city of heroes

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.

The Massively Overpowered 2019 winter holiday MMO roundup

Eliot Lefebvre - December 19, 2019 3

The holidays are here! Well, most of them are. Some of them might not be. And as is tradition here at Massively Overpowered, we...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 251: New World, Magic Legends, and Corepunk

Justin Olivetti - December 17, 2019 3

Bree and Justin discuss PlanetSide Arena, New World, Magic Legends, Elder Scrolls Online, Corepunk, Black Desert Mobile, EVE Echoes, WoW, FFXIV, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and SWGL.

City of Titans is adding fixes to the character creator and a seasonal mission

Chris Neal - December 16, 2019 0

Just because City of Titans is still in development doesn't mean it can't get in on the holiday season. The in-progress superhero MMO is...

Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2019 predictions

Bree Royce - December 13, 2019 8

The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this...

Massively OP’s 2019 Awards: Biggest MMO Surprise

Bree Royce - December 13, 2019 22

Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2019 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Surprise, which was awarded to the buyouts of Trion Worlds and CCP...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2019

Bree Royce - December 12, 2019 9

Earlier this week, we granted our formal award for the biggest MMO story of the year. But biggest doesn't necessarily mean best or most...

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2019

Justin Olivetti - December 4, 2019 14

After 10 years of covering MMORPG news, I can assure you that I am still fired up to keep doing this. One of the...

The Daily Grind: Do you ever play MMOs in synergistic pairs?

Bree Royce - December 3, 2019 12

I've noticed a pattern in my MMO play the last year or so. Ever since jumping into Star Wars Galaxies Legends last year, I've...

Into the Super-verse: 13 text-based superhero MMOs you can play today

Justin Olivetti - November 30, 2019 6

As part of this column covering superhero MMORPGs, we have looked at the usual suspects: MMOs of the past (Champions Online, City of Heroes,...

City of Heroes: Homecoming kicks off the winter season in its latest patch

Chris Neal - November 29, 2019 2

Now that the US has had its Thanksgiving, it's time to look forward to all of the fun in-game wintertime events the MMO gaming...

Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the MMO genre

Bree Royce - November 28, 2019 2

Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.