Changyou.com News

ChangYou.com Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ChangYou.com Ltd. and a leading publisher of online interactive entertainment in North America, today announced that the Renaissance Heroes North American closed beta test will launch this Thursday on May 31.

BEIJING, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Changyou.com Limited , a leading online game developer and operator in China, today announced that it began open beta testing of Tao Yuan, an inhouse-developed 3D turn-based martial-arts massively multi-player online role-playing game on May 24, 2012.

ChangYou.com announces Renaissance Heroes as the new name for a project previously known as "DaVinci Online." This upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter is set in 16th century Renaissance Europe, which was apparently home to more gunfights than we were previous aware.

The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Changyou.com Limited is 49.62%. CYOU's revenue for the same period is $484.58 million.

's stock had its "overweight" rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Piper Jaffray in a report released on Monday.