010 will earn fantastic in-game prizes from some of the hottest titles in ijji.com’s portfolio of hardcore games.

• Just for using Facebook Connect for the first time, users will receive three in-game items – one each for Soldier Front, Lunia and Alliance of Valiant Arms (A.V.A).
• Players who allow Facebook Connect to publish to their Facebook page will earn even more in-game items for the first and fifth achievement or Facebook feed post that they earn.
• Players who get the most achievements and allow Facebook Connect to post to their Facebook feed will earn G Coin, redeemable for in-game items across all games on ijji.com. The top two achievers will receive 500 G Coin, the next 3 top achievers will earn 350 G Coin and the next 5 top achievers will earn 100 G Coin.

For more information on ijji.com and its many titles, please visit http://www.ijji.com/ or for more information on ijji’s Facebook Connect, please visit http://event.ijji.com/facebook/openingEvent.nhn.

IRVINE, Calif. – April 22, 2010 – Gamers be wary: the living dead walk among us. ijji.com’s popular modern military multi-player online first-person shooter (MOFPS) game, Soldier Front™,  is taking gameplay to another level on the 10 million strong portal with a gory infestation of a full blown Zombie Mode, sinister weapon updates and a month-long event.

The new Solider Front Zombie Mode pits the living against the dead as trigger-happy players desperately try to infect as many humans as possible, turning their opponents into zombies. Initially, all participants attempt to evade the brain-thirst epidemic as one player, acting as the “Host Zombie,” slowly attacks healthy players one-by-one. The newly zombified players in turn continue changing their opponents until all the players in the room are mindless drones. Special undead-massacring weapons also accompany the update, including the Devil Uzi, a menacing submachine gun, complete with a functional red dot site that players can utilize to help get more precise zombie headshots.

“Zombies are among the most formidable adversaries that exist,” said Calvin Yang, vice president of marketing, NHN USA, which hosts ijji.com. “The vengeful undead are out in force, and Solider Front players new and old will need to perfect their strategy in order to end the massive infestation.”

Through mid-May, ijji.com is also launching the Event of the Living Dead where zombie-killers will receive points and prizes for slaying as many animated decaying corpses as they can.

Taking tactical FPS one army crawl closer to undead-domination, Soldier Front is ijji.com’s action-packed answer to the modern warfare FPS. Players take on the likeness of various Special Forces unit leaders, such as SAS, Seal, Delta Force, among others, and implement distinctive task force strategies found in today’s modern combat. Additional information about Soldier Front is available at http://sfront.ijji.com/.

To learn more about the game or to get into the action, visit http://sfront.ijji.com/.

IRVINE, Calif. – Oct. 19, 2009 – It’s time to take on the world! The Atlantic Ocean is no longer an obstacle for hardcore gamers as players of ijji.com’s Soldier Front™, a modern military First-Person Shooting (FPS) game, can now enjoy new servers in Germany. This gives snipers both here and abroad the same competitive quick action, by opening up server space and further reducing the potential for lag related issues. This latest addition to Soldier Front is another step by ijji.com into the online gaming portal’s international expansion, and furthers the accessibility to the game for its global audience.

“As a global company, we understand how important it is to provide exceptional service to your entire network, not just those members that happen to be closest geographically,” said Philip Yun, CEO, NHN USA, which hosts ijji.com. “We promise to consider our members, no matter how far the reach, and vow superior service for our hardcore online games fans around the world. Believe me, Soldier Front’s European server is just a start.”

Taking tactical FPS one army crawl closer to the real life battlefield, Soldier Front is ijji.com’s action-packed answer to realistic warfare. Players take on the likeness of various Special Forces unit leaders, such as SAS, Seal, Delta Force, among others, and implement distinctive task force strategies found in today’s modern combat. Players of the modern military shooter have immediate access to the new European server and the provided visual guides to help gamers find the one closest to their location.

Additional information for eager comrades about Soldier Front and the details on the European server are available at http://sfront.ijji.com.

