city of heroes

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.

Valiance Online muses about a sidekicking system

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Sidekicking and mentoring were among the best and most-used features in City of Heroes, but will one of its spiritual successors take a cue...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 115: Legendary podcasting

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Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Guild Wars 1 and 2, Star Trek Online, FFXIV, Neverwinter, WoW addons, Kingdom of Loot, and City of Heroes, with mailbox questions on MMO tourist mode and character creation inspiration.
Give me your tired, your hungry, your stuff.

City of Heroes fans party hard for the game’s 13th birthday

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Last Friday evening, the torch was raised once again for City of Heroes. Despite the game being offline for a half-decade now, fans from...

The Stream Team: Celebrating City of Heroes with Paragon Chat costume contests

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Never say die! If City of Heroes fans had a motto, this would likely be it. Although they don't have the original game to...
Be here now.

City of Titans lets you call the shots with your powers

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Are you ready to handle the awesome responsibility of being able to make your own powers? City of Titans thinks so, which is why...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: The City of Heroes basic Archetypes ranked

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So it's just about that time again - we're remembering when City of Heroes launched and when it said goodbye. Which is a bit...

Join MOP in Paragon Chat for Friday’s City of Heroes anniversary bash

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Beloved superhero MMORPG City of Heroes turns 13 years old tomorrow, and what better way to celebrate than in Paragon City? That's exactly what...

Valiance Online posts development progress, beefs up backer rewards

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How much transparency do you want or demand from your upcoming MMOs? Valiance Online's team assumes that you're on the "quite a bit" end...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has seen the most improved graphics over the years?

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In each of our articles about Black Desert's upcoming graphics upgrade, there have been a slew of comments about how the game doesn't really...

Valiance Online on alpha, Steam, and the character generator of your dreams

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Expect "big changes" in the way Silverhelm Studios handles superhero MMORPG Valiance Online's development going forward, the indie group tells future players and testers in...

One Shots: Screenshots big enough to wallpaper your house

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Obviously due to column width limitations, we have a fixed pixel size for screenshots here at Massively OP. But that doesn't stop some of...

Valiance Online is developing stunning special effects

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When Valiance Online puts out its next playable alpha build, it may just be the visual effects that will send players jumping up and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 112: Heroic measures

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Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, Black Desert, EVE Fanfest, LOTRO, WoW, and GW2, with reader mail on MMO dress-up and City of Heroes successors.

Jukebox Heroes: Your top six favorite MMO music themes

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After over a month of voting and counting down, we've arrived at the final six picks for your favorite MMORPG theme songs of all...

The Daily Grind: What MMO ability makes you feel truly powerful?

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A couple of months ago, I received a legendary in World of Warcraft that allowed me to shoot out this gigantic AoE fireball every 90...

City of Heroes-inspired MMORPG Ship of Heroes has canceled its Kickstarter bid

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The team behind Ship of Heroes has just announced that it's canceling its Kickstarter. Since the crowdfund's launch on April 4th, it had raised only $35,138...

Master x Master closed beta begins April 6; signups are open now

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D'awwww, look at that image of City of Heroes' Statesman, scowling down upon all the kids flocking to the Master X Master beta signup...

City of Heroes-inspired Ship of Heroes’ $400,000 Kickstarter is live

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Ship of Heroes has formally launched its Kickstarter today as promised, with a $400,000 ask. The game is an Unreal 4 engine, full-scale MMORPG heavily...
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City of Titans pontificates on the importance of snug spandex, hints at coming ‘brand makeover’

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In the cult classic 1995 film Hackers, one of the characters remarked that "spandex is a privilege, not a right." And how true that...
Sometimes it's about tweaking the right people.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the worst for ‘trash pulls’?

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A week or two ago, Blizzard Watch had a post up polling its readers about which trash pulls in WoW they hated the most....

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