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Cryptic has revealed that it no longer has “current plans for a console version” of Champions Online.

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Cryptic’s announced that Champions Online will be going free for 72 hours.

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Cryptic has been listening to complaints from its community, and has decided to make the new expansion announced last month a freebie upon release.

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Cryptic has announced that the first paid expansion for Champions Online will be called Vibora Bay and it’s described as “one of the Gulf Coast’s largest and most exciting cities” .

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Cryptic’s revealed its next CO update to be Nemesis Confrontation. All details here.

Players will get new perks, new costumes and a new instance in Nemesis Lair.

New items are being included as well, such as the Hyper Dimensional Shifthopper Armbands. You can’t say fairer than that.

Hit the link for everything, plus shots.

Not much this week that didn’t hit the front page, but head on through the break and you will find out all sorts of stuff.

Information on the upcoming Warhammer patch, Martial Arts for City of Heroes, and a Beta weekend for Global Agenda.

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This was a rather large week in MMOs as far as news went, and not all of it was Halloween related.

Past the break you will hear all about how Ultima Online is still going strong, get familiarized with the new patch for Aion, read up on Cryptic’s Blood Moon event via a dev chat, PvP henchmen and Guild Wars, Alganon’s delay, China’s ban on males playing females in games, and many other bits of stuff that didn’t hit the front page during the week.

Also, we hope everyone who plays MMOs enjoyed the Halloween and Fall festivities that their particular favorites hosted. Loads had celebrations, more than likely every single one of ‘em. If we forgot to mention your particular game, head on over to the list through the link ther and add it in the comments section so that we may give it its proper shout-out.

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Atari and Cryptic announced today that one million superhero characters have been created in Champions Online since it launched in September.

“We are very pleased with the wonderful praise Champions Online is receiving,” said Atari CEO Jim Wilson. “We credit the great MMO fan base and look forward to seeing what players create as the game continues to grow and develop.

“We are working hard on new content and updates that will expand the universe and give Champions fans more to explore.”

If you have not tried it yet, but want to, there’s a free trial weekend starting tomorrow.

Full PR past the break.

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Atari’s put out a movie and shots for Champions Online’s Blood Moon update, which released yesterday in celebration of Hallowe’en. Get the lot after the break.

The new content pitches super-players against Arch Lich Takofanes and his zombie things.

The video features Cryptic’s Bill Roper, and other devs from the studio, explaining what the Sam Hell’s going on.

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Cryptic’s Champions Online will be free to all next weekend as part of the MMO’s Blood Moon Hallowe’en event.

The promo will run from 10.00am October 30 until 10.00am November 2 (PST).

All our subscribers will be able to play the Blood Moon content starting October 27.

More info here. If you’re not already a sub you can sign up for an account there as well.

Quite a bit of stuff regarding MMOS this week.

CrimeCraft will go free-to-play, Turbine released new screens for Siege of Mirkwood, Green Arrow is making his way into DC Universe online, there are a couple updates on World of Warcraft movies, and a whole other bunch of stuff happened too.

Read on past the break for the lot.

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Loads of news this week in MMO land, kiddos.

Massively is giving away Beta keys to Star Trek Online, Aion dropped GameGuard and launched its first server, Pirates are everywhere, and Sony is giving you double station cash this weekend.

There is also news concerning Champions Online, EVE, Guild Wars 2, EverQuest, Warhammer, Runes of Magic, and loads of other stuff you can find here instead of searching everywhere.

It’s all past the break.

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Cryptic’s announced the first content addition to Champions Online in Blood Moon, a spooky patch due late October.

Zombies, werewolves and Takofanes, “the Undying Lord,” all feature, as does a new Celestial powerset (thanks Phoenixblight).

Atari MMO Champions Online hit the US yesterday, and releases in Europe on Friday. Buy it, because it’s awesome. We told you you’d be getting details on updates almost immediately. You should listen to us.

Thanks, EG.

Cryptic MMO Champions Online is now on sale in the US, Atari’s confirmed.

European’s will get the game on Friday.

If you want to get superheroing, take a look at the official site for more info.

We gave this a run-out over the weekend and had plenty fun. You will to.

We spoke to Cryptic boss Jack Emmert about the game, Star Trek Online and other stuff last week for our podcast – check it out.

PR after the break.

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Loads of stuff happened this week in MMO land, and some of it is posted for you after the break.

