MMORPGs are generally the realm of PC Gamers. However, John Blakely, the Vice President of Sony Online Entertainment, believes that DC Universe Online (PlayStation 3, PC) will change that and attract PS3 gamers with its "moment to moment" combat system. To find out more, head on over to the full article.

They say that a good comic book is founded on the excellent story behind it. Senior Designer Joe Morrissey recently went online on the City of Heroes Community Site and talked about the background of the next issue to the super powered MMO game, City of Heroes. Find out more about Issue 12: Midnight Hour by reading our full article after the jump.

Got some question roaming in your mind about Champions Online? Well, you might want to check out the latest update on the superhero MMORPG. The latest leg of Ask Cryptic Studios has been posted and question by curious players have been finally answered. Check them out after the jump!

Few things, it seems, are more fun than having new abilities to play around with in City of Heroes and City of Villains. Of course, understanding who gets what is crucial. Never fear, as NCsoft has come up with the complete Issue 12 powerset proliferation list.

More superpowered news comes to you in the full article, right after the jump.

Encountering the Rikti is considered by some as one of the most memorable experiences in NCsoft's City of Heroes. Those who haven't had the chance to do so will probably be interested to earn their stripes by defending Paragon City from this alien threat. For more information, fly to the full article.

The lure of teasers can be difficult to resist - they tend to whet your appetite for more without revealing too much about a good thing.

Speaking of which, Cryptic Studios has done exactly that with a new Champions Online teaser video. It's short, it's sweet, and it's available right after the jump.

If you look carefully behind a game, chances are you'll discover that the inspiration for that game came from something simple that somehow connected with the progenitor's sense of wonder. That's exactly the case with Cryptic Studios and its upcoming superhero MMORPG, Champions Online. More on the inspirational story after the jump.

As an MMO developer, Cryptic Studios already has a couple of impressive superhero titles under its belt with City of Heroes and the now defunct Marvel Universe Online. So it's no small surprise that its next MMO project will have another distinct superhero theme as it revealed its new game entitled Champions Online. More details about this new title in the full article.

 

The producer of the upcoming Transformers movie, Tom DeSanto, has his eyes set on procuring the rights for NCsoft's City of Heroes. He is currently planning on turning the popular MMORPG into a movie, and then into a television series.

DeSanto talked about this move saying that "a big superheroes vs. aliens movie" hasn't been done and that he envisions this as "the next big superhero franchise." That's well and good but he didn't factor in the appeal of the game. The game became popular not because of the storyline; it became popular because people wanted to play a superhero or supervillain that was their own creation. Movies and television shows in general lose that kind of interactivity.

That said, we'll just have to wait and see if his deal with NCsoft pushes through. After all, DeSanto is the same guy who secured the rights to Transformers and produced the first two X-men movies, he can probably pull off something like this right?

NCSoft's City of Heroes is the first MMORPG based on creating your own superhero (in the traditional comic-book sense) and saving the world. Given the game's comic book roots it would have been a disservice to the community if the game did not have its own actual comic book. That's when Top Cow and Blue King come in, to deliver great online comic books free of charge.

For those who haven't been reading up, issues 17 and 18 are already out but you can download their entire store of back-issues for free. We'd advise you do just that since you might get lost when the current comic refers to something that happened in the past. Anyway, we're sure that free comics would have any comic book fan screaming "Gimme!Gimme!" so we're not going to keep you waiting any longer.

The comics are available in PDF format, so you might need to download Adobe PDF reader to view it if you don't have it already. Keep checking back here for more issues news on City of Heroes.

Download: [City of Heroes- Issue 17]
Download: [City of Heroes- Issue 18]