From NCSoft: School's out! Father’s Day! Positron’s birthday! So many reasons to celebrate! Yes, Heroes and Villains, the time has come again. Roughly twice a year we turn up the dial and invite players to rack up XP at double the normal rate. Coming soon, Hero and Villain characters will receive double the XP, Influence and Infamy for all of their accomplishments in the game.

Interested in learning about the new racetracks that are coming up in the next patch of Auto Assault? We have the lowdown for you here. If you play AA and want to check this info out, click the link.

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We want to remind everyone that the coming Top Cow comic, issue #20 will be the final City of Heroes comic from Top Cow. If you are interested in receiving this issue, sign-up for the comic will be available through May 31st through the PlayNC Account Management web page.

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Need a clan or recruiting for one? Want to show off your car? Or are you interested in perhaps a cool competition? Get ready for the Clan Recruitment Day and Car Show, sponsored by w00t Radio, who will be broadcasting live from the Central Wastelands this Saturday, May 26.

NCSoft is pleased to present issues 17 & 18 of the Top Cow City of Heroes comic as free PDFs. You can grab them over at the link. In the Community Pages, you'll find "Rose in Bloom" by Roughtrade, a look into the dark mirror of the Praetorian universe; and part 1 of "Paladine" by Goth_Angel, another look at a tragic alternate Earth; and some fantastic fan art.

Issue 9: Breakthrough, the recent major free expansion to City of Heroes and City of Villains, added the robust Invention System to heroes and villains. MMORPG has the first look at an exclusive tutorial demonstrating the ins and outs of the new Invention System, including an overview of Salvage, Recipes, Inventions, and the Consignment Markets.

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We have some very cool things coming in the next patch, which is getting very close to showing up on the test server. You can read Producer Andrew "Zzyn" Wagner's latest post here, as well as a list of things that we are testing right now (here's the top of the forum thread). You'll be seeing more specific info on some of the big changes in the coming days.

NCSoft has posted the latest Guild Wars Guild Of The Week feature over at the official GW website. This time around, the guild "CR" get the nod.

Clan Roxor [CR] chose Guild Wars because the members wanted a fun game that didn't charge a monthly fee. Many of the guild's members also participated in the beta and saw this as a game they could all get behind and play together as friends, a very important part of any online game. The group started as a Diablo 2 guild in 1999, but that game didn't offer much in the way of PvP. They considered moving to another MMORPG, but believed it had been ruined by the time Guild Wars was released. They've dabbled in StarCraft and Quake, but Guild Wars is the first game in which they took competition seriously.

The Summer convention circuit that the NCSoft corporate players will be attending is now available over at the Lineage II website, among others. Check it out.

The latest Guild Wars State Of The Game post is available. This installment deals with disruptive gameplay, and all the tools that potential griefers have at their disposal.