City of Heroes

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains. Confused? Stay with us. Matt ‘Positron’ Miller, lead developer of City of Heroes, loves to drop hints to the player base about coming content. Sometimes these hints come in the ...

Of course, today’s One Shots doesn’t show snow so much as a graphical glitch in CoX, but we think Jeff T. has a point. He writes: NCSoft always said weather was beyond the City of Heroes/Villains game engine. ...

City of Heroes took a radically different approach. (It could hardly not do so, what with comic book heroes superspeeding and flying all over the place.) The individual zones were much smaller, and characters could take ‘travel powers’ ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Humor. City of Heroes has a feature missing in some other games: a space to write your character’s biography, or ‘bio’ as it is often called (not to be confused with the other ...

This blogger clearly remembers the first time he encountered Circle of Thorns spectrals in a cavern, over in City of Heroes. The Circle mages themselves aren’t all that intimidating: cowl-wearing flaming-eyed sorcerers, a bit like Jawas ...

Lineage and Lineage II both saw a drop in sales compared to last quarter as did Guild Wars, while City of Heroes and City of Villains as well as Tabula Rasa saw an increase in sales from the previous quarter, according to the earnings ...

This shakeup is only affecting Austin; the City of Heroes and Guild Wars teams are unaffected, as are the teams based out of the Korean offices. Future collaborations between NCsoft and the Garriott brothers will be very limited in ...

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Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, MMO industry. Remember that sense of ’something big around the corner’ that we mentioned? We’re getting it again. NCsoft had assured players that there was going to be some ...

A few of weeks ago, there was another double XP weekend in City of Heroes and City of Villains. In fact, not only was it double experience from each “arrest,” but it also provided twice the Influence (or Infamy for you villainous folks ...

One of the things we really enjoy in City of Villains is the ability to take on (and take down) some of the characters from the primary City of Heroes game. Wondering just what we mean by that? Read on for the scoop about this team: ...

For example, ‘The Going Rogue system is a new game dynamic for City of Heroes and City of Villains that allows players to alter the morality of their characters, eventually opening up the opportunity to turn their Hero into a Villain or ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Fan art, Lore. The Reichsman is an enigma. There probably hasn’t ever been another character in City of Heroes history whose popularity was so disproportionate to his presence ...

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. ...

He said he played Age of Conan for a couple of months, played Lord of the Rings Online a lot, and still goes back to City of Heroes every now and then. He thinks the key to MMO success is “not making choices based upon being different, ...

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Filed under: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Lineage, Lineage 2, Business models, MMO industry, News items, Tabula Rasa, Exteel, Free-to-play. Let’s face it, getting time cards for your favorite game is a ...

As an added bonus, both the $20 City of Heroes card and the $14.95 Tabula Rasa cards come with bonus in-game items - a jet pack and a rocket respectively. CoH and Exteel cards should be showing up at Target already, with those two and ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, Contests, Massively Event Coverage. We stopped by the NCsoft booth at Comic-Con 2008 and had the chance to chat with City of Heroes Community Manager Alex ‘Lighthouse’ Von Minden, who noted that ...

City of Heroes developer Cryptic Studios is working on a Star Trek MMO, and its got the screenshots to prove it. Dubbed Star Trek Online, the game will be based on the Star Trek franchise. Says Cryptic chief creative officer Jack Emmert ...

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Especially when City of Heroes randomizes for you the kind of heartthrob you see above and to the left. The writer toured EVE Online (as “Cad Dashing”), City of Heroes (as “Manley Power”) and World of Warcraft (thought about “Falcon ...

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Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Age of Conan, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Guild Wars, The Daily Grind. Plenty of MMOs use instances. Although it’s pretty fundamental to the genre that a massively multiplayer game will ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches. IGN have been talking to NCSoft at ComicCon, and have come away with a few pieces of intel about City of Heroes Issue 13. Most surprising is how it’s described as the ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Classes, Patches. We knew this one would be controversial. There’sa new patch hitting the CoX live servers today. Along with some welcome fixes for the buff icon issues players ...

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 ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Bugs, Patches. The CoX servers went down today to apply the latest patch, which is mostly a collection of fixes. It’s notable for the inclusion of a player-side means to address ...

Filed under: City of Heroes, City of Villains, Classes, Patches, PvE. City of Heroes Dev Back Alley Brawler has been a very busy guy of late. When he’s not fending off incoming questions like a tank herding Rikti monkeys, he’s working ...

NCsoft Europe announced that it has begun selling in the UK what it calls “starter packs” for some of its games - City of Heroes, City of Villains, Guild Wars, and Lineage II. Tabula Rasa will follow later in the year. ...