With
studios on two coasts, the Company is the largest privately held online games
company in North America. For more
information, visit http://www. All statements other than statements of historical
fact in this announcement are forward-looking statements, including but not
limited to statements regarding the launch date for Dungeons + Dragons Online
in China, the growth of the online game market in China and the content of the
Dungeons + Dragons Online game.

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CONTACT: Kim Stowe of Reverb Communications, Inc. Each
user can interact with thousands of others while enjoying the interactive
entertainment content that Shanda provides.com.atari.

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Shanda Turbine to Bring Dungeons + Dragons Online to China

Turbine, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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"Consumers expect more from their favorite games every year."
"Atari employs some of the best minds and talent in the industry, and has
access to the industry's most powerful game development tools, so it's very
encouraging that they have selected AGEIA's NovodeX Physics SDK to help create
their highly anticipated Dragonshard," said Andy Keane, the newly appointed
vice president of marketing for AGEIA. Under the agreement, Shanda will hold the
exclusive rights in China to operate this first and only 3D massively
multiplayer online role playing game, or MMORPG based on the world-renowned
Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast Dungeons + Dragons(R) franchise. "Turbine has done a tremendous job adapting this
signature title to the virtual world, and we look forward to bringing a rich
game experience to China's gamers via our national distribution platform. For more information on Turbine and its services, please visit
http://www. Atari, Inc.

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Atari's Upcoming Dragonshard Leverages AGEIA Physics Simulation

NovodeX is the only SDK equipped for the future
of hardware-accelerated physics based on the AGEIA PhysX(TM) chip.AGEIA. Shanda offers a portfolio of
diversified entertainment content including some of the most popular massively
multi-player and casual online games in China, along with online chess and
board games, network PC games and a variety of cartoons and literature works., its PLAYSKOOL, TONKA, MILTON BRADLEY, PARKER
BROTHERS, TIGER, and WIZARDS OF THE COAST brands and products provide the
highest quality and most recognizable play experiences in the world.

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"Like Atari, we believe that game
development will improve with the introduction of hardware-accelerated physics
and ultimately change realistic physical world simulation. Financial terms of
the agreement were not disclosed.
New York-based Atari, Inc.

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Leading Publisher Chooses NovodeX Physics SDK for Unique Gameplay Experience

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.snda.com. (NYSE: HAS), is a
worldwide leader in the trading card game and tabletop roleplaying game
categories , and a leading developer and publisher of game-based entertainment
products. in the United States or other jurisdictions.

Although characters and plots are driven largely by the imagination of the participants, game rules are used to resolve the results of dramatic conflicts, providing the games with a necessary element of suspense.

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Dragonshard employs an
inventive gameplay fusion in which traditional RTS gameplay is enhanced with
immersive, Dungeons + Dragons-styled character and unit growth. China's Largest Online Games Operator to Distribute
Turbine's Highly Anticipated 3D Role Playing Game

SHANGHAI, China, April 21 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Shanda Interactive
Entertainment Limited (Nasdaq: SNDA), the largest operator of online games in
China, announced today that it will be signing a deal with Turbine, Inc. The company holds an exclusive patent on trading card games and
their method of play (TCGs) and produces one of the world's best-selling TCGs,
Magic: The Gathering(R) as well as the celebrated Dungeons + Dragons(R)
roleplaying game.

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S.hasbro.

TURBINE and ASHERON'S CALL are registered trademarks or trademarks of
Turbine, Inc.

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Such innovation is what AGEIA's NovodeX Physics SDK was designed for, and
why leading game developers such as Atari are integrating the NovodeX software
into their game development. The game is
expected to launch in China in the second half of 2005. In 2004, Shanda had approximately
2.turbine.

Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are based on
current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the
companies and the industry .

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, a company dedicated to delivering pervasive interactive reality to
next-generation games, today announced that Atari's much-anticipated
Dragonshard(TM), a real-time strategy game based on the Dungeons + Dragons(R)
universe created by Wizards of the Coast, will be one of the first major games
developed using AGEIA's NovodeX(TM) Physics SDK."
China represents one of the world's largest and fastest -growing markets
for online games, with International Data Corporation, a market research
company , estimating a market valued at $1."

About Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited (Nasdaq: SNDA) is a leading
interactive entertainment media company in China.

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"This agreement reaffirms Turbine's commitment to bring the D+D Online
experience to every gamer in China and throughout the world.0 million peak concurrent users playing its online games.

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"Shanda's leadership position and outstanding reputation with China's
online gaming community makes them the ideal partner for introducing Dungeons
+ Dragons Online to China," said Jeffrey Anderson, president and CEO, Turbine,
Inc. Interaction enriches your life.

About Hasbro, Inc. For more information, visit the Wizards of the
Coast website at http://www.wizards.

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Shanda 's interactive entertainment platform attracts a large and loyal user
base, an increasing amount of which access Shanda's content from home.

About Atari, Inc.

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is a premier producer, publisher and operator of online
subscription entertainment and is headquartered in Westwood, Mass.com.
Although the companies believe that their expectations expressed in these
forward-looking statements are reasonable, they cannot assure you that their
expectations will turn out to be correct. Securities and Exchanges Commission,
including Shanda's registration statement on Form F-1.

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The NovodeX
Physics SDK is also the only multithreaded physics API that will unleash the
power of multiprocessor systems . The PhysX chip allows developers to
use active physics-based environments for a more life-like entertainment
experience.com

About Turbine, Inc.

Roleplaying began with the creation of the fantasy game Dungeons

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"As the pioneer of traditional role-playing games, Dungeons + Dragons
Online is a terrific addition to our leading portfolio of both internally
developed and licensed online game offerings," said Tianqiao Chen, chief
executive officer of Shanda. (Nasdaq: ATAR) develops interactive games for
all platforms and is one of the largest third-party publishers of interactive
entertainment software in the U. is a majority-owned subsidiary
of France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext - ISIN: FR-0000052573),
the largest interactive games publisher in Europe. Both
internationally and in the U.

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is a fabless semiconductor company and the pioneer
in hardware-accelerated physics for games.

3 billion by 2009.
For more information about Shanda, please visit http://www .

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com. Shanda helped
pioneer this market and today occupies the leading position as measured by
both revenue and total game playing users.S.

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, AGEIA(TM) Technologies,
Inc. Its flagship product, the PhysX
chip, is the world's first dedicated Physics Processing Unit (PPU) -- a
completely new hardware category that bridges the gap between static virtual
worlds and responsive physical reality. For more information visit http://www. Important risks and uncertainties
could cause actual results to be materially different from expectations
include but not limited to delays in completion of the original or localized
version of the Dungeons + Dragons Online game, obtaining Atari's and Hasbro 's
approval of the agreement between Turbine and Shanda, and the risks set forth
in Shanda's filings with the U.

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, a
leading publisher of online subscription entertainment, to bring Dungeons +
Dragons (R) Online to China. Turbine's catalogue includes some of the most
famous online entertainment brands , including Asheron's Call(R), Dungeons +
Dragons(R) Online and The Lord of the Rings Online(TM): Middle-Earth(TM)
Online. These forward-looking statements involve
various risks and uncertainties .

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Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) is a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure
time entertainment products and services, including the design, manufacture
and marketing of games and toys ranging from traditional to high-tech.

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"The NovodeX Physics SDK is a perfect
solution that allows us to provide RTS and RPG fans alike with a more robust
and immersive experience with Dragonshard. For more information ,
visit http://www. Publisher of adventure games, family card and board games,
and electronic media products, Wizards of the Coast is also one of the world's
premier book publishers of fantasy series fiction whose novels have made
numerous appearances on The New York Times best-seller list and have sold
millions of copies worldwide.com.

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To stay ahead
of that curve, we're constantly looking to partner with creators of new and
innovative technologies that can take our products to the next level ," said
John Hight, executive producer, Atari."

About AGEIA
AGEIA Technologies Inc ., +1-408-839-8750, or
kim@reverbinc.com, for AGEIA Technologies, Inc.

About Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.

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A roleplaying game (RPG) is a structured method of playing 'Let's Pretend', in which players create characters to serve as protagonists in a fictional world created by a game master.