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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.

Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Are MMO communities real or fake?

Andrew Ross - 80
We've come a long way in our discussion of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological...

Massively OP’s guide to MMORPG death penalties

Justin Olivetti - 60
In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...
It looks much better now.

City of Titans has pubbed video of its ‘functional first pass’ build

Bree Royce - 24
City of Heroes-inspired superhero indie MMO City of Titans has hit a major milestone this week: It's created its "first packaged executable that ...
It's not particularly cruel.

Massively Overthinking: The curse of player-generated MMO content

Bree Royce - 60
The influx of new player-generated-content-oriented MMOs might make you think that PGC is on the rise, but if you've been around the genre for...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: Awesome (and unique) MMORPG classes

Eliot Lefebvre - 80
Class-based systems are one of those holdovers from tabletop RPGs that work surprisingly well in MMOs. I basically put up with class systems in...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: What you need to know before you play an older MMORPG

Eliot Lefebvre - 51
I cut my teeth on MMOs with the launch of Final Fantasy XI in America. My roommate in college was interested in the game,...

City of Titans gives a sneak peek at four iconic heroes

Justin Olivetti - 14
As a framework for City of Titan's narrative, the team has created "The Twelve:" 12 NPC superheroes that exemplify each of the 12 positions...
Heroic?

Valiance Online’s pre-alpha is available for testing

Eliot Lefebvre - 16
Do you feel a burning desire to get in and try out one of the intended spiritual successors to City of Heroes? Because you...

City of Titans pours effort into creating a ‘dynamic, thriving’ metropolis

Justin Olivetti - 8
Metropolis. Gotham. Hell's Kitchen. Asgard. Sometimes the places that superheroes visit are just as iconic as the heroes themselves. The upcoming City of Titans...

Tamriel Infinium: Six features Elder Scrolls Online’s level-scaling system needs

Larry Everett - 67
I have a terrible confession to make: I was about to write off Elder Scrolls Online. I was going to consider it dead to...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO dev brains we’d like to pick

Bree Royce - 64
This week's Overthinking question comes to us from longtime Patron Roger. "If you guys could magically open a connection to any dev team, which team...
What do I do?

The Daily Grind: What’s the best pet class in an MMORPG?

Bree Royce - 115
I hated pets when I first got started in MMORPGs. Pets in early MMOs had such terrible AI and were such a nuisance to...

City of Titans teases its superhero character modeling

Bree Royce - 10
Missing Worlds Media's Warcabbit is showing us how the superhero sausage is made in a recent post on the City of Titans forums. The in-development...
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: Our favorite MMORPG articles from 2015

Eliot Lefebvre - 5
The first year of Massively Overpowered had its ups and downs, like anything does, but I think we had some pretty great content in...

Hyperspace Beacon: A roleplayer’s SWTOR wishlist

Larry Everett - 64
The dawn of a new year is a great time for many people to hit a tiny reset button on life. I’m doing that personally....

Valiance Online tests new client-to-server architecture, previews new website

Justin Olivetti - 13
Crime never sleeps and superhero MMOs never take a holiday from patching. Valiance Online has been hard at work whipping up a couple of new...

City of Titans gives a glimpse of its character creator, hints at 2016 testing

Justin Olivetti - 46
City of Titans doesn't seem to mind that some of its demo videos came to light over the past month, although the studio said that...
All right, the Lopp have some chops here too.

Global Chat: Wrapping up 2015 across the MMORPG blogosphere

Justin Olivetti - 4
As the final pages turn on 2015, MMO bloggers engage in a favorite pastime of recalling their best and most notable gaming experiences of...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The 10 best MMORPG updates and expansions of 2015

Eliot Lefebvre - 20
There is no way we can list all of the great updates in a given year. It's not possible. We are always going to...

Valiance Online roots for City of Titans

Justin Olivetti - 44
Valiance Online doesn't see itself in direct competition with City of Titans for the throne of City of Heroes spiritual succession. How do we...
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