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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The MOP Up: Champions Online ups the ante on Monster Island
With a name like "Monster Island," you wouldn't expect this Champions Online locale to be a walk in the park. And in fact, this...
Champions Online’s Cryptic says it’ll ‘start exploring more inclusive customization options’
Over the weekend, a Champions Online player tipped us off to a conversation on the game's official forums in which players are chronicling their...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is the Burglar LOTRO’s least-loved class?
In most MMOs that I play, I confess a certain attraction -- if not affinity -- for seeking out the least-played and -loved class...
Cryptic claims victory over login issues plaguing its PC MMORPGs and hands out apology goodies to players
If you were among the PC players who were having trouble getting into Cryptic's slate of MMORPGs like Star Trek Online, Champions Online, or...
Massively Overthinking: Tabletop and boardgames for MMORPG players
Last week, following the crowdfunding of an Elder Scrolls boardgame, the MOP staff got derailed by a discussion on boardgame prices (it's expensive, y'all)....
The MOP Up: Hearthstone welcomes the Year of the Wolf
The Year of the Wolf is coming to Hearthstone: "Throughout the Year of the Wolf, we’ll be focusing our efforts on making Hearthstone and...
Games startup Elodie Games announces Project Skies, a ‘social cooperative action RPG game’
At this point, we all see a press release from a new startup studio with tons of investment money touting devs from the likes...
Embracer’s revenues soar as LOTR gets new games and Neverwinter, Star Trek Online bolster back catalogue
Embracer Group posted its fiscal year Q3 2022 earnings today, representing the fourth quarter of the year (October, November, and December). The megacorp saw...
Champions Online fights a random server error that caused players to get stuck in maps over the weekend
Were you among those players who were stuck in a map in Champions Online? You most certainly were not alone, and the devs spent...
Dungeons and Dragons Online sleds into the Snowpeaks Festival today
Slither into your snowsuit and grab your frostiest of D20s because Dungeons and Dragons Online is embracing the wintry atmosphere with the return of...
Star Trek Online has a new executive producer, players have a new hairdo
You might have missed it in the excitement of yesterday's Refractions release, but Star Trek Online apparently has a new executive producer: Jarrod Fisher....
Blizzard polls players about a Hearthstone sub as it scales back esports
We begin this article by noting right up front that Blizzard is terribly fond of floating bad ideas in surveys and then saying, Ha...
Epic MMO Battles of History: Azeroth vs. Final Fantasy XIV antagonists
Not every single game is comparable to every other game. That's just the reality of things. Comparing every Mega Man game to every Castlevania...
TERA Console tweaks classes and battlegrounds as a new TERA PC rogue server launches
With the PC version of TERA being shuttered this past June, news out of the MMORPG now comes exclusively from its console version, which...
Champions Online kicks off its festive winter event, preps costume contest in honor of Kevin Conroy
Sure, the winter event happening in Champions Online is precisely the same as last year, and that probably can strike as a bit boring,...
Five things that excite me playing World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
For most of 2022, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was so far down my list of "most anticipated releases" as to be falling off the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the least appealing weapon in MMOs?
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Bruno was joking with me about how crap it was that Hobbit Champions in Lord of the Rings...
LOTRO Legendarium: What class should you pick in LOTRO?
Hunter.
Thanks for coming to the column! See you in the next one!
What, you want a bit more than that? Sheesh, fine. I'll stop amusing...
Champions Online begins the first week of its Blood Moon Halloween celebration
There is a bad moon on the rise in Champions Online, but it hopefully won't be a bad time for players as it's the...
The Stream Team: The challenge of Crystal Cove in Dungeons & Dragons Online
Treasure? Pirates? Yup, those sounds like something Massively OP's MJ would be interested in! And DDO's Euphonia's Challenge, The Treasure of Crystal Cove event...
