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Interview sheds more light on latest City of Heroes guest authors

The full interview also covers each author's experiences in balancing the arcs, as well as Ms. Lackey's discussion of her history as a player. Whether you've already experienced the new City of Heroes arcs or have yet to take them for a spin, it's clear that a great deal of thought and effort w...
Thu, Jan 28 | from Massively

City of Heroes announces next guest authors

Back in October, City of Heroes players got a treat in the form of three arcs created by high-profile creative minds. The Guest Author program used the Mission Architect system and gave players the enjoyment of working through missions scripted by authors known outside of the realm of Par...
Tue, Jan 26 | from Massively

Daily Deal: GoGamer 48 Hour Madness (Dante's Inferno $51.90, Mass Effect 2 PC $41.90)

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Wii) - $44.90 Mario Party 8 (Wii) $42.90 Virtua Tennis 2009 (Wii) $9.90 PC Video Games: Dark Void (PC) - $34.90 Mass Effect 2 (PC) - $41.90 City of Heroes Architect Edition $9.90 Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage & Pitt Expansion $9.90
Sat, Jan 23 | from GamingNexus

Why You Should Be Playing City of Heroes: Content on demand

Of course,the full answer is a bit less obvious but no less true: someone did. Several someones, in fact. Paragon Studios and Cryptic before them both realized how much people like to just pick up and go. That's why City of Heroes currently sports three different systems to allow you or a full t...
Mon, Dec 28 | from Massively

The Holiday Season in MMO-land

City of Heroes/Villains' Winter Event runs from Dec. 15 to Jan. 5: Battle Lord Winter or help out Father Time with quests of heroic proportions. ...
Sat, Dec 26 | from GameZone

Guild Wars 2: Races of Tyria

NCSoft, creators of popular MMORPGs Aion, City of Heroes/Villains, and Lineage have been steadily showcasing new bits and pieces of its upcoming sequels, ... and more »
Fri, Dec 4 | from Examiner.com

Opinion: The Daily Grind: How many MMOs do you play at one time?

MMOs tend to have dedicated fan bases and everyone has their favourite: Aion, City of Heroes, WoW, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online ... the list goes on and on. Everyone has their own personal favourite or the hip one that everyone and their pet goldfish is currently engrossed in. For example...
Tue, Aug 18 | from Massively

Opinion: i14 Follow up from Positron

Like every system we design here, the Mission Architect system has been a labor of love that we have poured over every little decision on. I feel like everything we have worked on has really been worth it when I see that within 60 minutes, we had 360 entire Mission Arcs (each containing up to 5 m...
Fri, Apr 17 | from City Of Heroes

Opinion: Cryptic's Questionable Practice

Champions Online Solicits City Of Heroes Players By Mike Fahey, 9:30 AM on Fri Mar 20 2009 Champions Online developer Cryptic Studios has admitted to sending representatives into NCsoft's City of Heroes in order to recruit new players to their beta program.
Fri, Mar 20 | from City Of Heroes

How To: LacunaFurlong Cybering Tutorial

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
Tue, Mar 10 | from YouTube

Patch: City of Heroes Issue 13 goes live

UK - Dec 4, 2008 NCsoft has released the latest free update to its long-running superhero MMO, City of Heroes. It's also ready to start beta testing an Apple Mac version of ...
Thu, Dec 4 | from Eurogamer

How to install COH inside Crossover Games under macosx

I posted a howto for how to install City of Heroes under Crossover Games on macosx over on the [info] city_of_heroes community forum. Here's the link to How to install COH inside Crossover Games under macosx.
Wed, Aug 6 | from X times the power, X times the fun!

City of Heroes/ Villains gets nerfed behemoths in new patch

There's a new patch out for City of Heroes and City of Villains today, so if you noticed the servers going down earlier, that was probably NCsoft putting in the patch. Some notable additions for this patch include the nerfing of the ...
Tue, Jun 24 | from MMORPG blog

Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 7

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Massively SpeakingMassively Speaking Episode 7 runs down news and features from Massively.com for the week of May 19th - May 25th. Site co-lead Krystalle Voecks joins the usual hosting duo of Michael and Shawn for a very special Massively Speaking. MMO pod...
Thu, May 29 | from Massively

Podcast: CoX In-game Ads: The wrapup

Filed under: Podcasts, City of Heroes, City of Villains, InterviewsDJ Shecky: I think this is a good spot for us to collect our thoughts, and go over and make sure that we've covered all these questions before we start to wrap things up. What about you guys?
Tue, Apr 8 | from Massively

Podcast: CoX In-game Ads: Selective placement, self-promotion

Filed under: Podcasts, City of Heroes, City of Villains, InterviewsDJ Shecky: Somebody posted this one up on the Cape forums. Obviously there's a limited amount of places that ads can be placed in the Rogue Isles, etcetera. Are you going to be adding in more billboards? For instance, one of...
Tue, Apr 8 | from Massively