City of Heroes News & Events & Guides

NCsoft is preparing a major new commercial expansion for their five year old super hero MMO City of Heroes. News of the expansion, titled Going Rogue, was leaked out via an email blast that apparently was sent a tad too early. However, forum posts from the game's developer Paragon Studios have confirmed that Going Rogue is indeed a real and upcoming project.

Going Rogue will expand the game's territory to a new alternate universe with a city called Praetoria and like the classic Star Trek episode "Mirror Mirror" it depicts heroes in the normal City of Heroes universe as villains and vice-versa. An all new alignment system "explores the shades of gray that lie between Heroes and Villains" in the expansion. A teaser site for Going Rogue has already launched with a CGI trailer. There no word yet on a release date for this new expansion

From the point view of Turbine's Director of Public Relations - Adam Mersky, CoH Influence refer to the games that players can play with others simultaneously, no matter they have direct contact with others or not. As far as Colin Johanson from ArenaNet is concerned, MMOs allow players to explore the gaming worlds and enjoy the gaming fun together regardless of where they are. However, MMOs' definition is indeed changing. How do developers define such games now? Red 5 Studios' CEO Mark Kern who's the former leader of WoW' development team said that MMOs' content was far from being able to be generalized by the title "City of Heroes influence", and that new themes didn't amount to new MMOs. He reckoned that for the sake of new MMOs, all game content including the terms should be changed