About ijji.com

ijji.com (www.ijji.com) is the leading portal for hardcore online gaming. Owned and operated by Irvine, Calif.-based NHN USA, Inc., ijji.com launched in 2006 and now boasts more than 9 million unique registered gamers. The portal hosts a diverse suite of hardcore, fast action free-to-play online games, each with an optional micro-transaction model.

ijji.com’s extensive portfolio includes the renowned online games Lunia, GUNZ The Duel®, SOLDIER FRONT™ and DRIFT CITY™. The portal will soon include the highly-anticipated Unreal Engine 3-powered games Huxley: The Dystopia, a massively multi-player first-person shooter (MMOFPS), and Alliance of Valiant Arms, a multi-player online first-person shooter (MOFPS); in addition to the World War II-era MOFPS KARMA: Operation Barbarossa and the fantasy MMORPG Soul of the Ultimate Nation.

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IRVINE, Calif. – Aug. 20, 2009 –Being an exceptional online gamer now holds greater perks than a mere point-increase on a member account. ijji.com’s popular modern military multi-player online first-person shooter (MOFPS) game, Soldier Front™, is bestowing a new digital camera and a trip to Taiwan to the top five players of this year’s Soldier Front National Tournament. ijji.com is taking applications through Aug. 23 for the highly-competitive tournament, and players and clans can sign up on the game’s official website. The tournament begins on Sept. 26 and runs through Oct. 3, and the World Championship takes place Nov. 7 and 8.

The 2009 Soldier Front National Tournament gives fast-action gaming hopefuls a chance to showcase their raw talent in the strategic war game in a bid for the ultimate prize – flying to Taiwan to frag it out with the best players from around the world in the Soldier Front World Championship this fall. Tournament prizes will go to the top three five-player teams, including iPod nanos, 11-piece in-game Weapon Bomb of choice and excessive amounts of skill points – not to mention the trip to Taiwan for the overall winning team. Not only will the five champions scrap for international glory, proving North American gamers have what it takes, but they will also each take home a Sony digital camera.

In addition to the tournament, August is a hot month for Soldier Front with the release of new sniper maps for all those covert, calculating shooters. With ample hiding spots and intermittent cover perfect for a stealthy attack, the new sniper maps open up countless new scenarios of SAS, Seal and Delta Force operatives’ bloody clashes.

Taking tactical FPS one army crawl closer, Soldier Front is ijji.com’s action-packed answer to the modern warfare FPS. Players take on the likeness of various Special Forces unit leaders, such as SAS, Seal, Delta Force, among others, and implement distinctive task force strategies found in today’s modern combat. Additional information about Soldier Front is available at http://sfront.ijji.com/.

About ijji.com

ijji.com (www.ijji.com) is the leading portal for hardcore online gaming. Owned and operated by Irvine, Calif.-based NHN USA, Inc., ijji.com launched in 2006 and now boasts more than 8 million unique registered gamers. The portal hosts a diverse suite of hardcore, fast action free-to-play online games, each with an optional micro-transaction model.
ijji.com’s extensive portfolio includes the renowned online games Lunia, GUNZ The Duel®, SOLDIER FRONT™ and DRIFT CITY™. The portal will soon include the highly-anticipated Unreal Engine 3-powered games Huxley: The Dystopia, a massively multi-player first-person shooter (MMOFPS), and Alliance of Valiant Arms, a multi-player online first-person shooter (MOFPS); in addition to the World War II-era MOFPS KARMA: Operation Barbarossa and the fantasy MMORPG Soul of the Ultimate Nation.

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IRVINE, Calif. – July 20, 2009 – ijji.com’s popular modern military multi-player online first-person shooter (MOFPS) game, Soldier Front™, unveiled its latest all-female character class, in addition to a fresh map that will take players through the streets – and canals – of Venice, Italy. These recent updates are available now on the premier 8 million-strong hardcore gaming portal for members eager for a heart-pumping challenge.

