champions online

Official Site: Champions Online
Studio: Cryptic Studios/Perfect World Entertainment
Launch Date: September 1, 2009
Genre: Superhero Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Cash Shop, Optional Sub)
Platform: PC

Space boats.

Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October

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The MOP Up: FFXIV fans party hard at Gamescom 2024

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Final Fantasy XIV's European contingent partied hard at the recent Gamescom 2024 -- the first such gathering in five years. The community team reported...

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In gaming, I'm often fascinated by "paths less traveled." Maybe it's a leveling expansion everyone ignores, a race that's never picked for a kickball...
So this is my life.

Into the Super-Verse: Looking back on Champions Online, 15 years later

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I hadn't even really thought about the fact that Champions Online has been out for 15 years now until I saw the anniversary post...
happy birthday, mister president

Champions Online celebrates its anniversary with cat rescues, concerts, and Champions trivia

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Can you believe that it has been 15 years since Champions Online launched? We don't blame you if it's hard to believe, but in...

The MOP Up: Grim Dawn spices up the endgame with a new mode

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OARPG Grim Dawn's third expansion is on the way with a brand-new game mode that should inject some extended life for its playerbase: "Ascendant Mode...

One Shots: Dawntrail, ho!

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Memories of a brutal 48-hour downtime for Final Fantasy XIV are fading into distant memory as the playerbase basks on the shores of Dawntrail....

Camelot Unchained side game Final Stand Ragnarok adds a beta version of a new map in its latest update

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Do you remember Final Stand: Ragnarok? It's been a bit since we got news from the game: Readers will remember this as the spinoff/prequel...
Eventually

Vague Patch Notes: Why do so many MMOs fail?

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We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...

Overwatch 2 is once again crowdfunding its OWCS esports prize pool with a skin bundle

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Blizzard appears to be making another attempt at crowdfunding an esports competition as it's selling a skin bundle to Overwatch 2 players in order...

The last remains of Perfect World Entertainment rebrand as Arc Games following Gearbox sale to Take-Two

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Don't look now, but the chunk of Gearbox that MMORPG players cared about is changing its name. Readers will recall that back in 2021, Embracer...

Final Stand Ragnarok releases 1.0 update with updated maps and hero models

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Unchained Entertainment fka City State Entertainment launched Camelot Unchained prequel Final Stand Ragnarok into its third and final early access earlier this month, kicking...

Working As Intended: The top 10 hot tubs in MMORPGs

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It's been a running joke for a few years that I always put hot tubs in my MMO houses whenever possible, and once that...

April Fools’ Day 2024 events and gags from around the MMORPG world

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Welcome to weird MMORPG game mode day! I mean, April Fools' Day - not that we're sorry a lot of the "pranks" have become...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 463: WoW’s pirates storm the gangplank

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Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV Dawntrail, the Riot MMO, WoW Plunderstorm, the state of Cryptic and its MMOs (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Champions Online), ArcheAge 2's delay, Path of Exile 2's beta delay, and New World's next season, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, The Sims 4, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on rekindling the social magic of old MMORPGs.

Everything we learned about the future of Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, & Champions Online from Cryptic’s stream

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The knowledge that Cryptic's MMOs have been shunted off to a tiny European corner of the Embracer empire is not news to the MMO...

Camelot Unchained prequel Final Stand Ragnarok launches into early access – again – today

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As we noted earlier this week, the Camelot Unchained spinoff game Final Stand Ragnarok is launching today into its most formal early access yet....

Pantheon recaps updates since beginning season one ahead of this weekend’s test wave

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen studio Visionary Realms is clearly on an experimental path when it comes to getting development of the game paid...
We good? I hope we're good?

Cryptic CEO says Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online are safe in a ‘steady state’ for content cadence

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If you've been worried about the future of Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, or Champions Online recently... well, who can blame you? It's been a...

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