Should you choose to click on through, you will find why Turine is suing Atari, get caught up on The Green Lantern and DC Universe’s Beta status, hear about new goodies coming to EQII, lament the collapse of the bank in EVE Online, and there’s loads of other stuff along with news on a couple of MMOs you may have never even heard of.

Go on, hit the link. You know you want to.

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Cryptic CCO Jack Emmert has described Microsoft’s apparent deadlock with developers over how MMOs are to work on Live as “baffling”.

His comments, made to VG247 in this week’s podcast, mirror those given to us by the FFXIV team in Cologne this month, which said the Square MMO was a timed PS3 exclusive partly because the publisher was in ongoing discussions with Microsoft about how it’s to work on Live.

“Microsoft’s a big company, and they have to work out all the various issues related to MMOs,” said Emmert.

“It just takes time for the big beast known as Microsoft to get moving. I really have no explanation other than that, because it’s as baffling to developers as it is to everyone else.”

Cryptic has a 360 version of Champions Online which is “ready to go,” according to the developer, but the chances of the console game releasing anywhere near its imminent PC counterpart sound distant.

“This year? I don’t know,” Emmert said of the 360 release.

“Right now we’re just talking with Microsoft. Right now the ball is firmly in their court. We’re ready to go, but until we get the go ahead from Microsoft, right now we’re sort of waiting.”

Champions Online releases for PC in both the US and Europe next week.

Soon-to-be-launched Cryptic MMO Champions Online will see a minimum of three and most likely four proper content updates every year, chief creative officer Jack Emmert has told VG247.

“I think our battle plan is four a year, but we might have to scale that down to three a year; I don’t know,” said the developer, talking in our latest podcast.

“But certainly our goal is that every three months there’s something new being added to the game.”

Emmert added that new content would be put out “very, very regularly. I think launch day, you can pretty much guarantee you’ll be soon learning exactly what we’re going to be doing for free content. We learned that it’s absolutely vital to keep stuff flowing as a very, very constant rate.”

Paid or unpaid? Both.

“We are definitely planning on doing” paid expansions, Emmert said.

“When I say four updates a year, that would be including any paid content. There will definitely be free content, but in addition.”

Champions Online hits both the US and Europe next week.

Lots going on this week. The latest episode in our amazing podcast features Cryptic legend Jack Emmert on the imminent launch of anticipated MMO Champions Online, as well as EG.net dep ed Ellie Gibson talking to Steph and I about the mighty GamesCom.

There’s mention of sausages and sex with aliens in there, as well. What more do you want? Play it in your browser; download it: the choice is yours.

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Following news last night that Champions Online’s lifetime and six-monthly subs offers had been pulled, Cryptic’s confirmed that both deal are now available again, completely unrestricted, until 11.59pm PST on August 31.

Cryptic’s creative director, Jack Emmert, told VG247 on the phone last night that unexpected popularity for the offers had caused the company to pull the plug.

“The business folks had a certain amount of life-time subscriptions allocated, and the popularity of the program far exceeded their anticipations, so it was passed down from on high that we had to end it,” he said.

Fear not. You are now able to spend $200 on being a superhero for the rest of your life. Quick. Get to it.

The game launches next Tuesday in the US and next Friday in Europe. You’ll be able to hear our full interview with Jack in this week’s podcast.

Cryptic Studios has has sold-out of Lifetime and Six-Month Subscriptions for its upcoming Champions Online.

The special offer was suppose to last until September 1, but unfortunately, Cryptic only allotted for so many in the first place and subsequently ran out. Because of this, many hoping to get in on the deal are quite perturbed.

“We’d like to take a moment and hopefully clear up any confusion regarding our discounted Champions Online lifetime and six-month subscription offers,” read and official statement.

“First, we do sincerely apologize for the rather abrupt end to the promotional offers. It was never our intention to spring that news on our fans or anyone else. In short, we had an allotment of special subscription packages to sell over a fixed time (ending September 1). When we began approaching the offer cap before the date cap, we had to message. Frankly, we never suspected our special offers to be so popular.

“While we did mention that supplies were limited in an announcement post, we definitely should have emphasized our limits more explicitly in all our messaging. Again, we just never expected supply to be any kind of an issue. The community response to our offers has been… amazing.

“It’s hard for all of us here at Cryptic to see outcry in our communities. We work day and night to create the best gaming experiences we can and any missteps – big or small – on the long, winding, and sometimes treacherous path of development are always regrettable.

“We do apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you and we do sincerely hope you understand and come play Champions Online with us this September. ”

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