PC

City Of Heroes Now Free-to-Play

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.


May 19, 2011
PC

City Of Heroes Dragged Kicking And Screaming Into Steampunk Age

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.


April 29, 2011
News

Celebrating Seven Years Of City Of Heroes

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!


July 3, 2010
News

How To Switch Sides In City Of Heroes’ Going Rogue

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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.


June 25, 2010
News

Buy Yourself A Better City Of Heroes Mutant

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.


April 29, 2010
News

City Of Heroes Celebrates Six Years With New Graphics

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NCsoft’s City of Heroes is six years old, and Paragon Studios celebrates with the release of Issue 17: Dark Mirror, a free update that brings new story arcs, huge enemies and an extremely fetching graphical makeover.


April 2, 2010
News

City Of Heroes Isn’t Fooling Around With Demon Summoning

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If you thought the dual pistols power for City of Heroes Going Rogue expansion was cool, wait until you see the damage you can do with giant horned demons and a Hellfire Whip.


March 6, 2010
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Go All John Woo On City Of Heroes

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City of Heroes players who pre-purchase the alignment-changing Going Rogue expansion pack today gain immediate access to the new Dual Pistols power set, which goes a little something like this.


February 10, 2010
News

City Of Heroes Gets A Visual Makeover

This April brings another free update to NCsoft’s City of Heroes, Issue 17: Dark Mirror, bringing with it graphical updates that hold a dark mirror up to the game’s regular level of detail.


October 10, 2009
News

City Of Heroes Recruits Heroic Guest Authors

Paragon Studios takes its City of Heroes Mission Architect to the next level, inviting comic book author Bill Willingham, Rooster Teeth Productions and cartoonist Scott Kurtz to author special missions for the game.