It’s the biggest City of Heroes player meet Europe has ever seen, and a gaming weekend that’s so big, we had to make it twice normal size!!

This Easter weekend (Friday March 21st to Monday 24th) Omega Sektor, situated in the heart of Birmingham (UK) will be hosting NCsoft and City of Heroes for a non-stop gaming extravaganza. Here are just some of the highlights…

• 400+ high-end gaming PCs for you to play on, every one of them packed with every one of NCsoft’s games!
• Dozens of cutting-edge gaming consoles, with a huge selection of heroic games plus music-based party favourites...
• Melissa ‘War Witch’ Bianco, Game Designer for City of Heroes will be our guest of honour for the entire weekend - and spilling details on the upcoming City of Heroes expansion, Issue 12!
• Tournaments and competitions all weekend.. from the mighty TaskForce: Omega to Death Races, PvP to Costume Competitions, there will be something for everyone!
• Bargain-priced NCsoft games, plus official merchandise on sale...
• The professional comic book artists of Draw the World Together, creating your very own character sketch before your eyes for a charity donation! (Saturday/Sunday only.)
• The ghastly Ghost Widow and the marvellous Ms. Liberty, appearing in person on Saturday only. Get ‘into the game’ by posing for a photo with them in Recluse’s Victory!

All this and much, much more will be happening all weekend long, and for just £5 entrance fee per day! It’s the biggest player event we’ve ever done - you’d be crazy to miss it. For ticket details and more, keep reading…

All of us here in Europe and at the Development Team, particularly Sean Dornan-Fish and Jen Dornan-Fish, would like to thank all of you who joined us on the Training Room for the Wedding Event earlier this evening.

To commemorate this union between two well-known Heroes, we’ve put together an exclusive special edition comic. For those who missed the in-game wedding of Manticore and Sister Psyche - who were controlled by Sean and Jen Dornan-Fish - you can see how the event unfolded. Everything is covered: from the pre-wedding press reports, through the vows officiated by Positron and finally the arrival of an unwelcome visitor…

Heroes and Villains alike can now get involved in activities such as DJ Zero’s Pocket D Jubilee and Ganymede’s missions. The Spring Fling events will run for the next two weeks, finishing on February 29th. To get involved in some extra special events make sure to head into Atlas Park and speak with Sela Vermont, wedding coordinator of Manticore and Sister Psyche. Sela has a special wedding gift reconnaissance mission she needs Heroes to complete!

Don’t forget the live wedding of Manticore and Sister Psyche of Friday, February 15th at 6:00pm GMT (7:00pm CET). 

Ready for a Spring Fling? This year’s in-game event commences on Thursday, 14th February and will feature new content and the highlight of this year’s Valentine’s Day celebrations: the super-powered wedding of Manticore and Sister Psyche! Keep some time free this Friday evening from 6pm GMT and make sure you have the Training Room ready so you can be present for this historic event.

Just in time for the special celebrations, there is a new Wedding Pack available for purchase offering new costumes and emotes.

We have updated the game with a new patch featuring many improvements, updates, corrections and other improvements. Primary amongst these are the new interface options for showing the “Real Numbers” that drive the game, and the “XP Smoothing” that should see characters advancing at a more even rate. For more details on these two exciting changes, read the recent interviews with CW Bennett and Matt ‘Positron’ Miller.

The full patch notes for this update can be found here.

Today’s update to City of Heroes and City of Villains includes two new additions to the UI designed to reveal the numbers that drive the game’s combat systems. Programmer CW Bennett answers some questions on the new feature in this short Q&A.

Is your Hero or Villain still deciding what to do this Valentine’s Day? Evolution Radio may have the answer in Pocket D on the Defiant server, hosting their Valentines Masquerade Ball from 8pm GMT this Thursday. Visit a Tailor to obtain suitable attire, and then join Evolution Radio’s DJ Stryker in Pocket D for music, activities and prizes! If you intend to attend, make sure to head over to the Evolution Radio forums to place your requests for specific music.

Matt ‘Positron’ Miller has answered a range of questions about the upcoming “XP Curve Smoothing” changes for City of Heroes and City of Villains. Covering everything from what it means as your character levels through the expected implementation date for the live servers, this Q&A should make sure you are ready for this landmark improvement!