City of Heroes News & Events & Guides

Magic is rare on Praetorian Earth, and the enigmatic Carnival of Light are among the few who wield it. A group of psychics, mystics, and magic-users, the Carnival of Light is one of the prominent groups you'll encounter in First Ward, the new Praetorian zone coming with Issue 21 and City of Heroes Freedom™. Read a little about them here in this intercepted report from Colonel Vargas of the Direct Urban Strike Team, an opposing group in First Ward that answers to Mother Mayhem.

A visual update to NCsoft's 2004 PC MMO City of Heroes will be available when the game's "Issue 17 - Dark Mirror" update arrives in April, the publisher has announced(CoH Influence).

Dubbed "Ultra Mode," the optional enhancements are said to deliver "a superior graphics rendering process...that will give City of Heroes a new look and feel with a heightened level of detail in lighting, reflections, shadows and water effects."

Other tweaks coming in Issue 17--"the last major update to City of Heroes before the highly anticipated Going Rogue expansion," says NCsoft--are as follows(City of Heroes influence).