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Two weeks in, City of Heroes has four rogue servers and heartwarmingly massive queues
Two weeks after we first broke the story confirming the City of Heroes secret private server leak, the game has turned 15 years old...
Nearly 30K people have rolled City of Heroes rogue server accounts as the game turns 15 years old
The City of Heroes community's live rogue server, Torchbearer, came online yesterday thanks to player developers and continues today with a new record: over...
Aaaaand now there’s a new temporary City of Heroes rogue server up
This story has been updated several times over the last few days; updates are at the end. The original story follows.
Can we just agree...
The Titan Network is negotiating to open a legal community-run City of Heroes server
Following the abrupt shut-down of the first City of Heroes rogue server yesterday, the game's community has been in turmoil as leaders urged patience....
City of Heroes’ first new rogue server shut down over a fake legal threat, but admins say it’s coming back
 It appears that the City of Heroes rogue server that was up in testing all weekend has already run into trouble with what the...
Lawful Neutral: Is it safe to play on City of Heroes’ inevitable rogue servers?
You CAN play on the City of Heroes rogue servers you're about to see springing up. But should you? Our law columnist looks into the legalities of the City of Heroes emulation situation.
The City of Heroes private server team has released its code [Update: The test server is live]
(This article has been updated since publication; updates are at the bottom!)
Well, you wanted the City of Heroes private server code, and you got...
‘Secret’ City of Heroes emulator operators address SCORE leak drama, rebut personal info database rumor
If you've been around the post-sunset City of Heroes community long enough, you've probably heard the rumors that there's a secret City of Heroes...
SWTOR’s Charles Boyd on new gearing and character progression in Onslaught
Hopefully, you've seen our other coverage of the Star Wars: The Old Republic community cantina that took place this past weekend. If not, you...
Star Wars: The Old Republic announces Onslaught expansion arriving in September
It's time to get back to the faction war in Star Wars: The Old Republic this September.
As announced at this weekend's SWTOR Chicago Celebration...
Albion Online’s free-to-play relaunch is going well in spite of lag, queues, and duping
We don't get a lot of buy-to-play or subscription-based MMOs going free-to-play anymore, chiefly because most of the ones likely to make the jump...
Blizzard bribes female employees to track their sex, pregnancy, and moods
Big Brother was so 1984. Now in 2019, it's all about Big Blizzard.
Read this report over at Games Industry based on a new WAPO...
EVE Online has banned a CSM member (and real-world politician) over an NDA breach and insider trading
Who wants some EVE Online political drama to cap off the afternoon? CCP Games announced today that it has removed a member of the...
Kakao is permanently killing off Black Desert’s battle royale mode, Shadow Arena, this week
Dang, this was not the outcome we were expecting here: Kakao has announced it is outright sunsetting Black Desert's Shadow Arena mode. On Wednesday,...
NantG says it’s handing Z1 Battle Royale back to Daybreak – it’s not sunsetting, but there were layoffs
Yesterday, we broke the news that Z1 Battle Royale looked to be in serious trouble based on developers stating publicly that they'd been laid...
The final episode of Guild Wars 2’s fourth season of living story is called War Eternal
If you can tear your eyeballs away from Super Adventure Box for a minute, ArenaNet has some Guild Wars 2 living world content updates...
BioWare internal memo vows to address studio disarray, says Kotaku’s Anthem exposé was ‘traumatizing’
On Tuesday this week, Kotaku published a devastating exposé of BioWare, interviewing 19 people in the know to reveal a state of "crisis" in...
Guild Wars 2 staff are reorganizing into ‘fully staffed content teams’ as ArenaNet outlines future content
Guild Wars 2 has been in a bit of limbo this winter. Following mass layoffs at ArenaNet, the cancellation of two additional games, and...
PAX East 2019: Bless Unleashed really isn’t Bless Online (to its credit)
The folks behind Bless Unleashed are not just porting over Bless Online to the Xbox One. This is a refrain that Bandai Namco and Neowiz have...
April Fools’ Day around the MMOverse, 2019 edition
Yes, it's back, the day when you can believe absolutely nothing and MMO studios are cranking out faux patches that you kinda wish were...