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Tuesday, Oct 20
NCSoft's Halloween Plans [Happy Halloween]
· Starts: Friday, October 23, 2009 · Ends: Monday, November 2, 2009 City of Heroes – Triumph over the New Deadly Halloween Apocalypse · Ends: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 · Ends: Thursday, November 19, 2009 · Ends: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 · Ends: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Friday, Oct 9
City Of Heroes Recruits Heroic Guest Authors [Paragon Studios]
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. Title: "Quest for Magic" and
Wednesday, Sep 30
Return To City Of Heroes For Double The XP [Double XP]
Between the Mission Architect and the recent addition of power customization, City of Heroes is a much more interesting place to be than it was at the beginning of the year, and Paragon Studios wants lapsed players to come back and see what they've been missing next weekend. From October 8t...
Return To City Of Heroes For Double The XP [Double XP]
NCsoft is throwing open the gates of the City of Heroes to returning players next weekend, with double experience on tap for those with a bit of time to kill bad (or good) guys. Between the Mission...
Thursday, Sep 17
Dungeon Runners Dead by the End of the Year [The Short Goodbye]
First, those with paid memberships as of Sept. 16 get 30 days free in City of Heroes: Architect Edition and Guild Wars: Prophecies. Nichols added that "any of you guys that need refunds for multiple-month membership purchases will be taken care of."
Tuesday, Sep 15
City Of Heroes Just Got A Lot More Colorful [Update]
Heroes and villains can now take each other out with all the colors of the wind as the latest free update for City of Heroes, Issue Power Spectrum, goes live. But what if they want love? Can you give them that, Matt "Positron" Miller? The next free update should be the side-switching Going Rog...
Thursday, Sep 3
Approval Ratings: Readers Like the RPG, but Hold the MMO [Polls]
Our third installment of Approval Ratings covered a dozen questions regarding role-playing games, a staple genre of video games going back to their earliest days. And like an RPG, you have to dig a little deeper to get the real story.
Saturday, Aug 29
Kotaku Approval Ratings: The RPGs, MMO and Otherwise [Polls]
Do you want to play a console MMO?(survey) Do you want to play World of Warcraft? (PC)(poll) Do you want to play City of Heroes/City of Villains? (PC)(surveys) What is the biggest barrier to your enjoyment of an RPG?(survey) What is the greatest quality of an RPG?(survey)
Friday, Aug 7
More City Of Heroes Power Customization Screens [Ncsoft]
Paragon Studios shows off more of the power customization coming in the Issue 16: Power Spectrum update for City of Heroes. Be sure to check out our Comic-Con preview of the new features, in which we discuss with Miller how to create a pink avenger of love using the character creation tools.
Tuesday, Jul 28
Comic-Con 2009: Revenge Of The Round Up [Comic-con 09]
Play Spyborgs at Comic-Con, Get a Free Comic Comic-Con 2009: The Damage So Far Even Comic-Con Has Its Own Exclusive PSPs You Can Buy Actual World Of Warcraft Gold Coins Comic-Con 2009: The Damage Escalates World Of Warcraft Toys Still Better Than World Of Warcraft
Monday, Jul 27
Coloring In Your City Of Heroes Powers [Comic-con 09]
The update brings more than one welcome change to the game's extensive character creator. Along with power customization, players can now hop back and forth between the different character creation steps, meaning no more spending hours creating a costume only to find out your name has a...
Friday, Jul 24
NCsoft's Heroic Booth Babes [Comic-con 09]
There aren't many booth babes at Comic-Con, mainly because the fans tend to include pretty girls in skimpy outfits, and there's nothing worse than a professional model feeling she's being shown up by a preteen wearing a hideously-colored wig. It almost seems silly that NCsoft forked out...
Friday, Jul 17
City Of Heroes Issue 16: Power Spectrum Revealed [Ncsoft]
Last month's teasing comes to fruition as NCsoft pulls back the curtain on City of Heroes Issue 16: Power Spectrum, putting the power to customize powers in the players' hands. Those aren't nearly as interesting as the Pink Avenger. Love beams away! Issue 16 Details [City of Heroes]
Wednesday, Jul 15
Creating a Character In Champions Online [Clips]
Champions Online takes the rich character creation that Cryptic created for NCsoft's City of Heroes and brings it to the next level. Not only can you spend hours designing the perfect superhero costume, the ability to pick and choose your powers rather than relying on set archetypes mean...
Friday, Jul 10
Five Things You Need To Know About Champions Online [Impressions]
The basic need-to-know info about this game is this: it's City of Heroes, only bigger and better. And, no, Marvel and/or DC Comics won't be suing anybody anytime soon over it because the developer is scrupulous about original intellectual property. Not to mention Cryptic has plenty to wor...
Monday, Jul 6
College Professor Trolls For Science, Finds People Hate Him [Mmo]
See, many players in CoH simply liked hanging out, and teaming up with each other to take down AI opponents. But Myers sought out player vs player action, and began hunting down "villains". He'd fight them, he'd beat them. And because he was good at what he did, he soon built up an impressive lis...
Tuesday, Jun 30
City Of Heroes Vigilantly Launches Issue 15 [Ncsoft]
On the cosmetic side of things, players now have more than 20 new faces to choose from in character creation along with two new costume sets - vines and ulterior - making an already ridiculously versatile system even more so. They've also added new costume change emotes, allowing players t...
