New Champions Online content and a CoH Resurrection?

Wow! This September, Champions Online turns 5 years old. I am glad to see that it made it to this point and am sad that I have not played it in probably 3 years.

When the game first came out, I jumped all over it. I so wanted it to be a successor to City of Heores, but it was not. There are some good concepts there and I liked the original free form characters that let you mix and match powers, but there were also problems forcing certain min/max builds. I particularly liked the teleport ability though I liked that in CoH, you could basically 'fly' with the teleport power. I think the sad part was the repetition and lack of content that Champions had. I mean there were interesting story lines and missions, but then there were only so many variations. Basically, I suppose that I haven't been back to Champions since CoH shut down – out of protest.

I mention Champions for 2 reasons. First, I got an email that said they were adding some new content and a Steel Crusade event. I don't recall the last time they added new content and it piqued my interest. I may have to update my client and see what is going on over there. Secondly, I heard that City of Heroes has a slim chance of being resurrected. Now I say slim because I only heard that a version of the code base may be released. Shannon Doyle over at Mmogames posted an interview with Nate Downes about the possibilities of brining back City of Heroes and I for one am excited. I hope it comes to fruition.

September Featured Link

Today I will mention a memorial to a great Bond villain – Jaws. Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril posted a very nice article covering the movies of Richard Kiel who passed away on the 11th. For me, he was the iconic Bond villain and probably the most memorable character that was not named James. Roger mentions movies I did not know about and provides some interesting tidbits of information opabout his role in Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me.

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