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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.

Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 17
During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
VORP

Into the Super-Verse: What City of Heroes needs now is not more endgame content

Eliot Lefebvre - 48
One of the key discussion points about the City of Heroes revival revolves around what the perception of the game is going to be....
I did a thing!

City of Heroes Homecoming teases I27p7’s new powersets (plural) and story arcs

Bree Royce - 21
City of Heroes' Homecoming team, having been under official license by NCsoft for the last two weeks, issued an address to players on its...

Perfect Ten: The weirdest weapons from MMOs of yore

Justin Olivetti - 9
Swords. Staffs. Maces. Spears. Wands. Bows. Crossbows. Double-crossbows. Hammers. Wolverine claws. Daggers. Axes. Deadly? Yes. Fashionable? Not so much. A two-handed sword is so...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 453: Massively minds of the roundtable

Justin Olivetti - 2
Ready for yet another staff roundtable, this time with Justin, Bree, Sam, and Chris? You best be, as these fine minds discuss City of...
i'm lost help me

City of Heroes Homecoming saw 4431 peak concurrent players this past weekend

Bree Royce - 4
As more and more players learn that NCsoft has granted a formal license to player-led Homecoming to run City of Heroes servers, the playerbase...

The Daily Grind: Do you track your MMO gaming habits from year to year?

Bree Royce - 11
Steam's customized "year in review" report captured everyone's attention for a hot minute back in December. All over social media and in my favorite Discords,...

Nightingale’s clockwork Knights won’t take any prisoners

Justin Olivetti - 3
The many realms that Nightingale adventurers will visit may be beautiful, but they'll also be stocked with dangers a-plenty. One of these is the...

City of Heroes fans have City of Heroes Homecoming working on a Steam Deck

Chris Neal - 9
It's already astonishing enough that City of Heroes: Homecoming is an officially licensed emulator, but now it's become a portable MMORPG thanks to the...
Sparky!

Into the Super-Verse: Rediscoveries I made diving headlong into City of Heroes Homecoming

Eliot Lefebvre - 44
Last week, I wrote about how my game came back. It was a big deal to me to know that City of Heroes was...
Forever and ever.

End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2024

Eliot Lefebvre - 55
As I say every single year and several people ignore every single year: This is not a column about the games that are most...

Unsurprisingly, City of Heroes Homecoming saw a massive playerbase spike this past weekend

Bree Royce - 18
On Friday, we asked our readers whether they planned to play City of Heroes Homecoming, newly crowned with a formal license by NCsoft. We...

The Stream Team: Team play on City of Heroes’ newly licensed Homecoming servers

Chris Neal - 6
It's part podcast, part livestream, and all City of Heroes! Following the surprise announcement of the Homecoming rogue server landing an official license from...
Shields

Into the Super-Verse: Reflecting on City of Heroes, back officially at long last

Eliot Lefebvre - 16
As a dedicated fan of superheroes, I have to be honest that yesterday's news feels downright poetic. City of Heroes died in November of...

City of Heroes Homecoming talks funding, the City Council, and the impending content drop

Bree Royce - 12
Following yesterday's surprise announcement that NCsoft has granted City of Heroes rogue server group Homecoming a license to operate the game - something it's...
Moisturized.

The Daily Grind: Now that NCsoft has licensed City of Heroes servers, will you go back to play?

Bree Royce - 41
When the City of Heroes rogue servers first went public back in 2019, a lot of MMO players were very vocal about not wanting...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2024

Bree Royce - 10
For our first Massively Overthinking of the year, we're drawing a hard line between what we think will happen, what we mean to make...

NCsoft has officially granted a City of Heroes server license to the Homecoming crew

Bree Royce - 68
City of Heroes fans are in for a treat today - or a shocking surprise they were convinced was never coming, depending on their...

End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond

Justin Olivetti - 25
We've said it before, but this time we really mean it: The future of MMORPGs looks amazing. Contrary to years when we've seen only...

The 2023 One Shots Awards: The best MMO screenshots of the year

Justin Olivetti - 15
It doesn't feel quite right to end the year without making sure that everything's in order -- and part of that definitely includes returning...
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