City of Heroes

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GAME INFO
publisher: NCSoft
developer: Cryptic Studios
genre: RPG

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
PIII 800, 256MB RAM, 2GB HDD, 32MB video card

ESRB rating: T
homepage:
www.cityofheroes.com/

release date: Apr 27, 04 (released)

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ACTIONTRIP'S REVIEW Super heroes have (finally) been getting a fair shake by the entertainment world in the past few years (ignore the Daredevil movie and this theory holds water). The argument could be made that this is due to the advances in technology that finally allow movies and video games to represent heroes in a way that equals or surpasses the images found in a comic book...

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»	Apr 02, 04 City of Heroes Hands-On I must be the luckiest person in the world! I finally have a valid excuse for wearing tights and a cape 24/7. No more will I have to endure sidelong glances from others as I stand... » MORE

Aug 06, 02

City of Heroes Interview
In the MMORPG City of Heroes you'll be playing as super hero, fighting against villains, aliens, and vicious underground monsters that roam the streets of Paragon City. You will be able to customize and advance your character; that is to say you can do almost anything from setting the character's statistics and designing your own costume (and general appearance) to advancing his skills and powers. While you're running around Paragon City...

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»	Mar 19, 2009 Champions Online Screens In case you didn't know, Champions Online is a superhero-themed MMORPG, in development at Cryptic Studios - the creators of by City of Heroes/Villains. » MORE

Nov 14, 2007

Marvel Universe Online Bites the Dust?
We announced a few days back that Microsoft will be announcing the cancellation of a "major third-party title." And while Fable 2, Alan Wake and the likes are all looking good (thank fuck), Cryptic is telling 1UP "Cryptic Studios collaboration, Marvel Universe Online, has hit serious, potentially stalling, development troubles.

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Sep 27, 2006

News Pour Out of Microsoft X06 Event
All kinds of announcements of exclusives and semi-exclusives are pouring out of the Microsoft X06 event, held today in Barcelona, Spain. The company is teaming up with New Zealand director Peter Jackson to create two new game series for the 360.

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»	Aug 03, 2006 Company of Heroes Open Beta Today? There are some indications from Relic that they might launch an open beta of City of Heroes, their upcoming WWII RTS, today on Fileplanet. Did I write City of Heroes? I meant Company of Heroes. » MORE

»	Jun 26, 2006 New ATI CATALYST Drivers ATI has released new CATALYST drivers, v6.6. These ones improve performance in F.E.A.R. and Far Cry and also fix issues with City of Heroes, Quake 4, and Age of Empires 3. » MORE

Jun 08, 2006

NCSoft Brings Destiny to City of Heroes and City of Villains
1UP is reporting that, "NCSoft expanded on City of Heroes and City of Villains with a free expansion that will allow players to use new abilities and opens up a new dynamic PvP zone where players will battle other players for control of the space.

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»	Dec 14, 2005 Marvel and NC Soft Kiss and Make Up This happens to be one of those news posts that doesn't really tell you anything, or make your life better in any way, but it still takes a whole bunch of words to explain what it's about. » MORE

»	Oct 31, 2005 City of Villains Launches I could never for the life of me understand what was so special about a city filled to the brim with do-goody superheroes. In reality, that would probably make the most boring city in existence. » MORE

Oct 06, 2005

City of Heroes and Villains for $15 Bucks
NCSoft shows once again that they are a class-act company when it comes to the way they treat their customers. "NCsoft® North America has announced that customers will be able to subscribe to two of its massively multiplayer online games, City of Villains(TM) and City of Heroes®, for the subscription price of one.

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Sep 21, 2005

City of Heroes Making People Ill
Gamerift is reporting: "Players within City of Heroes from Cryptic Studios are reporting an alarming growth in photosensitive seizures after a recent patch into the game updated one of the 'Sonic Powers Buff' to characters enhancing the visual effects associated with the power.

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»	Dec 15, 2004 Mornin' First off, I would like to thank Evil Avatar for compiling the list of the Spike TV Video Game Awards 2004 winners (you can find the same list on their official site only in Flash). » MORE

»	Nov 15, 2004 Cryptic Responds to Marvel Suit You may recall news from a few days ago that Marvel has sued Cryptic and NC Soft for likeness rights, or in layman's terms, for letting people use characters in City of Heroes that look a lot like some of the famous Marvel superheroes. » MORE

Nov 12, 2004

Marvel Sues Cryptic and NC Soft over City of Heroes
Today is a good day for lawsuits! The USA Today reports that Marvel Enterprises is suing Cryptic Studios and NCSoft, the two companies behind the superhero MMORPG, City of Heroes, claiming that City of Heroes allows players to make virtual characters that are too similar to "The Hulk," "X-Men" and other heroes in the comic book company's stable.

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Sep 16, 2004

City of Heroes’ Second Free Expansion Launched
As I write this our resident City of Heroes fanatic, Vince "Moesha" Massa, is holding a knife to my throat and threatening to cut me unless I report about the second free expansion to NC Soft's popular MMORPG: Issue 2: A Shadow of the Past.

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»	Aug 12, 2004 City of Heroes Comic Deal I love Comic Books and I love gaming. Tada! What do I get!NCsoft® Corporation, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games, Cryptic Studios and CDS Books, the publishing arm of CDS, Inc. » MORE

»	Jul 28, 2004 City of Heroes Annonces Next Expansion Patch Marc writes "Yesterday NCSoft announced what will be included in the next big update for City of Heroes. Information can be found at http://www.cityofheroes. » MORE

»	Jun 30, 2004 Top 10 Best Selling PC Games The biblical apocalypse has been averted... for now. The Sims is back on the list and EA again has a number one selling PC game. This one for the week ending June 19th. » MORE

»	Jun 16, 2004 Weekly List of Top-selling PC Games Heralds the Coming of End Times You can't see me right now, but as I'm typing this post I'm yelling at the wife to pack our stuff as we're moving in an abandoned mine just outside the city. » MORE

»	Jun 14, 2004 Weekly PC Top Ten Here's another one of those NPD PC top-selling charts. This one indicates that City of Heroes was the most wanted PC game in the US during the week ending May 29th. » MORE

»	Jun 07, 2004 Top-selling PC Games Here we go, baby, the best selling PC games in the US for the week of May 22nd. Surprisingly enough, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is on top of the pile, which kind of makes very little sense. » MORE

»	Apr 23, 2004 City of Villains Announced! Well, with the City of Heroes beta over (It ended in a massive alien invasion that killed everyone), they've decided to announce an expansion pack, City of Villains, where you get to be evil. » MORE

»	Apr 12, 2004 Lineage 2 and City of Heroes Golden! NC Soft wants you to know that two of their forthcoming MMORPG's have gone gold. First up, Lineage II receives a golden coat of armor as the new Unreal powered MMORPG sets out to conquer the US market. » MORE

»	Aug 13, 2003 City of Heroes Shots From the "Damn that's homoerotic" department, the City of Heroes website has four new screenshots of the game. Now, 2lions and I have talked about this one, and we can see no reason why you shouldn't be able to be a villain. » MORE

»	Jun 12, 2003 On City of Heroes... I wanted to comment on this ever since I saw the game at E3. Seriously, what the hell is up with City of Heroes? Everyone's raving about it, and PC Gamer even did a cover feature on it. » MORE

»	Jun 10, 2003 E3 Critics Awards E3awards.com has announced the Game Critics Best of E3 2003 Awards. This is important because, apparently, these people know a lot about games. Anyway, they voted Half-Life 2 as their best in show winner (they could've just asked ANYONE). » MORE

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