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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.

It looks much better now.

City of Titans offers up some meaty setting fiction

Eliot Lefebvre - 1
The police in City of Titans have a rough road to walk. They're dealing with organized crime and the usual thousand vices and harms...

Redside, a fifth City of Heroes spiritual successor, takes the field

Justin Olivetti - 30
At this point, we have to ask whether we as an MMO community are being pranked on a large scale with a deluge of...
Oh jeez.

Recapping the Asheron’s Call sunsets

Bree Royce - 12
Just before Christmas, we learned the sad news that Turbine would not be transferring Asheron's Call and its revivified sequel to Standing Stone as...
it me

Ship of Heroes asks for early UI feedback

Eliot Lefebvre - 7
The UI matters a lot in an MMORPG -- at least if you're going to be staring at it pretty much constantly while you're playing...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever used MMOs to live out fantasies from other IPs?

Justin Olivetti - 0
One of my absolute favorite parts of City of Heroes was seeing the crazy mish-mash of intellectual properties that players brought to the game....
doot doot doot, this game's title

Betawatch: A city of City of Heroes successors (January 27, 2017)

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
The loss of City of Heroes brought motivated fans together to rebuild it, or at least to create a spiritual successor to the game....

Ship of Heroes’ character customization already looks amazing

Bree Royce - 0
If you're a superhero fan who loves hair -- and you probably are, if our City of Titans commenters yesterday are any guide --...

Massively Overthinking: Death and dying in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 0
In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven...

Heroes and Villains explains its goals for seamless zoning

Bree Royce - 0
Heroes and Villains was one chunk of the original trifecta of superhero MMORPGs that sprang from the grave of City of Heroes, but it's...

We’re gonna have gorgeous hair in City of Titans

Bree Royce - 0
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

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
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

Bree Royce - 0
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

Justin Olivetti - 1
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

Bree Royce - 0
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)

Eliot Lefebvre - 0
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

Bree Royce - 0
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

Bree Royce - 0
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

Bree Royce - 0
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

Bree Royce - 0
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

Bree Royce - 0
I admit that when I first saw this City of Titans video, I thought it was just a cutesy Christmas card. But nope --...
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