Atari officially announced today that Champions Online will be released worldwide on July 14th. They had been planning on announcing this information on May 8th but the date was leaked earlier today and it apparently forced their hand.

At an Atari press event in the UK, Cryptic Studios executive producer Bill Roper told the release date to Strategy Informer and other publications. Once word got out, I suppose Atari said, "Ah, what the hell. Let's just send out the press release." The official announcement is over at the official Champions forum if you want to inspect it.

Bear in mind this is the PC release. The game's coming to the Xbox 360 and possibly the PS3 in the future but no date on that yet.