The former studio behind City of Heroes.
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the worst for ‘trash pulls’?
A week or two ago, Blizzard Watch had a post up polling its readers about which trash pulls in WoW they hated the most....
The Daily Grind: What’s the most stable MMORPG (besides WoW) right now?
Massively OP reader Gail made an interesting observation in one of the City of Heroes Master x Master drama threads about what she called "corn...
NCsoft rep says bringing City of Heroes toons to Master x Master was his ‘passion project’
We've been speaking with NCsoft West off the record this week, agitating for publicly printable answers on the Master X Master decision to implement City...
Meet City of Titans’ six heroic archetypes
Thanks to some website spring cleaning, City of Titans made a previously hidden article visible to the masses. This particular page outlines the upcoming...
Massively Overthinking: The City of Heroes Master X Master debacle
On Tuesday, NCsoft announced that it plans to introduce Statesman, from the long-sunsetted City of Heroes, as a playable character in its MOBA, Master...
Perfect Ten: Memories of an Anarchy Online noob
My initial foray into MMORPGs was, to put it nicely, quite ungraceful. I wasn't even aware that they were a thing until about the...
Ship of Heroes touts Unreal Engine 4 progress ahead of Kickstarter bid
Since our community has City of Heroes on the brain of late, let's recall that there are no less than five games inspired by...
Here’s why everyone’s pissed off about City of Heroes NPCs in NCsoft’s MOBA
Yesterday, NCsoft took the lid off a secret it's clearly been working on for a while: The company means to introduce a notorious and...
Master x Master announces closed beta, adds City of Heroes’ Statesman
Today's good news for Master x Master fans is that the game has a closed beta coming up. The next test will be between...
Ship of Heroes salutes City of Heroes in its network demo video
Ship of Heroes has a new video out today that is ostensibly a network demo showing off half a dozen remote developers spread across...
Ship of Heroes will seek $400,000 in Kickstarter funding
Indie superhero MMO Ship of Heroes has just announced the details of its planned Kickstarter campaign, which was previously noted to begin on April...
The Daily Grind: How do you set up your MMO when you first log in?
The other day I was recalling the whole City of Heroes experience (sad sigh), and an odd memory jumped out. It was the most...
Battle Bards Episode 93: It’s a madhouse!
It’s taken this long, but the Battle Bards have gone completely and irreversibly insane in the membrane! Today the team cracks open the door...
Perfect Ten: Every MMORPG bestiary ever
I have played a lot of MMOs. It's inevitable, given enough years in this job and hobby. And the sad thing is that I...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 106: Ready to relaunch
Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World's relaunch, Landmark's sunset, ESO: Morrowind, Albion Online, Guild Wars 2, Ship of Heroes, and Champions Online, with a mailbag questions on ESO and multiplayer immersion.
Ship of Heroes demos combat ahead of April Kickstarter
Ship of Heroes studio Heroic Games is clearly conscious of the MMORPG playerbase's demand for gameplay videos before Kickstarter, which is likely why this...
The Daily Grind: Do you use plugins for your main MMORPG?
As one of Massively OP's resident modding nuts, I am drawn to MMORPGs that offer plugin support and modding APIs. World of Warcraft's modding...
City of Heroes fans plan April 28th anniversary celebration
Who says you can't celebrate the life of a sunsetted game? The Titan Network isn't buying it: It's once again hosting a City of...
Redside, a fifth City of Heroes spiritual successor, takes the field
At this point, we have to ask whether we as an MMO community are being pranked on a large scale with a deluge of...
Recapping the Asheron’s Call sunsets
Just before Christmas, we learned the sad news that Turbine would not be transferring Asheron's Call and its revivified sequel to Standing Stone as...
