Video Games
The Future of Social Media Gaming Champions Online Style
- 31 Aug 09
You will be forgive for thinking, "What has a video game got to do with Social Media?" Well as it happens rather a lot, you see Champions Online the follow up to the hit MMOG City of Heroes/Villains is the first AAA game title I'm aware of to integrate Social Media features directly into the game.
What is Champions Online?
CO as it's known to the players is a Superhero themed, Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) where users create their own Superhero and battle evil villains, as players gain skills and defeat the bad guys they level up and earn perks and other in game items to help their super hero progress and take on bigger villains. The games setting comes from a Pen & Paper role playing game from the 1980's that hasĀ proven to be very popular over time.