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Into the Super-verse: Getting to know City of Heroes all over again
It has been well over a decade since I played City of Heroes with any regularity, and yet when I saw that familiar loading...
Into the Super-verse: Six things that made Marvel Heroes great
With all of the City of Heroes revival talk lately, our office chat turned in the direction of other MMOs we'd love to see...
Heroes and Villains works on crafting story, villain content, and sewers
It has been some time since we last checked in with Heroes and Villains, perhaps the most overlooked of all of the City of...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that let you feel superheroic
So, hey, Captain Marvel is out now! And I'm writing this before having actually seen it, so I can't say word one about whether...
Perfect Ten: Totally rad ’80s cartoons that would make bodacious MMORPGs
In another reality where our passion for MMORPGs is matched only by the power of nostalgia for the greatest era of cartoons, we would...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Villains, enhancement diversification, and Going Rogue
It's always easy to look back at the making of City of Heroes and its first year with a memory tinted toward the good...
The Game Archaeologist: Digging up the history of City of Heroes
For the longest time in the early 2000s, MMORPGs scared me off. They looked too obtuse, too grindy, too ugly, and too unapproachable for...
E3 2018: ‘Fallout 76 is entirely online’
You've seen the teaser. You've heard the rumors. You've watched the E3 trailer. And now it's time to find out, exactly, what Fallout 76...
DCUO plans July Teen Titans episode, August Augment system to replace R&D mods
DC Universe Online has its summer all mapped out, and it's a doozy. Daybreak is leaping into the Teen Titans lore this July for...
Ship of Heroes delves into space magic
Magic in space? Ship of Heroes is determined to make it work.
The superhero MMORPG announced today that it will be including a magical subset...
Leaderboard: Which of the City of Heroes spiritual successors are you looking forward to?
A few years ago, we counted basically three City of Heroes successor games, all made by indie studios. In 2017, we still have three...
Destiny 2 introduces you to a gallery’s worth of heroes and villains
You know that thing that some inspirational or informative videos do where they throw giant words up on the screen to subtitle every. Single....
Choose My Adventure: Two approaches to whining about DC Universe Online
Dear readers, today I am going to try something different for all of you. And it's predicated on the fact that I'm not just...
One Shots: Man of Tungsten
Look there! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Mysecretid!
Who among us hasn't played a video game at some point and...
DCUO’s summer event is nothing short of an Atlantean civil war
Aquaman might still be dealing with the shameful vestiges of his poor Superfriends cartoon showing in the 1970s, but the underwater superhero is getting...
Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
Heroes and Villains explains its goals for seamless zoning
Heroes and Villains was one chunk of the original trifecta of superhero MMORPGs that sprang from the grave of City of Heroes, but it's...
Valiance Online clarifies alpha and Steam launch plans
Back in October, Valiance Online announced that it was superjumping onward from pre-alpha to alpha and revealed that it'll use a free-to-play model, or...
Valiance Online introduces a trio of heroes and villains
Even though superhero MMOs offer us the ability to create our own characters and live vicariously through their adventures, it's good to hear about...
The Daily Grind: Which City of Heroes spiritual successor are you rooting for?
I was a tiny bit flabbergasted last weekend when I saw that there was yet another City of Heroes spiritual successor project in the...
