CDC Games, the “free-to-play, pay for merchandise” model for online video games in China, announced today that its CDC Games International (CGI) business unit has launched Lunia, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on the popular manga-style comic art form, for commercial availability in North America.

Lunia, which was developed by Korea-based ALLM Co., Ltd., is based on the manga-style of Japanese comics. Unlike many other MMORPGs currently on the market, Lunia is played much like an action arcade game, allowing players to move around using a keyboard’s arrow keys, rather than a mouse. The game can also 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 North America.

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