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.

Choose My Adventure: Figuring out the crazy train of Torchlight Frontiers’ Railmaster

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So it turns out that the CMA readership would really like to see me run around with a murder train following me. This week's...

Ship of Heroes will let players save and share a costume file

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"Okay, so which blue is it again?" "The third one down." "Down from the top?" "Yes, Frank, that's what down means." "Okay, is this good?" "...dammit, Frank, no, you...

Into the Super-verse: Why Ship of Heroes’ character customization tool is so important

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What kind of hero are you going to be today? In most MMOs, that question and its possible answers are watered down and homogenized, but...

Ship of Heroes teases character creator tool beta with new preview video

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It's happening, folks: Ship of Heroes is set to announce the date for its character creator tool this week, which means it's cranking up...
MIND

City of Heroes: Homecoming patches in the third part of Issue 26 with new stories and powers

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At long last, City of Heroes players who have been aching for new story content have an option for exactly that with the release of...

City of Titans defines alpha and beta, teases a patcher, and shows off unisex outfits

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There's been a little bit of a news burst coming out of the City of Titans camp. The devs have taken a moment to...

Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation Apocalypse is review-bombed, again, as Fig throws shade on Kickstarter

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If Ashes of Creation Apocalypse thought it could avoid a review-bomb with a new Steam portal as Apocalypse hit early access this week, it...

City of Heroes’ Homecoming announces Issue 26 Page 3, Halloween content, and collab with other rogue servers

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City of Heroes' Homecoming servers, rogue or not, are pushing forward into legitimacy. As we've been covering, the servers, which have been publicly outed...
We got it back, after all.

City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers are now blocking copyright-infringing characters

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Players on the City of Heroes Homecoming servers enjoyed a privilege they were never afforded during the game's pre-shutdown run time: While NCsoft was draconian...

Ship of Heroes previews its Military Weapons powerset ahead of the CCT beta

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Still waiting for Ship of Heroes character creation tool beta? We are too! That's still coming, according to the game's latest post, and the...

Make My MMO: Survival sandbox Day of Dragons soars past $325,000 Kickstarter funding

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, MOP reader Winterskorn alerted us to the Kickstarter for Day of Dragons. It's not a pure MMO, but it's...

The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb

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By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...

City of Heroes Homecoming is now banning accounts for… real-money trading

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If you thought you could get away with a bit of gold-selling or gold-buying on the side while participating in City of Heroes' rogue...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 238: Ten years of free-to-play

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Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Bless, Book of Travels, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, WoW Classic & Retail, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag topics on static endgames and genre labels.
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The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of dodge and joust mechanics in MMOs?

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Deep in the bowels of a Reddit thread about WildStar vs. WoW Classic a while back, several people mentioned WildStar's combat as being one...

City of Titans offers a look at the landmarks of Alexandria from inside the game’s world

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While we've gotten a look at landmark locations a couple of times in City of Titans before, the latest preview post would be the...
Oh, look over there! It's MELT DISNEYWORLD.

DC Universe Online is going live with its most Metal update today

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Yes, today is the day when DC Universe Online truly goes metal. Not because the update brings with it new headbanging mechanics and a surfeit...

TonyV leaves City of Heroes NCsoft negotiations, resigns from Titan Network

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Over the course of the last few months, following the revelation of working City of Heroes server code out in the wild and the...
Becky.

City of Heroes: Homecoming plays with Rage crashes, PvP stuns, and Tanker powers on the test server

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The PTS for the City of Heroes Homecoming servers is looking to tweak the knobs of the rogue MMO a bit. Yesterday's patch offered...
Oh, please be all right.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 237: Fallen Earth’s final glorious sunset

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Justin and Bree tackle Fallen Earth's sunset, WoW Classic, going back to Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Astellia Online's monetization, CCP's new MMO, City of Heroes, and a mailbag question on swatting.

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