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.

We’re gonna have gorgeous hair in City of Titans

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A few weeks ago, the Massively OP writers were hanging in the news room on a tear about mohawks. We're not against mohawks. Mohawks...
Ah, that clears it right up, thanks.

Ship of Heroes explains how you fit a city inside of a spaceship

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Of the spiritual successors to City of Heroes, Ship of Heroes is the Johnny-come-lately that also puts all of the action inside of a...

Ship of Heroes reveals signature characters, costume slots

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City of Heroes spiritual successor Ship of Heroes has a new dev blog out today on what it's calling one of its "signature heroes":...

Massively OP Interview: Why Ship of Heroes is taking City of Heroes into space

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What happens when a group of dislodged City of Heroes fans attempt to bring back the spirit of their favorite MMO while marrying it...
Anyway here's Wonderwall.

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and wishes for MMORPGs in the new year

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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...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: The best MMORPG updates and expansions of 2016 (that aren’t Legion)

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Sometimes you have to exclude something from a list. I could, for example, praise World of Warcraft: Legion for being a really good expansion...

Ship of Heroes demos Apotheosis City in new video

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Just one month ago, we learned of the existence of yet another City of Heroes spinoff project: Ship of Heroes. And it's literally a...

Massively OP’s 2016 Blooper Awards: Most-Covered Defunct MMO

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Most-Covered Defunct MMO, as proposed by BryanCo. And the winner is... Star Wars Galaxies Although City of...

The best Massively OP MMO polls of 2016

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Every week for the last few years, we've expanded on our "Daily Grind" theme with a Leaderboard poll. I've had a blast taking over Leaderboard;...

Valiance Online demos the city of San Cielo

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Crowdfunded superhero MMORPG Valiance Online has a new video out this week featuring the city of San Cielo. "This is a work-in-progress for our Alpha...

City of Titans makes Santa dance to demo environments and animations

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I admit that when I first saw this City of Titans video, I thought it was just a cutesy Christmas card. But nope --...

Valiance Online clarifies alpha and Steam launch plans

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Back in October, Valiance Online announced that it was superjumping onward from pre-alpha to alpha and revealed that it'll use a free-to-play model, or...

Valiance Online introduces a trio of heroes and villains

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Even though superhero MMOs offer us the ability to create our own characters and live vicariously through their adventures, it's good to hear about...
No, really, what is going on here.

Ship of Heroes shows off screenshots of Apotheosis City

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Remember when you had a fever dream recently that there was another spiritual successor to City of Heroes in the works, only this one...

City of Titans looks at the Five Dragons gang

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Superhero games aren't much fun without villains to beat up, and in a superhero MMO, there needs to be a lot of those. City...

The Daily Grind: Which City of Heroes spiritual successor are you rooting for?

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I was a tiny bit flabbergasted last weekend when I saw that there was yet another City of Heroes spiritual successor project in the...

Former Cryptic devs form Cold Iron studio to build ‘AAA online action games’

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Every wonder what happened to Craig Zinkievich after he moved on from Star Trek Online and Cryptic Studios? Turns out he and several other...

Jukebox Heroes: Massively OP’s guide to grabbing 120+ MMO soundtracks

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One of the most common questions that I'm asked from my adoring throngs on the street is, "Justin, where oh where can I get...

Make My MMO: Crowfall’s big world playtest, Star Citizen’s alpha 2.6 (December 3, 2016)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, ArtCraft says over 9000 gamers have been invited to try to break the three alpha servers active during Crowfall's "Big...

Ship of Heroes becomes the fourth City of Heroes spiritual successor

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How many spiritual successors will it take to fill the void that was left by City of Heroes' shutdown? We now know the answer:...

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