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It’s A Massively Multiplayer Online Halloween Spooktacular

6:00AM November 1, 2011 | Mike Fahey

With fewer and fewer children donning costumes and hitting the streets every year to celebrate all things sweet and spooky, the Halloween tradition is alive and well in the virtual worlds of today’s massively multiplayer online games. More »


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City Of Heroes Now Free-to-Play

6:20AM September 28, 2011 | Mike Fahey

After more than seven years as the most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online superhero role-playing game, Paragon Studios flips the switch on City of Heroes Freedom, potentially the most popular free-to-play superhero MMO. More »


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You Don’t Have To Pay For City Of Heroes Anymore

7:30AM June 22, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Superhero MMO City of Heroes is killing its monthly fee with the advent of City of Heroes Freedom as the game transitions from subscription-based model to a new, free to play one. More »


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City Of Heroes Dragged Kicking And Screaming Into Steampunk Age

4:00AM May 19, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Steampunk: it’s everywhere you want to be, especially if the place you want to be is Paragon City circa June 1, 2011, when the City of Heroes Steampunk pack goes live. More »


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Atari Dumps City Of Heroes, Star Trek Online Devs Cryptic

8:00AM May 18, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Publisher Atari is “divesting” itself of MMO specialists Cryptic Studios, which it snapped up in 2008. It’s trying to sell the creators of Star Trek Online and Champions Online after losing Atari millions. [Atari Results (PDF)]


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Celebrating Seven Years Of City Of Heroes

2:40AM April 29, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. Let’s celebrate seven years of heroes and villains with a colourful infographic and nostalgia-laden anecdotes! More »


In Real Life

There’s A Full Serving Of City Of Heroes In Every Box Of Utopios

7:20AM November 10, 2010 | Mike Fahey

Just when I was afraid breakfast would be lost to me forever, UPS Man arrives to save the day with an extra-large box of Utopios. And guess what? There’s a prize inside. More »


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How To Switch Sides In City Of Heroes’ Going Rogue

4:30AM July 3, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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In this video documentary for Paragon Studio’s super hero MMO City of Heroes, the team talks us through the morality system that changes your villain into a hero and vice versa in the upcoming Going Rogue expansion. More »


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Buy Yourself A Better City Of Heroes Mutant

3:20AM June 25, 2010 | Mike Fahey

If you’ve ever wished your City of Heroes mutant character could mutate just a little bit more, now’s your chance, as Paragon Studios unleashes Super Booster V: Mutant on the NCsoft online store. More »


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City Of Heroes Goes Rogue In August

7:27AM June 23, 2010 | Mike Fahey

Gripping moral decisions come to NCSoft’s super hero MMO this winter, as the company sets an August 17 release date for the game’s second major expansion, Going Rogue. Mark your calendars!