Shanda Games and the United Nations push public interest games guesses Chinese version

Sina Science and technology news October 26 afternoon, the United Nations World Food Program and the Grand Game (micro-Bo) (Nasdaq:game) in Beijing today jointly announced the public game guesses Chinese version (freerice.sdo.com) officially online.　　As a strategic partner, Shanda Games will promote the operation and development of guesses in the Chinese region. Mr.brett Rierson, Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (China), Qinwei, director of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, and Chairman and CEO of Shanda Games, Tan (Weibo) attended the initiation ceremony.　　Shang, milk coffee, fruity VC, big left and other stars are invited to attend the conference, the scene shows game play law, and with netizens to start interaction. Freerice.sdo.com is the United Nations World Food Program's public welfare donated rice web game. The website provides the English learning game free of charge, the scope covers art, chemistry, mathematics, geography and so on field.　　The site will donate 10 grains of rice to the U.N. World Food Program every answer to a question. At the same time, when users learn English "learning" tired, you can also play "Happy Game" section of the small game to donate rice.　　The rice donated by these users will be used to aid the hungry and help the World Food Programme to take emergency action. Tan, Chairman and CEO of Shanda Games, said he was delighted that the U.N. World Food Programme had given such a huge energy project to the Grand game. It is revealed that Shanda games will be in its user community to promote the game.　　In addition to the Chinese version of the word game, but also set up a special entertainment section, which includes a few games to provide a grand. Guesses first appeared in the English version in 2007, and quickly swept the world. In the first month of the line, the game raised enough rice to feed more than 50,000 people a day.　　Its designer, John Brian, said his initial hope was that the simple word game would help his teenage son prepare for college entrance exams. At present, the guesses daily visits to 40000 people (1.3 million people a month), these people can be online to solve the world hunger problem. The total number of rice raised is about 100 billion, enough to meet the needs of 4.8 million people in countries such as Haiti, Uganda, Pakistan and Cambodia. (Shu Shi)