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Save the Date! Dec. 10th – Prestige Grant and Debt Wipe!

Monday, November 12, 2007

As was included in the recent communication, A New Age, announcing the acquisition of the City of Heroes franchise from Cryptic
Studios by NCsoft, there is an upcoming character Debt Wipe and Supergroup Prestige Grant.

When: December 10th, 2007

Prestige Grant
Supergroups will receive an additional 20,000 Prestige per Supergroup member on Dec. 10th! This means SGs could acquire up to 3 million
Prestige based upon their Supergroup membership roster! This is a one time grant, based strictly on the number of people in the Supergroup at
the time the grant is done.

Debt Wipe
It’s time to get crazy! We will be clearing out any accrued debt on Dec. 10th! So, get out and find some spectacular ways to take a
faceplant! Organize some chaos events and generally have some fun!

Be sure to save the date and log in to enjoy the above benefits!

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City of Heroes Community Site

November, 6, 2007

To all current and former City of Heroes players,

Today
we announced the acquisition of City of Heroes from Cryptic Studios™
and the formation of our new Northern California studio which we are
informally calling NCsoft® NorCal (click here to read the press release).
Nearly the entire City of Heroes team from Cryptic Studios has joined
the NCsoft team and together we have formed the core of our new studio.

The City of Heroes franchise has been a
tremendous success for both NCsoft and Cryptic. More than three years
after the City of Heroes launch, our community is strong and thriving.
There are so many great ideas and plans, both from our development team
and from the players, and we can’t wait to make them a reality. Our
team is 100% dedicated to City of Heroes and we are extremely excited
about the present and the future!

Click here to read the Dev Corner chat with General Manager Brian Clayton and learn more details.

Special Thanks to Our Players

Now
back to you, the players. You are the lifeblood of our game. In
celebration of our new studio and our exciting plans, and in order to
thank you for the fantastic community that you have built, we are
pleased to announce the following.

Full Access to City of Heroes and City of Villains®
All players with City of Heroes retail* accounts will now have access
to City of Villains, and all City of Villains retail* accounts will now
have access to City of Heroes. Players that didn’t previously have
access to “the other side” will find that they do now. Just log in to
check it out!

Debt Wipe
After the launch of Issue 11: A Stitch in Time this Fall, we are
removing Debt from all characters and giving you a fresh start. Actual
date will be announced shortly. Have fun in the mean time.

20,000 Prestige
Also after the launch of Issue 11, all Supergroups will receive an
additional 20,000 Prestige per Supergroup member, meaning SGs could
acquire up to 3 million Prestige based upon their Supergroup membership
roster! Actual date will be announced shortly.

In
the near future we will begin to share more information about our
development plans. With this major reinvestment and effort ahead of us,
we will take City of Heroes to new heights!

Sincerely,

The City of Heroes Team

*This
applies to all active and inactive accounts in good standing and does
not include trial, pre-order or beta accounts that have not activated
to full retail accounts.

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If you are still playing City of Heroes, or are thinking about getting back in now is a good time to rack up some serious XP!!

I got back in after a free weekend when Issue 9 was introduced, and Hanford Man ended up becoming the leader of a Super Group he was in since there wasn’t any other active players. :-O

What is even better is the Group Base is well stocked with all kinds of goodies, which I have heavily added too to make it a pretty damn cool base.  I even have a Invention Workbench and a access point to the Personal Vault for Invention Storage.

So if you are over on the Victory server and want to team up sometime this weekend, give Hanford Man a tell.  I will be on as much as I can this weekend.

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TOM DeSANTO LOOKING TO ADAPT CITY OF HEROES - NEWSARAMA

TOM DeSANTO LOOKING TO ADAPT CITY OF HEROES

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There
are pundits and analysts who say that the age of superhero movie
tie-ins are over, and coming up, Hollywood will turn its collective eye
towards video game properties when it looks to turn a property into a
movie.

Well, the future will hold what it will, but in the meantime, a project
that crosses both is getting a nod from producer Tom DeSanto.

According to Variety, after Transformers, DeSanto is turning his attention to NCsoft and Cryptic Studio’s City of Heroes
videogame, and is loking to turn the massively multiplayer online
role-playing game into a live-action feature film and then transition
it into television.

