A new State of the Game post on the Champions Online Website looks at upcoming happenings in Cryptic's superhero MMORPG, tying in with an upcoming "Kitchen Sink" Patch that's now in testing on their play test server, offering patch notes of incredibly large size, which represent "over two months worth of fixes and changes to the game." The state of the game update also looks beyond the patch towards plans for new costume sets, a return of the Blood Moon event, and reveals plans for the game's first expansion:

We’ve had a big secret here at Cryptic, and we can’t hold it in any longer. Over the past few months we’ve been working like mad on our first expansion for Champions Online! Vibora Bay is one of the Gulf Coast’s largest and most exciting cities. It’s a center of commerce, culture, tourism, and some incredibly strange goings-on. It maintains unusual traditions of mysticism and religion along with an eclectic group of inhabitants and frequent paranormal activities. Heroes constantly face threats of global proportions, but this time the crisis is greater than ever. The apocalypse has come, and it rides upon the half angelic / half demonic wings of Therakiel.

A web page is currently in the works that will feature screen shots, a video trailer, and detailed information on this level 37 – 40 mega-adventure pack, so stay tuned for more information!