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City of Heroes has had many free weekends, include ones where players get derelict accounts reactivated. The latest one, which is going on right now, commemorates the successful launch of Going Rogue and gives players a chance to try out all the new power sets, zones, and costumes available. This includes all accounts, including ones that are currently active, so if you haven't bought the expansion yet, here's your teaser! There's nothing else to say. The free minion-bashing gameplay stops at 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, and started this morning, so you can get to your cape-covered flying and brawling as soon as you want to. After this weekend, City of Heroes will once again require a purchase and subscription as usual. So go get your hero on!

City of Heroes players are now able to live out their John Woo movie fantasies with the the Dual Pistols power set, available now to customers that pre-order the Going Rogue expansion. This comes just in time for the Double XP and free reactivation weekend happening on March 4-7, so heroes and villains can get right to work building up those gun toting skills. As demonstrated by this trailer, the Dual Pistols are pretty slick, with moves that look inspired by movies like Wanted and Equilibrium. Demon Summoning is expected to become available in April, and we're hoping the release of Issue 17 will happen around the same time.

The City of Heroes: Going Rogue expansion officially releases in July. Players can pre-purchase from the official website.

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NCsoft is preparing a major new commercial expansion for their five year old super hero MMO City of Heroes. News of the expansion, titled Going Rogue, was leaked out via an email blast that apparently was sent a tad too early. However, forum posts from the game's developer Paragon Studios have confirmed that Going Rogue is indeed a real and upcoming project.

Going Rogue will expand the game's territory to a new alternate universe with a city called Praetoria and like the classic Star Trek episode "Mirror Mirror" it depicts heroes in the normal City of Heroes universe as villains and vice-versa. An all new alignment system "explores the shades of gray that lie between Heroes and Villains" in the expansion. A teaser site for Going Rogue has already launched with a CGI trailer. There no word yet on a release date for this new expansion

[Via Kotaku]

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