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August 27, 2008 PlayNC Maintenance 8/28

On Thursday, August 28th, at 9:30AM CDT (2:30PM GMT) we will be conducting maintenance on the PlayNC Account Management website. Customers will not be able to access their PlayNC account for approximately 2 hours, and will not be able to access the City of Heroes® in-game store or the Guild Wars® in-game store for approximately 1 hour. We apologize for the inconvenience.

August 26, 2008 City of Heroes "Issue 13: Architect" Announced

We now have details on the next major update to City of Heroes®, "Issue 13: Architect." This highly anticipated Issue will feature the Mission Architect, which will allow players to design their own missions and story arcs to share across the entire COH community. We're also giving your favorite heroes and villains "day jobs" (offline character progression), two new powersets (Shields and Pain Domination), new Cimerora Missions, and lots more.

August 20, 2008 Exteel's Back to School Bonus Reward Week

Between August 27 and September 3, Exteel's "Back to School" special will allow all players to receive 50% more credits and experience for every match played.

August 20, 2008 Texas Music Legend Joe Ely sends his DNA and Nobel Laureate ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 20, 2008—Operation Immortality, the project to create a digital time capsule of the human race, has again joined forces with Planet Make-Over, an entertainment driven social network designed to demonstrably reverse the effects of Global Warming. This alliance aims to unite and mobilize the worldwide gaming community with Planet Make-Over's mission by sending the digitized DNA of Texas Music Legend Joe Ely and Planet Make-Over's Musical Director, Stephen Bruton into space with video gaming luminary Richard Garriott as he travels to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 12, 2008.

August 19, 2008 Dev Corner: Tabula Rasa's Newest Deployment

Starr Long, the Producer of Tabula Rasa® at NCsoft® North America, talks about the newest changes to the game with Deployment 11 and the impact of Operation Immortality™.