heroes and villains

Back in 2019, I had the idea to make Design Mockument semi-regular column because I like doing this sort of thing. I put out...

No matter what your level of stoic cynicism is these days, I think we can all agree that having the world vanish is a...

Oh look at that, it's been roughly over a year since we had a peek in on Heroes and Villains, so here we are...

Daybreak's DC Universe Online has been kicking ass and taking names lately, and it's doing it again now. Last night, the latest Birds of...

As part of this column covering superhero MMORPGs, we have looked at the usual suspects: MMOs of the past (Champions Online, City of Heroes,...

A discussion chain has been rippling across the MMO blogosphere as of late, with writers reminiscing about online games that have lived and died...

Yes, today is the day when DC Universe Online truly goes metal. Not because the update brings with it new headbanging mechanics and a surfeit...

Last week, DC Universe Online became one of the only MMOs on the Nintendo Switch, prompting many gamers to give it a look or...

It has been well over a decade since I played City of Heroes with any regularity, and yet when I saw that familiar loading...

With all of the City of Heroes revival talk lately, our office chat turned in the direction of other MMOs we'd love to see...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, it's been superhero insanity, and I don't even mean City of Heroes. We got updates from Ship of Heroes...

This one's personally important to me. Peria Chronicles is a game that looked very interesting to me from the moment it was revealed and...

It has been some time since we last checked in with Heroes and Villains, perhaps the most overlooked of all of the City of...

In another reality where our passion for MMORPGs is matched only by the power of nostalgia for the greatest era of cartoons, we would...

It's always easy to look back at the making of City of Heroes and its first year with a memory tinted toward the good...

For the longest time in the early 2000s, MMORPGs scared me off. They looked too obtuse, too grindy, too ugly, and too unapproachable for...

You've seen the teaser. You've heard the rumors. You've watched the E3 trailer. And now it's time to find out, exactly, what Fallout 76...

DC Universe Online has its summer all mapped out, and it's a doozy. Daybreak is leaping into the Teen Titans lore this July for...

Magic in space? Ship of Heroes is determined to make it work. The superhero MMORPG announced today that it will be including a magical subset...

A few years ago, we counted basically three City of Heroes successor games, all made by indie studios. In 2017, we still have three...