City of Villains

By Eliot Lefebvre At the six-year mark, City of Heroes is still moving forward, with City of Heroes: Going Rogue targeted for release in the second quarter of 2010. It's certainly not the oldest game to receive an expansion, but Vicarious Existence has an interesting point to be made: exactly how much is rid...

By Eliot Lefebvre Facing off against legions of werewolves and zombies is certainly not out of the ordinary for a character in City of Heroes... but facing off against hordes of them in alliance with Jack-O-Lanterns, Eidolons, and Shivans can only mean one thing. The annual Halloween event is kicking off once...

By Seraphina Brennan If you spend some time in Architect Entertainment today, be sure to drop your opinions on the three new missions down below in our comment box. Inquiring minds want to know how the missions are!Guest author missions launch in City of Heroes originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 13 Oct 20...

By James Egan When the devs introduced the Mission Architect to City of Heroes, it was their first step towards embracing player-generated content and adding new dimensions to the game experience. They've announced that the next step with Mission Architect is to have a Guest Author Program where "co...

By James Egan We caught up with City of Heroes game designers Joe Morrissey and Matt "Positron" Miller who shared with us a bit about how things have changed in the game in recent months, and gave us some info about the content and features on the way in Issue 16: Power Spectrum.Gallery: SDCC09: City of Her...

By rss@youtube.com (Darkborn) Author: Darkborn Keywords: City of Villains Heroes CoX Zig Prison Escape Tutorial Added: May 28, 2009

By Krystalle Voecks You've got five great years of City of Heroes under your belt. What's it been like watching your MMO grow and develop over that time? How about staying together through everything your team has been through, to finally becoming Paragon Studios?

By Lesley Smith Yes another one of NCSoft's MMOs is celebrating its birthday this week and this time it's City of Heroes. Celebrating its fifth birthday on April 28th and continuing through May, the devs have plenty planned in an attempt to reward existing players and tempt back lapsed heroes and villain...

I mean, you can now pick up the original City of Heroes, City of Villains, and additional content that lets you make and personalize your own missions in this complete edition. It’s your world now, superhero wannabe, so defend it or conquer it. ...

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

 - After all, Cryptic brought together MMOs and superheros for the first time with their 2004 release City of Heroes (and it's pseudo-sequel City of Villains. ...

 - Feb 13, 2009 The recently launched Aion amounted to 10 percent of that breakdown, followed by City of Heroes/City of Villains with 7 percent and Guild Wars with 5 ...

Related articles from SYS-CON Media, Lord of the Rings Online WarCry, GamersDailyNews.

By Krystalle Voecks To celebrate this momentous occasion, those Very Silly People at NC NorCal have produced a very special video for the Mac fans in the house. Of course, anyone who owns a Mac (or a TV for that matter) has undoubtedly seen a similar video, but it took the City of Heroes & City of Villains deve...

 CA - Dec 4, 2008 Both products include the complete City of Heroes and City of Villains games, as well as a set of exclusive bonus items. Customers receive the first month ...

By Mike Fahey City of Heroes introduces new ways to build up your superhero persona as NCsoft launches their latest free update, Issue 13: Power and Responsibility. City of Heroes is rated "16+". For more information about City of Heroes go to http://eu.cityofheroes.com/.

By Michael Zenke It seems like your choice to move to this meta-currency system is an increasingly common design choice in MMOs. Do you see this as a trend in the industry, or did you have ulterior motives for going in this direction aside from satisfying your players?

Good day everyone! As you can all see now, Issue 13: Power and Responsibility is now in Open Beta. This means that anyone and everyone who has an active City of Heroes account can try out the issue on the Training Room server. We're just a few short weeks away from releasing this to the Live serve...

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 [...]

By sente All in all it has been some fairly good gaming. Not that much in each game (except perhaps Guild Wars), but sizeable chunks of fun.        Lately the somewhat limited game time I have had has been split between all three MMOs I currently play - City of Villains/Heroes, Guild Wars and Age of Cona...

Since it is Halloween season most games has some Halloween events. In City of Villains/Heroes it is the usual trick and treat knock-on-door from last season, with all the disguises as various villains. The added part for this year was the Zombie invasion, which is pretty much like the RIkti...

Brian Clayton: No. However, unparalleled character customization is a hallmark of the City of Heroes franchise and after the great response we got from our community, we decided that it was worth the extra time to allow our players this level of character customization within the Missio...

Related articles from Massively, MMORPG and more.

The Leveling Pact: A new innovation to MMOs, this groundbreaking system allows you and a buddy to create new characters and have your XP be permanently in sync, whether both characters are online or not. You will always be the same level, even if your buddy plays ten times more often than you...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, PvP Floyd 'Castle' Grubb clearly does not know the meaning of fear. He's now unveiled a detailed breakdown of the foreshadowed changes to powers in City of Heroes PvP, and they're so radical it will probably be like playi...

