Sad news. We apprehend from the guys at f13.net that today NCSoft fired 80% of GM's, 90% of tech support, 75% of QA because of "the declining subscriber numbers for City of Heroes/COV".

Well, it is not really a City of Patches since the updating frequency has slowed down a lot in the last year. Anyway in the last week COH and COV received different small patches addressing server stability and gameplay problems.
Combined patch notes follows:

Gamespy has published a review of the City of Heroes Issue 7 which mainly added content to the villains world. "Issue 7 jacks up villain power levels. Villain players can now reach level 50, and attendant new ability sets and powers have been added to the game to take advantage of them."

Prima Games and NCsoft have chosen to provide the update for the City of Heroes and City of Villains strategy guides digitally free of charge to the community. By working with Jack Emmert, Cryptic Studios and NCsoft, Prima has created a high quality guide update that will be useful to all CoH and CoV gamers, from novice to expert.

City of Villains is proposing a contest, for 8 people groups, with the possibility to win for all eight 1 year os subscription to the game for free. Here is the official announcement.

For both Villains and Heroes (actually for them to fight against each other) there will be an event tomorrow 24th May at 11:00 and its end on the 26th at 08:00. The event will be held on Test Cnter and all players will have free levels up to 40 to partecipate.

Some people who had the chance to partecipate the NCSoft Meet & Greet on May 13th started discussing and posting pictures of the event on the City of Heroes / Villains official forum.

From the Issue 7 Training Room patch notes: "Arch Villains/Heroes and Giant Monsters have been significantly boosted. They should now require more people in order for them to be defeated, especially at higher levels."