The next installment of the City of Heroes / City of Villains Ask a Dev series is now available on the CoH Warcry web site. In this article, you can read Serdar "Lord Recluse" Copur's answers to a variety of questions
NCsoft is proud to introduce the new City of Heroes and City of Villains referral program! This program enables current players to email 10-day trial codes to friends. If one of their friends buys a standard account and pays for one month of subscription to City of Heroes or City of Villains, the referring player will be automatically credited with one month of free game time!
City of Heroes & City of Villains have been nominated for the Girl Gamer Awards for the 2007 best MMO.
All of you girl gamers out there please go and show your support for City of Heroes and City of Villains by voting for your favorite one.
NCsoft® and Planetwide Media announced today the launch of City of Heroes® and City of Villains® Comic Book Creator Contest. The contest based upon user-generated content will officially run from March 27, 2007 through 11:59 CDT April 27, 2007. Participants will be able to enter by submitting a four to eight-page comic book entry, utilizing featured super-powered hero and villain characters from their online game play, created using the Planetwide Media’s Comic Book Creator™ software.
If you missed the exclusive dev diary at Curse Gaming last week, you can now read the thoughts behind redesigning one of the greatest pinnacles in City of Heroes – the Hamidon Trial. Check out this “look-behind-the-scenes” written by Cryptic Developer Christopher Bruce, as he explains some of the common problems with the old Hamidon encounter, how it is changing for Issue 9: Breakthrough, and how it’s being introduced to the City of Villains side of the game through the new Abyss zone.
MSNBC has posted their Top 5 list of games that “help you get into character.” We’re pleased to announce that City of Heroes made their list.
Curse Gaming has an exclusive look at the thoughts behind redesigning one of the greatest pinnacles in City of Heroes – the Hamidon Trial. Check out this “look-behind-the-scenes” written by Cryptic Developer Christopher Bruce, as he explains some of the common problems with the old Hamidon encounter, how it is changing for Issue 9: Breakthrough, and how it’s being introduced to the City of Villains side of the game through the new Abyss zone.
Several of the City of Heroes servers received an impromptu party celebrating St. Patrick’s Day last Friday, when community members Lighthouse, Ex Libris, and Arctic Sun dropped in. They broadcast news of their arrival on the official in-game channels, and welcomed Heroes and Villains alike to a mixer at the Pocket D nightclub.
Like a diamond-bladed sword, the Knives of Artemis are incomparably beautiful and deadly. Bewitching tales of the Knives of Artemis are told by military pundits and war journalists in awed tones around the world. Heroes speak of them with equal parts enthrallment and dread, because they are renowned for their charms as much as for their mercilessness.
An array of gaming websites got a good look at what's coming in Issue 9: Breakthrough at the recent Game Developer's Conference. Here's a recap of sites to check out:
The next installment of the City of Heroes / City of Villains Ask a Dev series is now available on the CoH Warcry web site. In this article, you can read Jack "Statesman" Emmert's answers to a variety of questions posed from the second Ask a Dev article. You can also read the introduction to Serdar Copur, who makes his presence known on the servers as Lord Recluse and pose your questions to him for the coming fourth article.
Check out the action-packed preview movie for the upcoming free update to City of Heroes and Villains. Issue 9: Breakthrough, is the ninth free update since the game has been released.
We are pleased to post Lead Designer Matt "Positron" Miller's developer journal, where he talks about Issue 9's upcoming Invention System.
"We tried to think of new, exciting things that Enhancements could bring to the game. We determined that adding mini-powers to your existing ones had a lot of potential, as the sky would nearly be the limit on what we could accomplish..."
The ninth free update to City of Heroes, Issue 9: Breakthrough, contains some sweeping changes to the CoH universe. Positron (Lead Designer Matt Miller) discusses them with GameSpot. Positron talks more about the upcoming invention system and the consignment houses.
Matt "Positron" Miller drops by MMORPG.com to give an exclusive developer journal about Issue 9’s coming Invention System.
"We tried to think of new, exciting things that Enhancements could bring to the game. We determined that adding mini-powers to your existing ones had a lot of potential, as the sky would nearly be the limit on what we could accomplish..."
