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NCSoft’s confirmed it’ll release the Animal Pack for City of Heroes on February 23.

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Paragon MMO City of Heroes is to get a double XP weekend starting today.

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NCSoft has registered a trademark for City of Heroes 2, as discovered by Superannuation.

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Not much this week that didn’t hit the front page, but head on through the break and you will find out all sorts of stuff.

Information on the upcoming Warhammer patch, Martial Arts for City of Heroes, and a Beta weekend for Global Agenda.

Go on and hit the button.

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NCsoft’s announced a ton of in-game Hallowe’en events for its MMOs, bringing seasonal quests, costumes and contests across across Aion, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, Lineage, Lineage II and Exteel.

It’s all very spooky. All details, including dates, are listed after the break.

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Loads of MMOs are planning Halloween and fall festivities for users, but some have already launched tricky goodness.

You can find out more about those past the break, but while you are headed that way you will also learn other sorts of stuff  like: Legends of Norrath’s eighth expansion has launched, CrimeCraft is headed to iPhone and Facebook, and having gone free-to-play D&D Online is doing great, apparently.

Also, Star War Galaxies is overrun with zombies. That’s right. Zombies.

It’s all there kids. Enjoy.

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Quite a bit of stuff regarding MMOS this week.

CrimeCraft will go free-to-play, Turbine released new screens for Siege of Mirkwood, Green Arrow is making his way into DC Universe online, there are a couple updates on World of Warcraft movies, and a whole other bunch of stuff happened too.

Read on past the break for the lot.

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Loads of news this week in MMO land, kiddos.

Massively is giving away Beta keys to Star Trek Online, Aion dropped GameGuard and launched its first server, Pirates are everywhere, and Sony is giving you double station cash this weekend.

There is also news concerning Champions Online, EVE, Guild Wars 2, EverQuest, Warhammer, Runes of Magic, and loads of other stuff you can find here instead of searching everywhere.

It’s all past the break.

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Loads of stuff happened this week with MMOs. Bethesda laughed off an Elder Scrolls MMO, APB started the Beta application process, Aion released pretty trailers, Star Wars will be playable at GamesCom and all other sorts of interesting things happened.

What we didn’t tell you about was that Lord of the Rings Online got some new jewelry and bounty quests in Esteldin, Funcom will announce Conan stuff at PAX, and there were some rumored leaks on the upcoming WoW expansion posted all over God’s green earth.

For all of this and more, read on past the break.

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Loads of stuff as usual going on this week with MMOs.

CCP has files a trademark fro Dust 514, which strangely enough resembles the EvE Logo, Warhammer’s latest patch is up on the test server, Guild Wars had some more class tweaks, and the summer festivities have been extended for Lord of the Rings Online.

Load of stuff, really. Read on past the break for more.

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Not loads to tell you this week in the MMO update.  Most news surrounding the genre was big enough for its very own post on the site.

However, to keep things the same, we have thrown all the rest into your usual Saturday post.

Final Fantasy XI players will have jobs adjusted, Runes of Magic has new playable classes, the EVE Online thief speaks out, and Funcom has no plans right now for an Anarchy Online 2.

All this and more through the jump.

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It’s that time again. The MMO news round-up post full of links, and other goodies for the online crowd.

This week, loads of games are having annual summer events full of festivities, fireworks and other shenanigans. Some also got level cap increases, are nerfing classes, launching new servers, going bankrupt, and one has even reminded us it’s still in development.

What a week. Hit the page fold for the rest.

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This week there is a bit more going on in MMOs than last week.

Seems quite a few got game updates, WoW’s Midsummer Fire Festival is in full swing, and City of Heroes is getting power customization.

Loads of stuff really. Read on past the break for the lot of it.

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Steam’s weekend sale enters the realm of MMOs with titles ranging from 20-75 percent off.

Here’s the list:

• Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures – $9.99
• City of Heroes Architect Edition – $15.99
• EVE Online: Apocrypha – $7.49
• EverQuest Secrets of Faydwer Starter Pack – $15.99
• EverQuest Seeds of Destruction All-In-One Compilation Pack – $31.99
• EverQuest II Rise of Kunark Starter Pack – $15.99
• EverQuest II The Shadow Odyssey – $9.99
• Guild Wars Trilogy – $39.99
• Lineage – $7.99
• Lineage II: Gracia & trade Final – $15.99
• Pirates of the Burning Sea – $15.99
• Vanguard Saga of Heroes – $15.99

Some of those are pretty cheap, actually.

Thanks, Evil Avatar.

You’ve heard loads about the Going Rogue expansion for City of Heroes today.

Now watch the introductory teaser-trailer for it. It’s interesting.

Thanks, Joystiq.

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The Going Rogue expansion for City of Heroes was (sort of) announced earlier today through SteetWide Concepts, and now NCsoft has seen fit to make it official.

This will be the first major expansion for the City of Heroes franchise since City of Villains was launched in 2005, and promises to “blur the line between heroes and villains”.

Both heroes and villains will be thrust into Praetoria, which is governed by Tyrant, the evil incarnation of the game’s main protagonist, Statesman. As both heroes and villains go forth to deal with this menace, it will cause the opposing forces to question their loyalties.

A new alignment system has been implemented allowing each side to switch teams, along with additional missions and two new characters, Maelstrom and Desdemona, to represent the alignment shift in the game’s lore.

More details are expected in the “coming months”.

Press release is below.

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A new City of Heroes expansion, Going Rogue, has been confirmed via marketing company StreetWide Concepts, Kotaku reports.

Mention of the pack appears to have been removed.

The add-on will be only the second in the game’s history, the first being City of Villains.

Going Rogue will introduce the world of Praetoria and a new alignment system “that explores the shades of gray that lie between Heroes and Villains,” apparently.

No date.

City of Heroes players who used exploits in the Mission Architect feature to power level their characters may get rewards earned through the dubious act revoked as a punishment.

The possibility of the character being disabled completely is also a possibility.

CoH lead designer Matt “Positron” Miller outlined the consequences over on the official forums:

• Players that have abused the reward system egregiously may lose benefits they have gained – leading up to and perhaps including losing access to the characters power-leveled in this fashion.

• Currently, some badges are being modified, and some may be removed from the game entirely. The list of changes being made to the MA badge system is not final yet, but you will be made aware when we have a concrete plan.

• Players who knowingly use an exploit when creating an arc, run the risk of having access to MA suspended, or worse- depending on the severity of the action, their account banned.

Missions that were created to exploit the system will also be deleted.

Via Massively.

City of Heroes turned five yesterday, and to celebrate, NCsoft’s reactivated all expired retail and trial accounts for both City of Heroes and City of Villains.

It’s for a limited time only, and expires at 11:59pm EST on Sunday, May 3.

Other nifty anniversary events are going on at the moment. Players can earn merits, badges, XP and “familiar faces” are hanging out in the Training Room Test Server.

Loads of fun for all.

Thanks, Shack.

Loads of goings on in the world of MMOs, as usual. Let us make sense of it for you.

This week was filled with birthday celebrations for four different MMOs: Lineage II, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and Guild Wars. Good job guys.

Other stuff happened too ya know, and it’s all broken down for you after the break.
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