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Loark: ClapAlong Exclusive License Rights for Loark - Pluton - 02-23-2012
Loark, which is known as 倾城in China, was originally launched for Asian Market.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2011
/PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Power Hosts Technology Ltd and Power Hosts LLC
(ClapAlong.com) announce today that they have purchased the exclusive
publishing rights of Loark for the US market at 19.86 million Chinese
yuan (equal to 3.13 million USD).
According
to ClapAlong, Loark is a thin-Java-client web-based action RPG, developed
by Handseeing...
Loark is a cooperative action RPG. It's a mash between Diablo
and tower defense (one of the most popular genres in recent years).
Loark is also a free massive multiplayer online game featuring three
character species (factions) with thousands of concurrently online
players interacting with one another. The game is built entirely based
on Java with proprietary platform technology and Handseeing's own JGNet.
JGNet is the research project founded since 2009 in partnership with
Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Labs).
Loark's
alpha release date is set at Christmas this year. ClapAlong is
expressing great enthusiasm as the release draws near. As their Product
Manager Candy Zhang puts it, "Loark is going to make a lot of gamers leap for joy and it's going to be the highlight of my career!"
About ClapAlong's Companies
Power
Hosts Technology Ltd and Power Hosts LLC are a global group of
web-based game operators, distributors and publishers with coverage in
the US, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Germany. It has launched dozens of game servers based on strategy and action RPG web-based game titles, such as Batheo.
About Handseeing
Handseeing
is a full-fledged game development studio with end-to-end capability.
Working solely on Java with its own proprietary platform technology
JGNet, Handseeing has been creating games, such as Loark, that offer the
most awing graphical experience in the competitive Java-based game
industry, participated by other world-class MMO developers, such as
Jagex Games Studio.
* Note: The logo of Torchlight is owned by Runic Game, Diablo2 owned by BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT and Java logo owned by Oracle.
SOURCE Handseeing; ClapAlong
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/loark-clapalong-exclusive-license-rights-for-loark-134590688.html
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Frankly, Loark is just a 2D grinding MMO (hack and slash) that combines a Chinese Unique theory of yin-yang and five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth). You will have to click monsters for long boring hours to level up once... not to mention that VIP status cost money every HOUR and the more you play, the more expensive the game costs.
If you're going to pay for a game, you're better off playing Diablo 3 (much better hack and slash game), or Crystal Saga (more players, less bugs) or any other game that doesn't belong to ClapAlong.
RE: Loark: ClapAlong Exclusive License Rights for Loark - Evilness - 02-27-2012
Its funny that people actaully play games like that. They are just so patheticly made with lame graphics limited by java or flash. Even Diablo 2 looks better then these browser based ripoffs and it has better gameplay. Not to mention the 3D MMORPGS like Lineage or WOW. Brower games are limited to the type of batheo or travian. You cant make more then that. Atleast from my experience.