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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 OP Podcast Episode 300: It’s beginning to feel a lot like Daybreak

Justin Olivetti - 12
Justin and Bree discuss the Daybreak sale, World of Warcraft, SWTOR, City of Heroes, Skyforge, and min-maxing in MMOs in this live-recorded 300th podcast.
Venting prevents ex-plo-si-on.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best graphical appeal in 2020?

Bree Royce - 31
OK, graphics snobs, this unofficial annual award is for you. Now, I will play an old, clunky, beloved sandbox for a really long time. And...

Massively Uplifting: Giving while giving thanks as ARK, Ashes of Creation, Rainbow Six Siege, and more support charity

MJ Guthrie - 2
Around these parts, November highlights giving thanks (though no country has a monopoly on the practice!), and this past month not only gave us...

LOTRO Legendarium: What Daybreak’s sale revealed about LOTRO

Justin Olivetti - 33
Just when I thought we were getting to a quieter point in the year where I could engage in a leisurely wrap-up of the...
When the light

City of Heroes: Homecoming starts its holiday event and improves long-range transport

Eliot Lefebvre - 2
Oh, there's no place like City of Heroes: Homecoming for the holidays, for no matter how far you should roam... you can always get back...

Ship of Heroes’ latest video talks mission creation and likely 2021 launch

Bree Royce - 0
How do they make the sausage when the sausage is an MMORPG? Generally, gamers are quickly made to regret that question, but Heroic Games...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen offers a free-fly while Elite Dangerous is just free

Bree Royce - 0
It's been a weird couple of weeks for MMO crowdfunding: Book of Travels teased a big update coming next week, Valiance Online and Titan Reach...

Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the devs of the MMO genre

Bree Royce - 18
Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.
Not paying attention is not a mark of honor.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO blessings to be thankful for in 2020

Justin Olivetti - 5
There is no doubt that this has been a much more difficult year than most in many respects, almost to the point where it's...
How dare I have to play to get things!

Massively OP Podcast Episode 298: The one with the chocobo

Justin Olivetti - 8
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Shadowlands, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2 Truce, Final Fantasy XIV, and Wizard 101, with adventures in New World and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on WoW marketing and our defining MMORPGs.

Ship of Heroes outlines its mission creation process, promises about 40 hours of content for an alt

Chris Neal - 0
While the fact that Ship of Heroes is working on missions isn't anything exactly new, there is a dev blog posted today that takes...

City of Heroes Homecoming Issue 27 with its major enhancement overhaul is live today

Bree Royce - 4
So it seems I picked the right week to head back into City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers, as the patch that's been in...
Sometimes it's about tweaking the right people.

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite ‘oh shit’ button in an MMO?

Bree Royce - 28
Last summer, I put up a Daily Grind on how people feel about "oh shit" buttons in MMOs - you know, those long-cooldown panic...

Ship of Heroes previews new superhero costume options entering the beta

Chris Neal - 4
While the devs of Ship of Heroes are certainly busying themselves with putting mission content together, it doesn't mean that they're not keeping an...

Superhero MMO Valiance Online apologizes for radio silence, discusses status of beta server

Bree Royce - 0
Crowdfunded superhero MMORPG Valiance Online saw a flurry of activity earlier this year when it opened up a beta in conjunction with the online...

Massively Overthinking: No-thank-you bites in MMO gaming

Bree Royce - 25
One of the things I always try to have my kids do is take a no-thank-you bite of new foods. They have to at...
Nothing to add.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is seemingly cracking down on orgs and ‘politics’ in-game

Bree Royce - 6
Back in October, we reported on a move by Joe Biden's presidential campaign to create an island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which was...
So many colors in the rainbow.

Perfect Ten: The 10 qualities of MMO sandboxes

Eliot Lefebvre - 37
What is a sandbox MMO? At first glance, it seems like a pretty easy question to answer, especially if you're going by Kickstarter projects,...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite crowd control class in MMORPGs?

Bree Royce - 35
I know that crowd controllers as a standalone class have long since fallen out of fashion - most MMORPG players don't even remember when...

Make My MMO: Wagadu funds, Project Gorgon eyes mid-2022 launch

Bree Royce - 2
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we got a blast of good news courtesy of Project Gorgon player Drew, who got a tentative release window...
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