City of Heroes

This panel was all about the many games published and developed by NCsoft, including the much-anticipated Aion, new exclusive info for the City of Heroes franchise and more chances for players to get their DNA into space with Tabula ...

Filed under: Super-hero, Galleries, Screenshots, City of Heroes, City of Villains. When City of Heroes Issue 12: Midnight Hour came out, it brought with it a new co-operative Task Force that many players thought was the best yet. ...

City of Heroes have a few missions designed for a certain minimum, meaning they do not scale below that, but they otherwise scale up uniformly. Everyone, including fans like me, should recognize that City of Heroes has very little ...

The regularly scheduled server maintenance for Monday, September 1st and been moved to Tuesday, September 2nd to better accommodate the US Labor Day Holiday. All North American City of Heroes / City of Villains game servers will come ...

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NCSoft’s City of Heroes/City of Villains notably lacked drops for much of its early existence, and many players complained about the absence. The routine drop, on the other hand, is really nothing more than currency in another form. ...

In City of Heroes Issue 13: Architect, a new 'day job' system will be introduced where your character can gain buffs and progress towards special badges without you having to arrest a single villain. The system just requires you to log ...

NCsoft NorCal is pleased to announce the thirteenth free expansion to come to City of Heroes® since it's launch: Issue 13: Architect! Issue 13 introduces astounding new systems, content, challenges and features! To read the announcement ...

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Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Economy, Crafting. A newcomer to City of Heroes is bound to see some strange terminology flying about on the Broadcast and Help channels. After around level 30, many heroes ...

And rather more importantly, as Ben Zeigler points out in a well-written piece, NCsoft makes money hand over fist - and more last year from City of Heroes than Guild Wars. It’sa point well taken - both products are fairly old in ...

Since I was in City of Heroes *anyway*, I decided to look in on my mastermind, the villainous Tara Mythcrafter. Next up on her mission list was a mayhem mission, where she would go to Paragon City and raise havoc and rob a bank and ...

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' ...

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Planetside, another SOE game that happens to be a persistent online shooter, has been around since 2003. City of Heroes, a super hero MMO, has been around since 2004. Physics-based games have been all-the-rage for the last few years. ...

The latest patch for City of Heroes/City of Villains has been applied to all servers. The final patch notes have also been published and can be read after the jump.

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As a sort-of example, we ran a feature on the PvP minigames in City of Heroes. Although you don't have to defeat any other players to get those rewards, you do have to enter PvP zones and risk being beaten senseless. ...

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 ...

City of Heroes has had the superhero MMO market to itself for the past four years. (I don’t think Twilight Heroes counts, although Kingdom of Loathing compares favorably with Everquest in many ways.) Now the next couple of years are ...

Los Angeles is home to the development-in-the-dark Carbine Studios effort, while the San Francisco area is home to the City of Heroes development team. Seattle, of course, plays host to Arena.net and Joystiq reports that’s where TR will ...

City of Heroes will be treating visitors to two upcoming games conventions to an exclusive Paragon Police Department Hard Suit Costume Power. Check out how to grab one for your account...

City of Heroes/Villains: Looks good, but not particularly smooth on high settings - at least on villain side. Tabula Rasa: Autoconfig settings sets graphics quality to low and uses the wrong resolution, looks like crap. ...

If the reaction is anything like it is with the Rikti invasions, these will be a lot of fun with massed players, assuming your system can handle it. City of Heroes Halloween is cumulative, so previous years’ events will be returning. ...

The City of Heroes team has released the patch notes from the latest update. The current version is now 17.20080723.3T -- how's that for a mouthful? Check out the changes, fixes and enhancements after the jump.

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This means that a group can break up the venture into separate excursions, much like a City of Heroes Task Force being broken up over multiple nights of play. You can even change party members between runs. ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Business models, News items. NCsoft announced yesterday that players of City of Heroes are now able to purchase respecs (opportunities to rollback character development ...

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Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Events, in-game. Yesterday, the City of Heroes test server was host to a terrible event. In one city zone after another, both in Paragon and the Rogue Isles, the dead rose to ...

Paragon City is in danger! The Rikti invasion force is returning to City of Heroes servers beginning tomorrow, Friday, August 1st. Find out more details after the jump.

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Brace yourselves as the full fury of the Rikti Invasion Force is set to descend upon Paragon City™ and the Rogue Isles™ starting on Friday, August 1st and continuing through Thursday, August 7th. For details or to discuss this event...

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I think it was last year that City of Heroes/Villains added the option to buy a server transfer or a rename of an existing character. A couple of other MMORPGs already had that option. While one can argue about the size of the fee, ...

Target, Best Buy and Rite Aid to sell cards for popular NCsoft online games...

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Cryptic has not yet proven to me that they can make an MMO worth playing. City of Heroes/Villains comes close, but its grindy, repetitive gameplay is only worth doing if you are doing it with friends. Since nearly ANY MMO is worth ...

We give em' two big thumbs-up, and we hope you don't think super-hero and villain MMOs are overplayed. One very cool thing ... Brief glimpse of City of Heroes Issue 13 IGN have been talking to NCSoft at ComicCon, and have come away with ...

IGN PC is now running a brief preview of City of Heroes' Issue #13 from Comic Con '08. The preview mostly mentions that Issue #13 will be including the previously talked bout user created mission system. No screenshots, title, or other ...

City of Heroes servers underwent an upgrade today and have posted the laundry list of changes for those who MUST know. If you're one of those, click below.

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Filed under: City of Heroes, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, Events, real-world, Stargate Worlds, Massively Event Coverage, Champions Online. One of the strengths of MMOs are their communities. ...

It used to be that players could head to the official site of games like City of Heroes, Guild Wars or Lineage II and download a two week trial for free. It's rare that those sites haven't had an offer like that available to potential ...

For the new City of Heroes/Villains Valentine's Day Celebrations, PlayNC has released a set of items at the price of 9.99 (USD), which include new emotes and costumes. This micro transaction ordeal may be repeated by PlayNC if this one ...