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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.

One Shots: Pin-up calendar

Justin Olivetti - 40
Here's an interesting idea: using screenshots to make a calendar! Reader Elana was part of a team that did just that in The Secret World:...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO prison?

Justin Olivetti - 66
Fictional prisons can be pretty fascinating to explore in books and video games. I've noticed that pretty much every MMO has at least one...

Marvel Heroics: My Marvel Heroes wish list

Justin Olivetti - 58
If there's one constant in the gaming universe, it's that every MMO player has a wish list. It's almost impossible to spend any length...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: Ten MMO futures that never were

Eliot Lefebvre - 122
One of the things I spend a lot of time thinking about is Operation Unthinkable. For those of you who don't feel like clicking...

Perfect Ten: Clever features that should be in more MMOs

Justin Olivetti - 99
MMOs are built on the backs of many interlocking systems, some more crucial to the experience than others. While I have great appreciation for...
The power to stand.

Valiance Online details the mechanics of choosing powers

Eliot Lefebvre - 19
Powers are a big part of any superhero game; it's hard to feel like a superhero if your only powers are "Stand In Place"...

One Shots: Holding a torch for City of Heroes

Justin Olivetti - 47
No, you're not seeing yet another ancient screenshot from the late, great City of Heroes. No, this is something far more recent and special....
You made it sing, all right.

Paragon Chat sees 200 concurrent users at peak

Eliot Lefebvre - 36
Paragon Chat is not the City of Heroes revival that everyone wants, obviously, but it is a chance to walk around, chat, and enjoy...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best storyline in an MMO?

Bree Royce - 110
Story is a polarizing word to MMO players: Either you love it or hate it, or maybe you just think it stinks or isn't...

City of Titans demos its costume-making process

Justin Olivetti - 17
Every superhero worth her or his salt knows that it's the costume that makes the hero. Well, that and a heapload of mutant powers,...

Massively Overthinking: Random encounters in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 42
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor TheChiHawk, and it's coming from an unusually not-so-massive corner of gamesdom for us: Are...

City of Titans development finally ‘on track’

Justin Olivetti - 43
"The shadow of doubt has passed, and the state of the game is strong," City of Titans President Nathaniel Downes trumpets in his newest...

Ask Mo: If Star Wars Galaxies is so smart, why ain’t it rich?

Bree Royce - 132
Star Wars Galaxies would have been 12 years old this week, had it lived a day past Star Wars: The Old Republic. That makes...

City of Heroes is returning… as a chat client

Justin Olivetti - 63
The dream of seeing City of Heroes reborn is still just that -- a dream. But through the hard efforts of fans of the...

One Shots: Primitive GPS

Justin Olivetti - 41
There's no shame in being lost, especially if your MMO doesn't include an on-screen map. Anyone remember the olden days of using graph paper...

The Game Archaeologist: Seven MMOs operating on borrowed time

Justin Olivetti - 90
Most everyone who knows me well will acknowledge that I'm not generally a cynical, dark person. I'm not rooting for games to fail, for...

The Daily Grind: Is there MMO busywork you enjoy?

Bree Royce - 82
Down in the comments beneath the Marvel Heroes column we first published this week, a Massively OP reader expressed annoyance with online action RPGs and...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO annoyances that provoke ragequits

Bree Royce - 151
I'm going to do something I don't do a lot in Massively Overthinking -- or anywhere, really. I'm going to ask you to whine. MOP Kickstarter...

Global Chat: Blizzard’s war on flying

Justin Olivetti - 105
How is the MMO blogging community reacting to Blizzard's proclamation that flying mounts are grounded -- perhaps permanently -- in World of Warcraft? In...

Valiance Online begins a patch blitz

Justin Olivetti - 30
Superheroes don't do anything in half-measures, and neither does City of Heroes spiritual successor Valiance Online. The team updated the title yesterday with the...
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