Today marks City of Heroes' seventh anniversary, and to celebrate we're giving away 10 copies of the City of Heroes: Going Rogue Complete Collection! This package includes City of Heroes, City of Villains, the Going Rogue expansion, a month of free game time, and an exclusive item pack full of costumes, auras, emotes and the Shadowy Presence invisibility power. If you've ever wanted to try out this superhero MMO, this collection is the perfect way to get started.

So how can you win a copy of the Complete Collection? All you need to do is sign in with your free ZAM account and leave a comment below telling us what type of hero or villain you'd create in City of Heroes. That's it! You have until Friday, April 29 at noon PDT to leave your comment, and then we'll pick 10 winners and e-mail them codes for the Complete Collection. Check out the official rules for more details, and be sure to have a valid e-mail address tied to your ZAM account so we can contact you.

If you'd like some inspiration, check out NCsoft's informative anniversary graphic after the jump. According to the image, 42 million City of Heroes characters have been created since 2004!

City of Heroes is celebrating its seven-year anniversary this week! With two expansions and 20 Issues of updates under their belt, the team is looking back on the past seven years with a sense of pride. So to celebrate, Paragon Studios is hosting two new events: an in-game Meet and Greet with the devs and an Anniversary UStream Chat with the community and development teams.

Check out the City of Heroes site for a full list of times for the new events. Happy anniversary CoH!

Being a new player in a seven-year-old MMO can seem overwhelming, which is why Paragon Studios added the new Player Help System to City of Heroes in Issue 20: Incarnates. The team just published an article that outlines the main points of the feature, which allows veteran players to become "Helpers" and new players to ask for guidance.

Players who become "Helpers" will earn a gold name and the Helper title. The Help Channel has also received some upgrades to make it easier for new players to find. Are you a veteran player or a new recruit in City of Heroes?

Today marks the launch of Issue 20: Incarnates in City of Heroes following extended maintenance. This free update adds a wealth of new content to the game, so let's dive into the highlights:

• New Incarnate powers: Issue 20 introduces four new tiers of Incarnate Powers, new abilities that modify your character’s powers, or even unlock all-new ones.
• New Incarnate Trials: The Behavioral Adjustment Facility and the Lamda Sector
• New Task Forces: The Admiral Sutter Task Force and Mortimer Kal Strike Force are designed for level 20-40 heroes and villains.
• Leagues: Players can form or join groups of up to 48 characters.
• Team-Up Teleporter: Players can now queue up for Incarnate Trials with the push of a button.

For more details on the update, check out the official Issue 20 overview and our coverage of the City of Heroes panel at PAX East. You can watch the Issue 20 trailer after the jump.

Ever wonder why the City of Heroes level cap is stuck at 50? Today, April 1, Senior Designer Matt "Positron" Miller finally admitted that Paragon Studios is simply running out of experience points. This finite source has almost run dry, and the team predicts that they'll completely deplete their stockpile in one year on April 1, 2012.

This is a sad day indeed for all heroes. Conserve your experience points before they run out!

The latest City of Heroes producer's letter from Nate “Second Measure” Birkholz recaps the team's PAX East experience. The CoH team hosted a meet and greet on Friday night in which the team was happy to get some one on one time with the fans.

Saturday was panel day and while Matt "Positron" Miller was ill, Birkholz, Senior Environment Artist Ryan “No Redname” Roth and Associate Community Manager Tia “Avatea” Paraurahi were on hand to announce the upcoming Global Server List.

The producer's letter also covers what will become of multiples of charater names once the Global Server List is implemented. The team has worked very hard to listen to the community in order to provide solutions that work for most everyone. The letter also covers Issue 20: Incarnates, which is launching next week.

Don't forget to read our coverage of the PAX East City of Heroes Panel for a full break down of what was discussed.

To continue their mission to reach out to City of Heroes players, Paragon Studios is hosting its first USTREAM dev chat tomorrow, March 31, from 6-7 p.m. PDT. Developers John "Protean" Hegner and Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney will be on deck with Andy "Zwillinger" Belford and André "Beastyle" Carlos from the community team to chat about Issue 20.

For more details on Issue 20: Incarnates, check out our coverage of the City of Heroes panel at PAX East.

The City of Heroes team is kicking off the Issue 20: Incarnates open beta with a dev lead test event tomorrow, March 23. Members of the Paragon Studios team will be in the beta to run the Behavioral Adjustment Facility and the Lambda Sector with players from from 5-7 p.m. PDT on the North American Beta Server and from 8-10 p.m. GMT on the European Training Room.

If you can't make it tomorrow for the special event, you still have the rest of the week to test Issue 20. The open beta begins tomorrow, March 23 at 10 a.m. PDT and runs through March 28 at 10 a.m. PDT.

For more details on Issue 20 and a trailer, check out our recap of the City of Heroes PAX East panel.

City of Heroes is celebrating its seventh anniversary this month, and from the size of the audience at the game's PAX East panel it seems clear that the superhero MMO is still going strong. Players got their first look at the upcoming Issue 20 update and learned that Global Server Access will soon combine the North American and European servers into one list.

The City of Heroes panel was comprised of Lead Producer Nate “Second Measure” Birkholz, Senior Environment Artist Ryan “No Redname” Roth and Associate Community Manager Tia “Avatea” Paraurahi. Keep reading after the jump for all the details.

In an effort to bring all of their players together under one universal launcher, NCsoft is certainly not above some good old fashioned bribery, and they're asking all long-time CoH players who have been using CoH's independent updater to switch over to the universal NCsoft Launcher. By switching, not only will you gain access to the new launcher's fancy technology (ooooh, background downloading), but the team at Paragon Studios will also give you the new Wisp Aura... for free!

In reality, this switch looks like it's going to be mandatory, but if you switch over now, you'll get a shiny new Wisp Aura!