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The Witching Hour

The Witching Hour Returns with new Base Items, Feats, and Styles!

All hell has broken loose in the streets of Gotham City and inside The Midnight Masquerade Nightclub! Go to the House of Legends and speak to the Phantom Stranger (Heroes) or to Tala (Villains) to receive further instructions. To queue for “The Midnight Masquerade,” go into your On Duty UI and look under the Events Tab.

Travel to the House of Legends and take flight in the "Multiplayer Aerial Movement Challenge: Flapping in the Night". You’ll be transformed into a vampire bat, and race around Arkham Asylum!

New Feats
  • En Gourd!
  • Hole-y Bedsheets, Batman?
  • Patch Pillager

Each day of the event, also look for “The Witching Hour” in your Mission Journal to complete and earn Spooky Bites! Shop using Teekl’s Halloween bucket for the new Pumpkin Knight style items, the Spooky Host Accessory and new base items! Level Requirement: 10

Fall Vault

The fall vault is back! Everyone can run the vault daily during The Witching Hour event. Find the Vault-O'-Lantern in the House of Legends for a special new mission that treats you with access to this themed vault.







The Witching Hour begins October 6, 2022, and ends November 2, 2022.


 

DC Universe Online lead departs after Marvel MMO cancellation

At the end of May, a Marvel MMO from the team behind the similar online superhero game DC Universe Online was cancelled a year after being announced - which seems to have set off an exodus in developer Dimension Ink and Daybreak Games, including DC Universe Online lead dev Jack Emmert.


Jack Emmert was previously director of superhero MMORPG games City of Heroes and City of Villains and co-founder of developer Cryptic Studios, before becoming director of both DC Universe Online and the Marvel MMO and CEO of Dimensional Ink Games. Emmert has been trying to get a 'Marvel Universe Online' MMO out since 2006.


Following the cancellation of the Marvel MMO at Dimensional Ink, Jack Emmert has left the studio entirely and joined NetEase's Jackalope Games. Unfortunately, he is not the only high-profile developer to have left Dimensional Ink in the last month. Lead content designer Rob 'Charon' Frazier apparently left on June 3, amongst a number of other recent departures that has fans concerned about the quality of DC Universe Online going forward.


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A bunch of images seemingly from the recently cancelled Marvel MMORPG have appeared online, thanks to an artist who worked on the project - and these Marvel MMO leaks make the superhero game seem inspired by the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse animated movie.


In November 2021, Enad Global 7 announced that it had a Marvel Comics MMO game in production from the team behind DC Universe Online - Dimension Ink and Daybreak. Earlier this week, however, the company confirmed that it had cancelled its development to focus on DCUO and Lord of the Rings Online, which it also runs.


The project hadn't yielded any screenshots, but now artist Ramiro Galan has posted a number of images on their ArtStation from "a cancelled Marvel MMO title". We can't be certain that these are from the Daybreak Marvel game, but Galan - who has worked with Marvel and Disney before, as well as on games such as Halo 5 and PUBG - says that the game's look was designed to "pay homage" to the vibrant, colourful style of the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movie.


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Remember when it emerged that the folks behind DC Universe Online were working on a Marvel MMORPG back in November? You know, the one that was being led by Jack Emmert, co-founder of Cryptic Studios and designer of City Of Heroes? Well, hope you weren’t too excited because it’s been cancelled by parent company Enad Global 7.


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Marvel MMO from DC Universe Online devs is cancelled

The Marvel MMO game - that was confirmed last year but was never officially announced - is now cancelled. The Marvel Comics MMORPG was in development at Dimension Ink and Daybreak Games, the team behind fellow online superhero game DC Universe Online, but is now "discontinuing" it to focus on "alternative" projects.


As PCGamesN reported back in November, Enad Global 7 - the holding company that owns Daybreak - revealed in an investor presentation that it had a "Marvel IP based" MMO in production. DC Universe Online studio Dimension Ink was making it alongside City of Heroes designer Jack Emmert, who had a Marvel Universe Online MMORPG cancelled by Microsoft in 2008.


In a press release today, Enad Global 7 confirms that it is "discontinuing" its Marvel game due to a change in "the development priorities", and will instead "focus on alternative long-term projects". It had planned to invest SEK 500 million - roughly GBP £40 million or USD $50 million - in the game, but is instead putting this into supporting both The Lord of the Rings Online and DC Universe Online, as well as "new game opportunities with our first party, original IPs".


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