We’re pleased to announce that the winner of the Creative Genius competition for January 2007 is Catz, for the character sketches of the new Chiefette (pictured here), Healing Spirit and Moonshade - not to mention her prolific output of sketches and drawings over the past few months.

Congratulations to Catz, who is now the proud owner of a ‘Creative Genius’ title on the official message boards and 60 days of free game time!

The Creative Genius competition is a monthly contest held on the Creative board. For more details, see the The Creative Board and Creative Genius thread on the official message boards. The Nominations for February’s Creative Genius will be opened on the Creative board at the start of March, so there’s just time to post your submissions!

In the meantime, January’s nominations also included several entries that were worthy of ‘honourable mentions’. Read on to see them…

This Sunday, the Arenas of the European Training Room will ring with sounds of a PvP tournament with a difference. Freshly Squished, organised by S4 veteran Knight_Stalker, will pit duos of ‘squishy’ characters against each other in a series of matches to determine the toughest squishies in the game.

To find out more, see the Freshly Squished thread on the official message boards. If you’d like to take part, you can use the Looking for Team thread to find a partner, and the Sign Up thread to register for the tournament, which will kick off at 7pm GMT on Sunday 4 March. If you have any questions, you can PM them directly to Knight_Stalker. Good luck!

Last weekend we celebrated the second anniversary of City of Heroes being released in Europe with a party and player meet in our home town of Brighton. Evolution Radio were there, and their very own DJ Quantum took the time to interview our most valued Community Representatives.

The interviews with Bridger, Rockjaw, Midoh and Amboss are now available for download on their website. So if you missed the live show on the day or want to listen in again, now’s your chance.

The next free update to City of Heroes and Villains, Issue #9: Breakthrough will introduce a whole new level of gameplay to the world of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles with the eagerly anticipated Inventions system.

Find out more about the key features of Issue #9 in our latest Feature Update - then discuss the Inventions system on the new section of the official message boards.

One year ago, on Valentine’s Day, DJ Zero relocated and re-launched the infamous Paragon Dance Party to great success. In fact, we had so much fun at last year’s event that we’ve decided to celebrate the First Anniversary of Pocket D’s opening by doing it all over again…