A "State of the Game" update on the Champions Online Website has the latest word on Cryptic's recently launched superhero MMORPG. Topics include new content that's been recently added to the game, several new additions they are working on to enhance the teaming system, fixes to their mail woes, planned balance tweaks, how they can't actually allow players to skip past the tutorial if they've done it already until some further programming changes, plans for a new room for the Powerhouse, and word on graphics performance improvements for all players, even if the opposite seems to be the case for owners of high-end systems:

Graphics performance should be better overall for players. Some high-end users have experienced what appears to be a reduction in performance. But this is actually due to us fixing a bug where sliders that were set all the way up in certain categories weren’t actually providing that level of increase. Players with top-end graphic cards should retune their settings for maximum performance.