The folks from Cryptic Studios will just have to pardon (or ignore) me if I'm wrong, but this sounds an
awful lot like the Marvel MMO that was
confirmed as cancelled just a couple of days ago. They may have lost Microsoft's support, but the makers of City of Heroes / City of Villains are still determined to waste our time with another superhero MMO game of super-dubious quality -
renamed called Champions Online.
Game Informer will have the first look at the game in their March issue, and they say it's coming on PC
and consoles. That doesn't really fill you with hardcorish feelings, now does it?