City of Heroes

City Of Heroes/Villains MMO reaches a new plateau: USER CREATED ...

Source: boards.1up.com

First the City of Heroes Character Creator set a new standard for player creation and customization. Now, Issue 13 takes another giant step, allowing players to design their own missions and story arcs to share with the entire City of ...

Published Tue, Aug 26, found via Google Blogs

Are You Calling Me… Chicken?

Source: Waaagh! A Warhammer Online

I’ve read it again and again — people from all MMO backgrounds wish that their previous game’s devs would just talk with them as much as Mythic does. City of Heroes did a terrific job as well, but Funcom? Blizzard? Turbine? Meh. ...

Published Mon, Aug 25, found via Google Blogs

Interview: Red 5's Paper-RPG Duo On The MMO Persistence Revolution

Source: Worlds In Motion

How would you compare what you folks are talking about here to Nevrax and the Ryzom Ring project for Saga of Ryzom, and what the NCSoft developers have talked about doing for City of Heroes? DW: The NCSoft developers haven’t said a lot ...

Published Mon, Aug 25, found via Google Blogs

Interview: Red 5's Paper-RPG Duo On The MMO Persistence Revolution

Source: Gamasutra

 CA - I look at a game like World of Warcraft or City of Heroes, where they have these scripted events and I’ve had a lot of fun playing over the years, ...

Published Mon, Aug 25, found via Google News

Why Subscription-Based MMOs Make Sense

Source: Double Buffered

What do you think made NCSoft more money? 137000 subscribers for City of Heroes/Villains, or 5.4 million users for Guild Wars? It turns out CoH made them $5.5 million this quarter, while Guild Wars made them $4.9 million. ...

Published Sun, Aug 24, found via Google Blogs

Engage!

Source: dare08.islamblogs.net

The game is in very capable hands, and they have a good track record. They have developed the successful MMO series “City of Heroes” and “City of Villains”. They are also in development of another MMO titled Champions Online. ...

Published Sun, Aug 24, found via Google Blogs

Interview: Red 5's Paper-RPG Duo On The MMO Persistence Revolution

Source: GameSetWatch

How would you compare what you folks are talking about here to Nevrax and the Ryzom Ring project for Saga of Ryzom, and what the NCSoft developers have talked about doing for City of Heroes? DW: The NCSoft developers haven’t said a lot ...

Published Fri, Aug 22, found via Google Blogs

GC 2008: SCEE Confirms PS3 MMOs For PAL Territories

Source: PSX Extreme

 - was unveiled at E3 last month, and if you couldn't guess from the title, it's a superhero-oriented MMO, perhaps similar to the likes of City of Heroes. ...

Published Fri, Aug 22, found via Google News