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Into the Super-Verse: Gearing up as a newcomer to City of Heroes Homecoming
I was originally going to spend this week opining on why the Incarnate system in City of Heroes didn't really work and why it...
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...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 454: MMO roadmap roundup
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
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...
City of Heroes Homecoming opens testing of new Arsenal powersets, epic power pool revamp, TF diversity, and more
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...
Vague Patch Notes: What City of Heroes Homecoming means for the wider MMORPG industry
As you have probably noticed from the fact that I have been writing about City of Heroes nonstop since the Homecoming server got its...
Ship of Heroes asks fans to sound off on what makes raiding fun
The last couple of weeks have probably felt a bit weird around the Ship of Heroes offices thanks to the legal revival of City...
Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs
During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
Into the Super-Verse: What City of Heroes needs now is not more endgame content
One of the key discussion points about the City of Heroes revival revolves around what the perception of the game is going to be....
City of Heroes Homecoming teases I27p7’s new powersets (plural) and story arcs
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
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
Ready for yet another staff roundtable, this time with Justin, Bree, Sam, and Chris? You best be, as these fine minds discuss City of...
City of Heroes Homecoming saw 4431 peak concurrent players this past weekend
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...
DC Universe Online marks its 13th anniversary with a returning event and free goodies for all
DC Universe Online is 13 years old this month, which naturally means that the players are the ones getting the presents, along with a...
The Daily Grind: Do you track your MMO gaming habits from year to year?
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
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
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...
Into the Super-Verse: Rediscoveries I made diving headlong into City of Heroes Homecoming
Last week, I wrote about how my game came back. It was a big deal to me to know that City of Heroes was...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2024
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
On Friday, we asked our readers whether they planned to play City of Heroes Homecoming, newly crowned with a formal license by NCsoft. We...
