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Cryptic Studios gets new CEO

The original developer of City of Heroes now has some new executive blood. Cryptic Studios announced today that it has brought in former Sony Onine Entertainment exec John Needham to be its new CEO. Needham was previously Sony Online's senior president of Business Development and Operations and had worked in various positions at Sony since 1994.

Cryptic Studios is the original developer of the still popular super-hero MMO City of Heroes as well as its follow-up City of Villains. Cryptic sold off their interest in both games to publisher NCsoff late in 2007. After an aborted attempt to make a Marvel super hero MMO for publisher Microsoft, Cryptic is currently working on Champions Online, a MMO based on the pen-and-paper RPG that's currently scheduled to be released in spring 2009.

[Via Gamasutra]

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