Issue 13: Architect will bring the much-anticipated Mission Architect, which will allow players to create their own missions and story arcs to share with the community. Other new features include two new powersets, new Cimerora missions, a new Merits rewards system and a new Day Jobs system which will allow characters to continue earning rewards whilst offline.

For all the details on Issue 13: Architect, read the announcement and then head over to read Positron’s Issue 13 address.

City of Heroes community member and Player vs Player enthusiast Knight Stalker has been busy putting together a PvP tournament based on the Super Summer Slam Spectacular run in 2005. X4: The Evolution will feature a modified Pentad format and two divisions: Level 40 Cruiserweight and Level 21 Featherweight.

For all the details on the tournament structure and rules, please see this forum thread. Best of luck to all who enter!

Aion fully playable! A packed show schedule! Quests for great prizes! It’s not enough – we’re going even further with our activities at Games Convention – we’re going fully multimedia!

Our community team has been working to create an official City of Heroes page on Facebook where you can receive news feeds, share images and videos with the community, and stay in touch with all your heroic and villainous friends.

You can even create a “Masked” profile to hide your secret identity, a place to put your Hero or Villain’s character profile and connect to other Heroes and Villains… a way to share and promote the game to your mild mannered friends on Facebook. So come and join us, you never know who you might run into!

City of Heroes players who come to the Games Convention in Leipzig (or the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle) this month are in store for a special treat!

We’ll be giving away exclusive codes for a new costume power: The PPD hardsuit!

How do you get it? Well, simply seek out a community representative of your choice (GhostRaptor, Palladium, Avatea or Kerensky) at the NCsoft booth and ask them kindly. Please note that codes given out at European conventions only work on EU accounts.

If you want to know more about these events, either check out all our announcements or have a look at the convention websites:

• Games Convention (20th - 24th August 2008)
  
• Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) (28th - 31st August 2008)

We look forward to seeing you there!

We now accept PayPal as a payment option for all digital code purchases made through the PlayNC store (not for subscriptions or NCcoin) for the UK and Germany. The PayPal payment option will show up beneath the Credit Card payment option and will require you to log into your PayPal account to complete the transaction. If you have any questions about this new payment option, please visit the Support Center for help.

Brace yourselves as the full fury of the Rikti Invasion Force is set to descend upon Paragon City and the Rogue Isles starting on Friday, August 1st and continuing through Thursday, August 7th. For details or to discuss this event with fellow players, please join us on this forum thread.