Due to the launch of City of Heroes' new Global Server Access feature, which puts all the North American and European servers on the same list, Paragon Studios has kicked off a reactivation week to bring heroes and villains back to the game. All inactive accounts will be reactivated until May 18, so now is the perfect time to log back in and celebrate City of Heroes' seventh anniversary.

A free global handle token will be applied to all accounts affected by a global handle name collision. Trial accounts will not be reactivated, but all trial account global names will be renamed to "Trial####" to prevent trial account global name collisions with active accounts.

Also, Paragon has published the second part of its City of Heroes Retrospective. Members of the dev team have selected their favorite videos and convention memories. They also look back on the game's launch day.