There are a lot of MMOs that would like you to try on a cape and spandex tights. Champions Online is Atari’s entrant in the superhero MMO genre, and it is now free to play. Sony’s DC Universe Online, which offers players the chance to fight alongside heroes such as Batman or villains including Lex Luthor, launched recently. It’s likely the timing here is no coincidence on Atari’s part.

Halloween is approaching soon, boys and ghouls. Got any plans? I’m sure many of you will take the kids trick-or-treating, or even trick-or-treat yourselves. Good luck in finding that one house that gives full-size candy bars! But before you get in costume and bug your neighbors for sweets, you may want to check out the festivities in your favorite MMORPGs. Several games will once again bask in the Halloween spirit, with special themed quests, items, and costumes for players.

Champions Online, the superhero-themed MMORPG that isn’t City of Heroes/Villains, is celebrating its one year anniversary. Naturally, they’ve seized this opportunity as a way to get more people to play the game, or start playing it again. From September 1-7, 2010, new or returning players can play Champions Online for free.

When it was originally announced by Cryptic Studios, Star Trek Online was said to start off on PC, which it did. However, it was also announced with the possibility of future console ports.

Recently, it was revealed by the developers that the plans to port the MMO to consoles is, at best, going to be put on the backburners.

Champions Online is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on the Champions role-playing game that was first published back in 1981. It’s being developed by Cryptic Studios, a company you’re probably familiar with thanks to its work on City of Heroes, another superhero-themed MMORPG.

Although the full game isn’t expected to be released until Spring 2009 (for PC and Xbox 360), Cryptic Studios confirmed via press release that a closed beta for the PC version will be taking place…

Cryptic Studios was in a party mood on Friday night (August 29, 2008) of PAX, hosting a big shindig at Seattle’s Public Library. Since Cryptic was celebrating the soon-to-be released Champions Online, there were superheroes present.

I learned a lot about the Champions Online game. At first I was wondering how it was different from City of Heroes, a game also designed by Cryptic. I discovered that Champions Online does some things that City does not…

As we reported back in January 2008, P2 Entertainment, formerly Perpetual Entertainment, announced that it was no longer working on the its ever MMO centered on the Star Trek universe. For reasons not originally stated, P2 Entertainment had been pulled off of the development of Star Trek Online and all of its license material and game’s content (which did not include the code) had all been transferred over to a then unnamed Bay Area development studio.

Today (March 15, 2008), rumors have surfaced that the unnamed developer is Cryptic Studios, makers of City of Heroes/Villains and the upcoming Champions Online, will be taking over production of Star Trek Online…

Four years ago City of Heroes made its debut as one of the more unique massively multiplayer online games to hit the market at the time, as it gave millions of gamers worldwide the chance to strap on a cape, lace up their leather boots and take to the skies as a bonafide super hero. But after numerous updates and a standalone expansion pack, City of Villains, City of Heroes has begun to get long in the tooth.

Hoping to maintain the loyal comic book crowd, Cryptic Studios is set to release another comic inspired MMO centered around the long standing pen and paper RPG series, The Champions.

Champions Online will be Cryptic Studios first developed and self-published title since their departure from…

After the success of City of Heroes and City of Villains, Cryptic Studios has announced that they are brining another superhero inspired MMORPG titled to gamers everywhere, in the form of Champions Online.

Although details on the project haven’t been fully reviled by Cryptic, Game Informer magazine will have a full article on Champions Online in its March (2008) issue. It is expected the article will confirmed that Champions Online will be released on both the PC and…