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.

The MOP Up: Population Zero throws a fashion show

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You know how people advise you to "dress in layers" during inclement weather? And you think, "If I'm wearing pants, I'm doing well here,...

City of Heroes’ rogue servers may abandon character restoration as 14000 gamers register to play

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The City of Heroes rogue server drama continues this weekend as community work advances behind the scenes to bring the game back to life,...

Ship of Heroes says it’s gonna have the ‘best UI in the galaxy’

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While the superhero MMO community is buzzing about City of Heroes, serious work on its legal and modern spiritual successors continues, including Ship of...

Lawful Neutral: Is it safe to play on City of Heroes’ inevitable rogue servers?

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You CAN play on the City of Heroes rogue servers you're about to see springing up. But should you? Our law columnist looks into the legalities of the City of Heroes emulation situation.

Heroes and Villains works on crafting story, villain content, and sewers

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It has been some time since we last checked in with Heroes and Villains, perhaps the most overlooked of all of the City of...

The City of Heroes private server team has released its code [Update: The test server is live]

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(This article has been updated since publication; updates are at the bottom!) Well, you wanted the City of Heroes private server code, and you got...

What’s going on with City of Heroes now: ‘This game is a unicorn’

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Last night, following our podcast on the City of Heroes SCORE private server mess, I hung out on the SEGS Discord thanks to an...
We got it back, after all.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 217: City of Heroes after dark

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Justin, Eliot, and Bree discuss the so-called "secret" City of Heroes SCORE private server slash emulator and why it has this long-running community up in arms.
It's gone.

Into the Super-Verse: The death of the City of Heroes community

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Kingdom Come is a 1996 DC Comics miniseries by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. The central conceit of the story is that it takes...

City of Heroes spiritual successor Ship of Heroes confirms beta by the end of 2019

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One of City of Heroes' multiple spiritual successors, Ship of Heroes, has come out with a statement of its own following yesterday's confirmation that...

Leaderboard: Where do you stand on the ‘secret’ City of Heroes emulator?

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Last night, we covered the emerging scandal in the City of Heroes community and broke the confirmation that yes, there is in fact a...

‘Secret’ City of Heroes emulator operators address SCORE leak drama, rebut personal info database rumor

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If you've been around the post-sunset City of Heroes community long enough, you've probably heard the rumors that there's a secret City of Heroes...

Battle Bards Episode 142: Sunrise, sunset

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In MMORPGs across the world, days are beginning and days are ending — and with them come the catharsis of the sunrise and sunset....

Into the Super-verse: Trying DC Universe Online for the first time

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While this column will no doubt be looking at the superhero MMO releases that are currently in development, it's also here, as we said,...

City of Titans wraps up its landmark previews with some new buildings and a zone map

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The City of Titans folks have been spending some time showing off several landmark locations in their developing superhero MMO, and today marks the...

The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on difficulty modes in MMOs?

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There's a meta discussion happening across games Twitter and elsewhere over the last week or so thanks to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. In a...
Tinkering.

Perfect Ten: MMO celebrations that didn’t rip off real-world holidays

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Does it ever slightly bother you that in these alternate fantasy and science fiction worlds that we explore there just so happens to have...

Choose My Adventure: What Legends of Aria taught me about sandbox MMORPGs

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As much as I enjoy the new guard of MMORPGs, with their quick-hit content and action combat models, I'm also not completely ignorant to...

Ship of Heroes has been busy upgrading its main city – take a peek

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Given that today is what it is, you're probably going to watch this whole Ship of Heroes video the way I did: waiting for...
Vorp?

The Daily Grind: How do you feel about ideas like the cottage rule and class fantasy in MMO design?

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Who among our readers played City of Heroes and remembers the cottage rule? The idea was that developers were reluctant to change the fundamentals...

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