While the game (as well as its companion, City fo Villains)
has rocketed in popularity due to players ability to design and then
use their own superheroes in the fictional Paragon City, the
film/television version will follow the adventures of NCsoft/Cryptic’s
established characters who join together to fight off an alien
invasion.

According to the trade:

DeSanto sparked to the project because it offered “one-stop
shopping” for characters and plots. “You also haven’t seen a big
superheroes vs. aliens movie,” he said. “I see this as the next big
superhero franchise.”

DeSanto’s superhero cred is strong, as he was the executive producer on both X-Men and X2, and is a writer and producer on the upcoming Teen Titans: The Judas Contract straight to DVD animated feature based on the DC Comics story from The New Teen Titans.

Newsarama readers will recall that NCsoft/Cryptic was sued by Marvel
due to what the comic book publisher felt was the game publisher’s use
of characters that infringed upon established Marvel characters, as
well as the character design toolbox, which, Marvel alleged, allowed
players to create characters which were virtually identical to Marvel
characters.

The two settled the issue, and in September of last year announced that, together with Microsoft, the two companies were working together to develop a Marvel-based MMO.

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Just in time for vacation!!

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Winter Event Preview (Dec 14 - Jan 2)

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

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.

Read more here.

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Issue 8: “To Protect and Serve” Now Live!

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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.

One of the most exciting additions is the new Veteran Rewards Program,
which rewards long-standing members with many cool new features, such
as wings and trench coats, special powers, and eventually non-combat
pets!

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 with
Safeguard Missions!

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An Invinicble movie?? AWESOME!!!

Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Reel

OCCULT CRIMES TASKFORCE, SPIDER-MAN 3, 300, INVINCIBLE: SEPTEMBER 27TH COMIC REEL WRAP

by Hannibal Tabu, Staff Writer

Posted: September 27, 2006

OCCULT CRIMES TASKFORCEVariety is reporting
(subscription required) that Dimension Films has acquired movie rights
to “O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce,” an Image Comics series that
launched in July. Creator Rosario Dawson will produce as well as star
in the film.
SPIDER-MAN 3

Reader Bruce Kitun wrote in to note that a trailer playing on On Demand in Queens, NY has an interesting spoiler for the film (stop reading now if you don’t wanna know).
He writes, “I happened to read the description of the movie and was
surprised to read something along the lines of: “After working with a
specimen from the moon, Peter Parker realizes his new costume has a
life of its own…’” Interesting.

300

Frank Miller sat down for a chat
with Comics2FIlm, where he talked about bringing another project to the
silver screen. “It’s really hard to tell,” Miller said about what was
most satisfying to see translated. “The darker part of me would be when
they start to push the dead soldiers on the immortals. It’s so
perfectly realized, but the combat stuff is pretty stunning. There are
hundreds of images that I just looked at and, if I have to pick an
ultimate favorite it’s the shot of the boy stabbing the spear and
seeing the shadow of the wolf with the spear going through his mouth.
That was one of my favorite panels that I drew and he captured it to
perfection.”

INVINCIBLE

Right here at CBR,
creator Robert Kirkman noted a movie version of his teen hero is in
development. “I’ve turned in the first draft of the screenplay and
people seem to like it. Other than that, nothing to report.” Thanks to
Mike Dano for reminding us of that one.

30 DAYS OF NIGHT

Ghost House Pictures has posted a seventh behind the scenes clip from the Steve Niles adaptation, this time discussing having “Hard Candy” editor Art Jones on board.

HEROES

According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Melrose Place” veteran Rena Sofer has landed a recurring role on the NBC superhuman drama, playing the wife of an aspiring politician.

IRON MAN

Director Jon Favreau was interviewed on KCRW, and audio versions are available in multiple formats.

HELLBOY

There’s an article at IESB which has some looks at the animated Hellboy and discusses the differences in the depiction.

SMALLVILLE

MSN has an inside look at the series, while Kryptonsite has a new promotional gallery showing Aaron Ashmore as Jimmy Olsen. Nice sweater vest. Meanwhile, Devoted to Smallville has captured a new promotional banner ad for the show (and “Supernatural”), as well as an MP3 of a radio ad for the season premiere.

KEEPING IT REEL

Here’s where you
get in on the action. Did you see a link we didn’t catch? Have you
snuck into a closed movie set, and have inside data? Maybe your cousin
is dating somebody who knows something, and they had to tell you?
Whatever it is, we wanna know it all —