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

Massively Overthinking: When the original MMO is better than the sequel

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A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...
I mean, perhaps you should, but...

Overwatch 2’s Season 9 calls to Champions next week

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The ninth season of Overwatch 2 is ticking down to launch next week on February 13th with an array of "eldritch horrors" waiting on...

Blizzard revives Overwatch 2 esports with the newly announced Overwatch Champions Series

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Remember back before Christmas when it became clear that Overwatch League, the bajillion-dollar esports league that embroiled global investors and players and then was...

Riot Games laid off over 500 people last night, and no we don’t know what it means for the Riot MMO

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Riot Games is joining the seemingly endless list of game studios continuing to dump workers overboard: Last night, the company announced it is shedding...
Dudes

The MOP Up: World of Warcraft wraps up Dragonflight’s esports tournaments

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The final esports tournaments for World of Warcraft's Dragonflight era are coming in the first part of 2024, with the Arena World Championship taking...

Neverwinter and Champions Online dole out a wintry bounty for the holidays

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Fans of Cryptic's MMOs might want to take a holiday in those realms so that they can enjoy some of the extra bounties that...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024

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It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...

Champions Online and Neverwinter kick off winter holiday celebrations

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Cryptic's MMOs are getting into the holiday spirit this month. Neverwinter celebrated the return of its Winter Festival of Simril, allowing players to venture...

The MOP Up: Alganon shows its first signs of life in ages

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Could we be hearing a heartbeat in the long-dormant Alganon? This past week, the official account announced that the website is back online and...
How's the atmosphere.

Star Trek Online now has third-party ship model NFTs as new Cryptic boss DECA opens hiring

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Remember back when Star Trek Online announced that it was ending its six-year partnership with GamePrint, bringing to an end the service that allowed...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Five Guild Wars 2 event farms to combat your labyrinth letdown

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My favorite thing about Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is the Mad King's Labyrinth. There's nothing quite like it,...
does this look lewd to anyone else

Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil’s Inner Nayos and convergences

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Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure was a bit of a different expansion in that it wasn't one big chunk of content dropped...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Mortal Kombat Onslaught, DC Dual Force, Definya, Project Mist

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you've (probably) never heard of! Mortal Kombat Onslaught: This Warner Bros. multiplayer mobile...

Champions Online’s Halloween event, Blood Moon Rises, returns

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In a game that's wall-to-wall costumes and dropped loot, every day is pretty much Halloween. But do you know what's more Halloweeny than that?...

The MOP Up: Aion Classic finally gets its delicious revenge

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Aion Classic unleashed Update 2.4: Stormwing's Revenge on its servers this past week: "Get ready to battle Stormwing and defeat Yamennes to loot heroic...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard of: Hawked, Glassbreakers, Jam Cloud 95, WorldShards

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Welcome back to another quick run-down of some MMOs and multiplayer titles you've probably never heard of. If you have, then you get exactly...

Rumor: Embracer is trying to sell Gearbox – and therefore Cryptic and its MMORPGs

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The Embracer Group contract disaster continues to generate destructive waves all over the gaming industry, and now it's landing at our doorstep, as the...

Massively Overthinking: The dumbest deaths in MMORPGs

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This past week has been amusing for everyone in the MMO community and beyond who loves to watch people die stupid deaths in video...

Champions Online is giving away freebie freeform slots for its 14th anniversary

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Wanna feel old, MMO fans? Champions Online is celebrating its 14th birthday for a month starting tomorrow, and Cryptic didn't forget: It's throwing a...

Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms

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The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...

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