heroic games
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2018
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...
Ship of Heroes looks ahead to improved character editor and leveling tests in 2019
It's only natural to want to cheer on a group of superheroes, especially if they're making an MMORPG to fill the gap of one...
The best Massively OP streams of 2018
Massively OP's long-running Stream Team, unquestionably captained by MJ and her sidekicks Larry and Andrew, got a welcome surprise this year: Our newest writer, Chris...
The Stream Team: Dog pile on Ship of Heroes!
Ship of Heroes is conducting another test, this time focusing on logging in a large chunk of players at once. It sounds like a...
Perfect Ten: MMOs to watch in 2019
The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...
Ship of Heroes opens registration for its first login test
It's uncommon for a development team to describe an upcoming test phase as "boring," since the goal is usually to get fans excited and...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions
As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later?
So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.
Ship of Heroes honors City of Heroes’ deathiversary with a support toon video
Six years ago today, the sun set on City of Heroes for the last time, but the game's not been forgotten. Among the title's spiritual...
Ship of Heroes talks plainly about its FPS testing from a technical side
It's very important to keep an eye on the FPS performance of an MMO, but it's also something that tends to not be discussed...
Ship of Heroes demos deadly Halloween trick-or-treating and spooky new models
Just because a game's still being built doesn't mean it can't work on seasonal events, Ship of Heroes proves once again today. Heroic Games...
Ship of Heroes shows off the lighting of its day and night cycle in a new video
If you want to be really pedantic, the sun does not rise or set in Apotheosis City, the home setting of Ship of Heroes....
The Game Archaeologist: The Death of City of Heroes
August 31st, 2012, was a Friday like any other. City of Heroes players were psyched for the upcoming Issue 24, which Paragon Studios had...
Ship of Heroes’ latest video demos city street immersion on the spaceship
Ship of Heroes is following up its roadmap and immersive NPC AI discussion with a video that puts the content progress into perspective.
"Immersion is...
Ship of Heroes works on its diurnal cycle, builds out missions, and deals with poaching
Yesterday, Heroic Games' Casey McGeever posted up the September to October milestones for Ship of Heroes, providing a bit of a roadmap for the...
Here’s how Ship of Heroes is populating its starship city with people and vehicles
Can I be real for a sec here. Smashing cars was one of the best parts of City of Heroes. Being rewarded for destroying...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 180: Superstoked for heroic MMOs
Justin and Bree discuss the influence of City of Heroes (Paragon Chat, SEGS, Valiance Online, Ship of Heroes, and City of Titans), plus WoW, No Man's Sky, SWGemu, Camelot Unchained, STO, CCP's new MMO, and Rend, with a mailbag entry on comments negativity.
Ship of Heroes recaps its July progress, including work on characters, Unreal, and TrueSKY
It was a bit of an unplanned superhero MMORPG weekend, what with news from City of Titans, Ship of Heroes, and City of Heroes'...
Ship of Heroes introduces the mixed-race Meltdown, preps for August login test
Superhero and... wealthy mixed-race intergalactic businessman? That's the intriguing makeup of Ship of Heroes' Meltdown, a character who is as much a CEO of...
Ship of Heroes’ teeny-weeny robot nanites ensure smooth sailing for the superhero starship
Ship of Heroes has a fresh dev blog up today on stuff you can't even see. I'm talking, of course, about nanites, ridiculously tiny...
Ship of Heroes shows off its female soldier armor
It would be unfair to say that superhero MMOs are based entirely on the strength of their costume creation, but that costume creation is...