Related articles from Massively, Daily MMO Game and more.

By Melmoth(noreply@blogger.com) Having said that, it is clear that allowing the combination of the stone melee power-set with the Brute archetype is in absolute contravention of several articles of the Geneva Conventions. And so far, fighting alongside an awesome team of fellow villains, the tide has always turned onc...

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.

On Tuesday, September 16, 2008 all North American City of Heroes / City of Villains game servers will come down starting at 4 AM Pacific (7 AM Eastern) to patch the game to the new version 17.20080821.4T2. Estimated downtime for...

Related articles from City of Villains, VirginWorlds MMO.

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. ...

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 Enrico S. Fixed rare crash when chatting in a Supergroup channel. CITY of HEROES. Powers. Blasters. Blasters / Psychic Blast / Psionic Dart - This power s long help should now accurately state that this power deals moderate damage. ...

By Enrico S. Fixed rare crash when chatting in a Supergroup channel. CITY of HEROES. Powers. Blasters. Blasters / Psychic Blast / Psionic Dart - This power s long help should now accurately state that this power deals moderate damage. ...

By Tim Y. It's the same step that NCSoft is about to take, as it merges the City of Heroes and City of Villains MMORPGs into one world Link: City of Heroes and City of Villains merged into one universe More spandex-clad adventures await as Sony ...

By Tim Y. It's the same step that NCSoft is about to take, as it merges the City of Heroes and City of Villains MMORPGs into one world Link: City of Heroes and City of Villains merged into one universe More spandex-clad adventures await as Sony ...

 - If there was any doubt, take a look at latest title from developers of well-known City of Heroes/City of Villains MMO series. For the past year Cryptic ...

Related articles from Develop, CVG Online, TheHDRoom, Tom's Games, Videogamer.com.

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: 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 ...

All North American City of Heroes / City of Villains servers will come down on Tuesday, June 10th starting at 6 AM Pacific (9 AM Eastern) to update to the latest game version, number 17.20080528.1. Patch Notes documenting the changes...

Related articles from City of Villains, City of Heroes.

 - May 22, 2008 NCsoft has just announced that Issue 12: Midnight Hour for City of Heroes and City of Villains has left the beta stage is now available for download. ... City of Heroes: Matt Miller Interview Warcry.com all 6 news articles

Related articles from Massively, VirginWorlds MMO, Eurogamer and more.

By Charles D. NCsoft recently announced that the open beta test phase to its next free expansion to City of Heroes and City of Villains is finally here. Superpowered entities of all types can now log into the Training Room and try out the many ...

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 Ryan C. If you're one of the many spandex-wearing superheroes in NCsoft's City of Heroes, or one of the hordes of aspiring overlords in City of Villains, then you'd better take this news update for the important warning that it is. ...

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...

By Jonathan Northwood DJ Templar: Speaking of advertisers, you did mention that -- because City of Heroes/City of Villains carries a Teen Rating by the ESRB -- certain more mature advertisers such as tobacco companies and alcohol and that sort of thing wouldn't be included. Do you have -- I know this is early day...

By Jonathan Northwood DJ Templar: Speaking about revenue, the initial announcement states that all the all the revenue generated by ad sales in this program go towards City of Heroes development, City of Villains development, and there's been some people that say "well sure it is, it's being used for all sort...

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...

By Mike Fahey Through the mysterious Menders of Ouroboros, players gain the ability to "Flashback", that is to travel through time and relive major events from the history of Paragon City™ and the Rogue Isles™. Heroes who travel back in time will embark on missions such as preventing the Circle of Thor...

By Enrico S. NCsoft Europe and Cryptic Studios have released the newest expansion to City of Heroes/City of Villains Issue 10: Invasion. For the first time, CoH and CoV players can join forces to repel an assault by the evil Rikti. In lieu of this expansion's release Cryptic Studio s lead designer for Ci...

By Enrico S. The latest expansion of NCSoft's City of Heroes/City of Villains Issue 10: Invasion has hit open beta. Those who have been keeping up would have probably been waiting for this event. The Rikti have returned and they're really pissed off.

By Ryan A. Issue 9: Breakthrough for MMO video games City of Heroes/City of Villains has been out for more than a month now. As always, the expansion added a lot of new facets to the game such as improved crafting, consignment houses, a new Hamidon Encounter, and additional new missions to CoH.

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) The game was released in 2004, has since spawned a sequel/expansion called City of Villains which allows plays to create their own super villains, and has been turned into a comic book published by Top Cow Prods. I’ve never really understood the MMORPG world. For those that don’t know, that...