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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.

Titan-size!

City of Titans on endgame, alting, PvP, business models, lockboxes, and whales

Bree Royce - 24
The first and most-backed City of Heroes successor City of Titans has a couple of dev pieces out this month answering questions posed to...

Valiance Online hints that alpha test could be near

Justin Olivetti - 11
"As a superhero MMORPG developer, what would you require before officially launching your alpha build?" This intriguing question was presented to the Valiance Online community...
We figured this out, what's your excuse? You could have stolen more from us after Hearthstone.

Cryptic’s Magic the Gathering RPG: Speculating on the lore and game systems

Eliot Lefebvre - 26
An RPG based on Magic: the Gathering is one of those things I have both long wanted and long assumed was just never going...

Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!

Justin Olivetti - 1
After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...
punchsmash

City of Titans blasts enemies with funky dance moves

Justin Olivetti - 22
Anyone remember that old console game Moonwalker? You played as the late Michael Jackson who would use his suave moves to defeat enemies. But...

Perfect Ten: My favorite MMO dungeons

Justin Olivetti - 30
It's hard to look at an MMORPG and imagine them without dungeons. For some people, these instances are the core of their game experience,...

Leaderboard: What’s the most important part of MMORPG character customization?

Bree Royce - 40
Valiance Online has a dev thread up this week asking backers and devs to propose hairstyles for the game's characters, something that immediately yoinked...

City of Titans drops some Scorpion lore

Justin Olivetti - 6
Only part of becoming a successful superhero is mastering your abilities and pulling off a spandex outfit in public. Another key part is knowing...
Boys and girls in cars, dogs and cats on lawns - from up here I can see them all.

Valiance Online asks its fans what’s the most important part of a superheroic MMO

Eliot Lefebvre - 18
What makes for a great superheroic MMO? What are the most important aspects of the game to consider? The developers behind Valiance Online obviously...
I'll be dead soon

Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 144
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...

Valiance Online promises fans that it is ‘moving forward’

Justin Olivetti - 5
Fans that might look at Valiance Online's development chart and wonder when, oh when alpha will ever arrive are being treated to a pep...

Ship of Heroes explores its spaceship mission maps

Bree Royce - 6
Raise your hand if you're a superhero MMORPG fan who really, really wants to see good mission maps. None of this office building #3457225...

Valiance Online’s capital city hall is ‘akin to the Pentagon’ for supers

Bree Royce - 14
Back in April, Silverhelm Studios told players it was instituting "big changes" in the way it was rolling out information for City of Heroes-inspired...
The yeller.

Perfect Ten: My MMO hate list

Eliot Lefebvre - 107
One thing that I strive for in my professional career is basing things on sources more robust than my own biases. That's not to...

One Shots: Lonely hearts

Justin Olivetti - 45
Are gamers really lonely? Do we flock to MMORPGs as a response to that? I'm pondering these thoughts today following the response of a...
You will die here.

Valiance Online previews City Hall and the hospital

Eliot Lefebvre - 5
The team behind Valiance Online wants to show you everything there is to be seen within the game. Of course, you can't see it...
It's been real, and it's been fun, but... eh, you know the joke now.

Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up Black Desert and selecting our next destination

Eliot Lefebvre - 27
Back when I mentioned that I was learning to like Black Desert a while back, I got this tweet from the game's official account....

Valiance Online muses about a sidekicking system

Justin Olivetti - 8
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

Justin Olivetti - 9
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

Justin Olivetti - 9
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...
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