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Into the Super-Verse: What kind of legs does City of Heroes have in the longer term?
So it's time to start talking about the future of City of Heroes. To be fair, I'm not talking about it from a financial...
Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best player-crafted portal bases
A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...
Working As Intended: How to mod City of Heroes Homecoming the easy way
If you played City of Heroes a long time ago - or even back in 2019, when its secret server blossomed into a public...
Into the Super-Verse: What made Marvel Heroes so special?
This month we mark a particularly sad anniversary in the MMO space: The 10th anniversary of the launch of Marvel Heroes. By all rights,...
Dungeon crawler Dark and Darker goes to ‘Plan Z’ by releasing its playtest via torrent
The incredibly odd and unfortunate saga of multiplayer dungeon crawler Dark and Darker continues to vie for weirdest story of 2023. After getting the...
Global Chat: DC Universe Online lacks that ‘wow factor’
Are you heading into the summer season with the intent of sampling MMOs that you've never touched before? If so, then you'll find Virtual...
Former Hearthstone devs reveal Marvel Snap multiplayer CCG with beta signups open now
No, it's not a bean, a clicking noise, or a government assistance program: Marvel Snap is just a a new multiplayer card-collecting game. Nuverse...
DC Universe Online unleashes ‘suffering’ with this week’s Dark Knights patch
"Suffering descends upon the multiverse," DC Universe Online ominously announced in association with this week's Dark Knights release. The new episode pits heroes and...
DC Universe Online teases Episode 43 Dark Knights, plus 44, 45, and the PS5 client
Who likes roadmaps? Everyone, actually. And thankfully, Daybreak's Dimensional Ink has just this week produced one for DC Universe Online. While players and look...
DC Universe Online’s Episode 42 Legion of Doom and winter events have arrived
DC Universe Online players, your doom is upon you - Legion of Doom, that is, as Episode 42 is live and free for everyone....
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...
Design Mockument: Fresh ideas for City of Heroes 2 in 2021
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...
The world is vanishing, and only DC Universe Online heroes can help
No matter what your level of stoic cynicism is these days, I think we can all agree that having the world vanish is a...
Whatever happened to superhero MMO Valiance Online?
As one of the original community-led "Plan Z" superhero MMORPGs that sprung up in the wake of City of Heroes' original demise, Valiance Online...
Heroes and Villains promises unique narrative features and gameplay that doesn’t revolve around combat
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...
DC Universe Online’s latest Birds of Prey episode is live with gobs of new content
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...
Into the Super-verse: 13 text-based superhero MMOs you can play today
As part of this column covering superhero MMORPGs, we have looked at the usual suspects: MMOs of the past (Champions Online, City of Heroes,...
Global Chat: Remembering the MMO fallen
A discussion chain has been rippling across the MMO blogosphere as of late, with writers reminiscing about online games that have lived and died...
DC Universe Online is going live with its most Metal update today
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...
First impressions of DC Universe Online – on the Nintendo Switch
Last week, DC Universe Online became one of the only MMOs on the Nintendo Switch, prompting many gamers to give it a look or...
