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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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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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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 »


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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 Celebrates Six Years With New Graphics

11:20PM April 29, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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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. More »


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City Of Heroes Isn’t Fooling Around With Demon Summoning

2:20AM April 2, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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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. More »


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Go All John Woo On City Of Heroes

4:30AM March 6, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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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. More »


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City Of Heroes Gets A Visual Makeover

7:20AM February 10, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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. More »


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City Of Heroes Recruits Heroic Guest Authors

3:20AM October 10, 2009 | Mike Fahey

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. More »