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Attention Heroes!!

Our new Global chat feature will be going to the Live servers soon and we want to give you the opportunity to reserve your global chat handle!

What is Global chat?

Global chat is an in-game cross-server chat system and friends list.

What is a Global chat Handle?

Every player selects a name which they are universally known by; this "handle" is what they can be referred to regardless of what character they happen to be playing at the moment or what server they are on.

How do I reserve my global chat handle?

Just change your message board name to the name you wish to reserve for global chat now. You will need to leave your message board name changed until Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 11:00 am CST. After this time, changing your board name will no longer affect your global chat handle.

How do I change my message board name?

Click on "My Home."

From this page, under main configuration, choose Edit from the Personal information section. The first option to edit should be your display name.

What happens if I do not have a Message Board name?

If you do not have a message board name, your global chat handle will be the name of the character you log in with for the first time after global chat goes live. If that name has already been taken, a number will be added to the end to make it unique. Everyone can change their global chat handle one time after global chat goes live.

Excited about Arenas coming to CoH? Want to know more about the Anime costumes and body/face scaling features? Curious about the Coalition Chat feature? Here’s your chance to ask the “Big Guy” himself! Jack “Statesman” Emmert, Cryptic Studios’ Creative Director and CoH Lead Designer, will be front and center in Stratics IRC chat on Tuesday, February 8th (3pm PST/5pm CST/6pm EST) to discuss the upcoming Expansion Issue 4 “Colosseum.”

Just tune into #StraticsHoC on Stratics IRC. For those with Java installed, Stratics’ IRC HoC Java Chat applet will allow you to automatically join #StraticsHoC by entering a nickname and clicking on the Chat! button. Otherwise, you can connect to the servers by using either mIRC, pirch, Ircle, one of your favorite Linux chat clients, or one of the Java applets listed on the Stratics site and entering one of the following servers:

irc.frws.com port 6668· USA - Colorado

irc.glowfish.de port 6668 EU -· Germany

irc2.frws.com port 6668· USA – Colorado

irc.stratics.com (re-routing to one of the above · servers)

Friday, February 4th at 6:00 am CST we will be performing maintenance on the CoH message boards. The estimated down time is 1 hour, but it may be longer. Thank you for your patience.

There’s no question that Paragon City is a dangerous place—a battleground where heroes unselfishly man the thin, embattled line between good and evil. It’s a never-ending fight full of danger and sacrifice, one that requires all heroes to seek new ways to improve their skills. In the Arena, heroes will be able to test themselves against other defenders of Paragon City and gain the recognition of their peers as the best of the best. Do you have the heart, the skill, and the determination it takes to achieve the status of ultimate hero? For a preview of the upcoming Expansion Issue 4 “Colosseum,” please visit our Features Update page.

We are happy to announce that we have updated the PlayNC account website in order to better serve our new European customers. You can now choose to view the website in English, German or French. Thank you, danke, merci!

We have recieved information that you should now be able to log in to all servers.

If you are having problems connecting to the updater, please see this post from Case, Super-Tech:
Click Here!!

Sorry about all the problems heroes!

We are experiencing network issues at this time and servers may be up and down for a bit. I don't have an ETA, but I will let you know when we know more.

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We will be conducting some necessary network maintenance on Wednesday, January 26, from 10:45PM to 11:00PM CST and Thursday, January 27, from 12:45AM to 1:00AM CST. Customers may experience disconnects or lag when accessing game servers. Please reconnect after the maintenance periods have ended. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding!

Ok - here we go.

We got way too many entries to post them all - as I said before. If you want to show your wallpaper off, post it here.

If your entry had not been received you would have gotten an email bounce-back saying it did not go through.

We had a few people ask for a confirmation and all of those who sent in a request for verification were responded to. As in all contests, the responsibility is on the part of the participant to ensure their entry arrived.

The second entry complied with all the rules.

