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Official Site: City of Heroes
Studio: Paragon Studios/NCsoft
Launch Date: April 27, 2004
Sunset Date: November 30, 2012
Homecoming License Date: January 4, 2024
Genre: Superhero Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac

Our more specific coverage of the City of Heroes revival is also binned here; you can find the tighter chronology of community rogue server posts right here; regular coverage following the official licensing of the Homecoming servers resumes under the regular City of Heroes tag.

Blessed not be.

Betawatch: Spooky scary Bless Unleashed closed betas

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
Yes, I know, Bless Unleashed isn't scary... except for the specter of the original Bless that hovers in the background. Oooh, there's a closed...

MassivelyOP’s 2020 guide to Halloween across the MMO world

Justin Olivetti - 1
Take a pro-tip from a Halloween gaming expert: If you shout "Bloody Mary" three times at any MMO login screen, you'll unlock a secret...

Ship of Heroes shows off a Halloween-themed peek at its mission content in new video

Chris Neal - 0
Sure, Ship of Heroes hasn't technically released yet, but that doesn't mean the game can't get in on some of the Halloween fun! Enter...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 294: Butterfly in the sky, I can game twice as high

Justin Olivetti - 17
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, New World, WoW, City of Heroes, and LOTRO, with adventures in Torchlight III, WoW, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on working in the games industry.
Full disclosure, maybe this game is bad or not, I don't know.

The MOP Up: Soulworker fulfills your greatest desire

Justin Olivetti - 0
Soulworker Online delighted fans with a huge content update this past week that added something called "Desire Workers" and "SinForce." We'll let the game explain:...

City of Heroes Homecoming’s Issue 27 beta adds new story, travel changes, and enhancement overhaul

Bree Royce - 7
City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue server has been a bit sparse on new-content updates over the last little while; Issue 26, you'll recall, was...

Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever on the innovation of the indie MMO scene

Chris Neal - 2
The process of creating the MMO Ship of Heroes has apparently been enlightening to Heroic Games' CEO Casey McGeever according to an interview between...
This was a television show.

Perfect Ten: A small sampling of literary offerings from MMOs

Eliot Lefebvre - 16
Salutations are in order once again for our most literate and eloquent readers of Massively Overpowered! I bid you welcome to our numerical column...

Ship of Heroes talks about its variety of missions, asks players how many hours of mission content should be at launch

Chris Neal - 2
Your superhero in Ship of Heroes is going to need things to do. Luckily, the developers at Heroic Games are planning on making plenty...

City of Titans shows off character creator possibilities

Justin Olivetti - 11
The character creator tool that City of Titans released a year ago is getting better and better with every passing month. Missing Worlds Media...

The Game Archaeologist: Deadlands Legends, the western MMO that never saw the light of day

Justin Olivetti - 9
The saying goes that there is nothing new under the sun. So while you probably can't write an original setting that's never been seen...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO class makes you feel overpowered?

Justin Olivetti - 23
Obviously, we here at MOP love anything overpowered -- including frappes, meme wars, and MMORPG classes. Sometimes it doesn't even take numerically superior stats...
MIND

City of Heroes’ SEGS rebuild project releases a pre-alpha version of its engine

Chris Neal - 8
The Super Entity Game Server (SEGS) project, which readers will recall is an attempt to rewrite the code for City of Heroes to connect...

Cryptic’s Stephen D’Angelo on City of Heroes’ lessons, Star Trek Online’s booming revenues

Bree Royce - 32
It's been a wild year for PWE's Cryptic Studios, as it's been busy maintaining its core MMORPGs but also working on Magic Legends, which...

City of Heroes Homecoming rogue servers kick off Halloween with today’s patch

Chris Neal - 4
If you miss the spooky times in City of Heroes, whether you were there for some of the first ToT teams or experienced Dr....
Gazelle upon my works, ye mighty

Make My MMO: Wagadu and Ilysia breeze past Kickstarter goals

Bree Royce - 4
It's been a positively packed couple of weeks for crowdfunded MMOs new and old. A few of the highlights: Afrofantasy MMO The Wagadu Chronicles...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 290: African expedition

Justin Olivetti - 7
Justin and Bree discuss Ultima Online New Legacy, Phantasy Star Online 2's New Genesis, LOTRO's new class, WoW and BlizzConline, The Wagadu Chronicles, and Secret World Legends, with adventures in WoW, Guild Wars, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on representation in MMOs and favorite jumping puzzles.
LOUD NOISES

City of Heroes: Homecoming previews Page 6 content, preps for Halloween, and shares the cost of operations

Chris Neal - 2
We've got a whole lot of news pouring out of the Homecoming rogue servers for City of Heroes, so let's dive right in. First...

City of Heroes players have released a security-centric, server-inclusive launcher called Sunrise

Bree Royce - 2
Back in 2019, when the City of Heroes community was still squabbling over who got to be in charge of what once a copy...

City of Heroes rebuild project SEGS expects to have an alpha by the end of the year

Bree Royce - 6
Back in the long long ago, before last year's City of Heroes revival, there was a group trying to bring back the game not...
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