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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.

The Daily Grind: Do you ever play MMOs in synergistic pairs?

Bree Royce - 12
I've noticed a pattern in my MMO play the last year or so. Ever since jumping into Star Wars Galaxies Legends last year, I've...

Into the Super-verse: 13 text-based superhero MMOs you can play today

Justin Olivetti - 6
As part of this column covering superhero MMORPGs, we have looked at the usual suspects: MMOs of the past (Champions Online, City of Heroes,...
Statue.

City of Heroes: Homecoming kicks off the winter season in its latest patch

Chris Neal - 2
Now that the US has had its Thanksgiving, it's time to look forward to all of the fun in-game wintertime events the MMO gaming...
We handled this.

Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the MMO genre

Bree Royce - 2
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.
Full of sound and fury. Sadly.

Global Chat: Remembering the MMO fallen

Justin Olivetti - 8
A discussion chain has been rippling across the MMO blogosphere as of late, with writers reminiscing about online games that have lived and died...

One Shots: If it doesn’t have a tail, it’s not a monkey

Justin Olivetti - 15
No lie, when I had pulled up this screenshot from reader Vincent, I happened to be listening to "Big Ape City" from Donkey Kong...

The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMO features?

Justin Olivetti - 27
I love me a good feature in an MMO. If it's well-done, useful, engaging, and implemented the right way, a feature can greatly enhance...

Lawful Neutral: When Marvel sued NCsoft over City of Heroes

Andy McAdams - 10
One of the biggest MMORPG genre stories over the last year has been the ongoing saga/drama around the bizarre but very much welcomed rebirth...

Ship of Heroes and City of Titans share character creation test results

Justin Olivetti - 1
As you may have known, over the past month both City of Titans and Ship of Heroes have released their respective character creators to...

Into the Super-verse: Ship of Heroes’ character creator is bare-bones yet still engaging

Justin Olivetti - 5
Every once in a while, Hollywood releases a pair of movies from different studios at the same time that cover, more or less, the...

Ship of Heroes’ final character creator beta event is this morning – save your costumes!

Bree Royce - 0
We hope you got your fill of the Ship of Heroes' character creator beta this week because it's coming to a close today, following...

The Stream Team: Testing Ship of Heroes’ character creation closed beta with Heroic Games

MJ Guthrie - 1
What's going on in Ship of Heroes lately? This past week has been a character creator closed beta test with a number of events,...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 245: BlizzContrite

Justin Olivetti - 11
Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon 2019, Blizzard's apology, WoW Shadowlands, Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, Ship of Heroes, Camelot Unchained, and Final Fantasy XIV, with a mailbag question on MMO housing preferences.

Ship of Heroes’ character creator beta is running a scavenger hunt event tonight

Bree Royce - 1
Ship of Heroes is making the most of its one-week character creator alpha, with multiple events and patches to keep everything humming. "We actually...

Ship of Heroes tweaks character creation tool beta, plans costume contest today

Chris Neal - 3
As the character creation tool beta for Ship of Heroes rolls on, the folks at Heroic Games are hard at work making adjustments to...
Let's go.

The Daily Grind: What future games give you hope for MMOs?

Justin Olivetti - 61
There is no doubt we have definitely moved into a different era of MMORPG development, with super-huge AAA-budget titles and releases being a thing...

Ship of Heroes’ character creation tool beta has officially begun

Bree Royce - 4
The Ship of Heroes character creator tool beta has officially begun as of noon today, so superhero fans, now you have two chara builders...

Into the Super-Verse: Putting City of Titans’ character builder through its paces

Justin Olivetti - 8
Mark this date in your history books because the battle of superhero MMO character builders is on! Both Ship of Heroes and City of...

Ship of Heroes says its character creator is a ‘huge step up from games like City of Heroes and SWTOR’

Bree Royce - 34
We're just about to see the launch of a character creator tool for our second superhero MMO of the month, as Ship of Heroes'...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 244: An Onslaught of news

Justin Olivetti - 13
Justin and Bree discuss Onslaught aka SWTOR's first expansion in three (!) years, Fallout 76's latest kerfuffle, the return of Kritika Online, ArcheAge's ArchePass confusion and rework, DDO's mounts, BlizzCon, and Halloween, with a mailbag topic on MMO toxicity.
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