Issue 8: To Protect and Serve, the eighth free expansion since the launch of City of Heroes® in April 2004, introduces a host of innovative features, gameplay improvements and player programs. Issue 7: Destiny Manifest allowed villains to wreak havoc in the PvP zone Recluse's Victory and physics-filled Mayhem Missions. Now it's the Heroes' turn to take back the streets!
Matthew Miller sits down with GameSpot for a Q&A, and discusses the upcoming content update "Issue 8." The new issue adds new mission types, competitive player-versus-player options, enhanced areas, and wings for player-character models.
This Tuesday, the 29th, Cricket and CuppaJo will be hanging out with Girlz' Night Out on Split Infinity Radio! All are welcome, so make sure you join in on the fun! Click here for all details.
To say thank you to everyone who has made my last two years in City of Heroes and Villains so great we are throwing a huge party on the Test Server, September 1st from 12pm to 12 am Central time!
w00t Radio will be broadcasting live as the day unfolds with DJ Jester and CuppaJo on air. All Events take place on September 1, 2006 on the City of Heroes Test Server. We highly reccomend you install the Test Server well before the 1st and use the Character Copy Tool asap to copy your character(s) over to test that you wish to bring to the party.
- By day, Freeman Williams manages a small dental practice in suburban Houston. But on any given night, he's prowling crime-ridden streets and battling ne'er-do-wells in the video game "City of Heroes" as his virtual alter-ego: a female superhero named Robotrixie.
City of Heroes players are featured in a recent Associated Press article on Gender-Bending Popular in Video Games. Click Here to read the article.
Yesterday’s W00t Radio interview with Matt “Positron” Miller was a great one and it is now available for download! Click Here to download the MP3!
Community Rep Cricket and Web Writer Arctic_Sun will both be at the NCsoft booth at Gen Con Indianapolis this week. Feel free to stop by and say hello if you are attending!
City of won 7 WoR Radio awards - these awards are voted on by players.
Warcry's own UnSub has an interview with Senior Staff Designer and Zone Director Thomas Foss AKA Archon Voss. You can read the interview here.
As part of our special Double XP Weekend, each Supergroup member has been granted 20,000 Prestige! Read more
Heroes and Villains, prepare to experience our first ever Double XP weekend event! The rules are simple. Hero and Villain characters will receive double the XP for all of their accomplishments in the game. Take advantage of this opportunity to level up your favorite characters. Good luck and have fun!
Double XP Event Timing:
Start: Friday, July 21st at 9am PST / 12pm EST
Finish: Sunday, July 23rd, 8:59pm PST / 11:59pm EST
For those of you without currently active accounts, this is a great opportunity to reactivate your account and spend some quality time with your Hero or Villain. The following
Knowledge Base articles may assist you with this.
How do I activate/reactivate my game account?
I've forgotten my PlayNC™ master account password. How do I retrieve it?
I've forgotten my game account password. How do I retrieve it?
Having Trouble Logging in?
Having trouble logging-in to City of Heroes or City of Villains? Please visit the Knowledge Base at http://support.cityofheroes.com to view frequently asked questions or submit your question via the Ask a Question tab.
It's one thing for a game to be fun - it's quite another for it to be an utterly convincing, immersive adventure. Games Radar selects City of Heroes to be "one of the five truest superhero experiences" in gaming. Read the article.
Secrets within secrets. Black helicopters and balaclavas. Shadowy agencies with limitless slush funds, and black-hearted agents with licenses to kill.
GameDaily interviews Tony Ellerd (aka the heroic Cosmic Titan and the villainous Necronicus), founder of the Legion of Valor Super Group and founder of the Fallen Legion Villain Group.
New heroes to Paragon City are often asked to help out with a rioting gang of thugs, known as the Contaminated.
