German board member Osprey has won the City of Villains launch party competition. His winning entry was…

It is my destiny to join the ranks of Arachnos, and witness the European launch of City of Villains because…

...only London’s rain, British coffee and English beer can awaken the true evil in a Rheinländer!

Osprey will be joining us at the exclusive launch event for City of Villains in a secret location in London next week.

Mercy Island will quickly become familiar to aspiring villains of all persuasions, as it forms the arrival point for all new recruits to Arachnos.

Just as quickly, you’ll come to realise that its rubble-strewn streets, shanty towns and once-glorious squares are anything but merciful. Rival gangs fight for scraps, and the mysterious Snakes - vicious and powerful creatures who have managed to survive multiple attempts to wipe them out - lurk everywhere, ready to prey on the unwary.

Read on to learn more about this proving ground for new villains…

The cursed Statesman, otherwise known as Cryptic Studios Creative Director and Lead Designer of City of Heroes and City of Villains, Jack Emmert, is continuing his futile efforts to warn the world of the magnificent Lord Recluse’s plans in a new interview at GameSpot:

Players will be stealing, kidnapping, sabotaging, and eliminating--virtually anything you can imagine a criminal doing, a player will be doing on the streets of the Rogue Isles!

You can click here to read the full article.

Lord Recluse’s loyal minions at GameSpot have been chosen to release exclusive new footage of City of Villains, revealing another section of the Rogue Isles.

In the new movie, Senior Designer and Zone Director of City of Heroes and City of Villains Thomas Foss gives a guided tour of Sharkhead Isle, an area dominated by a massive mining and industrial complex.  Potential Arachnos recruits will get their first glimpse of a huge Freakshow fort, a floating Skyraider base and some of the unique monsters and other factions that struggle for control of the area.

You can view the movie by clicking here and selecting ‘Official Movie 3’.

Newcomers to the ranks of Arachnos can also view the earlier movies of Port Oakes, a Bank Heist and the Nerva Archipelago.

Arachnos’ influence spreads far and wide over the Rogue Isles, infiltrating every area of society.

In today’s batch of surveillance photos we get a glimpse of Arachnos guards assisting in a prison breakout, an Arachnos flyer, an Arachnos base and more. To see Arachnos’ forces in all their glory, visit our Media section.

To further satisfy your craving for information, we have released further video evidence of life in the Rogue Isles. As well as an interview with Jack Emmert, we have also released footage of evil at work - robbing banks and exploring new zones. Behold!

In an uncharacteristic display of generosity, the mighty Lord Recluse has allowed his loyal followers at Eurogamer to give away a place at the exclusive press event for City of Villains in London.

At a secret Arachnos lair in the Capital, the nation’s journalists will be allowed a glimpse of our leader’s plans - and you could be there. Head on over to Eurogamer for full details of the competition and how to enter.

The arm of the law is long, indeed, and stretched further by the forces of the Freedom Corps, the superpowered organisation headed by the meddlesome Ms. Liberty.

Ghost Widow has encountered these foes before, and in tonight’s update to her Journal, she gives more information on these threats to the Rogue Isles:

Rifleman, Minigun, and Flamethrower units are as clumsy and brutish as their names would imply. Their Eagle units fancy themselves Marksmen, and I am told their Spec-Ops agents provide entertaining games of hide and seek for my Widows. Longbow also has several more well equipped units...

Discover more about these potential threats to your fiendish plans in Ghost Widow’s Journal.

Being a City of Villains, the Rogue Isles is often raided by the forces of good. Despite our best efforts, many are often captured and imprisoned as a result of these raids - and that is where you, being a novice in the art of villainy, will undoubtedly find yourself at the beginning of your career.

To give you an idea of what you might expect to endure behind the walls of Paragon City’s Ziggurat prison, we allowed correspondents from IGN to get locked up for a period, before being dramatically freed by Arachnos troops:

It seems that Lord Recluse’s favorite psychic named Kalimda had a fortelling that an extremely powerful villain would come from behind the walls of the Ziggurat in Bricktown (Paragon City’s prison). So Lord Recluse’s minions swarmed down, blew a hole in the wall, and freed a bunch of villain characters, including yourself.

Read much more of a villain’s first, faltering steps in the Isles in IGN’s hands-on article.

The FBSA, or Federal Bureau of Superpowered Affairs, has been consorting with the press once more.

Another apparent ‘leak’ has surfaced at gaming site IGN, this time dealing with the vicious Captain Mako, another of our Lord Recluse’s most trusted enforcers.

Delving into the background of Gideon Ray, also known as Mako, also known as Captain Mako, uncovered a number of disturbing facts. Ray is a mutant, born with shark-like gills and teeth.

In addition to information on Mako - including artist’s impressions - there is also additional information contained within on Barracuda, Mako’s delightfully twisted partner in mayhem. Go forth, and learn.

Head over to the FAQs section for the latest updates on City of Villains, including provisional system requirements, information about villainous Task Forces and more.