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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.

Be here now.

City of Titans and Ship of Heroes team up for City of Heroes successor panel at PAX West

Eliot Lefebvre - 18
There will be a City of Heroes panel at PAX West... after a fashion. The game may be gone, but the City of Titans...

One Shots: Hail to the victor!

Justin Olivetti - 42
Have you ever been able to capture a truly victorious moment in your MMORPG journeys? Rees Racer did, and he is not above showing...
Long, long, long.

Valiance Online works with the community to develop and show off powersets

Eliot Lefebvre - 6
Do you like pets, powersets, and behind-the-scenes development glances? Then you'll enjoy the nearly four hours of Valiance Online stream footage now available just...
I SMOLDER WITH POINTLESS RAGE

Choose My Adventure: Two approaches to whining about DC Universe Online

Eliot Lefebvre - 6
Dear readers, today I am going to try something different for all of you. And it's predicated on the fact that I'm not just...

Valiance Online livestreams its development alpha test

Justin Olivetti - 14
In an epic-length livestream this past weekend, the Valiance Online team showed off its development alpha test and discussed some of the systems and...

One Shots: Man of Tungsten

Justin Olivetti - 47
Look there! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Mysecretid! Who among us hasn't played a video game at some point and...
Yes, money.

How to find the right MMORPG as a couple

Eliot Lefebvre - 36
People seemed to quite like my piece last week about how my wife and I wound up married in no small part due to...
Guns.

Master X Master devs take on post-launch community queries

Justin Olivetti - 0
You're certainly heard of dev community Q&A sessions, but what about dev cosplay Q&A? Master X Master recruited the help of cosplayer Cheezecake to...
How near, how far.

Valiance Online says its alpha is coming soon

Eliot Lefebvre - 5
Hearing that something is coming "soon" is the bane of every MMO player; it technically qualifies as a time frame, but it's vague and...
Bones.

The Game Archaeologist: Where are all of the open-source MMOs?

Justin Olivetti - 46
Recently we had an interesting question come in from reader and Patron Rasmus Praestholm, who asked me to do a little investigating: "What (if...
Stepping back across time.

How I got married through World of Warcraft

Eliot Lefebvre - 30
I've mentioned a lot of times, in passing, how my wife and I connected in part through World of Warcraft. But I've never actually...

DCUO’s summer event is nothing short of an Atlantean civil war

Justin Olivetti - 1
Aquaman might still be dealing with the shameful vestiges of his poor Superfriends cartoon showing in the 1970s, but the underwater superhero is getting...
Ironically, this is the sort of controversy you'd probably rather face from inside a hot tub.

Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?

Bree Royce - 35
Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...
Well, that's better.

Ghost Widow gets a spotlight on her Master x Master incarnation

Eliot Lefebvre - 29
While very few veteran City of Heroes fans were happy about the inclusion of Statesman in Master x Master for a variety of reasons,...
Ladies, please.

Choose My Adventure: Launching new in DC Universe Online

Eliot Lefebvre - 7
Looking at the the three big triple-A superhero titles, DC Universe Online has always felt like the odd one out. City of Heroes was...

Perfect Ten: MMO zones I love to hate

Justin Olivetti - 58
Let's be frank: Not every MMO zone can be a masterpiece of art, design, quest flow, and navigability. I mean, they totally should be,...
Be here now.

City of Titans demos animations in new video

Bree Royce - 3
City of Titans has this week posted a new video dubbed "Animation while Holding Objects," which kinda sounds boring, but it's a superhero MMO...
Time enough at last, only not.

Choose My Adventure: Cryptic’s Neverwinter in review

Eliot Lefebvre - 3
My time with Neverwinter is done, and it's a game I find myself in an odd relationship with. It'd be fair to say that...

NCsoft MOBA Master X Master launches today

Bree Royce - 22
Master X Master is officially launching in the West today, bringing NCsoft's take on a multi-IP MOBA-with-a-twist to our shores. The twist is the...

The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal group size for an MMORPG?

Bree Royce - 57
During this week's Massively OP podcast (live this afternoon!), Justin and I tackled a detailed question about MMO group makeup, the trinity, and combat,...
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