Or so everyone thought. For the past six years, a secret City of Heroes emulator project has been quietly running using game data from the original servers, meaning players could, potentially ...

City of Heroes lacks a lot of community-oriented features, such as auctioning, trade skills, and player-versus-player combat, which give many other online RPGs some of their lasting appeal.

City of Heroes was turned off at midnight, Pacific time, on Nov. 30, 2012. Like many players, Widower was online at the time, saying farewell to the game that had meant so much to him.

The Homecoming team and NCSoft break down the deal that saved City of Heroes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "You bunch of ...

A City of Heroes, gone but remembered, united in vigil with their torches held high, until such a time as the world realises it needs them once again. Read this next.

With City of Heroes and Paragon Studios set to close by the end of the year, we're taking some time this week to reflect on the game.

David Myers, a Loyola professor and computer game scholar, looks at his computer screen with his "City of Heroes" online computer game character "Twixt" reflected in his glasses at his home in ...

Before City of Heroes closed, Kaylan Lyndell-Lees used it as speech therapy for her children. Now she’s working to help fill the void.

Against all odds, rising up like a Phoenix and striking down everywhere as a thunderstorm would, City of Heroes is upon us. While it has been for a few months now, like any good MMO (or MMP ...

A little over a year ago, City of Heroes got the sort of second chance most defunct MMOs never do: a fan-made private server with written permission from the publisher to continue operating. While ...