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It looks like another MMORPG is tossing it's hat into the F2P crowd. City of Heroes is going to be renamed City of Heroes: Freedom, and will begin with the Issue 21 update...
"City of Heroes Freedom is on the way, and it promises more content, more rewards, and more choices for the players. NCsoft and Paragon studios have worked together to create an update that is catered specifically to letting the players choose what they want in a super hero MMO."
Perfect World, a leading online game developer and operator based in China, and Atari announced today that they have entered into an agreement where Perfect World would acquire 100% equity interest in Cryptic Studios, the California-based MMO game developer who started the development of City of Heroes & City of Villains, and have also put out the (recently) free-to-play Champions Online, and Star Trek Online.
"It’s been a busy year for NCsoft. The Korean purveyor of MMOs has and will continue to see major updates to two of their biggest games in the Western market: Aion and City of Heroes. The company was more than excited to show off the new features each game has brought to 2011. Curious? Cautious but ready to go back to a superhero oldie? Prepared to find out if this pretty fantasy game where everyone has wings has remained aloft? Check out our impressions."
Daav Valentaten and Noobfeed caught up with Chief of Operations Jack Emmert from Cryptic Studios to ask them about their success story and plans for the future: Cryptic Studios is a developer that brings us many successful MMORPGs, straight from Silicon Valley, for about ten years now. They’ve gotten critical acclaim from just about all their ventures, such as City Of Heroes and Star Trek Online.
"This booster pack will give players new options on how to customize their characters. Players can look more alien, more hellish, and more genetically altered than ever before. It's mentioned that two tails, wings, and a sword will be included in the pack. New emotes and powers were touched on but no specifics were given."
"Today is City of Heroes' six-year anniversary. To celebrate, the superhero and super villain MMO is releasing its 17th issue today. Issue 17: Dark Mirror is adding the optional upgrade called Ultra-mode, epic archetypes at level 20, animated tails, and much more."
"Mark your calendars for April 28, 2010 because that's when Ultra-mode, animated tails, epic archetypes at level 20, and much more will make their way on to the live servers."
"In the Going Rogue expansion, hero and villain characters will become immersed in the new parallel universe known as Praetoria, which is governed by Tyrant, the evil incarnation of the game’s main protagonist, Statesman. As gamers search for Tyrant and the rest of his Praetorian guard, implacable foes and fierce resistance will arise to face them from all sides, causing heroes and villains alike to question their loyalties."
A short but kind of sweet release list this time.
PC owners are treated to Demigod, a game which fuses too many genres to count and looks to be rather fantastic (we'll have a review up Tuesday on Neoseeker) and horror-ish title Cryostasis, one we've never heard of but could be great (it's been getting some favourable reviews and has a rather unique plot).
DS owners, meanwhile, are treated to two more Atlus-published RPGs: Dokapon Journey and The Dark Spire.
"To coincide with this week's WonderCon in San Francisco, the 1UP Editors decided to sit down and think about their favorite superhero videogames. This isn't to say that every game here is "great"; it's the memories that each of these games leaves with each of us, as well as how they truly made us feel super at some point, that makes these titles more like Batman and less like Batmanuel in our minds. Sound off in the comments below for what some of your favorite superhero games are."
"The transaction encompasses all of Cryptics proprietary IP, tools, technology and work-in-progress and integrates all members of the leadership team and employees into Infogrames. This acquisition is a critical step in the implementation of ATARIs strategy to become a leading online game developer and publisher..."
"NCsoft®, the world's premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, today announced a partnership with TransGaming, Inc. (TSX-V: TNG) to bring their award-winning City of Heroes® franchise to the Apple® Macintosh®. The game has been enabled for the Mac by TransGaming, a leading developer of portability technologies for the electronic entertainment industry. City of Heroes for Mac will be available for public beta testing with the release of the game's thirteenth ..."
"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 immersive or less immersive? In other words, is City of Heroes an appropriate environment for it? In-game advertising in other MMOs has sometimes been received as an unwelcome addition, so could we actually find ways to make this a significant win ..."
"Official Release:
NCsoft® Europe, the worlds leading publisher and developer online games, today announced the first details for City of Heroes Issue 12: Midnight Hour. The stars of this issue are The Midnight Squad, a clandestine organization who will take players back to ancient Roman times where mystery awaits and secrets will be revealed. Further changes include numerous 'Quality of Life' improvements such as an overhauled Contacts display and eight new...
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It was announced previously that NC Soft would be developing games EXCLUSIVELY for Sony. This has brought about many questions, which have been shortly answered by Robert Garriott, the President of NCsoft North America. Taking some time out his busy time during E3, he spoke to Robert Summa of GGL.
![Box shot of City of Heroes [Europe]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvUEMvUm9sZS1QbGF5aW5nL01hc3NpdmVseV9NdWx0aXBsYXllcg==/city_of_heroes_frontcover_small_Js39nAobTm1TDvL.jpg)