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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.

The Game Archaeologist: City of Heroes’ launch history and the Marvel lawsuit

Justin Olivetti - 15
In our first part of this series looking back at the stupendous history of City of Heroes, we saw how the idea for this...

Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system

Bree Royce - 11
Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...

City of Titans explains costume unlocking

Justin Olivetti - 33
A recent post by the City of Titans team in which it briefly mentioned "costume unlocks" for the upcoming superhero MMO got the community's...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO features that deserve widespread adaptation

Justin Olivetti - 22
You know what gets me excited about upcoming MMOs? It's certainly not the list of expected systems and features that have since become standard...

The Stream Team: Poking into City of Heroes bases thanks to Paragon Chat

MJ Guthrie - 4
You may not be able to return home to City of Heroes, but you can return to your home in CoH thanks to the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 180: Superstoked for heroic MMOs

Justin Olivetti - 6
Justin and Bree discuss the influence of City of Heroes (Paragon Chat, SEGS, Valiance Online, Ship of Heroes, and City of Titans), plus WoW, No Man's Sky, SWGemu, Camelot Unchained, STO, CCP's new MMO, and Rend, with a mailbag entry on comments negativity.

Ship of Heroes recaps its July progress, including work on characters, Unreal, and TrueSKY

Bree Royce - 7
It was a bit of an unplanned superhero MMORPG weekend, what with news from City of Titans, Ship of Heroes, and City of Heroes'...
Cool times.

Paragon Chat now features City of Heroes supergroup base building, complete with import

Justin Olivetti - 12
If you're wondering what that sound is echoing over the horizon, it's just every City of Heroes fan freaking out about the return of...
Fish.

City of Titans shows off villain costuming and body parts

Eliot Lefebvre - 9
Not every villainous group you will fight in City of Titans is exactly human. But the latest art development entry from the team shows...

Ship of Heroes introduces the mixed-race Meltdown, preps for August login test

Justin Olivetti - 5
Superhero and... wealthy mixed-race intergalactic businessman? That's the intriguing makeup of Ship of Heroes' Meltdown, a character who is as much a CEO of...
City again.

The Game Archaeologist: Digging up the history of City of Heroes

Justin Olivetti - 17
For the longest time in the early 2000s, MMORPGs scared me off. They looked too obtuse, too grindy, too ugly, and too unapproachable for...
when yo crush read yo note that say lemme smash

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...
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