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.

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City of Heroes: Rebirth rogue server adds cel shading and four new powersets

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City of Heroes is dead; long live City of Heroes! The superhero MMO's post-cancellation career has proven to be quite interesting indeed, with many...

The Stream Team: Taking another look at the Ship of Heroes housing beta

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Last time Ship of Heroes had a beta test of its housing system, MOP's MJ dived in to check it out. Now, it's Chris'...
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Vague Patch Notes: Themepark MMOs need open spaces, too

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Let me start off this particular column with a story about Star Wars: The Old Republic. I've mentioned before how this was a game...

Ship of Heroes opens free registration for this weekend’s housing beta

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Indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes is gearing up for another housing beta this weekend - and you can don some spandex and go...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 381: The Soulframe of the game

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Justin and Bree discuss Warframe's new sibling Soulframe, Guild Wars 2's summer roadmap, LOTRO's producer's departure, SWTOR's creative director's departure, and WoW's Dragonflight alpha, with adventures in City of Heroes, RIFT, and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on truly non-instanced open world design.
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City of Heroes Homecoming is testing a new bard-themed control powerset for i27p4

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Well this is convenient: Just as I was thinking about playing some City of Heroes, the Homecoming rogue server drops a juicy beta patch...

Ship of Heroes will have another player housing test on July 22 with ‘radically improved’ feature updates

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Ship of Heroes continues to be all-in on its player housing. Ahead of the game's next player housing beta test, which is planned for...
Always the level.

Vague Patch Notes: A love letter to the people going above and beyond in the MMO genre

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Let's just lead off with a very simple statement. Hey there, teams out there working on MMOs and doing more than you need to?...
There was so much potential.

Perfect Ten: Abrupt MMO sunsets that shocked us

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Not all MMO sunsets are equal, when you look at them. Sure, all impact players who made those games a home, but some titles...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best looting system in an MMO?

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I've had looting on the brain lately for several reasons. For starters, I spent some time working with my son earlier this year helping...

Massively Overthinking: Which classic MMOs hold up the best visually in 2022?

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As one of our resident fans of old MMOs, I always have to clarify that it's the systems and ideas in old games that...

Into the Super-verse: Is there any hope left for the future of superhero MMOs?

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When we got the news in May that EG7 and Daybreak had canned its in-development Marvel MMORPG, I didn't have much of a reaction....
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: The stupid reasons I have had for sacrificing sleep for MMOs

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One of the most useful pieces of advice that I've gotten regarding making decisions for the future is also the simplest: Imagine yourself taking...

The Daily Grind: What counts as ‘gear’ in MMORPGs?

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As we noted in yesterday's piece on Diablo Immortal, there's been a lot of anger over a Blizzard bluename comment that prior to launch...
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Global Chat: DC Universe Online lacks that ‘wow factor’

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Are you heading into the summer season with the intent of sampling MMOs that you've never touched before? If so, then you'll find Virtual...
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Perfect Ten: Weird ways we heal each other in MMORPGs

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One of the most important implications of the virtual worlds we visit is that they all boast medical care far above and beyond anything...

Ship of Heroes recaps housing beta, plans a second test in July

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With Ship of Heroes' player housing beta in the rear-view mirror, Heroic Games is recapping the experience in its latest dev blog - and...

Choose My Adventure: Sampling a quick serving of player creativity in City of Heroes Rebirth

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Even though City of Heroes Rebirth is a smaller rogue server in comparison to others out there, I was happy to notice that there...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best auction hall system?

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I can't remember where I was reading it, but a commenter on MOP recently said that the lack of auction hall in The Elder...

Former Hearthstone devs reveal Marvel Snap multiplayer CCG with beta signups open now

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No, it's not a bean, a clicking noise, or a government assistance program: Marvel Snap is just a a new multiplayer card-collecting game. Nuverse...

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