City of Heroes is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft. The game was launched in North America on April 27, 2004 and in Europe on February 4, 2005 with English, German and French language servers. Twenty-one free major updates for City of Heroes have been released since its launch. The newest update, "Convergence", was released on September 13, 2011. In the game, players create super-powered player characters that can team up with others to complete missions and fight criminals... belonging to various gangs and organizations in the fictional Paragon City. On October 31, 2005, the game's first sequel, City of Villains , was launched, allowing players to play as supervillains. Initially dubbed as an "Expanshalone" by the developers , the game did not require CoH to run, but if the user had both games, content was added to the CoH side of game play.
more