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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.

Which one of you is the Juno Reactor and which one is the Don Davis?

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs should be preserved in the Video Game Museum?

Bree Royce - 42
In returning to the video game preservation debate this week following the DMCA exceptions granted to museums and archivists allowing them to archive online...
Whistle

The Video Game Museum offers a home to Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, and WildStar

Justin Olivetti - 38
It's the longest of all long shots, but WildStar could be kept alive -- and in a museum, as Indiana Jones intended. And not...

US Library of Congress grants DMCA exception for preserving online games

Bree Royce - 19
It's a win for the good guys, at least if you figure the good guys are on the side of preserving video game and...

MassivelyOP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2018

Justin Olivetti - 0
Whether or not you consider yourself too old to put on that Hulk or Sparkle Twilight costume and prance ("HULK PRANCE") around the neighborhood...
I LOVE THE NIGHT LIFE, BABY

Ship of Heroes shows off the lighting of its day and night cycle in a new video

Eliot Lefebvre - 3
If you want to be really pedantic, the sun does not rise or set in Apotheosis City, the home setting of Ship of Heroes....

The Daily Grind: Why don’t players use emotes more in MMOs?

Justin Olivetti - 35
The other day I was reading up on Fallout 76's emote wheel -- brought to you by Bethesda's console tunnel vision -- and was...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that desperately need proper player housing

Justin Olivetti - 43
Here's something pretty encouraging to me: When I sat down to work on an article listing MMOs that really could use but lacked proper...
We got it back, after all.

The Game Archaeologist: The Death of City of Heroes

Justin Olivetti - 27
August 31st, 2012, was a Friday like any other. City of Heroes players were psyched for the upcoming Issue 24, which Paragon Studios had...
I'm not back on any BS, I never left it.

Perfect Ten: Ten MMO systems that encourage alts

Eliot Lefebvre - 25
Here's how much I like having alts: I have alts in Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI. Two games which are built on...

The Daily Grind: How do you set up your MMO user interface?

Justin Olivetti - 24
The other day I logged into Star Wars: The Old Republic for the first time in a while, and I once again felt jarred...

MassivelyOP’s first impressions of MapleStory 2, Nexon’s latest MMORPG

Justin Olivetti - 19
It's fair to say that MapleStory always did appeal to an audience that was into a very specific look and feel. If chibi anime...

Halloween 2018 is live in City of Heroes map emu Paragon Chat ahead of October 20 party

Bree Royce - 3
Who says ya can't have holidays in a dead MMO? You can get your Halloween on in City of Heroes right now - or...
Which one of you is the Juno Reactor and which one is the Don Davis?

Massively Overthinking: The sunsetted MMOs we never played

Bree Royce - 21
I've been thinking a lot about MMO sunsets lately, thanks to WildStar, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and even that ridiculous Free Guy movie...
Vorp?

City of Heroes emulator SEGS estimates it could be ready in a year and a half

Eliot Lefebvre - 11
We freely admit that SEGS may not have the most catchy title in the world, but it does have a goal which is near...
It's clear now.

Perfect Ten: Failed MMOs that could have succeeded with more love

Justin Olivetti - 77
Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...
Titan-size!

City of Titans is still on track for Issue 0 by the end of the year

Eliot Lefebvre - 10
The fact that City of Titans is still planning to have "issue zero" playable for backers by the end of the year is indisputably...

One Shots: Concept art showcase

Justin Olivetti - 46
In last week's edition of One Shots, I issued perhaps my most peculiar challenge yet. I asked readers (for once) not to submit any...
movies

Perfect Ten: The big book of MMORPG death mechanics

Eliot Lefebvre - 24
Video games will kill your characters. It's inevitable. I still faintly remember my younger brother's first video game death, when he ran full-tilt into...

Jukebox Heroes: DC Universe Online

Justin Olivetti - 0
This is my frustrated face when it comes to superhero MMO soundtracks. I don't know what it is, but it seems that none of...

One Shots: The Sunset Club

Justin Olivetti - 52
WildStar is about to be inducted into the worst club there is in the gaming world -- the club whose only requirements is that...
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