CDC Games to launch "Lunia Online"

CDC Games (Nasdaq: CHINA) said today that it plans to launch Lunia Online, a multiplayer online role playing game based on the popular manga style comic art form.

According to the company, Lunia Online is played like an action arcade game, allowing players to move around using arrow keys rather than a mouse. The game can be played with a console “D pad” style controller which makes the game familiar and easy to use for the millions of Xbox users throughout the United States.

The product will be available for commercial sale in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2008.

CDC Games is a business unit of CDC Corp. and pioneer of the “free-to-play, pay for merchandise” model for online games in China.

Shares of CDC Games (CHINA) gained $0.17, or 3%, to $5.83 ahead of the opening. Shares of CDC Games have been trading in the range of $5.21 to $11.45 for the past 52 weeks.

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