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Champions Online offering lifetime, six-month subscription perks
* Posted Aug 4, 2009 4:56 pm ET
* By philonious_matt

Atari could certainly use a hero to help it rebound from the $319 million loss it suffered during its previous fiscal year. And luckily for the publisher, that hero may be on the way in the form of Champions Online, a superhero-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game from its subsidiary, Cryptic Studios. With the PC installment of Champions Online due September 1, Cryptic announced this week a number of incentives for early subscribers.

With the lifetime subscription ($200), players receive a Retro Future costume set, an in-game Foxbat action figure, and an art deco outfit set for Champions Online. Additionally, the plan includes access to Star Trek Online's closed beta testing and an in-game Star Trek mirror universe outfit for the interstellar MMOG. Cryptic Studios expects to begin closed-beta testing for Star Trek Online next year, with the game's full launch due before April 2010.

Champions Online's six-month subscription ($60) also includes the art deco costume set and beta access to Star Trek Online, though the plan lacks some of the other exclusive items from the indefinite subscription model. Both packages will only be offered until Champions Online's release on September 1 for the PC. Cryptic also expects to launch an Xbox 360 edition of the game later this year.

For more information, check out GameSpot's previous coverage of Champions Online.

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Not bad...not bad at all.