A couple of contrasting stories for you today, in hero and villain flavors. Cryptic’s MMO, Champions Online is now live, available on store shelves in North America and ready to go. Notorious patent troll, Tim Langdell, has stepped down from his fairly ironic position on the board at IGDA. But don’t worry, he provides plenty of laughable insanity in the letter explaining his departure.

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Hey folks, we’ve got a handful of Champions Online beta keys to hand out to five lucky people. In case you’re not familiar with the upcoming MMO from Cryptic, here’s the official description for the game itself.

“Powered by the groundbreaking Cryptic Engine, Champions Online is currently in development for the PC. With literally billions of character options allowing total customization, real-time action combat, the richly detailed Champions universe and an experienced Cryptic Studios team devoted to working directly with gamers to deliver a great gaming experience, Champions Online is set to be the premier superheroic massively multiplayer online role playing game.”

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ALT+F4 is jam packed with MMO news today, as well as clarification from Bethesda on Todd Howard indicating that the next Elder Scrolls game isn’t happening any time soon, which caused alarm for quite a few gamers out there. Guild Wars 2 has started the slow build up to Hypetown with a new teaser site. The Champions Online beta has opened up, and I’ve taken it for a bit of a spin. To ice the MMO cake, Realtime Worlds has announced that APB is not going to carry any subscription fees with it, gamers wallets rejoice!

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Champions Online is getting the ball rolling with opening the curtain on a couple of subscription plans geared towards anyone who plans on being in for the long haul. An interview spotted over at G4 sheds light on the possibility of X-Wing and Tie Fighter games making a return, with an announcement somewhere in the near future. In less exciting news, ASCARON, developers of Sacred 2 have been forced to shutter due to bankruptcy. Finally, Nation Red, a top down zombie slaughter game is now available in demo form, and up for purchase.

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Due to the amount of slowdown in news flow for the Summer season, ALT+F4 is going to be on Tuesday and Thursday until things pick back up and there’s more news than anyone knows what to do with. This will allow enough time for digging through everything to cram all the good PC gaming news into this tasty bite sized snack.

Today, you can check out details on the new Killing Floor Character Pack DLC, tossing four new player models into the violent mix. If you’re currently wearing a Jedi robe and haven’t been able to play Star Wars The Force Unleashed on consoles, you’ll be glad to hear that it is headed toward the PC, with Aspyr Media behind the port. Champions Online has a solid date set for when the open beta goes live, but there’s only a finite amount of keys available, so get your clicking finger ready. Lastly but not least, an SDK for Zeno Clash has been released by the crew at Ace Team.

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