Guide Update to be available with City of Villains and City of Heroes expansion
ROSEVILLE, Calif., February 2, 2006 - Prima Games, a division of Random House Inc., and the world's leading source of official print and online strategy for video and computer games, today announced that Cryptic StudiosTM Creative Director and City of VillainsTM Lead Designer, Jack Emmert will author the soon to be released update to Prima's City of Villains and City of Heroes® strategy guides.
Packed with content direct from the game creator, Jack Emmert, the update will contain detailed information about the upcoming free expansion "Destiny Manifest" for both City of Heroes and City of Villains. "Destiny Manifest" is the seventh expansion since City of Heroes launched in April 2004. The update pack will be released as hole punched pages to be inserted into the City of Villains and City of Heroes binder systems (currently available in stores). It will contain information for both City of Villains and City of Heroes and will be available in stores and via download in April, the same time as Issue 7.
"City of Heroes and City of Villains are dynamic, evolving products, making it essential to have up-to-date strategy content," said Jack Emmert. "As the creator of the game, I am excited to craft a guide that draws upon my personal insights, the resources of the development team, and input from our game community."
"Prima Games always strives to provide the best and most current information to our guide consumers," said Debra Kempker, president of Prima Games. "By working with Jack and the Cryptic team we have gone straight to the source and we are certain that we will produce the best possible update for the City of Villains and City of Heroes community."
For more information, visit www.cityofheroes.com or www.cityofvillains.com.
About NCsoft
NCsoft North America is headquartered in Austin, Texas and is part of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation. NCsoft, with its own development and publishing offices in Texas and California, also works with subsidiaries and third party developers throughout North America to develop and publish innovative online entertainment software products. The company launched two massively multiplayer titles on the same day in 2004, Lineage® II and City of Heroes, and in 2005 released two hit games, Guild Wars® and City of Villains. In the coming months, NCsoft is poised to launch two more massively multiplayer titles: Auto Assault® and Guild War: Factions. More information about NCsoft can be found at http://www.PlayNC.com.
About Prima Games
Prima Games, a division of Random House Publishing, is the world's leading publisher of game guides for computer and console video games, with over 1,000 titles published and 90 million guides in print. High quality game guides, extensive retail distribution and relationships with top game developers and publishers have allowed Prima Games to claim a more than 50 percent market share in the past decade. More information can be found on the at www.primagames.com, coh.primagames.com, and cov.primagames.com.
About Cryptic Studios
Cryptic Studios, Inc., located in Los Gatos, California, was established in July of 2000 and is an independent developer of massively multiplayer online games for the PC and next generation consoles. Its first game, City of Heroes, launched in April 2004. The game takes place in a virtual world where thousands of people play simultaneously, take on the role of super-powered heroes, fight villains and help create a dynamic story in a visually-stunning, 3-D graphical world.
