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.

One Shots: The gloaming hour

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Are you a morning person or do you come alive in the evening? Depending on the day/night cycle of an MMORPG, you may in...

The Daily Grind: What are the most nostalgic MMO music tracks for you?

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As one of the hosts of Battle Bards and the writer of this site's Jukebox Heroes column, I obviously hold great affection for MMORPG...
Well, we've got an idea.

Into the Super-verse: A quick-and-dirty guide to picking the right City of Heroes archetype – Blueside edition

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What's amazing about the unexpected City of Heroes revival (and does that ever feel good to type) isn't just that old players are eager to go...

The Stream Team: MassivelyOP takes on City of Heroes!

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You've heard many a MOPster talking about City of Heroes -- just not Massively OP's MJ.  Well now you can watch a bunch of...

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen offers a closer look at the Enchanter class, posts June newsletter

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When Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen goes live, I suspect the Enchanter class is the one I would gravitate toward. Its primary functions are...
SHOUT!

The Daily Grind: What are you going to roll in WoW Classic?

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I swear that we are all of us caught in a time loop right now. It's not 2019, it's really just 2004, when City...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 225: The slash and burn of Amazon Game Studios

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Justin and Bree discuss E3, Black Desert, Warframe, Last Oasis, Amazon, New World, Ship of Heroes, SWG Legends, LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, with mailbag questions on monetizing character costuming and beating bad launch dead horses.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best systems for helping newbies?

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A while back I saw a deeply underrated post on the MMORPG subreddit about mentoring systems. I don't mean the kind of systems like...

One Shots: Deep diving

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Can't say that I approve of the flagrant disregard for deep diving safety protocols that are on display in our spotlight picture from Final...

The Daily Grind: What is your favorite MMO enemy faction and why?

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One of the more bits of brilliant design in City of Heroes is that there is such a diverse and distinct array of enemy...

City of Titans drapes buildings with banners and players with capes

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In a superhero MMO, what's more important to dress: characters or buildings? The answer is, obviously, both, which is why City of Titans' art...

Ship of Heroes says it plans ‘to top the City of Heroes character creator’

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This week, Heroic Games' Casey McGeever hit the Ship of Heroes forums to discuss some of the content already in the game - and...

The Daily Grind: Do you have a technique for coming up with MMO character names?

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My husband doesn't really take MMO names too seriously. The pigtailed City of Heroes toon floating in the image up above? Yeah, her name...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 224: Black Desert, Bless Online, and boats

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Carlo, Bree, and Justin discuss Black Desert, Bless, Phantasy Star Online 2, E3, LOTRO, SWTOR, GW2, POE, City of Heroes, and boats.

City of Titans previews its evolving UI, Valiance Online teases building updates

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Got superhero MMOs on the brain? Me too for some strange reason lately. Welp, feast your eyes on two updates from a pair of...

One Shots: Prime real estate

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The rich elite enjoy their luxurious mansions located on scenic shores, remote islands, or exclusive metropolis neighborhoods. But the rich elite with connections to...

One of City of Heroes’ rogue servers, Reborn/Pleiades, was just shut down by its operator

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Bad news for a sliver of the the City of Heroes rogue server community tonight: The Reddit-backed Reborn server known as Pleiades has apparently...
I'm not him! I don't even look like him!

Into the Super-verse: Why didn’t Champions Online do better?

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A while back I was flipping through the backlog of my personal gaming blog, looking at the history of my gaming trends, particularly in...
Well, I feel daunted.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 223: Starbase Adrift

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Justin and Bree discuss Worlds Adrift's sunset, ESO Elsweyr's launch, Starbase, FFXIV Shadowbringers, and City of Heroes, with mail on old episodes and WoW Classic blowback.

The Daily Grind: How likely are you to abandon and reroll your MMORPG characters?

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With City of Heroes back in my MMO rotation thanks to the multiple rogue servers floating around right now, I've been back in full...

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