Champions Online

The Winter Event started again in Champions Online on December 5th, and interested Heroes will find a basic tree in the Renaissance Center. The transformation of Millennium City will continue on December 14th, then on December 24th you’ll find Santa and his presents under the fully decorated tree. The event conclude onDecember 30th at 7:00 AM PST.

Heroes will have to stop Black Harlequin from completing his evil plan of delivering thousands of deadly presents around Millennium City.

That right there is a Batplane, and it can be yours, along with several other permutations, coming soon to Champions Online. This week a new patch is rolling out that can bring you any method of vehicle, from the Batplane, to the Fantasticar bathtub, to the Spider-Car (okay not that, tragically, but still)! With a standard chasis and several permutations (with stats altered by the chasis), there's jets and hovertanks, but there's more planned down the line, like hoverbikes for the Star Wars fan.

PC Gamer has a nice gallery of images of the new jets available, because what else will you get? 

Julian "Mirai" Williams

Perfect World Entertainment some time ago bought Cryptic Studios, which put them into a weird place with two games - Champions Online and Star Trek Online - having two separate microtransaction systems. So that's being fixed, replacing Cryptic Points with Zen, allowing both to be used interchangeably. Perfect World Entertainment has the full FAQ there, including explanation behind accepted payment and how Zen will be different from C-Points.

Apparently, some kind of fashion diva Gravita is the leading lady in the new Rampage mode for Champions Online. With her thoroughly unpractical outfit and her gravity manipulation powers, you have to contain her before she breaks out with 9 other heroes. More about Gravita and her ridiculous thigh-high boots are behind the jump!

Big group of stories today for Champions Online, starting with the departure of Rob Overmeyer, Executive Producer, going to other areas in Cryptic Studios. Instead, Brad Stokan will be taking over. Brad's arrival comes with huge teases of the next update, such as more alerts, more events, more specializations, and more mods.