Category Archives: Champions Online

Champions Online is down

For the bigger portion of the day, newly launched superhero MMO Champions Online has been down. For all of you looking for information here’s the word from official sources:

Champions Online is currently undergoing emergency maintenance to the game and website. Players will be unable to access the website, forums, and game at this time. I know that we’ve been down for a good portion of the day. But we have numerous groups addressing the issues. We’re sorry for the inconvenience today and I’ll update you as I know more.

We’ll keep you updated as information becomes available.

P.S. As someone on Twitter so eloquently put it:

“Champions Online has officially caved under the weight of its own awesomeness Or someone spilt coffee on the server.”

New Champions Online Trailer on Gamespot

New Champions Online Nemesis Video Trailer is up on gamespot.com

Champions Online seems like it will be doing a lot of different things–and a lot of things that are different from what you’d expect from a traditional massively multiplayer game. The in-depth character appearance design, archvillain gameplay, and ongoing story quests should give comic-book fans plenty of stuff to enjoy, while the highly customizable character power system, customizable archvillains and henchmen, raiding, and PVP content should appeal to hardcore massively multiplayer fans. And the fast-paced, accessible combat should hopefully make the game appealing for just about anyone else. Champions Online should have plenty of colorful comic-book superhero action to offer when it launches later this year for the PC and the Xbox 360.


Champions Online release date

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On an event that took place today in the UK in Cryptic studio’s HQ, Bill Roper (of Warcraft/Starcraft/Diablo fame back in Blizzard and most recently Hellgate:London debacle) announced that Champions Online, superhero MMORPG, will be released in the US and Europe on 14th July 2009. So get your pantyhose ready and prepare to kick some predictable villain’s ass. What, don’t tell me I’m the only one here keeping a spare pair of pantyhose? News spotted at StrategyInformer via ActionTrip.