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City of Heroes celebrates its sixth year of giving players a chance to put on tights and battle villains (or fight as villains) with its newest update, Issue 17: Dark Mirror. The update includes Ultra Mode, which gives the game a full graphical revamp for high performance systems. Other improvements include additional features to the Architect system and a chance for characters to battle their dopplegangers.

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City of Heroes fans that attended PAX East were treated to a first look at some of the powers that will be included in the Going Rogue expansion. A few weeks ago, pre-purchase players were able to put some slick sharpshooting into action with dual pistols. Soon those players will be able to employ demon summoning. This trailer provides a glimpse of what's in store.

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The newest Cities of Heroes update, Issue 16: Power Spectrum, went live today and players on both the heroic or villainous sides can now further customize their powers with different colors to better match they costumes and theme. Additionally, Issue 16 brings new power combinations and further mission customization.

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Both City of Heroes and its counterpart, City of Villains will be seeing some major changes when the upcoming Issue 16: Power Spectrum update releases. Most notably, Issue 16 will allow players to customize the look of their powers with different colors and, in some cases, specialized animations. However, players will be seeing another benefit in the form of Power Proliferation, where archetypes will be getting a few new powersets to toy with. A recent developer diary written by Senior Designer Floyd Grubb discusses changes to the Scrapper and Tanks, which will both get electric melee. Switching over to the dark side of things, Dominators can look forward to adding Earth Assault to their repertoire. With a little luck, players will see the release of i16 sometime in the fall. New screenshots are available, and the full developer diary can be read after the jump.

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Issue 14, the latest free content for City of Heroes, released last week making it the first MMO that allows users to create their own custom content and story arcs. With the straightforward title Architect, this issue takes a unique approach to content expansion by putting all the power into players' hands and imaginations. The update focuses exclusively on bringing players the Mission Architect tool, which gives player access to every map, character and scripted event available in the game. In effect, by offering one major feature, City of Heroes released the biggest content expansion it or any other game has ever seen.

City of Heroes Issue 14 released yesterday, giving players access to a brand new feature called the Mission Architect. With it, players can construct their own custom missions and story arcs, complete with player-made characters. This video provides a quick run through of the Mission Architect and how to use it. There are two versions of the downloadable HD version. The first is a standard 720p resolution and the second is a larger 1280p.

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This is the final episode of the 3-part City of Heroes video series starring Captain Dynamic. The series was put together by Rooster Teeth (of Red vs Blue fame) and promotes the upcoming Issue 14 game expansion, which features a Mission Architect. Continue reading after the jump to see the other two videos.

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This is the second episode of a three part video series created by Rooster Teeth (creators of Red vs Blue) to promote the upcoming City of Heroes Issue 14 expansion and its Mission Architect feature. Many burning questions, like what Captain Dynamics powers are, where he got his name and who is arch nemesis is are answered in this video.

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In honor of the upcoming City of Heroes Issue 14 update, which features a Mission Architect, Rooster Teeth (makers of the famous Red vs Blue series) decided to develop a three-part live action series starring Captain Dynamic. Issue 14 is still in closed beta testing, but you can see Captain Dynamic work his powers right now with the first episode. Be prepared to press his awesome button.

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NCsoft released a new video marking the latest port of City of Heroes to Mac computers. As like the previous two trailers, it parodies the Mac commercials using a hero and villain. City of Heroes Mac Edition is available now for $19.99.

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