Cryptic Studios launched the website for their latest super-hero MMO, Champions Online, today. It wasn’t that long ago that Microsoft officially announced the demise of Marvel Universe Online, a super-hero MMO that Cryptic was developing. Then comes the announcement that Cryptic purchased the Champions IP from HERO games, the creators of the HERO roleplaying system.
Looking [...]

No Comments »

I’ve decided to start the year by downsizing. The first to get the pink slip is the forum here. The only traffic it was getting–that wasn’t spambots–came from my play-by-post Dungeons & Dragons game, which has been going on for more than two years. Unfortunately, the pace of the game did not live up to [...]

No Comments »

Issue #20, the final City of Heroes comic by Top Cow, is now available for download. Why should you care? Because it features a short story by yours truly. “A Star is Born” is the origin of Jumpstar, one of the superheroes I play in the City of Heroes MMO, as told by a reporter [...]

No Comments »

I got a wonderful little email from the folks at NCSoft last night. If you remember, I wrote up an origin story for a superhero I created to play in their City of Heroes mmorpg. One of the ways NCSoft promotes the community for CoH is to accept fiction written by fans set in the [...]

4 Comments »

I’m coming up on my 4 month “anniversary” in City of Heroes. I’m a little late to the party–CoH is celebrating their 3rd year this month. There is still an active community and the developers continue to add content.
This is my first experience with a MMO, but reading through others’ comments on the CoH forums [...]

3 Comments »