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The former studio behind City of Heroes.

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Working As Intended: How to mod City of Heroes Homecoming the easy way

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If you played City of Heroes a long time ago - or even back in 2019, when its secret server blossomed into a public...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 454: MMO roadmap roundup

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Justin and Bree discuss the 2024 roadmaps for Lord of the Rings Online, Lost Ark, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, EVE Online, Elder Scrolls Online, New World, EverQuest, EverQuest II, and Wayfinder, with adventures in LOTRO, FFXIV, and City of Heroes.

Global Chat: The EverQuest Fippy Awards

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The EverQuest Show is starting the year with a for-fun awards ceremony featuring the two EverQuest MMOs. Who will win? Who will lose? Will this be...
Flags?

City of Heroes Homecoming opens testing of new Arsenal powersets, epic power pool revamp, TF diversity, and more

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It's finally here, and by here we mean on the Brainstorm beta server: City of Heroes Homecoming's first big patch since April 2023 (and...
SHIP IT

Vague Patch Notes: What City of Heroes Homecoming means for the wider MMORPG industry

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As you have probably noticed from the fact that I have been writing about City of Heroes nonstop since the Homecoming server got its...

Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs

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During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
VORP

Into the Super-Verse: What City of Heroes needs now is not more endgame content

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One of the key discussion points about the City of Heroes revival revolves around what the perception of the game is going to be....
I did a thing!

City of Heroes Homecoming teases I27p7’s new powersets (plural) and story arcs

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City of Heroes' Homecoming team, having been under official license by NCsoft for the last two weeks, issued an address to players on its...

Perfect Ten: The weirdest weapons from MMOs of yore

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Swords. Staffs. Maces. Spears. Wands. Bows. Crossbows. Double-crossbows. Hammers. Wolverine claws. Daggers. Axes. Deadly? Yes. Fashionable? Not so much. A two-handed sword is so...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 453: Massively minds of the roundtable

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Ready for yet another staff roundtable, this time with Justin, Bree, Sam, and Chris? You best be, as these fine minds discuss City of...
i'm lost help me

City of Heroes Homecoming saw 4431 peak concurrent players this past weekend

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As more and more players learn that NCsoft has granted a formal license to player-led Homecoming to run City of Heroes servers, the playerbase...

The Daily Grind: Do you track your MMO gaming habits from year to year?

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Steam's customized "year in review" report captured everyone's attention for a hot minute back in December. All over social media and in my favorite Discords,...

Nightingale’s clockwork Knights won’t take any prisoners

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The many realms that Nightingale adventurers will visit may be beautiful, but they'll also be stocked with dangers a-plenty. One of these is the...

City of Heroes fans have City of Heroes Homecoming working on a Steam Deck

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It's already astonishing enough that City of Heroes: Homecoming is an officially licensed emulator, but now it's become a portable MMORPG thanks to the...
Sparky!

Into the Super-Verse: Rediscoveries I made diving headlong into City of Heroes Homecoming

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Last week, I wrote about how my game came back. It was a big deal to me to know that City of Heroes was...
Forever and ever.

End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2024

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As I say every single year and several people ignore every single year: This is not a column about the games that are most...

Unsurprisingly, City of Heroes Homecoming saw a massive playerbase spike this past weekend

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On Friday, we asked our readers whether they planned to play City of Heroes Homecoming, newly crowned with a formal license by NCsoft. We...

Ship of Heroes recaps 2023 development, marking ‘dramatic progress’ toward its 2024 launch

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Heroic Games had a bang-up 2023 in developing Kickstarter superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes if reading its year in review dev blog is anything...

The Stream Team: Team play on City of Heroes’ newly licensed Homecoming servers

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It's part podcast, part livestream, and all City of Heroes! Following the surprise announcement of the Homecoming rogue server landing an official license from...
Shields

Into the Super-Verse: Reflecting on City of Heroes, back officially at long last

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As a dedicated fan of superheroes, I have to be honest that yesterday's news feels downright poetic. City of Heroes died in November of...

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