NCSoft has announced a contest for City of Heroes, allowing fans to create and submit their very own NPC (non-playable character).The winning selections will be implemented in the company's Cryptic Studios-developed PC MMOG. Titled The Surviving Eight Contest, the campaign evolves around players having to create one of the eight heroes from Paragon City, who survived the Rikti War and now act as trainers for future generations of heroes. Participants will have three weeks to come up with a character design and submit it to NCSoft.

City of Heroes, which was shown at last month's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, will be available later this year.