A badge? No. ALL contest rules, stipulations, and prizes have to be announced when the contest is announced due to the laws governing contests. So we cannot decided to hand out a badge now.

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True art is subjective and the judges may feel that these are the best.

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Indeed we do.

Finally, go ahead and state your thought, but then leave it at that. The flinging of the jello is not needed.

Sorry about that - I edited it. It should say "some" of the contest entries.

We had too many entries to post all of them.

Thanks to the hundreds of you who made the City of Heroes Wallpaper contest such a grand success! The votes are in and we have selected the winners and runner-ups. As always, when dealing with such an outpouring of creativity and talent, the judges were not handed an easy task. Though every single entry had one or more elements that were truly outstanding, it came down to those who demonstrated best overall design, functionality and originality.

So, without further ado, the winners and runner-ups of the CoH Wallpaper Contest:

1st Place Winner – Veikira (Gloucester, Virginia)

2nd Place Winner – CrimsonHelix (Kitchener, Ontario)

3rd Place Winner – Amanda Martin (Palestine, Texas)

Runners-Up:

jeaf7 (Lakeland, Tennessee)

Larke (Modesto, California)

Cerebris (Rochester, New York)



Congratulations to all the winners!

The winning entries can be found here.

To see some of the contest entries, please visit our Wallpaper Contest Gallery.

Thanks again for all your hard work. Look for more fun contest events in the future!

Thanks to the hundreds of you who made the City of Heroes Wallpaper contest such a grand success! The votes are in and we have selected the winners and runner-ups. As always, when dealing with such an outpouring of creativity and talent, the judges were not handed an easy task. Though every single entry had one or more elements that were truly outstanding, it came down to those who demonstrated best overall design, functionality and originality.

So, without further ado, the winners and runner-ups of the CoH Wallpaper Contest:

1st Place Winner – Veikira (Gloucester, Virginia)

2nd Place Winner – CrimsonHelix (Kitchener, Ontario)

3rd Place Winner – Amanda Martin (Palestine, Texas)

Runners-Up:

jeaf7 (Lakeland, Tennessee)

Larke (Modesto, California)

Cerebris (Rochester, New York)



Congratulations to all the winners!

The winning entries can be found here.

To see some of the contest entries, please visit our Wallpaper Contest Gallery.

Thanks again for all your hard work. Look for more fun contest events in the future!

*** Update ***
The maintenance has been extended to 12:30 CST. Thanks for understanding.

***Original Message Below***

We will be conducting some necessary network maintenance on Wednesday, January 26, between the hours of 11:00AM and 11:45AM CST. Customers will experience disconnects from the website, message boards, and game servers during this period. Please reconnect after this maintenance window. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding!

“Last week, we gave you Part One of a two-part JIVE Exclusive. We polled our fellow players and posted a call for questions on the official City of Heroes boards. If you could ask anything of the mighty Statesman, what would it be?”

Read Part Two of this exclusive Q&A here.

You may have noticed a few threads that have been removed about "pigg viewer software." Also, threads containing screenshots of content not featured in the game that have been viewed using pigg viewer software have also been removed.

The legal department for CoH has informed me that this software and the use of this software violates the CoH EULA.

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You may not (a) sublicense, rent, lease, loan or otherwise transfer the Software for profit; (b) modify, adapt, reverse engineer or decompile the Software, or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Software; (c) create any derivative works in respect of the Software or the Service;

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This is just an FYI as to why these posts were removed and a notice that posts of this nature will be removed in the future.

Our first wallpaper contest has come to a very successful conclusion with hundreds of amazing and creative entries. We want to give out a BIG thank you to all who shared their heroic designs. It can’t be said enough—the CoH community rocks creatively! Unfortunately, it isn’t possible to post all the great entries we’ve received, so we’ve put up on our gallery the last installment of what we think is an excellent representation of the contest’s varied and talented submissions. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, January 25. Good luck!

We will be conducting some necessary network maintenance on Monday, January 24, from 11:00AM to 11:30AM CST. During this time frame, customers will not be able to access game servers or the website. Please reconnect after the maintenance period has ended. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding!

