April 8, 2010 - Ekin speaks for "China Hero' Online Game
Today Ekin became the spokesman for the "China Hero' online game's official first public showing. This news conference was the formal announcement of Taiwan and China Online ' Unreal 3D' martial arts game 《中华英雄》. The game will complete its beta testing on April 22, 2010. Ekin was in Beijing to publicize the game. It was revealed that from April 9, 2010 an advertisement featuring Ekin will broadcast on the biggest satellite stations, there will also be magazine advertisments and general TV advertisments the publicize the game. Ekin who played China Hero before in the Movie explained that he felt very fortunate to be able to speak for this game. He told the press that he felt very happy that after the movie adaptation of the manga, it has now been adapted once again as a game.
The Taiwanese celebrated manga writer 马荣成 and 黄玉郎 joined together to create a historical record of the manga. Ekin, also acted in the 1999 film version of the manga. Also during the event, The Taiwan, China Online general manager told the news conference said that the company had previously developed the popular series of games 《黄易群侠传》 and《武林群侠传》. He said that China Online had much experience in developing 3D online games. He hoped that their current collaboration with Sohu Chang You.com would prove to be a powerful way to reach players of online games. He spoke of Ekin as an Asian well known movie star and said the the company felt that he could not be parted from the character he played in the movie, but in addition he has a handsome air and a clear and bright image, so as a spokesman for this game many people will know him from TV and movies. The general manager and Ekin exchanged gifts. He gave Ekinm a NASDAQ stock exchange souvenir, while Ekin gave him a signed poster from his recent concert. The two of them played the game to show it to the assembled news conference,
Ekin is reappearing as Hero Hua and there is bound to be a resurgence of the manga and the movie. It is clear that Ekin still embodies that heroic style, and that together with his interest in gaming put him to the head of the list of choice to become spokesman for this game. Computer gamers are looking forwad to this game. Sohu felt that the hard work Ekin is putting into publicuzing this game will lead to a wider audience expectation and participation in the game play.
