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.

City of Titans shows off a ‘critical first step’ of its superheroic combat

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Crowdfunded superhero MMO City of Titans has talked about a whole lot this year -- its city, its travel powers, and even its music....
Play to wlin.

Everything we learned about PWE’s and Cryptic’s MMOs thanks to the Embracer buyout

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Earlier this week, we covered the news that Perfect World's North American branch, and by extension its publishing branch and Cryptic Studios, had been...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best player community as of 2021?

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I'm a partisan on this one: I have never been in an MMORPG with a better community than Lord of the Rings Online's. A couple...

City of Heroes Rebirth rogue server kicks off the Fright Before Christmas event, adds ice power changes and new customizations

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While the Rebirth rogue servers for City of Heroes might not garner all of the attention, they're still no less busy in terms of...

End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2022

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If 2021 had a problem, it was that we got simply too many MMO releases between new launches, early access, and expansions. This breathtaking...

One Shots: The weather never cooperates with photography

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Do you ever experience that frustrating feeling of knowing that your game is all sorts of beautiful -- yet it never cooperates when you...

Massively OP’s 2021 Awards: Best MMO Rogue Server

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Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best MMO Rogue Server of 2021, which is actually one of our...

DC Universe Online’s Episode 42 Legion of Doom and winter events have arrived

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DC Universe Online players, your doom is upon you - Legion of Doom, that is, as Episode 42 is live and free for everyone....
Always the level.

City of Heroes Homecoming kicks off its holiday event and gives player characters new donuts to eat

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Sometimes, you just have a craving for some junk food. Chips, pizza, tacos, donuts; it happens to the best of us. As of last...
Moisturized.

City of Heroes Homecoming adds new Task Force, new stone powers, and new IOs with Issue 27 Page 3

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The time has come for the players of the City of Heroes Homecoming rogue server to rock out - quite literally - as the...

One Shots: After darkness, light

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Lord of the Rings Online is a game of great contrasts -- between evil and good, between darkness and light, and between ugliness and...

Massively Overthinking: The MMORPG class archetypes we never play

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A few weeks ago, we did a fun Massively Overthinking on our most on-brand MMORPG classes and archetypes, the character concepts and playstyles we...

Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?

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This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...

Perfect Ten: How MMOs explain away our infinite resurrections

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Why? Why do we die in MMOs and keep coming back to life? Are we in a type of hell defined by endless combat...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 346: Endwalker, ArcheAge, Lost Ark, and New World

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Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Endwalker delay, WoW's financials and player council, ArcheAge's new publisher, Gamigo's new MMORPG, Lost Ark's beta, New World's state, DDO update 51, Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands, Harry Potter Wizard Unite's sunset, and Crowfall's freemium update, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallen Earth, City of Heroes, and Star Wars Galaxies, plus a mailbag topic on worry about the future of the genre.

The Stream Team: Taking a peek at the new Seismic Blast powerset in City of Heroes Homecoming’s beta

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Isn't it wild that we're talking about a beta test for City of Heroes content in 2021? Here we are doing just that as...
Moisturized.

City of Heroes Homecoming’s Issue 27: Second Chances, Page 3 hits the test server

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On Wednesday, we noted in our big roundup of MMORPG studios running Extra Life 2021 charity streams this weekend that City of Heroes rogue...
Please listen.

Massively Overthinking: What are your most on-brand MMORPG class archetypes?

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A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...
Ominous!

How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes

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If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...

City of Titans’ latest internal interview is full of costume designs, a blimp, and spooky ambient music

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I'm going to be honest, this latest internal interview piece from City of Titans is kind of all over the place. That's probably appropriate,...

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