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City of Heroes faces some strong competition in the free-to-play MMO space from Sony’s DC Universe Online and the developers have launched some new content for their game, under the name of Issue 21: Convergence, designed to keep the player base interested and offer some rewards for those players who are still ... |
8 December 2011
04:41 GMT |
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City of Heroes Freedom, the new free-to-play strategy employed by the City of Heroes online title, is focusing on existing players, while catering to new gamers that can now experience it without having to pay for a monthly subscription.NCsoft, together with Cryptic Studios, announced earlier this year that its long ... |
17 October 2011
05:28 GMT |
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City of Heroes, the superhero powered MMO from developer Paragon Studios and publisher NCsoft, has gone free-to-play and the two companies have put out a new batch of screenshots and a trailer showing off what players can access for free.Brian Clayton, the executive producer at Paragon Studios, said, “Our fans ... |
28 September 2011
08:20 GMT |
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City of Heroes, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the superhero comic book genre, is dropping support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, according to its publishers.Developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft, City of Heroes has gamers using an extensive character creation system to select ... |
26 September 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Paragon Studios, as the developer, and NCsoft, as the publisher, have announced that they are working to transition their superhero powered MMO City of Heroes and its expansion City of Villains to the free to play and micro transaction model starting later this year.The two companies are saying that those who do not ... |
22 June 2011
13:41 GMT |
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NCsoft is ready to celebrate the winter holiday events in all the MMO video games it publishes, inviting players to experience the magic of the season while also taking part in quests that can net them some very interesting rewards. In Guild Wars, the celebration goes from December 12 to January 2, 2011 with four po... |
16 December 2010
13:51 GMT |
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NCsoft has announced that it plans to introduce a new significant update to its superhero-based MMO, City of Heroes/City of Villains. Issue 17 will be named Dark Mirror and is set to arrive in April in order to deliver a better graphics rendering engine to the game, called Ultra Mode, which will introduce significant... |
12 February 2010
13:51 GMT |
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NCsoft has announced that it is launching winter holiday-themed events in all the MMO titles that it is maintaining, trying to attract more players to the games and offering rewards for those who have been loyal for a long period of time.In the most recently release, Aion, the Solorius Festival is being celebrated wi... |
16 December 2009
02:54 GMT |
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Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but, if you want to impress World of Warcraft, you'll have to get in line with the rest of the look-alikes. It's pretty safe to say that, with over 11 million subscribers, WoW is the king of MMO, and has been one since it was launched five years ago. And, like... |
2 December 2009
03:10 GMT |
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Paragon Studios is celebrating the launch of Issue 16: Power Spectrum, but it's not doing so in-house, over a bottle of wine and party crackers. It's doing it with the gamers of City of Heroes. All inactive accounts in good standing along with the rest of the active players will be able to enjoy a free Reac... |
1 October 2009
04:26 GMT |
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City of Heroes/City of Villains, the super hero MMO developed by Paragon and published by NCsoft, has received another free content update, named Issue 15: Anniversary, which brings in new features, missions and customization tools for the niche MMO that has been going for five years now.Brian Clayton, who is the gen... |
2 July 2009
03:29 GMT |
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NCsoft, the current publisher, and Paragon Studios, the developer, have announced that they plan to release a major new expansion for City of Heroes, called Going Rogue. It's the biggest addition of content for the MMO since the 2005 launch of City of Villains. The main concept behind Going Rogue is the idea tha... |
13 May 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Paragon, the NCsoft-powered development team that is running City of Heroes/City of Villains at the moment, offered players a very interesting tool in Mission Architect, which basically allows anyone to create story arcs, populate them with enemies, objectives and rewards and then share them with the community.As it ... |
8 May 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Comic books, or graphic novels as a lot of fans call them, have shaped a lot of our daily lives and dictate quite a few ways in which we spend our free time. Being the basis for TV shows and movies among other things, comic books are present in our lives everyday. Video games haven't escaped the influence of th... |
29 April 2009
11:01 GMT |
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It's clear that the “Age of Steam,” as some have called it, is here, as NCsoft, a publisher and game developer that has a proprietary digital store in the form of PlayNC, is turning to the Valve created digital distribution service to sell its videogames. NCsoft, which publishes a wide range of MMOs,... |
23 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Comic books have played an important part in a lot of people's lives, especially gamers, who have been offered a wide variety of titles based on popular comic book characters. From Marvel and DC to any other comics company, the market is filled with them. NCsoft, a company specialized in online games, has decid... |
21 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Comic books have played an important part in a lot of people's lives, especially for gamers, who have been offered a wide variety of titles based on popular comic book characters. From Marvel, DC or any other comics company, the market is filled with them.But NCsoft, the publisher of titles such as Guild Wars or... |
