Happy holidays from the entire City of Heroes & City of Villains team!
Winter is blowing in across the bay to Paragon City, and settling on the Rogue Isles like an icy blanket. New presents and threats await both heroes and villains this holiday season.
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Annual City of Heroes & Villains Halloween Costume Contest.
Thanks to all of you who entered the 2006 Halloween Costume Contest! There were many terrific entries! Picking the winners was difficult –they were so good. In the end, however, there could only be a few winners, so we examined them, and debated, and battled it out through the Pocket D Arena kiosks …
We are thrilled to announce the release of Issue 8: To Protect and Serve, for City of Heroes and City of Villains. This marks the eighth free expansion to City of Heroes since its release in April 2004. Issue 8 introduces a host of innovative features, gameplay improvements and player programs.
About.com serves up new rankings of current Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Topping the Science Fiction listing, City of Villains comes in at #1 with City of Heroes on the list at #3. Read the full article on About.com.
Issue 8: To Protect and Serve, the eighth upcoming free expansion since the launch of City of Heroes® in April 2004, introduces a host of innovative features, gameplay improvements and player programs. It's the Heroes' turn to take back the streets! Issue 8 is currently available on the Training Room and will be available on the live servers in the near future.
Watch the trailer using either Windows Media 9 or Quicktime 6 now!
Faultline has undergone some pretty radical changes since its original state as a Trial zone. This guide describes some of the background fiction to the changes, and also includes an in-depth look at the zone by Cryptic’s own Melissa "War Witch" Bianco, game designer.
Paragon City is under attack! Villains from the Rogue Isles have recruited the help of various villain groups, and have begun targeting Paragon City’s banks to cause mayhem and chaos while making some quick money in the process. Even Arachnos has been participating in these robbery attempts, in open defiance of the law! Paragon City needs its heroes to thwart these attacks!
The 1UP.com network has first look at the new Safeguard Mission video from Cryptic and NCsoft.
Be the first person in your Supergroup to check out the exciting new additions included with Veteran Rewards! This includes exciting features such as wing costume attachments, trenchcoats, samurai armor and access to free character respecs!
For the complete announcement, questions and answers and instructions on how to participate in testing on the Training Room Server, visit the official forum announcement.
Computer Games Online has a mini-strategy guide for Safeguard Missions, one of the features of Issue 8: To Protect and Serve. This strat guide was written by designer EJ Nelson (aka Ravenstorm).
This past-Halloween marked one year of villainy in the City of... universe. In recognition of City of Villains's first anniversary, Cryptic and NCsoft are pleased to announce two exclusive badges: the Elusive badge, for Villains; and the Pursuer badge, for Heroes.
Tuesday, October 31st marks the one year anniversary of City of Villains. Launched on Halloween of 2005, City of Villains finally answered one of the players’ top requests - to be the bad guy. To commemorate this first annual milestone, we conducted our own Q&A with Cryptic Lead Designer Matt Miller (Positron).
World of Roleplayers Radio is proud to present an interview with Matt ‘Positron’ Miller, Lead Designer of City of Heroes and City of Villains for Cryptic Studios, to be aired on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 9pm CST.
SteelDragon had the opportunity to speak with Positron about City of Heroes and City of Villains and some of the thrilling Features coming to these ground breaking games, just as the release of the games begins packaging as one MEGA game of “Good vs. Evil”.
Hear it at www.wor-radio.com through any internet connection by clicking “Tune In” for either Winamp or Windows Media Player at the top of the page.
The official City of Heroes® Veteran Rewards program launches this fall with the release of Issue 8: To Protect and Serve.
