Desert Operations: Winner of the “Best Classic Online Game”

The players have made their decision and have selected: Desert Operations is the “Best Classic Browser Game” on the market. The popular strategy game based on resources, joining alliances and participating in devastating battles won the award for “Browser Game of the Year 2011” in the category “Best Classic Game”. In the selection process players have cast more than 24,000 of their votes to select the “Browser Game of the Year 2011”.

“The award emphasizes the impressive international popularity of Desert Operations”, states Andreas Planer, CEO of the Looki Publishing GmbH, an affiliate of the next idea GmbH. “Ultimately it comes down to what the players like to play. And they have demonstrated this with their election. We would like to thank all the players and voters for their support.” The award ceremony for “Browser Game of the Year” has been held annually since 2005 and is considered as one of the most popular international awards that a browser game can be nominated for and win.

Christoph Süß, CEO of the developer playzo, stated: “We are delighted in having Looki as an experienced partner by our side. The very positive and overwhelming response from the players of Desert Operations is the result of our highly successful collaboration, with which we will be implementing more successful and exciting projects such as Romadoria in the near future”.

The strategic military online game Desert Operations is part of the extensive portfolio of the gaming portal Looki and is currently offered in 17 different languages.

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Grepolis 2.0 Unveiled

About one year after its release, the strategy game Grepolis is close to start a new era. With the update to version 2.0, a lot of new features are implemented into the Browser game. Within the next weeks, the existing worlds are supposed to be updated as well.

“With version 2.0, we have improved Grepolis in all of its aspects”, says InnoGames founder Hendrik Klindworth. “The graphics for the isle world and the city have become much more realistic. In the game play, we have simplified the start by easing the farming system for the players. You can get more resources with less effort now and therefore proceed faster. Simultaneously, we have introduced the Seven Wonders of the World as the decisive strategic element for the late game phases”, he reveals.

In Grepolis 2.0, those wonders (Pyramids, Hanging Garden, Temple, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum, Colossus, Lighthouse) define the conditions how to win a world. They can only be built by alliances, not by individual players. When an alliance has finished a certain number of wonders, it wins the world – and by this opens the gate to a whole new game level: the so called hero worlds.

Mr. Klindworth: “Our aim is that an alliance might win the world after one and a half to two years. But of course, we do not want to lose those passionate players afterwards. That is why we offer very special awards to all players who have survived a world for such a long time: the ascension to the hero worlds.” Those worlds will have exclusive content like special units and also the game balance will be different compared to the regular Grepolis worlds. Or to say it in another way: The hero worlds will be a very special challenge for all of those who have proven to be masters of strategy.

With six million registered users, Grepolis is one of the popular strategy Browser games worldwide.

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