"Rick and I wanted to do an online role-playing game," Lewis told the Los Gatos Weekly Times in January 2007.

"We'd been role-playing gamers growing up, and thought that online would be a great way to continue that experience, while overcoming the distances involved.

It is something people could understand and identify with quickly, versus ideas like science fiction or horror, because it provides an infinite background on which to create adventures of all kinds.

In March 2007, Cryptic Studios moved to a larger corporate headquarters in Los Gatos, California.

Plans for the new headquarters include adding a state-of-the-art sound studio to be built by the Walters-Storyk Design Group.

[8] In March 2011, Jack Emmert was promoted to chief executive officer when John Needham left to pursue other opportunities in the gaming industry.

[18] In early 2002, Cryptic signed a publishing agreement for City of Heroes with NCSoft, which wanted to expand into the United States gaming market.

Cryptic Studios released Champions Online, loosely based on a superhero-based role-playing game, on September 1, 2009.

It has, of February 2011, implemented a free-to-play model with optional micropayment transactions generating revenue, in addition to its traditional subscription system.

Cryptic Studios' website contains several images of concept art from one or more additional games currently in development.