Trivia
In July 2008 NCsoft announced the complete merger of its City of Heroes and City of Villains titles into one game universe. Current subscribers who only had one of the titles received access to the features of both games, and new sales grant access to both.
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Sciere 
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City of Heroes was named #9 Game of the Year in the 14th Annual Computer Game Awards issue of Computer Games Magazine (March 2005).
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PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 21, 2008.
On top of a CoH collectible card game, numerous comic books and a pen-and-paper RPG (due out any day now), CDS published two novels set in the "City of Heroes" universe: The Web of Arachnos (2005), by Robert Weinberg; and The Freedom Phalanx (2006), by Robin D. Laws. (A third, The Rikti War, was written by Shane Hensley and due for 2006 publication, but never released.)
Though there is technically not an official Role Playing (RP) server, the Virtue server has been the "unofficial RP Server" since the game was originally launched.
Cryptic Studios originally refused to release the game with anything harsher than an E rating. This, obviously, did not happen, as the game is rated T.
The game's comic book sometimes features actual players' characters.
A subscription to the game also, as of this writing, gets you a subscription to a real, actual monthly comic book based on the game, and featuring prominent NPCs from the game as main characters.
The European release is tagged "Deluxe edition" with three game content updates (Issues 1-3), an 88-page comic digest, and serial codes to unlock an in-game Prestige Power, unique cape (available for Level 20 characters) and VIP badge.
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Sciere (124860) on May 14, 2005.
As City of Heroes is centered around superheroes, some players have set up a living memorial at the Virtue server upon learning of the passing away of Christopher 'Superman' Reeve at October 10, 2004.
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Sciere (124860) on Oct 14, 2004.
