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IBM servers to power Champions Online


Cryptic Studios' other MMO game in development (besides Star Trek Online) is their next super hero MMO Champions Online. Today the developer announced that the servers that would be behind the game will be handled by IBM's System x architecture that according to their press release, "will accommodate thousands of simultaneous worldwide users and millions of game downloads while delivering a high-performance gaming experience."

For the IT members of our audience, "IBM System x is based on X4, the fourth generation of IBM's X-Architecture design blueprint for Intel processor-based servers" It's also supposed to be power efficent and it has "an open, flexible design.'. Champions Online is to be published by 2K Games and is due out in the spring-summer of 2009.

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