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It's a busy week of news for NCsoft's super hero MMO City of Heroes. Today the publisher announced that players who want to add additional story slots for their Mission Architect creations can do so. There is a catch; you will have to pay extra for those slots. Up to eight additional story slots can be purchased per account. Each slot cost $5.99. You can buy two for $9.99 or go nuts and buy five slots for $19.99.

NCsoft also announced the company's plans to attend the sold out San Diego Comic-Con later this month. If you already have your tickets you can go to the NCsoft booth to meet with members of the Paragon Studios dev team, be entered into a drawing to see your City of Heroes character drawn in comic-book form, and get a code for an exclusive in-game character temp power costume, Knives of Artemis. Look for a City of Heroes panel to be held at Comic-Con on July 25.

Those who are still a little confused or intimidated by the City of Heroes Mission Architect system, which allows users to create customized content for the game, need not worry anymore. These three videos will teach you the fundamentals of finding, playing and creating a custom story arc. The first video is shown above and the rest can be seen after the jump.

Download HD City of Heroes Mission Architect Tutorial #1 (129 MB)
Download HD City of Heroes Mission Architect Tutorial #2 (130 MB)
Download HD City of Heroes Mission Architect Tutorial #3 (91 MB)
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As we reported last week, NCsoft and developer Paragon Studios are celebrating the fifth anniversary of their super hero MMO City of Heroes this week. However in addition to all of the in-game celebrations and the reactivation of old accounts for free this week, the dev team have also revealed the first details on the next free expansion for the game.

Issue 15 is titled Anniversary and will feature a number of new content additions to the game's subscribers such as new missions, new costumes, new character faces and more. In addition Issue 15 will also include updates to the game's newly launched Mission Architect feature will allows gamers to make their own missions and storyline for City of Heroes. More info on Issue 15: Anniversary can be found at the City of Heroes web site.

NCsoft's bold decision to allow their super hero MMO City of Heroes to add its own mission editor has apparently been a huge success. The game's official web site has a new message from the game's producer Matt Miller who states that in just the first 24 hours after the Mission Architect was launched in the game, the amount of new content created by the game's players ' . . . surpasses the amount of content that we, the developers, have made for all of City of Heroes and City of Villains combined."

Specifically in the first 24 hours 3,800 mission arcs were created by users for City of Heroes. By the end of the first week, the game had "20,000 published arcs up and playable." To get our views on the Mission Architect make sure to check out our own hands-on impressions.

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.

Download City of Heroes Issue 14 Mission Architect Video (193 MB)
Download City of Heroes Issue 14 Mission Architect Video 1280p (496 MB)

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.

Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 3 (200 MB)
Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 2 (120 MB)
Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 1 (82 MB)

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.

Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 2 (120 MB)
Download HD City of Heroes: Captain Dynamic Episode 1 (82 MB)

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.

Download HD Captain Dynamic Episode 1 (82 MB)
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