For everyone with the day off or some extra time to enjoy this long holiday weekend, we want to wish you a very happy, safe and sane 4th of July!
As a point of interest you can see on the 4 year anniversary calendar that the 4th of July is also when the original Freedom Phalanx was formed back in 1932. Only 7 days later, the Freedom Phalanx confronted and overcame Nemesis in the massive street battle known as “Brass Monday.” If you are interested, you can read more about game lore on the City of Heroes website, on the player maintained ParagonWiki or in the novels The Web of Arachnos and The Freedom Phalanx.
If you do get some time to enter the virtual world of Paragon City or the Rogue Isles this weekend, we hope you find your own great adventure there, in whatever form it takes!
We are pleased to announce the latest edition of the City of Heroes Fanzine!
The Fanzine is a collection of player submitted art, comic and stories from City of Heroes fans. If you are interested in submitting material for consideration for the next Fanzine, please visit the Fans Submission Guidelines web page.
On behalf of Toyota and GameTrailers.com we are proud to present the Matrix Machinima Contest: Get In Touch With Your Dark Side!
Make a Machinima video with City of Heroes / City of Villains and have the chance to win the grandprize of a 2009 Model year Toyota Matrix S filled with good stuff! Act now! Submissions can only be uploaded to GameTrailers.com from July 1st through August 10th. Winners will be announced on Spike's GTTV on September 12th.
Click here for the contest details and rules!
So get your minions, sidekicks and henchmen ready, load up on hard drive space and make a Machinima masterpiece!!!
Flashback to 2005 and the relive the release of Issue 3: A Council of War with the July 2008 Anniversary Calendar Desktop Wallpaper.
July 23-July 27th members of the City of Heroes team will be at Comic Con to share in the fun. Stop by the NCsoft booth # 5209 to meet up with Lighthouse, Ex Libris, Blue Steel, and others from the City of Heroes & City of Villains team.
Brace yourselves as the full fury of the Rikti Invasion Force is set to descend upon Paragon City™ and the Rogue Isles™ starting on Friday, June 13th and continuing through Thursday, June 19th.
For details or to discuss this event with fellow players, please join us on the Official City of Heroes Message Forums.
City of Heroes forum poster, FlyByKnight, rallies community support and participation via the Official City of Heroes Message Forums for his entry into the Molotov Alva Machinima Contest and wins 1st place!
You can view FlyByKnight’s machininma that is titled "This American Hero, Part 1" and features footage from City of Heroes on the Machinima.com website at: http://machinima.com/molotovalva/index. FlyByKnight takes home $2,000 for his winning entry!
Also, we invite you to join us on the City of Heroes Message Forums to discuss FlyByKnight’s victory here.
It's a new month and a good opportunity to change your desktop to the June City of Heroes 4 year anniversary Calendar!
Click here to view the 4 year anniversary calendar wallpaper page.
Choose the June calendar and save the image as your desktop and enjoy a retrospective view from City of Heroes!
MMOABC.com recently interviewed City of Heroes Executive Producer and NCsoft Norcal Studio General Manager Brian Clayton to find out what's currently going on and future plans for the MMORPG title. Here’s an excerpt:
“Also, among MMORPGs it (CoH/CoV) has an unrivaled character creation system that results in every character being different. Our players love to create interesting and unique characters as evidenced by over 32 million of them having been created in North America alone!We also think that City of Heroes / Villains has a nice combination of mass market friendly gameplay and the right amount of depth to keep the hardcore gamer challenged.”
This Thursday evening at 5pm PST / 8pm EST, City of Heroes / Villains lead designer Matt “Positron” Miller will be testing Dyyno’s streaming technology with a live demonstration straight from his computer desktop of some of the new content from Issue 12: Midnight Hour.
Matt will give viewers a brief tour of the new Villain Epic Archetypes, including creating new characters in the costume creator and demonstrating their powers in game. As part of this, he will take viewers on a tour of the new Roman and Greek inspired zone, Cimerora, and he’ll try to answer your questions along the way.
This is a test and there is the possibility that technical issues could arise but we hope that you will join us to experience this exciting new technology and City of Heroes game content.
Read the details on MMORPG.com.
Click here on Thursday to visit MMORPG.com’s Dyyno Room and watch the live video stream!
*Note: The live stream is limited to up to 500 viewers, so be sure to tune in early!
On the morning of Wednesday, May 28th we pushed out a new patch to City of Heroes and City of Villains. While this was mostly a follow up patch to the launch of Issue 12: Midnight Hour, it did include a few new features, including a new Hover animation along with other animation revisions and improvements and revision to some basic Stalker attributes.
Just in time to try out all the new features included in Issue 12: Midnight Hour, it’s a free Reactivation Weekend! From Thursday, May 22nd starting at 11 AM Pacific (1 PM Eastern) and continuing through Sunday, May 25th at 8:59 PM Pacific (11:59 PM Eastern) all inactive accounts in good standing have free access to City of Heroes and/or City of Villains!
If you haven’t played in a while, be sure to read through the press release for the launch of Issue 12: Midnight Hour: “NCsoft Covers New Ground in City of Heroes” and visit the Official Message Forums for a wealth of information about Issue 12.
We’ll see you in game and have a great “City of” weekend!
NCsoft is proud to present Guide to Issue 12: The Midnight Hour, a comic book created by two of the game community's own: Chase Arcanum and Cinder Flame! Explore the highlights and features of Issue 12 in this humorous look at the latest free expansion.
Click here to go to the City of Heroes Comic Book web page.
or
Click here to directly download the comic in PDF format.
If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the comic, click here to get it.
Also, join us on the Official Message Forums to to discuss the Issue 12 Comic Book.
