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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.

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Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness

Bree Royce - 27
Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...
Also, let's just put this out there, how about more robots?

City of Heroes emulator SEGS cranks up powersets

Justin Olivetti - 15
The Super Entity Game Server (SEGS) continues to push forward with its version to bring a full-featured open source emulator of City of Heroes...

Perfect Ten: The best expansions for specific MMOs

Justin Olivetti - 17
Looking over the past two decades or so, MMORPGs have grown by leaps and bounds with regular releases, events, and (of course) expansion packs....
And on and on and on...

Perfect Ten: Endless dungeons in MMOs

Eliot Lefebvre - 25
Most MMO dungeons are normal songs. You start out and you have a pretty clear picture of the beginning, middle, and end; they don't...

City of Titans offers up a Fourth of July teaser

Justin Olivetti - 11
"Heroes may fall. Heroism never dies." With a not-so-covert nod to the late City of Heroes, City of Titans' latest 4th of July video attempts to bridge...

Ship of Heroes’ teeny-weeny robot nanites ensure smooth sailing for the superhero starship

Bree Royce - 7
Ship of Heroes has a fresh dev blog up today on stuff you can't even see. I'm talking, of course, about nanites, ridiculously tiny...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the most complex character development?

Bree Royce - 47
Over the weekend, I was reading a makeup subreddit (don't judge me - I swear there is a gaming point to this) and the...
We all live on a ship of heroes

Ship of Heroes shows off its female soldier armor

Eliot Lefebvre - 6
It would be unfair to say that superhero MMOs are based entirely on the strength of their costume creation, but that costume creation is...
Personalities

City of Titans is bringing the control lifestyle back, baby

Justin Olivetti - 17
Raise someone else's hand up if you have fond memories of playing a Controller in City of Heroes. The concept of a crowd control...

Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006

Justin Olivetti - 36
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...

One Shots: Fashion patrol coming your way!

Justin Olivetti - 21
Well that is certainly one way to fill up the comments section with tons of screenshots: asking all of you to show of your...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO’s music brings back all the feels?

Justin Olivetti - 54
One of the reasons that I love and listen to MMO music so much -- other than it rocks, obviously -- is that it...
Ship of (heroic) Fooooools

Ship of Heroes discusses the difference between Alpha and Beta

Eliot Lefebvre - 13
What makes an alpha? If your answer is "marketing jargon," you're not entirely wrong. But the team behind Ship of Heroes is going for...

E3 2018: ‘Fallout 76 is entirely online’

Justin Olivetti - 153
You've seen the teaser. You've heard the rumors. You've watched the E3 trailer. And now it's time to find out, exactly, what Fallout 76...

City of Heroes emulator SEGS announces new update with NPCs, database support, and a GUI

Bree Royce - 6
If you've been following SEGS' twitter over the last week, you know the team there has been teasing something big. And now we know...

Ship of Heroes video demonstrates how far the game’s come in a year

Bree Royce - 15
If you wanted some clear visuals on how far Ship of Heroes has come over the last year, the video Heroic Games published over...
Be here now.

City of Titans shows off more of its mastery sets

Eliot Lefebvre - 5
The mastery sets in indie superhero MMORPG City of Titans are a bit like specializations for the game's archetype. In addition to each archetype's power...

DCUO plans July Teen Titans episode, August Augment system to replace R&D mods

Bree Royce - 1
DC Universe Online has its summer all mapped out, and it's a doozy. Daybreak is leaping into the Teen Titans lore this July for...

Hyperspace Beacon: The sorry state of roleplay in Star Wars: The Old Republic

Larry Everett - 25
Since the server merges, the Star Forge server has unofficially become the roleplay server for Star Wars: The Old Republic. And roleplaying's fight to...
How near, how far.

The Daily Grind: What kind of superhero do you want to make in an MMO?

Justin Olivetti - 38
While City of Heroes is long gone, you can't keep a good cape down. With a couple of superhero MMORPGs out on the market...
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