SHANDA INTERACTIVEShanda Interactive Entertainment Limited (Shanda) is an operator of online games in China. It offers a portfolio of online games that users play over the Internet. The games, licensed from third parties, as well as developed in-house by the Company, include The Legend of Mir II and The World of Legend. Shanda's commercially launched games have approximately 1.4 million peak concurrent users and 931,570 average concurrent users. The Company operates massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), including massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and casual online games. MMORPGs allow thousands of users to interact in a virtual world by assuming ongoing roles or characters with different features. The games are continuous, and players accumulate features and communicate with one another through instant messaging. Casual games, which include BNB, are less complex and time consuming than MMORPGs, but attract a broader range of users, including more home users.