In a JIVE exclusive, CoH Lead Designer and Creative Director Jack Emmert steps aside and lets his super-powered alter-ego speak…

“’People call me Statesman when they meet me, like it's my first name or something, but that's cool.’

Cool, eh? Well, when we had another opportunity to question our friend Jack, we decided to let the hero take center stage in a feature we're calling: Letters to Statesman!”

You can read part 1 here. Stay tuned for part 2 next week. Enjoy!

City of Heroes has been nominated for 4 awards by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences! Computer Game of the Year. Outstanding Achievement in Game Design. Innovation in Computer Gaming. Massive Multiplayer/Persistent World Game of The Year.

The winners will be announced at the 8th Annual Interactive Achievements Awards ceremony, taking place February 1, 2005, the second evening of the D.I.C.E. Summit. The Awards event will be held at the Grande Ballroom of the Green Valley Ranch Resort in Las Vegas and will showcase the industry’s best games of 2004. Here is the full list of all the categories and nominations. Go City of Heroes!

1. Game Of The Year Awards

· Game Of The Year

· Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Take2/Rockstar)

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games)

· Halo 2 (Microsoft)

· Katamari Damacy (Namco)

· World of Warcraft (Vivendi/Universal/Blizzard)

Console Game Of The Year

· Burnout 3 (Electronic Arts)

· Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Take2/Rockstar)

· Halo 2 (Microsoft)

· Katamari Damacy (Namco)

· Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony)

Computer Game Of The Year

· City of Heroes (NCSoft)

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi/Universal Games)

· Doom 3 (Activision)

· World of Warcraft (Vivendi/Universal/Blizzard)

· Sid Meier’s Pirates (Atari)


2. Craft Awards

Outstanding Achievement In Art Direction

· Doom 3 (Activision)

· Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Nintendo)

· Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft)

· Sly Cooper 2 (Sony)

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi/Universal Games)


Outstanding Achievement In Animation

· Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft)

· Sly Cooper 2 (Sony)

· Jak 3 (Sony)

· Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony)


Outstanding Character Performance – Male

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi/Universal Games)

· The Bard’s Tale (InXile Entertainment)

· Metal Gear Solid 3 (Konami)

· Demon Stone (Atari)

· Chronicles of Riddick (Vivendi/Universal Games)


Outstanding Character Performance – Female

· Demon Stone (Atari)

· Judy Dench – Golden Eye: Rouge Agent (Electronic Arts)

· Zoo Tycoon 2 (Microsoft)


Outstanding Achievement In Soundtrack

· Need For Speed Underground 2 (Electronic Arts)

· Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (Activision)

· Donkey Konga (Nintendo)

· Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Take2/Rockstar)


Outstanding Achievement In Original Musical Composition

· Rome: Total War (Activision)

· NBA Ballers (Midway)

· Katamari Damacy (Namco)

· Killzone (Sony)

· Fable (Microsoft)


Outstanding Achievement In Sound Design

· Rome: Total War (Activision)

· Halo 2 (Microsoft)

· Doom 3 (Activision)

· Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony)

· Sly Cooper 2 (Sony)


Outstanding Achievement In Game Play Engineering

· Donkey Konga (Nintendo)

· Spider-Man 2 (Activision)

· Eye Toy: Anti Grav (Sony)

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi/Universal Games)

· Fable (Microsoft)


Outstanding Achievement In Online Game Play

· Halo 2 (Microsoft)

· Rome: Total War (Activision)

· Unreal Tournament 2004 (Atari)

· Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War (THQ)


Outstanding Achievement In Visual Engineering

· Doom 3 (Activision)

· Metroid Prime: Echoes (Nintendo)

· Demon Stone (Atari)

· Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony)

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games)


Outstanding Achievement In Game Design

· Fable (Microsoft)

· City of Heroes (NCSoft)

· Katamari Damacy (Namco)

· Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Take2/Rockstar)

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games)


Outstanding Achievement In Character Or Story Development

· Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Take2/Rockstar)

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games)

· Demon Stone (Atari)

· Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (Midway)

· Fable (Microsoft)


Innovation in Computer Gaming

· Doom 3 (Activision)

· City of Heroes (NCSoft)

· Rome: Total War (Activision)

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games)

· The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts)


Innovation In Console Gaming

· Fable (Microsoft)

· Halo 2 (Microsoft)

· Donkey Konga (Nintendo)

· Eye Toy: Anti Grav (Sony)

· Katamari Damacy (Namco)


3. Genre Awards

A. Console

· Platform Action/Adventure Game Of The Year

· Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Ubisoft)

· Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Sony)

· Jak 3 (Sony)


Action/Adventure Game Of The Year

· Pikmin 2 (Nintendo)

· Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (Midway)

· Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (Ubisoft)

· Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Konami)


Action Sports Game Of The Year

· NFL Street 2 (Electronic Arts)

· Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (Activision)

· NBA Ballers (Midway)

· Mario Power Tennis (Nintendo)


First Person Action Game Of The Year

· Halo 2 (Microsoft)

· GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Electronic Arts)

· Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Nintendo)

· Chronicles of Riddick (Vivendi Universal Games)


Children’s Title Of The Year

· Shrek 2 (Activision)

· Backyard Baseball 2005 (Atari)

· Mario Party 6 (Nintendo)

· Pokemon Colosseum (Nintendo)

· Sly 2 (Sony)


Fighting Game Of The Year

· Def Jam: Fight for NY (Electronic Arts)

· Dragonball Z: Budokai 3 (Atari)

· Mortal Kombat: Deception (Midway)


Racing Game Of The Year

· Burnout 3 (Electronic Arts)

· Rallisport Challenge 2 (Microsoft)


Role Playing Game Of The Year

· X-Men Legends (Activision)

· The Bard’s Tale (InXile Entertainment)

· Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Nintendo)

· Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Nintendo)

· Tales of Symphonia (Namco)


Sports Simulation Game Of The Year

· Madden NFL 2005 (Electronic Arts)

· ESPN NHL 2K5 (Take2/Sega)

· ESPN NFL 2K5 (Take2/Sega)

· Winning Eleven 7 (Konami)


B. Wireless & Handheld

Wireless Game Of The Year

· Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen (Nintendo)

· Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo)


Handheld Game Of The Year

· Metroid: Zero Mission (Nintendo)

· Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo)

· Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Square Enix)


C. Computer

Action/Adventure Game Of The Year

· Myst IV Revelation (Ubisoft)

· Full Spectrum Warrior (THQ)

· The Suffering (Midway)

· Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (Ubisoft)


Children’s Game Of The Year

· Backyard Skateboarding (Atari)


Downloadable Game Of The Year

· Mahjong Garden To G (Electronic Arts)

· The Incredibles: Escape from Nomanisan (Disney Online)

· Shroomz – Quest for Puppy (Game Trust, Inc.)

· Diner Dash (PlayFirst)


Family Game Of The Year

· Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban (Electronic Arts)

· Scrabble On-Line (Atari)

· Zoo Tycoon 2 (Microsoft)


First Person Action Game Of The Year

· Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (Electronic Arts)

· Doom 3 (Activision)

· Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (NovaLogic)

· Half-Life 2 (Vivendi Universal Games)

· Unreal Tournament 2004 (Atari)


Role Playing Game Of The Year

· Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker (BioWare)

· Vampires: Bloodline (Activision)


Simulation Game Of The Year

· The Sims 2 (Electronic Arts)

· Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 (Atari)

· Pacific Fighters (Ubisoft)


Sports Game Of The Year

· Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (Electronic Arts)


Strategy Game Of The Year

· Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth (Electronic Arts)

· WarHammer 40K: Dawn of War (THQ)

· Rome: Total War (Activision)