“Guerrilla tactics and feminine wiles find their way into Soldier Front’s latest map, Venice, Italy,” said Philip Yun, CEO, NHN USA, which hosts ijji.com. “ijji.com knows how important it is for our community to keep things fresh.  Game updates are just one way we fulfill that expectation and keep our members endlessly entertained.”

Enemies speculate that the Mulan Special Forces, a band of armed female commandos, operate out of a hidden base somewhere in the Yunnan province of China.  Fortified with ominous weapons and savvy guerrilla tactics, 11 founding members took on the world’s most dangerous drug lords in a victorious campaign taking place at the converging boarders of Thailand, Myanmar, formerly Burma, and Laos.  Since their inaugural showing, the Mulan Special Forces won over the attention of female recruits across the globe, and are growing at a breakneck speed. 

In addition to the new female Special Forces, Soldier Front’s latest update boasts feverish combat in a newly added map, a representation of the city of Venice, Italy.  Within the half-submerged streets and alleys of this ancient city, players are tasked with breaking through enemy defenses to destroy the centers of dubious operations.  Once the nemesis’ domain is breached, and secured by friendly troops, the mission is considered successful and player move on to the next tantalizing operation.

Soldier Front is ijji.com’s action packed answer to the modern warfare FPS.  Players take on the likeness of various Special Forces unit leaders, such as SAS, Seal, Delta Force, among others, and implement distinctive task force strategies found in today’s modern combat.  Additional information about Soldier Front is available at http://sfront.ijji.com/.

Online First-Person Shooter Game on ijji.com Adds New Game Mode and Assault Character

IRVINE, Calif. – Dec. 2, 2008 –NHN USA, a leading online interactive entertainment publisher, unveiled the much anticipated upgrade to its extremely popular free-to-play first person shooter (FPS) game,  Soldier Front, available on the ijji.com portal.  The upgraded version features a new in-your-face action game mode, Capture the Captain, and an intense new assault character, Force Recon.

“Anyone with a fast trigger finger looking for intense online gaming action will love jumping in to Soldier Front,” said Philip Yun, CEO, NHN USA.  “With the Capture the Captain game mode and Force Recon character, ijji.com’s updated Soldier Front is sure to excite any hardcore FPS player checking out the game for the first time or who dives into the game every day.”

Capture the Captain is the long awaited new game mode where each team seeks to eliminate the other’s Captain in a heinous battle. But taking down the enemy is by no means an easy task - each team’s Captain has increased health points to 1,000 HP. 

The new assault character, Force Recon, is based on the United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance units that are the elite of the Marines’ Special Operations warriors.  In Soldier Front, they operate deep behind enemy lines to convey detailed military intelligence that is vital to the team’s success.  They are capable of operating independently in both amphibious and ground operations, and are experts in unconventional warfare strategies.

Soldier Front is an action-packed FPS game that implements distinct task force strategies found in today’s modern combat.  Incorporating comprehensive research from military personnel, Soldier Front was developed to represent a soldier’s actual experience, providing players with realistic and unique game play.  Users get to choose their character from the world’s elite task force teams, such as the SAS, Delta Force and Spetsnaz.

Additional information about Soldier Front is available at http://sfront.ijji.com.

About NHN USA

Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., NHN USA, Inc. (www.nhnusainc.com) is the North American subsidiary of Korea’s leading Internet company NHN (KOSDAQ: 035420).  Founded in 2006, NHN USA has quickly emerged as a premier online entertainment publisher. The company’s game portal ijji.com (www.ijji.com), which boasts more than six million unique registered gamers, hosts a diverse suite of free-to-play online games each with an optional micro-currency model that enables players to enhance their gaming experiences by purchasing in-game items.  ijji.com’s extensive game portfolio includes GUNZ The Duel®, SOLDIER FRONT™, GUNBOUND® Revolution, DRIFT CITY™, LUMINARY Rise of the GoonZu™, Lunia and MINING BOY™, and will soon include the highly-anticipated Unreal Engine 3-based massively multiplayer online first-person shooting (MMOFPS) game Huxley.

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