Changyou.com Ltd. operates

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s, primarily

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s, in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. Originally a division of Chinese Internet company

Sohu Sohu, Inc. () is a Chinese Internet company headquartered in the Sohu Internet Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing. Sohu and its subsidiaries offer advertising, a search engine (Sogou.com), on-line multiplayer gaming (ChangYou.com) and other ser ...

, Changyou was spun off and went public in 2009 through a

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(VIE) structure based in the

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. The company claims it was operating independently of Sohu as early as 2007. Some of its games derive revenue from the sale of

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, and many are licensed rather than developed in-house. Such deals have helped its roster of MMORPGs swell from two in 2009 to nearly a dozen as of 2014. 2009, its most popular game may have been the MMO ''Tian Long Ba Bu'' (), which translated means "Novel of Eight Demigods". Some games in its portfolio are available to play outside of China in countries including Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. In 2011, the company purchased nearly 70% of a

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s maker, 7Road. In 2020, the company was acquired by

and all Changyou.com stock was delisted from NASDAQ.

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