As its name, Giant Interactive Group is very like a Giant in China. Giant’s chief leader Shi Yuzhu is known to Chinese as his legendary experience of business start-up.
Shi got the first pot of gold from his product “HanKa(Chinese)” in the initial stage of China’s reform and opening. Giant entered into online game in 2005.
Giant are one of China’s leading online game developers and operators. Their online game ZT Online was the most popular online game in China in 2006. Giant focus on massively multiplayer online, or MMO, games that are played through networked game servers in which tens of thousands of players are able to simultaneously connect and interact.
Giant Interactive Group, a Chinese massively multiplayer online game developer, filed for a U.S. IPO on Friday. Merrill Lynch and UBS are the bookrunners on the deal. Terms have not yet been announced.