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City of Heroes Enters Open Beta on Mac

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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City of Heroes Enters Open Beta on Mac

Sure, if you’ve got a Mac you can play WoW, but now you’ve got other choices! Or you will soon, at least. Yesterday, City of Heroes opened up their Mac beta—only four and a half years after the game first released! Viva la Mac! Writing on the official CoH forums, lead designer Matt Miller welcomed Mac [...]

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Atari Purchases Cryptic Studios for $26.7 Million

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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Atari Purchases Cryptic Studios for $26.7 Million

Seriously, is it safe to claim Phil Harrison is a witch yet? I can think of no other way he could have possibly made Atari so much better in the short time he's been there. First he gets Atari a couple of big games that lost their publishers, and now he goes and gets Cryptic [...]

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7-Eleven Will Sell Games Year Round, and Charge You to Play Guild Wars

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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7-Eleven Will Sell Games Year Round, and Charge You to Play Guild Wars

Remember how weird it was when 7-Eleven started selling select promo-partner games at their stores? Remember how awesome it was when they completely ignored street dates of aforementioned games and sold them regardless of labels warning them against doing so? Well, now you can buy AAA games at 7-Eleven year round, starting with seven this [...]

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Champions Online Taking Sign-Ups for Closed Beta

Monday, October 13, 2008

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Champions Online Taking Sign-Ups for Closed Beta

I have a soft spot for City of Heroes. It wasn't my first MMORPG, and it wasn't my last, but it's definitely among the top when I think back on how much I enjoyed playing it. I could always tell when I was among like-minded players, simply by taking a glance at the other heroes' [...]

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Star Trek Online is Back in Business

Monday, July 28, 2008

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Star Trek Online is Back in Business

We already knew this was happening, honestly, but today, the countdown timer has ended, and the announcement has been made official: Cryptic Studios, the MMO developer behind City of Heroes and the upcoming Champions Online, has taken the development reins for Star Trek Online. Enterprising gamers had identified this with 99% certainty some 45 days [...]

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City of Heroes Adds *Optional* Advertisements

Friday, April 4, 2008

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City of Heroes Adds *Optional* Advertisements

Video game advertising partner Double Fusion is just full of bright ideas on how to make advertisements acceptable to Joe Gamer. Since authentic, vintage product placement won't exactly work in a futuristic MMO like City of Heroes, NCsoft announced yesterday that their in-game ads will be completely optional.

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