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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.

How near, how far.

After a month of quiet work, Valiance Online updates fans on internal progress

Eliot Lefebvre - 17
A while back, Valiance Online made a thread on its official forum to keep fans up to date on the internal progress for the game;...

The Daily Grind: So how worried are you about Guild Wars 2?

Bree Royce - 61
Last night's devastating news that NCsoft was forcing Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet to make major layoffs definitely shook me, even more than the...

Massively Overthinking: Contending with the MMO genre’s ‘wowfugee’ crisis

Bree Royce - 50
Last week on the MOP Podcast, we read a letter from a listener named Megan who pointed us to a blog post on the The...

Indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes releases fresh batch of custom city screenshots

Bree Royce - 7
I'd be willing to bet that most fans of City of Heroes would point to things like flight and super jump - especially super...

The MOP Up: TERA and PUBG combine unholy forces

Justin Olivetti - 16
TERA sent out a press release this week confirming the end of the world: "Finally, the dream collaboration between TERA and PUBG is real!...
Rebuild. Rise.

City of Titans demos the current state of its elaborate character creation

Bree Royce - 30
Yesterday's City of Titans update was... pretty horrifying. Fortunately, today's update is probably more like what backers had in mind, as Missing Worlds Media...

Massively Overthinking: Showing up vs. showing off in MMOs

Bree Royce - 18
Last week's Daily Grind about ambient sociability got a lot of MMO gamers talking about that desire to have people around, even if they...
I'm not back on any BS, I never left it.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2019

Eliot Lefebvre - 48
It's still early enough in 2019 to do articles about the upcoming year, right? Well, I'm doing this one anyway, so if it's too...
We all live a yellow... er, spaceship.

Ship of Heroes updates players on leveling up, powersets to show off, and staffing

Eliot Lefebvre - 4
Leveling up feels easy enough in games; you get enough experience, there's a flash of light, your level goes up by one. But Ship...

One Shots: Diet lightsabers

Justin Olivetti - 36
I think it's about high time we got a Star Wars game in which lightsabers functioned properly as instruments that could melt or slice...
Cool times.

Paragon Chat hosts a winter formal in City of Heroes on February 9

Eliot Lefebvre - 4
Hang out with your fellow heroes, dress up, and enjoy a celebration of winter in Paragon Chat this Saturday with the winter formal! Yes, the City...
GO LEFT YOU IDIOT

The Daily Grind: Are you looking forward or backward with your MMO picks?

Justin Olivetti - 74
We do find ourselves in a very strange time to be MMO players. While there are plenty of titles in development and early access,...

The Daily Grind: How bad are delays for MMOs, and how much does communication help?

Bree Royce - 26
Last week, a newly minted Ship of Heroes fan posted a comment on the game's official forums saying he'd studied in-development MMOs and settled...

The Game Archaeologist: Dungeon Runners

Justin Olivetti - 4
Where do you rest on the spectrum of humor? If you find yourself giggling and snorting at dumb jokes, groan-worthy puns, and satire so...
Look better.

Ship of Heroes upgrades to Unreal Engine 4.21 for a plethora of features

Eliot Lefebvre - 13
Upgrading versions of game engines is never terribly interesting. The one advantage for Ship of Heroes in this regard is that the nature of the...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been to a concert in an MMO?

Bree Royce - 49
Slightly embarrassing story time: One of my favorite things to do in classic Star Wars Galaxies was sing. Yes, musicians and dancers were technically...

Massively Overthinking: The boring MMO development between bookends of hype

Bree Royce - 23
If you watch MMOs being developed for long enough, one truth becomes evident: It's kinda boring. I started thinking a bit about this last week...
punchsmash

City of Titans says it’s completed the rebuild of its alpha test server

Bree Royce - 4
City of Titans had a rough 2018. The Kickstarted City of Heroes spiritual successor was meant to release its "issue 0" alpha by the...

Ship of Heroes works on super speed, missions, and leveling, plus hunts for ancient City of Heroes videos

Bree Royce - 5
Last week, Ship of Heroes boss Casey McGeever gave a quick status update on the forums. Heroic Games has been focused on super speed,...
They're not attractive spaceships.

Massively Overthinking: Why aren’t you playing the MMO most like your favorite sunsetted game?

Bree Royce - 51
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from reader Smuggler-in-a-YT. "Star Wars Galaxies had its problems, but the sense of community, purpose, and story (through...
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