13 April 2009
02:35 GMT |
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City of Heroes/City of Villains is at the moment the only super hero MMO on the market and it has carved a nice niche on the market. Now, the developers are trying to spice up the attractiveness of the MMO by allowing players to get directly involved in the design of missions that can be undertaken in the game.The ne... |
2 March 2009
04:28 GMT |
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NCsoft has announced the official launch of City of Heroes for the Macintosh. The fictional world of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles are open for both PC and Mac gamers to immerse themselves into. The Mac Special Edition includes the client, 30 days of game time, and exclusive in-game items, NCsoft says. “Wha... |
9 January 2009
06:39 GMT |
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Worlds.com, a company specialized in virtual world development, says that it has filed a suit against NCsoft, a MMO publisher best known for operating City of Heroes/City of Villains, related to the way it has implemented technology in its multiplayer games. The law suit is for patent infringement and the main proble... |
30 December 2008
04:52 GMT |
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NCSoft and TransGaming have kicked off the Open Beta for the Mac version of City of Heroes. Possible only through TransGaming's Cider technology, the Mac version of the MMO contains two exclusive in-game items. Mac owners can sign up for the City of Heroes beta from the Mac-beta website. The title is rated 16+. ... |
18 December 2008
05:38 GMT |
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The Korea Game Industry Agency held a ceremony during which it announced the winners of the first Global Online Game Awards. The idea is for the best online titles to be showcased so that gamers all over the world know what they should play online the next year. It makes sense for Korea to host such a ceremony, ... |
17 December 2008
04:32 GMT |
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A deal struck by NCsoft, renowned MMO publisher, and TransGaming (the folks behind GameTree Online) will have Mac users join a battle of good versus evil in the most popular comic book MMO available on PC and Mac, City of Heroes. NCsoft says that open beta testing for the Mac version of City of Heroes is imminent, ac... |
5 December 2008
06:56 GMT |
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NCsoft has partnered with TransGaming to port the City of Heroes franchise to the Macintosh platform. City of Heroes for Mac will be released as a public beta along with the game’s thirteenth expansion, Issue 13: Power and Responsibility, later this fall. Also noted in the NCsoft report is that a special digita... |
31 October 2008
05:56 GMT |
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We initially missed this, but City of Heroes/City of Villains is now running a Halloween event that is due to continue until November 2. The developers are saying that the extended period for the event is a special thank-you move addressed to all those who have been playing the MMO and supporting it.Because it is Hal... |
24 October 2008
04:27 GMT |
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NCsoft says that the Issue 13 update for City of Heroes, its superhero based MMO, will no longer include the Architect, the editor which will allow players to make their own adventures.Issue 13 is now named Power and responsibility and will feature things like The Leveling Pact, Multi Builds and a lot of rebalancing.... |
1 October 2008
14:11 GMT |
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City of Heroes is set to get another update, in the form of Issue 13, dubbed Architect. The new offering from NCsoft comes with one of the features most requested by fans, the ability to create custom made missions and even entire custom made story arcs.The developers say that they are practically offering players of... |
27 August 2008
21:16 GMT |
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Developer Cryptic Studios is announcing that it is appointing a new Chief Executive Officer in the person of John Needham. The new appointment is seen as an effort to bring structure to the company as development on its Champions Online MMO is going into full gear.John Needham comes from Sony Online Entertainment, wh... |
4 June 2008
03:10 GMT |
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NCsoft steps up battle in the fight against illegal game servers, which they consider "intellectual property theft". Alarmed by the number of unofficial and illegal servers for their popular MMOs Guild Wars, City of Heroes and, especially, Lineage II, NCsoft decided that there's only one way to stop them growing... |
11 April 2008
02:34 GMT |
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NCsoft has announced a deal with ad supplier Double Fusion on the option to advertise within the City of Heroes/City of Villains universe. The advertising that Double Fusion selects and adapts is to be presented using the billboards that are present within the game universe, which until now only have used fake advert... |
7 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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We've recently talked about the Issue 12 update for the popular superhero MMO City of Heroes/City of Villains. The update brings some interesting additions to the game, such as Evil character archetypes and a new Midnight Squad super hero team that will challenge players to travel back in time to the Roman Age t... |
21 March 2008
05:56 GMT |
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It's been a busy late 2007 for City of Heroes/City of Villains. On November 6th, NCsoft, the original publishers of the game, bought the intellectual property rights from developers Cryptic and then created a new NCsoft studio, called NorCal, with a clear mandate to further develop the game both in terms of bala... |
13 March 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Recent official word from NCsoft says that City of Heroes "Issue: 11: A Stitch in Time" is out and ready for grabs. Free to all subscribers, the expansion is packed full with features such as weapon customization, two new power sets, enhancements to the inventions system and, check this: the ability to travel back in... |
30 November 2007
08:32 GMT |
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