Official Site:Â Champions Online
Studio:Â Cryptic Studios/Perfect World Entertainment
Launch Date:Â September 1, 2009
Genre: Superhero Themepark
Business Model:Â Hybrid F2P (Cash Shop, Optional Sub)
Platform: PC
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PSA: Champions Online is giving away free $30 freeform slots
One of the biggest flaws with Champions Online's business model has been that the game's greatest strength -- being able to mix-and-match powers to...
EVE Online crowns its Champion of Lowsec, posts Pulse video and charity campaign
Last week, EVE Online challenged player alliances and corps to blow up the most stuff possible in the Champions of Lowsec event and offered...
Champions Online aims to judge your backside in ‘reverse’ costume contest
The worry of whether some pants make your butt look too big will be a semi-legitimate concern with Champions Online's next costume contest owing...
Champions Online surveys players, preps Serene Abyss, as Star Trek Online boosts mark acquisition
Would you like to take a survey? Champions Online would like you to take a survey. It's a survey about the future development of...
EVE Online addresses cheaters, elaborates on tomorrow’s faction war updates
EVE Online has a whole lot to talk about, both on its official site and in the weekly EVE Pulse video series. This week,...
Into the Super-verse: Getting started with Champions Online in 2020
The sharp rise and fall of Champions Online back in 2009 resulted in a game that's made for an easy target of jokes ever...
More and more MMOs are offering sales and events during the coronavirus pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, MMOs and other MMO-adjacent games and studios continue to react, bringing their staffs home and offering bonuses...
League of Legends card game Runeterra is having a productive beta
The League of Legends game universe is rapidly expanding, and at the forefront of this new generation is Runeterra. The Hearthstone-like digital card game...
Desert Arena: First impressions of Shadow Arena, the Diet Black Desert of battle royales
Did someone just cast Arcane Echo? Because this'll be our second piece on Shadow Arena this week, following its deep-dive by our PvP columnist...
Cryptic is killing off cross-game chat in Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online
One of the best features of Cryptic's MMOs over the years was the fact that players could communicate cross-game in a unique multi-server global...
Hearthstone celebrates its sixth anniversary with the Spirit of Competition event
Hearthstone is both saying goodbye to the Year of the Dragon and celebrating six years of operation in one fell swoop with the start...
Global Chat: Neverwinter is ‘damn good fun’
You know what's an interesting trend among MMO bloggers lately? It seems that many of them are heading back to Neverwinter -- and enjoying...
Champions Online releases its second Serene Abyss chapter and a new Wild West-themed Alert
There's a little something for almost every type of player in Champions Online. Are you invested in the ongoing Serial Story? There's a fresh...
Netmarble’s Q4 2019 were up YOY as the company raked in $1.6B for the year and pushes west
I'm gonna say a weird thing about Netmarble: It has the cleanest, most non-misleading investor report of any of the ones I've poked through...
PWE didn’t forget Champions Online! Now you can link that account to Steam too
Yesterday, we covered the news that Perfect World Entertainment is finally enabling account linking between Steam and Arc, its proprietary platform for distributing all...
Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago
In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...
You can link your Neverwinter and Star Trek Online accounts to Steam as of today
Beginning today, Perfect World Entertainment is finally enabling account linking between Steam and Arc, its proprietary platform for distributing all of its MMOs here...
Champions Online releases its new in-game Serial Story and a Trade Paperback questionite lockbox
Ready for some more Serial Story action in Champions Online? That's good, because the second narrative story mission is out now just in case...
The Daily Grind: Is there a thing you secretly love in an MMO you hate?
Let's give credit where credit is due: Just because we dislike a game doesn't mean we dislike every last thing in it. Most of...
Champions Online tasks players with taking on Hi-Pan and the Red Banner Cult
It's time to absolutely ruin the Red Banner Cult led by Hi-Pan in the latest Champions Online event, dubbed (appropriately enough) Red Banner Ruin and running...
