City of Heroes

By Kat Bailey With all eyes on Star Wars: The Old Republic, it's easy to forget the "other" Star War MMORPG. Star Wars Galaxies is still kicking around though, and it has a successful mission creation tool to prove it. Introduced back in October, Chronicle Master allows users to create their own missions...

By Zubon Returning to last week’s big theme of item shops, City of Heroes shipped Super Booster IV: Martial Arts last week (discussion thread). In addition to emotes and costume pieces, it includes a power (like the other Boosters): Ninja Run power: Dash through the city with the agility of a ninja...

NEWS - Cryptic Studios, the developers of City of Heroes, City of Villains, and Star Trek Online, has announced today the upcoming Nemeses Confrontation event for Champions Online.  On November 24, players will face their greatest Nemeses to protect the universe from great evil. 

By Kyle Horner This makes the fourth booster pack since the original (or microtransaction bundle, if you like) for City of Heroes and you can bet there will be plenty more as long as these continue to sell. Our guess for the next addition? Mutants would be a safe bet; mutants or zombies.Get your Kung Fu on in C...

By Eliot Lefebvre Sound like your sort of contest? There's a single catch -- you have to work within a given theme. In this case, the mission arc has to involve a hero doing evil for the greater good. That's a theme so ripe for exploration that we're all but certain several people came up with mission arcs just rea...

By Eliot Lefebvre We wanted to respond to your post from November 2 on City of Heroes and clarify a few points for you and your readers. In short, the piece offers a rather sensationalist view of NCsoft West and our success thus far. We're very proud of what we've accomplished here in the West - we have several maj...

for the first time. We spoke with Matt "Positron" Miller, Senior Lead Producer of City of Heroes, about what the change will entail. “This process is not immediate, it’s not a switch, it’s not a $30 charge. It’s a story that you go through. For heroes, it’s a fall from grace, for villains it’s a re...

At least folks who have subscribed to the game gets some goodies before the game dies. There's a 30 day free trial of City of Heroes Architect Edition and Guild Wars Prophecies for everyone and those that have multiple month purchases will get a refund. Changes to the game are in place so you ca...

By Lesley Smith MMOs tend to have dedicated fan bases and everyone has their favourite: Aion, City of Heroes, WoW, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online ... the list goes on and on. Everyone has their own personal favourite or the hip one that everyone and their pet goldfish is currently engrossed in. For example...

At last, our next free content update unveils the all new, much requested and long awaited Powers Customization system! You wanted more control over what your characters' powers look like, and you are getting it! Issue 16: Power Spectrum takes City of Heroes' unparalleled character cr...

 MA By Michael Thompson | Last updated June 17, 2009 10:00 AM CT Cryptic Studios is one of those companies unafraid to improve on its creations. When the developer first hit the bigtime, it was with NCsoft's popular MMO City of Heroes, which allowed ...

WoW may have actually managed to kill the old MMO subscription model. There are other games making a successful "living" at this in the margins, like Lord of the Rings Online and City of Heroes/Villains, but right now, it looks like if you want to jump ...

Swinging is demonstrated in this video from IGN. It's a power many gamers request while playing a superhero genre MMO. Currently, City of Heroes/Villains has four types of travel powers. coh/V has flying, running, jumping, and teleportation. ...

Like every system we design here, the Mission Architect system has been a labor of love that we have poured over every little decision on. I feel like everything we have worked on has really been worth it when I see that within 60 minutes, we had 360 entire Mission Arcs (each containing up to 5 m...

NEWS - NCsoft NorCal, the creative geniuses behind City of Heroes have been renamed Paragon Studios.  The Mountain View, CA based developer's new name was unveiled today, and the new Paragon Studios will continue to furthur the critically acclaimed City of Heroes series as well as other...

By rss@youtube.com (hpstrolamus) Author: hpstrolamus Keywords: City of Heroes Lacuna LacunaFurlong CoH CoV Dominator Mind/Fire FotM Duel City of Villains Velocity ABH Blaster Fire/Eng PvP Test Server Arena Added: March 10, 2009

By Mike Fahey For those of you interested in checking out what the players create once Issue 14: Architect goes live, look for the City of Heroes: Architect Edition, the game's first dual PC and Mac release, on store shelves this April. City of Heroes Issue 14: Architect

by Amber L Campbell, Las Vegas Gaming Examiner Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years or just taken a break from the game, you probably know about City of Heroes/Villains. A recent return to the game left me surprised with the ...

 TN Boomtown has posted a review of the features offered in the latest City of Heroes update, Issue 13. The latest additions to the game include customizable shields, the pain domination power for villains, changes to PvP, and the introduction of day jobs ...

 UK - Dec 4, 2008 NCsoft has released the latest free update to its long-running superhero MMO, City of Heroes. It's also ready to start beta testing an Apple Mac version of ...

By Zubon Zubon I always characterize City of Villains as what City of Heroes would have been with another year to work on it. But we aren’t playing it as much at City of Heroes, or at least we don’t seem to be. Why is that? There is less content. It is good content, but once [...]

City of Heroes to get Mac Special Edition · Murderers and criminals arrive as Patch 3 comes to Age of Conan Murderers and criminals arrive as Patch 3 comes to Age of Conan · Warhammer Online patch 1.0.4 hits the live servers ...

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The City of Villains / City of Heroes client has received a small patch to resolve a few pending issues with Base rent and the global chat. Here are the complete patch notes.

By LyleMasaki Overall, the Mission Architect system certainly sounds promising since we'll be able to "weave characters and story throughout multiple missions in a single arc" which should allow for some pretty deep missions. However, one aspect that has my attention is how player-created mission...

