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

Justin Olivetti - 67
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

Bree Royce - 66
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

Bree Royce - 12
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

Bree Royce - 38
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...
Personalities

City of Titans pontificates on the importance of snug spandex, hints at coming ‘brand makeover’

Justin Olivetti - 22
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’?

Bree Royce - 136
A week or two ago, Blizzard Watch had a post up polling its readers about which trash pulls in WoW they hated the most....

April Fools’ Day 2017: Hijinks across the MMOverse

Bree Royce - 31
If you don't like tricks and jokes, just stop reading right now, turn the lights off, and go climb back into bed. Nothing on...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: More terminology the MMORPG genre needs

Eliot Lefebvre - 40
Many moons ago (so, a few months), I wrote a column about terminology that we need for the MMO genre. This made our Editor-in-Chief...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most stable MMORPG (besides WoW) right now?

Bree Royce - 71
Massively OP reader Gail made an interesting observation in one of the City of Heroes Master x Master drama threads about what she called "corn...

NCsoft rep says bringing City of Heroes toons to Master x Master was his ‘passion project’

Bree Royce - 157
We've been speaking with NCsoft West off the record this week, agitating for publicly printable answers on the Master X Master decision to implement City...

Meet City of Titans’ six heroic archetypes

Justin Olivetti - 11
Thanks to some website spring cleaning, City of Titans made a previously hidden article visible to the masses. This particular page outlines the upcoming...
bang

Massively Overthinking: The City of Heroes Master X Master debacle

Bree Royce - 49
On Tuesday, NCsoft announced that it plans to introduce Statesman, from the long-sunsetted City of Heroes, as a playable character in its MOBA, Master...

Perfect Ten: Memories of an Anarchy Online noob

Justin Olivetti - 8
My initial foray into MMORPGs was, to put it nicely, quite ungraceful. I wasn't even aware that they were a thing until about the...

Ship of Heroes touts Unreal Engine 4 progress ahead of Kickstarter bid

Bree Royce - 6
Since our community has City of Heroes on the brain of late, let's recall that there are no less than five games inspired by...
why

Here’s why everyone’s pissed off about City of Heroes NPCs in NCsoft’s MOBA

Bree Royce - 275
Yesterday, NCsoft took the lid off a secret it's clearly been working on for a while: The company means to introduce a notorious and...
what

Master x Master announces closed beta, adds City of Heroes’ Statesman

Eliot Lefebvre - 57
Today's good news for Master x Master fans is that the game has a closed beta coming up. The next test will be between...

Ship of Heroes salutes City of Heroes in its network demo video

Bree Royce - 38
Ship of Heroes has a new video out today that is ostensibly a network demo showing off half a dozen remote developers spread across...

Ship of Heroes will seek $400,000 in Kickstarter funding

Bree Royce - 27
Indie superhero MMO Ship of Heroes has just announced the details of its planned Kickstarter campaign, which was previously noted to begin on April...

The MOP Up: Wakfu hikes up a mountain (March 12, 2017)

Justin Olivetti - 1
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Titan-size!

City of Titans wants to take you downtown

Justin Olivetti - 8
What would a superhero MMO look like if it took place in a small town where the tallest building was only three stories? We'll...
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