Cayenne Entertainment Technology Co (紅心辣椒) yesterday said it plans to launch new online games next year, while offering a cautiously optimistic outlook.
“We have several projects in the works, including launching new games, revamping a long-time favorite and improving our current lineup of games,” chief executive officer and spokeswoman Sherry Lee (李亦華) told an investors’ conference in Taipei.
One of the two new games — a massively multiplayer online role-playing game code-named Project MK — is scheduled to hit the market in the third quarter next year, Lee said.
The company has also obtained the intellectual property rights to a mobile game code-named Project T through its subsidiary Ark Mobile Co (辣椒方舟), and plans to launch the game by the end of the first quarter next year, Lee said, adding that the game has been a hit in Japan since its launch late last year.
“This game would be one of a kind, as it combines role-playing with strategy-making,” Cayenne chairman Joe Deng (鄧潤澤) said.
NEW DEAL?
The company is in the process of signing a deal for another online game with a Japanese firm, which would be launched by 2021, Deng added.
As baseball would be featured at the Tokyo Olympic Games next year, Cayenne is giving its flagship game Ma9Ma9 Online (全民打棒球2) a makeover, introducing new features and player options, Deng said.
“However, we are still working hard on improving our action role-playing game New Qian Ji Da Chao (新千姬大亂鬥) to attract more downloads and encourage current players to increase in-game purchases,” he said.
The game was launched simultaneously in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau late last month, and is scheduled to hit the mainland Chinese market next month, Cayenne said.
Deng said he is optimistic about prospects for the game, which is set against a Japanese backdrop, when it is introduced in Japan in the second quarter next year.
EXPANDING LOSSES
Cayenne reported that its net losses in the first nine months of the year widened to NT$84.48 million (NT$2.8 million) from losses of NT$1.86 million a year earlier, which it blamed on high operating costs, including research and development, as well as advertising expenses.
Losses per share were NT$3.09, compared with minus-NT$0.07 in the same period last year.
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