There's a new City of Villains/Heroes Q&A on Boomtown today, asking lead designer Matt Miller about the upcoming Issue #8 update for the MMORPG.

For all you City of Heroes and City of Villains players out there, NCSoft let us know that there will be a "Double XP Weekend" soon. From 11AM CST on Friday, July 21 until 9PM CST Sunday, July 23, everything you do in the game will get you twice the usual XP. According to NCSoft, the weekend "will give players the opportunity to level up their characters and gain access to many of the new features available in both City of Heroes and City of Villains".

As noted in this press release, City of Heroes & Villains' free Issue 7 expansion pack is now available. There are additional missions, a new level 40 to 50 PvP zone, new abilities and much more. You can find patch notes here.

FiringSquad has the latest City of Villains/Heroes Issue #7 update Q&A, asking lead designer Matt Miller about the new content and features coming to the game.

About Internet Games is the latest site to feature a City of Villains Issue 7 Q&A. Senior designer Matt Miller is asked what players can expect from this update.

FiringSquad has posted their preview of Issue 7, offering impressions of the latest free update for City of Villains & City of Heroes thats coming out soon.

OGaming and MMORPG.com both have previews of the Issue 7 update that's coming out for City of Heroes / Villains soon, offering an overview of the new content.

GameSpot has a new City of Villains preview, offering impressions of the upcoming Issue 7 update content. This update will be released in April.

AGEIA today announced that Cryptic Studios will update City of Villains to make use of the PhysX physics accelerator cards that are coming out soon. The PPU support will mainly help with the game's particle effects, with the press release listing a few examples.

MMORPG.com has a new City of Villains/Heroes Q&A, asking Matt Miller of Cryptic Studios about the latest free expansion pack for the game. Questions are about Grandville, the Mayhem Missions, new base features and more.

GameZone has posted a Q&A with Matt Miller of Cryptic Studios, asking the system designer about the upcoming expansion pack which will include a high-level PvP zone called Recluse's Victory.

NCSoft sends along the latest City of Villains trailer, showing some of the new player versus player zones in the game. City of Villains has been in stores since late last month.

GameSpot has a new City of Villains Q&A, asking creative director Jack Emmert for his final thoughts on this standalone expansion pack to City of Heroes. The game will arrive in stores early next week.

Another City of Villains movie is now available, showing another two minutes of in-game footage. The stand-alone expansion pack to City of Heroes ships the 30th.

There's a City of Villains preview on GameSpy, offering a three page look at the recently standalone expansion pack to City of Heroes. The game ships to stores October 30.

This post on the official City of Heroes message board outlines plans for the Issue 6 update for Cryptic Studios' MMORPG. Look for new zones, an increase in character name length, engine tech changes and a few other things.

MMORPG has posted the third part of their City of Villains Q&A, asking David Cook of Cryptic Studios a few more questions about this standalone expansion pack. NCSoft meanwhile, has let us know that the game is gold and will be in stores October 31st.

The second part of MMORPG.com's City of Villains Q&A is now up at their site. Designer David Cook answers questions about the base decorating, the future of the COH/COV franchise, improving PvP and team combat.

I had the chance to check out Cryptic Studios' upcoming City of Villains, the sister game to last year's City of Heroes. It brings to the game large-scale PvP, tons more character creation goodness, and, best of all, base creation. Check out the preview!

City of Heroes, an MMO casting the player as a superhero out to cleanse Paragon City of evil, is probably best known for its incredibly deep and open-ended character creation system, which offers a startling breadth of body styles, costumes, colors, powers, gameplay styles, and so on. With this level of customizability, it's no surprise that one of the most frequent questions Cryptic has received since that game's launch is "Can I be a villain?" The option to pursue supervillainy was something the studio wanted to include from the beginning, but they also wanted to ensure they had enough content and features for a satisfying experience, and so it was planned for its own game.

MMORPG.com has posted the first part of their City of Villains Q&A, asking designer David Cook about this stand-alone expansion pack to City of Heroes. Includes two new screenshots. GameSpot has the latest game preview.