D. Online


Massive Multiplayer/Persistent World Game Of The Year

· World of WarCraft (VivendiUniversal/Blizzard)

· City of Heroes (NCSoft)

· StarWars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (LucasArts)

· Final Fantasy XI Chains of Promathia (Square Enix)

WIRED Magazine Announces Nominees for Sixth Annual Wired Rave Awards
Tuesday January 18, 11:00 am ET

Top 'Bloggers' a New Entrant among Today's Leading Innovators

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Google's founders, Rem Koolhaas, Howard Stern and Jon Stewart are among the list of dynamic people selected as nominees for the WIRED Rave Awards. Now in its sixth year, the WIRED Rave Awards celebrate "The People Changing Your Mind," leading innovators in 14 categories including Business Leader, Film Director, Architect, Game Designer, Scientist and Tech Innovator. "Blogger" was introduced as a new category this year, reflecting the growing popularity and influence of the medium on pop culture and business. A complete list of nominees is available below and at www.raveawards.com.

WIRED editors nominate the top five mavericks, visionaries and leaders in each category.

"These nominees are an eclectic mix of people who are changing the world by doing something truly new," said Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of WIRED Magazine. "They're the innovators who have thrilled and inspired us and shown us what is possible."

Top Rave
Nominees for the Top Rave, "Renegade of the Year," include: Howard Stern, "The Howard Stern Radio Show;" Burt Rutan, president and CEO of Scaled Composites; Blake Ross and Ben Goodger, architects of Firefox; Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, Google; and Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."

Winners of the WIRED Rave Awards will be honored on February 22nd at the legendary Fillmore theater in San Francisco. The celebration will feature a live musical performance by The Polyphonic Spree, which performed at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. Winners will also be featured in the March 2005 issue of WIRED Magazine. Presenting sponsors of the WIRED Rave Awards are Land Rover, Adobe Systems and Corazon Tequila.

Raves Cap a Year of Growth for WIRED
This year's Rave Awards build on continued success and growth for WIRED. In 2004, WIRED hosted its inaugural WIRED NextFest in San Francisco, where over 25,000 attendees experienced more than 100 inventions from around the world that gave a sneak peek into the future. Plans for WIRED NextFest 2005 are underway with the 2005 exhibition to be held June 24-26 in Chicago. Last year also marked the third consecutive year of growth for WIRED with increased readership as well as strong newsstand sales. In addition, the magazine published its first annual "bookazine," WIRED TEST, the ultimate consumer- product resource guide.

Sixth Annual Rave Award Nominees

ARCHITECT
-- Santiago Calatrava, World Trade Center PATH Terminal, New York City
(Santiago Calatrava SA)
-- James Corner and Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro,
The High Line, New York City (Field Operations and Diller Scofidio +
Renfro)
-- Frank Gehry, Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Jay Pritzker Pavilion,
Chicago (Gehry Partners)
-- Rem Koolhaas, Seattle Central Library, Seattle; Netherlands Embassy,
Berlin; Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal (OMA)
-- Yoshio Taniguchi, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (Yoshio Taniguchi
and Associates)

ARTIST
-- Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes
-- Michael Lau and Eric So, vinyl action-figure art
-- Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman, messa di voce
-- Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Soft Rains
-- Gerfried Stocker, Andreas Exner, Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine
Schoepf, Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica

AUTHOR
-- Thomas Barnett, The Pentagon's New Map
-- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
-- Rael Dornfest, Dale Dougherty, Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Hacks series
-- Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence
-- James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds

BLOGGER
-- Ana Marie Cox, Wonkette.com
-- Mark Cuban, Blogmaverick.com
-- Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com
-- Kevin Sites, Kevinsites.net
-- Rex Sorgatz, Fimoculous.com

BUSINESS LEADER
-- Alex Bogusky, Executive Creative Director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky
-- Shigeyuki Hori, Executive Chief Engineer for Prius, Toyota
-- Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Computer
-- Yuanqing Yang, President, Vice Chairman and CEO, Lenovo
-- Jong-Yong Yun, Vice Chairman and CEO, Samsung Electronics

