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Official Site: City of Heroes
Studio: Paragon Studios/NCsoft
Launch Date: April 27, 2004
Sunset Date: November 30, 2012
Homecoming License Date: January 4, 2024
Genre: Superhero Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac

Our more specific coverage of the City of Heroes revival is also binned here; you can find the tighter chronology of community rogue server posts right here; regular coverage following the official licensing of the Homecoming servers resumes under the regular City of Heroes tag.

Power up.

City of Heroes Rebirth celebrates its sixth birthday this month with XP events and Nemesis invasions

Bree Royce - 0
It's hard for me to believe it, but it's been over six years since the City of Heroes community whirred back to life with...
Why not goblins, just like George Carlin suggested?

Vague Patch Notes: Challenge and rewards in MMOs are made up

Eliot Lefebvre - 2
All right, folks, pop quiz. I want you to name for me the first major raid in Ultima Online. That was the first game...

The Daily Grind: Do you play the same MMOs as your significant other?

Bree Royce - 24
One of the things I love about having a dedicated room in my house with all the computers is that my family games together...
SHIP IT

City of Heroes Homecoming marks the original MMO’s 21st anniversary with a badge and event

Chris Neal - 1
Badgers of City of Heroes: Homecoming, rise up! Today marks the 21st anniversary of the original MMORPG's release, which is reason enough for the...
I've got a lot of problems with you people!

Storyboard: Dealing with the things your MMOs characters can’t do (but still can)

Eliot Lefebvre - 5
In the middle of Final Fantasy XIV's post-Stormblood patches, there's a scene where the characters need to purchase a specific katana. An exact price...

The Daily Grind: What are the tipoffs that mark gamers out as veteran MMORPG players?

Bree Royce - 39
Back during the first weekend of the Lord of the Rings Online transfer mess, I spent an inordinate amount of time in the game's...

Massively Overthinking: The eternal granular squabbles in our pet MMORPGs

Bree Royce - 4
So if you don't play a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server - and chances are that you don't - you probably have no idea...

One Shots: That’s a whole lot of WD-40

Justin Olivetti - 7
Let's be real: A giant, city-destroying robot is going to require lubrication by the tankful. And some poor sap is going to have the...
Shoop.

Vague Patch Notes: Level scaling in MMOs with the lateral spread and the temporary shrink

Eliot Lefebvre - 8
Last week I talked about how MMORPGs use level scaling to accomplish actually useful and important goals. In short, there is an issue with...
Forever and ever.

Perfect Ten: Early versions of MMOs that were rougher than you remember

Justin Olivetti - 15
Despite our nostalgia goggles and cries for legacy versions of MMORPGs, the real truth is that most 1.0 versions of our online games were...

The Daily Grind: What are the most challenging upgrade systems in MMORPGs?

Bree Royce - 20
The thing I love about City of Heroes is that it scales remarkably well. If I want to just play the game or a...

Massively Overthinking: The one about open-world randos in MMOs

Bree Royce - 9
MOP's Chris is fast becoming my muse: It was his remark about Marvel Heroes that inspired this week's Massively Overthinking. "Some of the best fun...

Ship of Heroes calls attention to its ‘gorgeous’ visuals and how they serve game design as donations reopen

Chris Neal - 3
One would expect that a game set in a sci-fi superheroic setting would have a lot of dynamic things to look at, and Ship...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: The accursed MMORPG dungeons of no return

Eliot Lefebvre - 15
So it came to be that I did face my Judgment, and I sat between that greatest of all Game-Masters o'er all the online...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 513: The MMORPG PvP theme show

Justin Olivetti - 11
Justin and Bree sit for a special themeshow all about MMORPG PvP in its many (many) forms, in addition to adventures in the LOTRO housing chaos.

The Stream Team: A quick jaunt in City of Heroes Homecoming just for the heck of it

Chris Neal - 0
Sometimes there are reasons why OPTV focuses on a game. Maybe it's the "it" title for our streamers. Maybe it's gotten a big update....
How near, how far.

Whatever happened to superhero MMO Valiance Online? (2025 edition)

Bree Royce - 5
It's been a couple of years since we heard much out of Valiance Online, one of the original superhero MMORPGs that spawned in the...

City of Titans’ Q1 update heralds progress on Unreal 5.5 upgrade, landscapes, and NPCs

Bree Royce - 0
Just ahead of the new year, Kickstarted superhero MMORPG City of Titans resurfaced from a year of tragedy and mourning to post a development...

Battle Bards: The Final Refrain

Justin Olivetti - 5
It’s been a very long while, but the Battle Bards haven’t fully abandoned you — at least not without a goodbye! In the grand...

DC Universe Online’s latest Day of Reckoning chapter, Aftershock, arrives with cross-faction leagues

Justin Olivetti - 0
The Day of Reckoning saga continues to play out in DC Universe Online, as the superhero MMO patches in Aftershock today. "Prepare for the arrival...
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