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In version 1.3.5, both Contested Altdorf and Contested Inevitable City will be receiving a massive overhaul. The endgame content for the Campaign will now be 100% RvR-driven.
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Just now NCsoft announced that they have completely merged City of Heroes and City of Villains. Paragon City and Rogue Isles rejoice! All current subscribers who only had one of the games will now have access to the features of both. Furthermore, all City of Heroes and City of Villains games for sale at retail or online will grant access to...
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Next weekend you'll be able to experience double the experience, prestige, influence and infamy in City of Heroes. Starting on July 18th and continuing throughout the weekend both Heroes and Villains will get twice the value for arresting criminals or pursuing evil deeds. Rejoice!
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Are you a long-time member of NCsoft's City of Heroes? Your loyalty will not go unrewarded. The developers recently updated the CoH site with information regarding the 51-month and 54-month Veteran Rewards.
To summarize the Veteran Rewards Program you basically get rewards based on how long you've had an active account in City of Heroes. The...
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NCsoft sent us information about a cool contest where you can win… a brand new 2009 Toyota Matrix for making cool CoH machinima. Quite the prize!
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...
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There's a City of Heroes reactivation weekend this.. weekend! Great time to check out the new Issue, number twelve.
Check out or recent City of Heroes features
NCsoft Covers New Ground in CoH
Eight Cimerora screenshots
Video of the 'Midnighters' and the invading Rikti alien
Six Midnight Squad Screenshots
Midnight Hour Dev Diary - Senior...
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NCsoft just now released eight new Cimerora screenshots.
Players step foot upon the ancient land of the Roman Cimeroran Peninsula, where they battle deadly creatures, defend an ancient city and ultimately come face to face with the enemy of time itself. Throughout this journey players uncover the mysteries of power and the origins that guide them...
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Check out this new video featuring the Midnight Squad, it was released by the City of Heroes team very recently.
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We've updated our City of Heroes gallery with six new Midnight Squad screenshots.
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Thursday 1st May - Brighton, UK/ ... Senior Designer and writer Joe Morrissey explains how he helped design and write the story for Issue 12 - the highly anticipated next chapter of NCsoft Europe's popular MMO franchise, City of Heroes/Villains.
Who’s idea was this anyway?
It’s pretty safe to say that if it’s not Positron’s fault… it’s mine.
Hi....
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Friday 18th April/... NCsoft Europe is pleased to unveil a stunning new teaser video for City of Heroes Issue 12: Midnight Hour. The video showcases the new Villain Epic Archetypes, known collectively as the Soldiers of Arachnos. The video also introduces the Wolf Spider and Blood Widow archetypes, both of which have unique powers and skills. Also...
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Recently announced, City of Heroes Issue 12: Midnight Hour is now in Closed Beta. The duration of this beta is uknown, however, NCSoft say it will last for awhile.
Good morning everyone!
On Tuesday, April 8th we are starting the closed beta test of Issue 12: Midnight Hour. As we had announced previously the start of the closed beta would be a...
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This is pretty big news. NCSoft are introducing optional in-game ads for City of Heroes.
In-game advertising is something that we have carefully considered ever since the initial release of City of Heroes in 2004. From our perspective it always came down to a few fundamental questions: Will this technology make our game experience more...
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Heroes flock to online Mecca for Easter charity extravaganza!
Birmingham, 2nd April 2008 – Omega Sektor and NCsoft® Europe are pleased to announce the stunning success of the special Easter weekend gaming spectacular, CITY OF HEROES®: The Ultimate Heroic Weekend, which raised over £3,000 for charity.
The event, which ran from the 21st – 24th...
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Dr Brainstorm's Hypothetical Framework breakthrough explained plus complete list of Proliferated Powersets revealed; Agent Crimson's Longbow report on mysterious Crey lab explosion.
Monday 31st March/... Brighton, England – With anticipation for City of Heroes/Villains Issue 12: Midnight Hour gathering apace, NCsoft Europe can today reveal new...
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Wednesday 19th March/Brighton, UK… Level designer Melissa "War Witch" Bianco explains, in her exclusive Developer Diary, the improvements made to the City of Heroes Hollows Zone.
Hello there. I’m Melissa Bianco, Level Designer on the City of Heroes team, and some of you may know me as War Witch. Having worked on City of Heroes for over five years,...
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Matt Miller, Senior Lead Designer for City of Heroes at NCsoft NorCal], discusses what's happened since NCsoft fully acquired the franchise, and looks ahead to Issue 12: Midnight Hour and beyond.
It's been a very busy last four months or so for us since NCsoft acquired the City of Heroes franchise and we formed the NorCal studio in Mountain...
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The threat of the Rikti is returning to a City of Heroes server near you.
They will be back in force the following dates throughout the year:
March 7th through the 13th
April 25th through May 1st
June 13th through June 19th
August 1st through August 7th
Sept 26th through Oct 2nd
November 14th through November 20th
Prepare for a desperate...
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Every Hero Is Invited to the Centre's Biggest Ever Gaming Weekender!
Birmingham, 6 March 2008 – Today Omega Sektor and NCsoft® Europe announce a special Easter Weekend Gaming Spectacular that you won’t want to miss! CITY OF HEROES®: The Ultimate Heroic Weekend will run from 21st – 24th March and will include gaming, dancing, drinking and a chance...
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We have a long and interesting Q&A session with Programmer CW Bennett below. It mainly covers the new feature "Real Numbers". Grab something to drink and start reading!
Q: Can you tell us about yourself and what you on the COH dev team?
A: My name is CW and I'm a programmer on the City of Heroes/City of Villains development team. I've been...