City of Heroes Team Lead Designer Matt "Positron" Miller answers questions about the coming changes to the experience rewards and the smoothing of the “XP Curve.”
Double XP Returns!
Villains, prepare to plot your take over of the world in double time! Heroes, clean the streets of scum twice as fast! The ever popular Double XP weekend returns!
Starting on Friday, February 8th following our weekly maintenance period, all defeat rewards, including experience, prestige and influence or infamy will be doubled! This will continue through the weekend and conclude the night of Sunday, February 10th.
To discuss this event, join us on the Official City of Heroes Message Forums.
NCsoft's new President Chris Chung was recently interviewed by Philip Kollar at 1up.com.
The New Year is always a time for reflecting upon the year past, as well as setting goals and outlining plans for the year to come. In looking back, we feel that 2007 was a banner year for City of Heroes. Three major free expansions, among the 21 total game updates over 12 months, made for exciting times! We added a completely new game system with Inventions, bringing “loot” and strengthening our economy, invited players to fight off an alien invasion and travel through time, among other things! Click the links below for highlights:
Do you enjoy writing stories about your in-game characters? Are you an artist that likes creating City of Heroes themed pieces? If so, then why not submit your creation for possible inclusion to the City of Heroes Fanzine?!
If you haven’t seen the first issue of the Fanzine, you can view it here.
We’re looking ahead to the next issue of the Fanzine and would love to showcase your fiction or art! The deadline for submissions is Feb. 11th. You can find out more at the Fan Submissions web page.
Everyone here at NCsoft wanted to send a Thank You to those of you who helped Child’s Play by participating in our City of Heroes and Tabula Rasa auctions. Together we raised $4,962.95 for an incredible charity that helps bring games and a smile to thousands of children every year! We hope that your holidays were bright and that your New Year is filled with fun and laughter.
NCsoft auctions for the Child’s Play charity have reached more than $2500... help surpass that to help this wonderful charity!
This holiday season, give your loved one an original gift (their name as an NPC in Tabula Rasa) or a rare find (City of Villains Lord Recluse statue, signed posters and games, etc!). You can feel good about it because it benefits children! Do it for the kids.
City of Heroes Poster Signed by Dev Team
Signed City of Villains Collectors Edition
City of Villains Lord Recluse Statue
Tabula Rasa Signed Game & Bonuses
Tabula Rasa Signed Game & Bonuses
Tabula Rasa NPC Named After You!
Some days wouldn’t it be nice to be a super hero! Or... at least dress like one? Well, while you may not be interested in getting dressed up in a cape and tights, you can see a few folks who are!
Announcing the results of our ever-popular Halloween Costume Contest! Every year we find out which players are willing to get dressed up as their alter ego and to send us pictures as proof! Now, you can see them too! A hearty congratulations go out to all of our winners:
Click here to view the pictures!
Best Overall: CutestLilHero
Best Villain: Reginold Longbarrel
Best Hero: Komic Kitten
Community Picks:
Winner of the Community Pick: Dark-Hammer
Finalists of the Community Pick Poll
Demichi
Joe Insanity
JohnnyCourageous
Kiera-Oona
Orgullo
Starcrosser
The City of Heroes team wants to enlist all heroes and villains alike to help make the holidays brighter for some very special kids. Up for grabs is some very cool stuff, including a Lord Recluse statue! All of the proceeds for these auctions will go to Child's Play, a Seattle based charity that holds an annual toy drive and raises money for Children's hospitals. So if you want to grab some cool City of Heroes loot and help bring a smile to a child's face this holiday season, be sure to check out the following auctions.
Auction 1: City of Heroes Posted Signed by Dev Team
Once again, Winter is blowing in across the bay to Paragon City™, and settling on the Rogue Isles™ like an icy blanket. This year new challenges and new rewards make it an exciting time for Heroes and Villains!
Log in to receive special gifts, help Father Time thwart the vile Snaptooth, enjoy skiing on the slopes below the Ski Chalet and obtain rewards by opening presents and collecting Candy Canes!
For all the details of this year’s Winter Event, click here.
It's that time of year again, where people take a look at the previous year's accomplishments and look back at the best of what happened. We are very excited to point out that City of Heroes/City of Villains has been nominated again this year!
Stop by these locations and give us a nod.
There is still a lot of buzz from our first official City of Heroes & City of Villains community 'Meet & Greet' that was held in San Jose in late November. We were recently able to catch up with our trusty photographer to get these snap shots hosted on our official gallery.
Massively.com attended the recent player and developer Meet ‘n Greet held in Milpitas, California and they serve up insider information revealed there, along with pictures and commentary. Follow the links below for all the information:
Impressions of the City of Heroes Meet ‘n Greet
