Try your hand and be a VIP in the world's most popular super-powered MMO by grabbing 1 of only 400 City of Heroes Freedom™ keys given away through Alienware Arena.  The game goes free-to-play on 9/27/2011, but you have can have your VIP head starting on 9/13/2011.

This includes playing the latest content, trying out the all-new Paragon Market and unraveling the mysteries of the brand-new co-op zone, First Ward, weeks before the game becomes available to millions of new and returning players for free with the launch of City of Heroes Freedom. Additionally, players in the VIP Headstart Program will be able to partake in a variety of additional benefits and activities, including:

· Costume Contests, judged by the development team, with a variety of prizes

· Participate in the Death From Below and Underground Incarnate Trials with the Community Team

· Fend off massive Live Invasions by the forces of Praetoria and Hamidon across multiple servers

· Exclusive sales bundles and promotions available only during the VIP Headstart

Key codes are valid for new accounts only and must be redeemed by 12/5/2011.

In City of Heroes Freedom™, dive in to new stories and features right away and enjoy more of them in the future. Freedom kicks off with a new free update, Issue 21: Convergence, and increases the pace of quality, high-energy content with regular new Issues, monthly signature story arcs, new weekly in-game store items, and high-level Incarnate Trials. Issue 21 packs in the First Ward co-op zone, gripped in mystical conflict, as well as the Time Manipulation Power Set, the IDF and Defense Costume Sets, and the Underground Incarnate Trial Signature story arcs, free with VIP players' subscriptions, let you fight alongside iconic Heroes and Villains in story arcs that make a difference in the City of Heroes universe.