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webmaster Legal Disclaimer Wednesday, September 26th, 2001 City of Heroes is announced! Cryptic Studios proudly announces City of Heroes, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game that's home to an entire universe of super powered, comic book style adventure. Here you and thousands of other players can create your own superheroes and discover all the dangers, wonders, and excitement that Paragon City has to offer. The full press release follows: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cryptic Studios Announces Massively Multiplayer

Online Role-Playing Game, "City of Heroes" Comic-Book Style Adventure Filled with Superheroes and

Fearsome Villains to Release in Summer of 2002 San Jose, CA - September 26, 2001 - Cryptic Studios proudly announces "City of Heroes," a massively multiplayer online world home to an entire universe of super-powered, comic book style adventure. When the game releases next summer, thousands of players can take on the roles of superheroes, fight villains, and help create the story in a stunning, 3D graphical world, courtesy of the San Jose-based developer. Super Powered Action and Adventure City of Heroes is the first superhero themed online RPG and will offer a host of exciting and compelling gameplay features. Players create their own heroes, choosing from hundreds of different powers, skills, abilities, and items and design their own unique costumes. Then they can band together with other players to fight evil, build their own secret headquarters and strive to become the premiere hero group in the city. Gamers will confront super villains, aliens, madmen, monsters, criminals, and other fearsome foes. They can take on personalized missions and rid the city of dozens of different evil organizations and hundreds of individual enemies. With success players acquire power, wealth, and fame and come to bask in the spotlight and rake in the rewards as their powers and fame grow with each successful mission and every defeated foe. City of Heroes takes place amongst the skyscrapers, slums, sewers and streets of Paragon City, a sprawling online metropolis that offers unlimited adventure and countless surprises. Players become an integral part of many and varied different ongoing story arcs as the villain groups menace Paragon City and react to player victories and defeats. "With City of Heroes we're bringing a new and exciting genre to online gaming: the world of superheroes," says lead designer Richard Dakan. "We've designed this game to not only capture the excitement of comic book heroes but to offer a unique gaming experience. With this game you can literally 'become your own hero.' Players can not only design their very own superheroes from the ground up, but they can have a direct impact on what happens to the city they live in." Cryptic Studios plans to release City of Heroes in the summer of 2002. For a gameplay movie, screenshots, and additional game information check out the City of Heroes Web site at www.CityofHeroes.com. About Cryptic Studios The Cryptic Studios staff combines proven talents from the computer and book publishing industries into a single team devoted to creating innovative, top notch games. Based in San Jose, California and fully funded by private investment, Cryptic Studios currently focuses all of its prodigious resources on the company's first product: City of Heroes. For more information about the team and its projects, check out www.crypticstudios.com.

Contacts: Jack Emmert, press@crypticstudios.com

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2001 City of Heroes is featured in PVP Check out the PVP web site all this week for strips about City of Heroes. PVP is a daily comic strip focusing on the games industry and appearing in PC Gamer, Dragon Magazine, and online at Gamespy.com. City of Heroes article in Wizard magazine Wizard, the premiere comics magazine, has a feature story on City of Heroes in its November 2001 issue. Wizard is available at comic book stores and newstands everywhere. Wednesday, October 3rd, 2001 First City of Heroes gameplay movie released! Visit our Movies page to download the first look at City of Heroes gameplay and get a sampling of the exciting adventures that await you in Paragon City. Interview on IGN IGN has posted an interview with Jack Emmert, one of our Game Designers here at Cryptic Studios. XGR internet radio interview XGR will be featuring a live interview with Jack Emmert this coming Friday, October 5th. Friday, October 12th, 2001 Updated the Powers Page Another installment of four Powers has been added - Cold Control, Density Control, Invulnerability, and Leaping. One of these days we're going to have to make the powers page alphabetical, with only the latest update called out . . . Friday, October 19th, 2001 Update: FAQ, Press, Links, Forum Q+A The FAQ has been updated and two new pages have been added. If you'd like to have a fan site listed, let us know! Also, Statesman has posted a new Q+A session in the announcements section of the Forums. Wednesday, October 31st, 2001 Update: Paragon City, Links The latest installment of the epic City of Heroes back story has been added to the Paragon City page. Several new fansite links have also been added to the Links page. Friday, November 16th, 2001 Update: Heroes, Link, Catching Up . . . The Heroes page has been updated with a new origin description. Check in to get some additional information on the often catastrophic events that can create an Altered Human. Also, one new fan site in the Links section, and just in case you missed it - there was a new Q+A posted in the Forums on November 9th.