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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.

This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen

Eliot Lefebvre - 56
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...

One Shots: The Soviet Summoner

Justin Olivetti - 31
Undoubtedly, our world is poorer in this post-City of Heroes era for the lack of pun-inspired superhero names that used to run, fly, and...

Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it

Justin Olivetti - 21
With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...

City of Titans’ avatar builder is on display – and it’s pretty awesome

Justin Olivetti - 24
It has been five years since comic book and City of Heroes fans threw $678,000 at Missing Worlds Media in the hopes of seeing...

Trove explores its superhero expansion city and does a former City of Heroes dev proud

Bree Royce - 2
Mid-February, Trion Worlds announced a big expansion coming to Trove this spring, and the best part for disillusioned superhero fans is that it's set...

Valiance Online makes progress with its female heroes

Justin Olivetti - 16
Filling out that superhero spandex isn't just a job for the guys, although so far in Valiance Online, it's certainly seemed that way. It...

The Daily Grind: What is the best-designed MMO class you’ve ever played?

Justin Olivetti - 68
There are good MMO classes and bad classes. There are well-designed ones and ones that just never gelled. But every once in a while,...
Table this for now. Or later.

City of Titans introduces its costume designer while teasing character creation

Eliot Lefebvre - 9
We haven't seen the character creation for City of Titans just yet, but you know that's going to be an important part of the...

Celebrate City of Heroes’ 14th anniversary in Paragon Chat this April

Bree Royce - 10
City of Heroes fans, heads-up: The Paragon Chat folks and the people behind HERC are already carving out time in April to celebrate what...

Ship of Heroes deep-dives villains and new ‘body-conscious’ female hero costumes

Bree Royce - 10
If you cared about the lore in City of Heroes, you were probably pretty attached to certain villain groups, right? Who doesn't remember Circle...

City of Titans’ paths will throw players into their own ‘personal comic book series’

Justin Olivetti - 3
Ever feel like MMO quests are impersonal and disconnected from how you see your own character interacting with the game world? City of Titans...

The Daily Grind: Where did you Marvel Heroes players scatter to after the sunset?

Bree Royce - 35
A couple of months ago, after we learned about the sunset of Marvel Heroes but before it actually happened early, we asked our local...

One Shots: Poppin’ some bubbly

Justin Olivetti - 56
We are going to kick off this week's exhibition of player screenshots with a few email submissions (yes, some of you still email them...
HERE

City of Titans drafts volunteer to build metro landmarks

Justin Olivetti - 9
Considering that it's City of Titans and not Prairies of Titans or Lonely Country Road of Titans, it's safe to assume that this indie...

Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Erez Goren, 10 more games, 400 employees, and Global Agenda’s City of Heroes roots

MJ Guthrie - 7
It is true that the Hi-Rez Expo has wrapped up for 2018, and we'll need to wait another 12 months to attend the next...

Perfect Ten: 10 tips for crafting a unique MMO character name

Justin Olivetti - 43
Tell me if you've ever been here: You just finished spending way too much time pouring over options in the character creation screen and...
I suppose this is a problem I'm happy to complain about.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 152: Allied races and superhero sprints

Justin Olivetti - 10
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, ARK, Portal Knights, World of Warcraft, Champions Online, Fractured, Ship of Heroes, Black Desert, Elder Scrolls Online, and Life is Feudal, with mailbag questions on teaching MMO teamwork to kids and lockboxes vs. advertising.

Ship of Heroes takes you on a tour of its warehouse district

Justin Olivetti - 13
City of Heroes veterans no doubt have strong memories of their early superhero careers being spent jumping and dashing through numerous warehouses that seemed...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO to roleplay in as of 2018?

Bree Royce - 45
Half an eternity ago, my merry band of MMO PvPers and raiders ran headlong into a gang of roleplayers, and it changed my guild...
Guns and ships.

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018

Bree Royce - 54
One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...
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