Cryptic's massively multiplayer Internet game, City of Heroes, debuted in late April and has 180, 000 users, adding 6, 000 more newcomers every week.

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When City of Heroes went live last April, instead of the freebie customers walking away, they and thousands of others signed up at a furious pace.

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Those nights of jubilation spent wasting time on City of Heroes, World of Warcraft, and Ultima Online just aren't what they used to be, but in just three days, the wait for the world's next incredible MMO will be over.

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Like Sony, which has spent more than four years building EverQuest II, set for a November debut, Cryptic is designing another game, called City of Villains, while the heroes are hot.

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The song includes several references to the city of Berlin, where Bowie and Visconti produced a critically-acclaimed trilogy of albums - Low, Heroes and Lodger - in the 1970s.

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