FILM DIRECTOR
-- Brad Bird, The Incredibles
-- Jonathan Caouette, Tarnation
-- Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Team America: World Police
-- Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 2

GAME DESIGNER
-- Jack Emmert, City of Heroes (Cryptic Studios)
-- Gabe Newell, Half-Life 2 (Valve Software)
-- Pete Parsons, Halo 2 (Bungie Studios)
-- Keita Takahashi, Katamari Damacy (Namco)
-- Alex Ward, Burnout 3 (Criterion Games)

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
-- Apple Industrial Design Team, iMac G5 and iPod shuffle (Apple Computer)
-- Yves Behar, Jawbone Headset (Fuseproject)
-- Naoto Fukasawa, Plus Minus Zero Collection (Plus Minus Zero)
-- Paul Pierce and Motorola CXD team, Razr V3 Cell Phone
-- Burt Rutan, SpaceShipOne (Scaled Composites)

MEDICAL SCIENTIST
-- Chester Buckenmaier, Anesthesiology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
-- John Donoghue, Neuroscience, Cyberkinetics
-- Bette Korber, HIV Bioinformatics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
-- Robert Lanza, Cell Biology, Advanced Cell Technology
-- Jonathan Tilly, Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School

MUSICIAN
-- Bjork, Medulla
-- Danger Mouse, The Grey Album
-- Prince, Musicology
-- The Streets, A Grand Don't Come for Free
-- TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

SCIENTIST
-- Peter Brown and Team, Paleoanthropology, University of New England,
Australia
-- Drew Endy, Synthetic Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-- James Hansen, Climatology/Science Policy, NASA Goddard Institute for
Space Studies
-- Richard Jefferson, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property, Biological
Innovation for Open Society
-- Steven Squyres, Mars Exploration, Cornell University

TECH INNOVATOR
-- Adam Curry, iPodder
-- Mark Fletcher, Bloglines
-- Bill Healy, Hitachi Mikey microdrive
-- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia
-- Zhang Zuoyi, INET

TV CREATOR
-- Blair Harrison, iFilm.com
-- Mitchell Hurwitz, Arrested Development (Fox)
-- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
-- Xzibit, Pimp My Ride (MTV)
-- David Willis and Matt Maiellaro, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Cartoon
Network)

RENEGADE
-- Sergey Brin, Co-Founder and President, Technology; Larry Page, Co-
Founder and President, Products; Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the
Executive Committee and CEO, Google
-- Blake Ross and Ben Goodger, Architects, Firefox
-- Burt Rutan, President and CEO, Scaled Composites
-- Howard Stern, The Howard Stern Radio Show
-- Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

About WIRED Magazine

WIRED is a monthly magazine that chronicles the people, companies, technologies, and ideas that are transforming the world around us. Each month, WIRED delivers a glimpse into the future of business, science, entertainment, education, culture, and politics.

Tuesday, January 18th at 9:30 am CST we will be performing maintenance on the CoH message boards. The estimated down time is 4 hours, but it may be longer. Thank you for your patience.

We will be performing maintenance on the PlayNC server Thursday, January 13, from 9:30AM to 10:30AM CST. The PlayNC site and account access will be unavailable during this maintenance period.

The Holiday respec is now on the live servers. This respec can be accessed by using the /respec command. Have fun!

Submissions for our City of Heroes Wallpaper Contest keep on coming! We thought you’d enjoy seeing just a few of the entries we’ve received, so check out our contest gallery. Combining great art and design, these very cool wallpapers are perfect for the discerning CoH hero’s desktop.

You have less than a week left, so get those wallpapers finished and sent! Deadline for the contest is Monday, January 17, 11:59PM CST! With all the great prizes that are being offered and the opportunity to have your design on desktops around the world, there’s no reason not to send in your fabulous CoH wallpaper! For complete contest details, please visit our CoH Wallpaper Contest page. Good luck!