City of Villains

By Colin Brennan Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, News items So, if you were a City of Heroes/Villains subscriber in the past, this weekend is your chance to re-download the game and check out the cool new additions like Architect and Power Spectrum. Customizable power...

By Colin Brennan Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Culture, PvP, News items, Academic, Virtual worlds Thanks Petterm, Scopique!]Loyola University professor drives City of Heroes/Villains players crazy, all for sociology originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 07 Jul 20...

By Kyle Horner Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, News items Today, NCsoft has lifted the veil on their Mission Architect system coming in the free Issue 14 update for City of Heroes -- which is currently looking at a March 2009 release.

By Shawn Schuster Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Business models, Culture, Economy, Events, in-game, MMO industry

By Colin Brennan Filed under: Betas, Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Hands-on Recently NCsoft gave us the chance to get our hands on the beta version of the City of Heroes Mac client, letting us finally run around Paragon City and the Rogue Isles from the comfort of Mac OS X.

By Krystalle Voecks Filed under: Super-hero, Screenshots, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Opinion, Humor, Why You Should Be Playing Sure, almost all MMOGs have emotes. They've been there forever. But much like the incredibly involved character creator, City of Heroes boasts a wide range of very silly and...

Filed under: Betas, Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, MMO industry, News items Mac users, have no fear! City of Heroes is here! Yes, the original superhero MMO is swooping down onto Apple computers everywhere as NCsoft releases the City of Heroes Mac open beta test, with a rel...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, Reviews, Hands-on Eurogamer recently went in-depth with the City of Heroes huge Issue 13 update, checking out the new day jobs, leveling pact, and dual-spec options. However, not everything was rainbows and sunshine...

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Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Contests, Culture, Events, in-game Beginning on December 15th, 2008 and running until January 4th, 2009, City of Heroes and City of Villains will be celebrating their Winter Event as only your favorite superhero MMO could. All...

Filed under: Super-hero, Galleries, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, News items When we logged into City of Heroes to check out the new Shield powerset released in yesterday's Issue 13 patch, the one thing that we were not expecting was to find 26 shield types to choose from. It to...

Filed under: Super-hero, Screenshots, City of Heroes, One Shots With Issue 13 hitting the live City of Heroes and City of Villains servers yesterday, many of the players who are fond of base building were immensely happy to see a refund of Prestige; the "cash" that allows players to buy mo...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches Months in the making, delayed when the Mission Architect was pushed to next year, finally finally, City of Heroes Issue 13 is live! Yesterday saw the servers go down for one of the largest content pushes ever by the NCsoft...

Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Champions Online , DC Universe Online City of Heroes kicked off the MMO superhero genre back in 2004. For several years it's led the field, due to being the only superhero ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains. Alex 'Lighthouse' Von Minden's cryptic hints of changes in the pipeline were unravelled yesterday when the brand new City of Heroes website was unveiled. ...

By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , MMO industry Comics artist David Nakayama, who has done an immense amount of work for Draw the World Together, has joined the NCsoft NorCal team as a concept artist for City ...

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By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Events, in-game Halloween has come early to City of Heroes. Among the now-traditional trick or treating, collecting temporary costume powers and hunting down roaming giant ...

By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , Video , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Classes The two new powersets in City of Heroes Issue 13: Power and Responsibility are Pain Domination and Shield Defense. Pain Domination finally gives Villains a ...

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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...

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By Anonymous 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 ...

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Filed under: Betas, Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, PvP It's been a strange week for City of Heroes news. The lid of the Issue 13: Power and Responsibility Closed Beta pressure cooker remains firmly on, with nothing escaping, and yet the developers have been slight...

By Anonymous Filed under: Betas , Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Patches , PvP It's been a strange week for City of Heroes news. The lid of the Issue 13: Power and Responsibility Closed Beta pressure cooker remains firmly on, ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Events, real-world, MMO industry Most City of Heroes players know that many of their Devs love good old fashioned pen-and-paper RPGs. They've chimed in on mechanics discussions and discussed the games they run. Now, as part of He...

By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Events, real-world , MMO industry Most City of Heroes players know that many of their Devs love good old fashioned pen-and-paper RPGs. They've chimed in on mechanics ...

By Anonymous Filed under: Betas , Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Classes , Patches City of Heroes Issue 13: Power and Responsibility has now been patched to the Test Server, where a small but dedicated group of people will be ...

By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Game mechanics , Patches , PvE As the wait intensifies for City of Heroes Issue 13: Power and Responsibility to go into closed Beta, powers guy Floyd 'Castle' Grubb has ...

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Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, PvP When the announcement broke that the Mission Architect feature for City of Heroes was being moved to Issue 14, some additional features were listed for Issue 13, including revamps to some of the powers. We got to quiz...

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By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Patches , PvP When the announcement broke that the Mission Architect feature for City of Heroes was being moved to Issue 14, some additional features were listed for Issue 13 ...

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Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Patches, Massively Interviews. Right now the news is breaking about a major change to the City of Heroes issue release schedule. The Mission Architect feature is being moved to ...

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Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Events, in-game, Patches, PvP, Massively Interviews Massively recently had the chance to talk with City of Heroes executive producer Brian Clayton and Lead Designer Matt Miller about a multitude of CoX topics. It was clear to u...

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Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Events, in-game, Patches. They didn't know it when they woke up this morning, but City of Heroes fans are about to have a really great day. That headline might make you think ...

By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Events, in-game , Patches , PvP , Massively Interviews Massively recently had the chance to talk with City of Heroes executive producer Brian Clayton and Lead Designer Matt ...

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By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Patches , Massively Interviews Right now the news is breaking about a major change to the City of Heroes issue release schedule. The Mission Architect feature is being moved ...

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By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains , Events, in-game , Patches They didn't know it when they woke up this morning, but City of Heroes fans are about to have a really great day. That headline might make you think ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, The Daily Grind. This blogger was intrigued, on looking through a copy of the Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Player's Handbook, to see that each character class had two ...

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Exploits, PvP, PvE, Opinion As a rule, we don't like to highlight griefing behavior here at Massively. For the most part, it's not only puerile, it's tedious. But our ongoing mission to highlight aspects of City of Heroes lore...

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Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains. Carolyn Koh of MMORPG.com has recently had a chat with several of the City of Heroes developers, in particular the infectiously enthusiastic Joe 'Hero 1' Morrissey, ...

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By Anonymous Filed under: Super-hero , City of Heroes , City of Villains Carolyn Koh of MMORPG.com has recently had a chat with several of the City of Heroes developers, in particular the infectiously enthusiastic Joe 'Hero 1' Morrissey, ...

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By Adrian Bott Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Fan art, LoreThe 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 in the game. Game developer Joe 'Hero 1' Morrissey has...

By Massively Staff Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, PatchesIGN 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 last free Issue for 2008. There's only been one issue so far t...

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 ...

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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 ...

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By Shawn Schuster Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Game mechanics, Patches, Reviews, OpinionIf you haven't noticed, recently Eurogamer has been doing a series of re-reviews for the most popular MMOs, especially older ones. The City of Heroes/City of Villains games are a perfe...

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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.