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The Stream Team: Taking a peek at the new Seismic Blast powerset in City of Heroes Homecoming’s beta
Isn't it wild that we're talking about a beta test for City of Heroes content in 2021? Here we are doing just that as...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s Issue 27: Second Chances, Page 3 hits the test server
On Wednesday, we noted in our big roundup of MMORPG studios running Extra Life 2021 charity streams this weekend that City of Heroes rogue...
How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes
If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...
City of Heroes Homecoming gets all Halloween happy
The other day on the podcast, we were trying to recall what the name of City of Heroes' haunted house was. That served as...
Into the Super-Verse: Has Homecoming torched the plans of City of Heroes successors?
Anyone who has followed my career for a while is probably aware of the fact that I love City of Heroes. This is not a...
The Game Archaeologist: Kingdom of Loathing
It is, in so many ways, the antithesis of a modern MMORPG. It has crude stick figure drawings instead of lush 3-D graphics. It...
Choose My Adventure: DC Universe Online just ended up making me love City of Heroes more
Third verse same as the first. If nothing else, DC Universe Online is consistent in how its leveling game works, though there were a...
The Stream Team: Exploring some player-made missions in City of Heroes Homecoming
Players of MMOs, given the tools and the time, can make some pretty awesome things, and while many MMOs and MMORPGs seem to be...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 322: New World, old problems
Justin and Bree discuss New World, FFXIV Endwalker, WoW Classic's backtrack, and City of Heroes streaming, with adventures in WoW, New World, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on guild housing and MMO economies.
City of Heroes Homecoming is finally allowing videos and streaming again
In March of 2020, City of Heroes rogue server Homecoming, the largest of the server groups, put a moratorium on videos and streams created...
City of Heroes’ Rebirth server adds new Guardian archetype and powersets with first Issue
Rebirth might be one of the smaller rogue servers in the City of Heroes community, particularly compared to the largest batch; according to its...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s GvG tourney is dishing out $50K in cash and prizes
This week in crowdfunded MMOs, you could win a slice of $25,000! Or you could if you're a badass in crowdfunded beta MMO Crowfall,...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming buffs travel powers and adds tour guide missions in today’s i27p2 update
Back in March, we covered a new patch that had just gone in testing for the test server for City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue...
One of City of Heroes’ rogue servers, Sanctuary, has apparently been taken out by hackers
It appears as though City of Heroes' Sanctuary rogue server has suffered what could turn out to be a catastrophic outage.
The troubles began last...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming begins testing exploration missions, travel power buffs in i27p2
City of Heroes' Homecoming players have a bit to look forward to this weekend, as Page 2 of Issue 27 has dropped on the...
The Daily Grind: What’s your primary reason for alting in MMORPGs?
Last weekend, I fell back into City of Heroes rogue servers as I do now every few months, and instead of making a beeline...
The Daily Grind: Has anyone ever accidentally ruined an MMO for you?
A few weeks ago, I was happily joyscrolling about home improvement ideas for my new house when I bumped into a comment that keeps...
One Shots: A friend closer than a brother
When you are heading out to the dangerous wilds where dismemberment, face melting, certain death, or even experience loss might be around every corner,...
Into the Super-verse: A heroic year of superhero MMO development
As we get ready to tuck 2020 into the annals of history and venture into the wilds of 2021, it's a good time for...
One Shots: Memories in crystal
We don't just take screenshots of MMOs to impress each other but to cement memories that would otherwise fade away to the ravages of...