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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: 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...
Where the 'hood at.

The Daily Grind: What MMO characters have you unexpectedly loved?

Eliot Lefebvre - 93
I made my Crab Spider in City of Heroes primarily because I wanted to have someone as a spider. My character concept for her...

The Daily Grind: Does mid-game character customization matter in MMOs?

Bree Royce - 61
This morning's Daily Grind question is brought to us by Kickstarter donor Tracergeek, who wants to talk about customization in MMOs -- specifically, the type...

Valiance Online plots its strategy going forward

Justin Olivetti - 59
What's going on in the super-powered world of Valiance Online? Quite a lot, actually. The spiritual successor to City of Heroes posted a list...

Ex-City of Heroes devs answer insane number of lore questions

Justin Olivetti - 21
The now-annual City of Heroes "Loregasm" is complete, with ex-developers Matt Miller and Sean McCann delivering another wealth of insights into the late, great...

City of Titans demos its first costume and combat prototypes

Eliot Lefebvre - 118
It's been a little quiet on the City of Titans development front for a while, but when you see the game's most recent video, you'll understand...

Massively Opinionated: FFXIV vs. FFXIV vs. CoH

Larry Everett - 35
In this episode, Larry, Eliot, Laura, and Matt debate the topic of immersion in the MMORPG genre, pitting City of Heroes against the Final Fantasy franchise.
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