Friday, Feb 27
The City Of Heroes Mission Architect Explained [Ncsoft]
For those of you interested in checking out what the players create once Issue 14: Architect goes live, look for the City of Heroes: Architect Edition, the game's first dual PC and Mac release, on store shelves this April. City of Heroes Issue 14: Architect
Monday, Dec 15
NCsoft's MMORPG Holiday Plans [Happy Holidays]
NCsoft rings in the holiday cheer as they announce the Christmas celebration plans for their MMORPGs City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and Lineage II, featuring everything from fuzzy earmuffs to grand theft Santa. City of Heroes Winter Event 2008 Guild Wars Wintersday 2008
Thursday, Oct 30
City Of Heroes Goes Mac [City Of Heroes]
NCsoft and TransGaming Announce City of Heroes for the Mac The City of Heroes Mac Special Edition digital product will be sold at the PlayNC store and at GameTree Online. City of Heroes is rated "T" for Teen. For more information about City of Heroes go to http://www.cityofheroes.com.
Wednesday, Sep 24
City Of Heroes Mission Creator Somewhat Delayed [City Of Heroes]
Shield and Pain Domination powersets Merit Reward system Day Jobs (that include a suite of new costume pieces) Additional Cimerora and Midnight Squad mission arcs Leveling Pact Multi-Builds PvE & PvP Powers rebalancing Villain Patron Power Respec Supergroup Base Repricing
Sunday, Jul 27
NCSoft Seeds Retail Game Cards With Exclusive Goodies [City Of Heroes]
Some of the top retailers in North America are participating in the new retail initiative that will include City of Heroes®, Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa® and Exteel™. Target, Best Buy and Rite Aid will be the first stores to offer the NCsoft Game Cards.
Wednesday, Feb 20
Cryptic Announces Champions Online [Game Announce]
LOS GATOS, CA - February 20, 2008 - Cryptic Studios™, one of the leading independent developers of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs), announced today Champions Online™, their first ever self-developed and self-published MMORPG. Champions Online, based on t...
Tuesday, Jan 15
City of Heroes Devs Rumored To Take Over Star Trek Online [Cryptic Studios]
The troubled development history of Star Trek Online may have gotten a shot in the arm, now that the MMO is rumored to be in development at Cryptic Studios. While rumored cancellation of Marvel Universe Online isn't exactly the best (still unconfirmed) news for the developer, having some...
Tuesday, Nov 13
Marvel Universe Online Suspected Of Cancellation [Rumor]
That Cryptic recently sold intellectual property rights to the City of Heroes franchise, losing a portion of development staff in tandem, may have something to do with MUO's rumored problems. Is Marvel Universe Online Dead? [1UP]
Thursday, Oct 4
NCSoft Grabs Dev Team
NCSoft today announced that Carbine Studios is working on an unannounced massively multiplayer online game for them. Carbine Studios is made up of 17 former Blizzard employees including the lead and senior developers from the World of Warcraft team. "This is a dev team made in heaven," sa...
Wednesday, Oct 3
Time Travel Comes To Paragon City
Heroes and Villains also use the Ouroboros System to return to story arcs that they may have missed and replay hundreds of missions from earlier in the game. Players will even get to set mission parameters for these missions to earn special badges. Heroes and Villains will be auto-exemplar...
Saturday, Sep 29
NCSoft's UK Expansion
In its first three years NCsoft Europe has grown rapidly employing more skilled staff with every new project, which have included the launch of top games such as Lineage® II, City of Heroes®, Guild Wars®, City of Villains®. NCSOFT EUROPEAN OFFICE EXPANSION TO CREATE OVER 100 NEW HIGH-TEC...
Friday, Aug 31
Auto Assault To Die Gruesome Death Tonight
As we reported back in June, NetDevil's vehicular combat MMO Auto Assault is closing its virtual garage doors forever. In just a few hours from now, the MMO will be nothing more than a memory for its fans. The NCsoft team promises a "wild, crazy event tonight" and hints at some nice bonuses for...
Thursday, Mar 8
GDC 07: City of Heroes Issue 9
The only thing missing here is magical items. While tech-based characters are certainly suited for making gadgets, it would have been nifty for magic-based characters to be able to craft similar items, only with a more mystical theme.
Tuesday, Jan 23
City of Heroes Update 9 Details
Issue 9: "Breakthrough" City of Heroes/City of Villians 9th expansion Wednesday 24th January/...NCsoft Europe proudly brings you the the ninth free expansion to the City of Heroes universe, introducing an entirely new level of depth and gameplay to the franchise.
Friday, Sep 29
Feature: Marvel, Cryptic and MGS Talk Marvel Universe Online [Marvel Universe Online]
We believe that the Marvel IP transcends what you have seen before in this genre and will fresh life into massively multiplayer online games." NCSoft, publishers of City of Heroes and City of Villains, declined to comment on the "business dealings of an independent company such as Crypti...
Wednesday, Jun 28
NCSoft Defends Auto Assault
Spokeswoman Janna Bureson declined to drop any official subscription numbers for the car-themed massively multiplayer game. "We are still assessing Auto Assault's performance and can't comment much further on that with respect to the recent reorganization," she said. "We can say tha...
