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Why be a superhero if you can't look the part? That's half the fun, although nobody really explains in movies and comic books where...

Justin and Bree discuss the influence of City of Heroes (Paragon Chat, SEGS, Valiance Online, Ship of Heroes, and City of Titans), plus WoW, No Man's Sky, SWGemu, Camelot Unchained, STO, CCP's new MMO, and Rend, with a mailbag entry on comments negativity.

Although City of Heroes is not coming back (I think we all need to come to terms with that), many successors are waiting in...

It has been five years since comic book and City of Heroes fans threw $678,000 at Missing Worlds Media in the hopes of seeing...

Filling out that superhero spandex isn't just a job for the guys, although so far in Valiance Online, it's certainly seemed that way. It...

Whenever we write about the current crop of City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPGs, some of our commenters nearly always ponder whether it would...

Hunting down bugs in a video game is not the same as hunting down enemies. That's true even if the bug is a severe...

Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don't often get from our other articles - at least when they aren't being brigaded...

Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...

It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...

So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...

One of City of Heroes' best features is going to be making a reappearance in its spiritual successor. Valiance Online confirmed to Massively OP...

A few years ago, we counted basically three City of Heroes successor games, all made by indie studios. In 2017, we still have three...

SMITE and Paladins studio Hi-Rez is thanking players today for their efforts in raising funds for the victims of the 2017 hurricane season. "​Earlier this...

When real-life tragedy occurs, it's perfectly OK to give priority to assistance over interest in video games. But what if you could do both? Valiance...

PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a...

Sometimes MMORPG players might get the feeling that game companies will let just about anything slide in order to keep the most revenue streaming...

A few weeks back, we reported on the City of Heroes-themed panel coming to PAX West in Seattle at the beginning of September. With the...

Now that Valiance Online is running its investor alpha test, more eyes are turning to this superhero MMORPG and seeing it more as an...

If you've been eagerly awaiting the day when Valiance Online would open for testers, the day has come. The investor alpha is starting today...