Read all about Statesman’s strike in this Paragon Times special report.

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Issue #6: Along Came a Spider has been released on the Live servers. Full release notes are available in the Game Patches section.

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If you’re any kind of fan of online gaming, you owe it to yourself to attend a LAN party at least once. And we have a helluva LAN party for you to attend....

i26, happening this November 11-13th at Newbury Racecourse, Berkshire, is a massive LAN gaming event run by Multiplay UK. Billed as the largest LAN party in the UK, there will be over 1,000 ‘Bring Your Own Computer’; spaces for attendees, organised tournaments for all kinds of games, plus of course the obligatory after-hours bar.

If all that wasn’t enough, i26 is about to get superpowered as City of Heroes will be there, along with our evil counterpart City of Villains. NCsoft Europe will have a dedicated mini-LAN at the event where we’ll be mixing and mingling, demonstrating City of Heroes (amongst other games), and doing a few mini-tournaments of our own - with prizes, to boot.

If you’ve ever thought it might be fun to join your supergroup mates in real life, or to duke it out in the Arena while facing down your opponent, or even to conduct a base raid within shouting distance of some villains - this is your chance to make it happen.

i26 places are going fast with less than a month to go. Three days massive LAN fun will only cost you £65 (free on-site camping and caravan space, too), and you can book your space online. For all the details you might need, visit the Multiplay UK site; and stay tuned for more announcements about our plans for i26.

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Starting 24 October 2005, the City of Heroes and City of Villains character name policy will change. Names for characters under level 35 on game accounts that have been inactive for over 90 days will be changed to ‘unreserved’ status. This means that those names will become available for new character names if picked by an active player. This policy is being enacted in order to free up character names, based on player feedback.

If your game account is inactive for over 90 days and you reactivate your account you will need to log back in to any characters affected by this policy to move them out of unreserved name status. If your old character name has been taken by an active player, the game will prompt you to rename your character. You will be given only one opportunity to rename your character. It is possible that your character name may still be the same if an active player has not chosen to use that character name.

All characters in an unreserved name status will be shown in your character selection screen; however, their photo will not be shown, indicating that they are in unreserved name status.

If you do not log into the game with a character in unreserved name status, the character’s name will remain available to any active player until you log that character into the game. Logging into the game with the affected character will change the character’s name status back to reserved.

Any questions about this policy can be directed to http://uk.support.cityofheroes.com/

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Continuing our commitment to the comics community, NCsoft Europe is very proud to announce our attendance at the Brighton Comic Expo, this November 19th and 20th, at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton, England.

For more details, let’s have a word from, erm, me:

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... and we think you’re going to like the number.

Visit our villainous counterparts at the official European City of Villains site for the full story, and stay tuned for updates to our FAQs.

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Following the victory of The Other Guys in the Union Bantamweight Final, the remaining Pentad Cup Finals on Union and Defiant have been completed, and the winning teams are now preparing for the inter-server Grand Finals, which will be announced shortly.

To discover which teams claimed the Cups, read on…

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