{"id":13311,"date":"2011-01-11T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=13311"},"modified":"2011-01-11T09:29:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:29:59","slug":"the-dc-you-niverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=13311","title":{"rendered":"The DC You-niverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/geekchicdaily.com\/\">GeekChicDaily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In your head, it starts with you getting a nice entry-level gig at Wayne Enterprises. Evenings, after the dayjob is done, you put on a costume and head out to slobberknock your adversaries. Saturday night, maybe you get lucky and chat up a Wonder Twin at a keg party; Sunday is spent icing plasma burns and perusing the late edition of <em>The Daily Planet<\/em>. The buildings tower above you, even as your legend grows&#8230; yes, you live in the DC Universe.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon. We all know you\u2019ve long harbored elaborate fantasies about what you\u2019d do if you could somehow slip inside the DCU. Now&#8217;s your chance to fire your therapist and make those dreams a (virtual) reality: <a href=\"http:\/\/dcuniverseonline.com\/\"><em>DC Universe Online<\/em><\/a> goes live today. The game\u2019s backstory is a bit twisty (think time travel, alien overlords and a dead Superman) but an <a href=\"http:\/\/dcuniverseonline.com\/movies.vm?movie=DCUO_CGI_072310\">awesomely-animated cinematic<\/a> lays it all out. You play as a hero or villain that you create and customize, and every player gets an iconic DC character (like Supes,  Batman, Lex Luthor, or the Joker, depending) who sends you on assignments and group missions.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably your super-mentor also answers practical queries like &#8220;What\u2019s the best Gotham laundromat for dry cleaning tights?&#8221; Alternate gaming options let groups of players square off against each other, and there\u2019s even the ability to throw down as your favorite DC character. Basically the only thing the game doesn&#8217;t let you do is spend a quiet afternoon playing fetch with Krypto the  Superdog. But hey, this is the first version. One never knows what the future might hold&#8230; could the next DC legend be you? <a href=\"http:\/\/dcuniverseonline.com\/\"><em> DC Universe Online<\/em><\/a> is live now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from GeekChicDaily: In your head, it starts with you getting a nice entry-level gig at Wayne Enterprises. Evenings, after the dayjob is done, you put on a costume and head out to slobberknock your adversaries. Saturday night, maybe you get lucky and chat up a Wonder Twin at a keg party; Sunday is spent icing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=13311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The DC You-niverse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-comics","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}