heroes and villains

A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...

If you played City of Heroes a long time ago - or even back in 2019, when its secret server blossomed into a public...

This month we mark a particularly sad anniversary in the MMO space: The 10th anniversary of the launch of Marvel Heroes. By all rights,...

Are you heading into the summer season with the intent of sampling MMOs that you've never touched before? If so, then you'll find Virtual...

No, it's not a bean, a clicking noise, or a government assistance program: Marvel Snap is just a a new multiplayer card-collecting game. Nuverse...

"Suffering descends upon the multiverse," DC Universe Online ominously announced in association with this week's Dark Knights release. The new episode pits heroes and...

Who likes roadmaps? Everyone, actually. And thankfully, Daybreak's Dimensional Ink has just this week produced one for DC Universe Online. While players and look...

DC Universe Online players, your doom is upon you - Legion of Doom, that is, as Episode 42 is live and free for everyone....

Back in 2019, I had the idea to make Design Mockument semi-regular column because I like doing this sort of thing. I put out...

No matter what your level of stoic cynicism is these days, I think we can all agree that having the world vanish is a...

Oh look at that, it's been roughly over a year since we had a peek in on Heroes and Villains, so here we are...

Daybreak's DC Universe Online has been kicking ass and taking names lately, and it's doing it again now. Last night, the latest Birds of...

As part of this column covering superhero MMORPGs, we have looked at the usual suspects: MMOs of the past (Champions Online, City of Heroes,...

A discussion chain has been rippling across the MMO blogosphere as of late, with writers reminiscing about online games that have lived and died...

Yes, today is the day when DC Universe Online truly goes metal. Not because the update brings with it new headbanging mechanics and a surfeit...

Last week, DC Universe Online became one of the only MMOs on the Nintendo Switch, prompting many gamers to give it a look or...

It has been well over a decade since I played City of Heroes with any regularity, and yet when I saw that familiar loading...

With all of the City of Heroes revival talk lately, our office chat turned in the direction of other MMOs we'd love to see...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, it's been superhero insanity, and I don't even mean City of Heroes. We got updates from Ship of Heroes...

This one's personally important to me. Peria Chronicles is a game that looked very interesting to me from the moment it was revealed and...