City of Heroes and City of Villains are 2 completely separate games. They are targeted at those of us who love comic books. Which one is for you? Well I guess it depends on whether you are out to save the world or destroy it. ...

By Agnus Dei I posted a howto for how to install City of Heroes under Crossover Games on macosx over on the [info] city_of_heroes community forum. Here's the link to How to install COH inside Crossover Games under macosx.

NCsoft released a new patch for City of Heroes/City of Villains and published the update notes on its website yesterday. Like this post’s title implies, most of the changes are tweaks, refinements, and fixes. ...

By Zyuu (Zyuu) Earlier today a new build, 17.20080625.1T, was made available for testing on the Training Room. Full patch notes below. Combined Powers. Changes to root time for Energy Blast - Power Burst. This does not affect the activation time, ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, PvP, PvE. A new patch has gone to the City of Heroes test server today. Courtesy of the European CoX forums, we’ve been able to take a look at the patch notes a little ...

 - The latest patch notes for NCsoft's City of Heroes, version 17.20080604.2T are up and about for your gaming pleasure. This particular build has given ample ...

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 Denmark - It took almost exactly six months for the NCsoft developers to bring the 12th content expansion to City of Heroes/Villains to the live servers. ...

By Michael Zenke Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Massively SpeakingMassively Speaking Episode 7 runs down news and features from Massively.com for the week of May 19th - May 25th. Site co-lead Krystalle Voecks joins the usual hosting duo of Michael and Shawn for a very special Massively Speaking. MMO pod...

No need to wait till the Midnight Hour. Cryptic Studios has released the latest update to its superhero MMO City of Heroes. It's called Issue 12: Midnight Hour and you can download it as of now. Click here to read the full article.

By Computer And Video Games No need to wait till the Midnight Hour. Cryptic Studios has released the latest update to its superhero MMO City of Heroes. It's called Issue 12: Midnight Hour and you can download it as of now.Click here to read the full article.

By Michael Zenke Filed under: World of Warcraft, Betas, Podcasts, Age of Conan, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Lord of the Rings Online, Culture, Events, real-world, Events, in-game, PvP, Massively SpeakingMassively Speaking Episode 2 runs down news and features from Massively.com for the week of...

By Michael Zenke Massively Speaking" episode one sees co-leads Krystalle Voecks and Michael Zenke, writer Kyle Horner, and accomplished podcasting veteran Shawn Schuster setting down to a banquet of MMO news. Check out our commentary on the Lich King alpha announcement, LOTRO Book 13, and City of Hero...

By Jonathan Northwood Filed under: Podcasts, City of Heroes, City of Villains, InterviewsDJ Shecky: I think this is a good spot for us to collect our thoughts, and go over and make sure that we've covered all these questions before we start to wrap things up. What about you guys?

By Jonathan Northwood Filed under: Podcasts, City of Heroes, City of Villains, InterviewsDJ Shecky: Somebody posted this one up on the Cape forums. Obviously there's a limited amount of places that ads can be placed in the Rogue Isles, etcetera. Are you going to be adding in more billboards? For instance, one of...

By Jonathan Northwood As promised, we have a full transcript from The Cape's podcast covering in-game advertising. Be warned: at 44 minutes of speech, the transcript is huge. To make it easier to digest, we've split the transcript into 7 discrete sections. So that it's easier to follow, the DJs have their speech i...

Patch news roundup  UK - It's a busy time on the test servers at NCsoft and Sony Online Entertainment. Patches for the former's City of Heroes and Tabula Rasa and the latter's ... In-game ads coming to City of Heroes Eurogamer all 2 news articles

By Jonathan Northwood Filed under: City of Heroes, City of Villains, Interviews Yesterday, The Cape Radio -- specifically DJs Templar and Shecky -- took the time to interview Brian Clayton, the General Manager of NCsoft NorCal studio, Matt "Positron" Miller, the Senior Lead Designer for City of Heroes, and...

With the many additions of costumes over the years to City of Heroes and City of Villains, it can be hard to find all the parts and pieces of various costume “sets.” For instance, you want to make a Jester themed character using the all of the various Jester costume items.

By Mark Turpin I find it very tough in this job to ever be fair to an MMO; I only get a week to play it and produce the review. It's always tough to get a sense of how fantastic it is past the starting zone. That in mind, I do urge all of you out there to try every MMO you can get your hands on. There is so much more out there...

By Jay P. NCsoft is definitely trying to make up for all the downtimes that their MMORPG City of Heroes is currently going through. They were able to come up with the easy leveling feature and the double experience weekends. ...

By Kyle Horner Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, News items The team behind City of Heroes have put up their 2008 state of the game announcement. It consists of all sorts of gooey fun bits, so listen on in for all of the scoop.

By Zubon Hey, this is about my character, why is it in the second person? Because you need to try this playstyle. If you want to see why City of Heroes is a different game from other MMOs, nothing will show you better than Kinetics. If you decide it is not your style, you will still want someone else on your...

By Zubon Before Enhancement Diversification, you could fully slot Fortitude with Hami-Os and keep it on every team member constantly, with maximum accuracy and defense. You could not do much else, since you would cast it every 8 seconds, but that would take care of most of your problems. Post-ED, i...

By Ceasar S. No longer keeping within the safe zone of tried and tested IPs, 10 veteran developers of MMO titans like World of Warcraft, EVE Online, City of Heroes, Dark Age of Camelot, Lord of the Rings Online, EverQuest and Ultima Online have now come together to form a new MMO developer studio called...

By Ceasar S. No longer keeping within the safe zone of tried and tested IPs, 10 veteran developers of MMO titans like World of Warcraft, EVE Online, City of Heroes, Dark Age of Camelot, Lord of the Rings Online, EverQuest and Ultima Online have now come together to form a new MMO developer studio called...