Melee characters in City of Heroes have always lacked ranged abilities. Some of this is implied by the archetype, of course — you wouldn’t expect a character built around hand-to-hand combat to be at maximum potency outside of grabbing distance — but it’s a bit of a disadvantage at times when a tanker or brute can do very little but get shot as he moves into range.
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City of Heroes shows off the upcoming Kinetic Melee set
There’s less than a month left before the release of Going Rogue , something that many City of Heroes players are looking forward to with heavy anticipation. The team at Paragon Studios has been anything but stingy with information about the upcoming expansion as well — they’ve been more than happy to share just how impressive the features are going to be. We had a chance to catch up with the the team at SDCC 2010 , which gave us the opportunity to take a closer look and get a few more insights about the game’s development.
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SDCC 2010: Melissa Bianco on lessons and innovations in City of Heroes Going Rogue
As Guild Wars 2 hype grows and we look to the upcoming novels to help hold us over until that elusive launch date, fans of all things Tyrian have become familiar with a long list of names.
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The story behind Ghosts of Ascalon: Massively’s interview with Jeff Grubb
Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Historical , Free-to-play , Giveaways , Promotions It’s Christmas in July here at Massively, and we want to hook you up with a free gift — in this case, a closed beta key for the upcoming Heroes of the Three Kingdoms . Perfect World Entertainment’s latest MMO entry looks to set itself apart from the pack with a historical setting, the ability to control NPC soldiers and a dynamic PvP faction battlefront.
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Grab a Heroes of the Three Kingdoms beta key like it’s hot, hot, hot!
NCsoft producer Chris “Kinslon” Hager checks in to answer questions on the upcoming Aion server merges via this week’s Eye on Community featurette. While NCSoft has explained both name change and item transfer policies in detail, it hadn’t yet touched on how the server blending will affect legion names (legion being Aion’s equivalent of a traditional MMORPG guild). ” Because we have fewer legions than characters, we’re able to be more hands-on with legion name collisions.
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Aion producer addresses legion renaming
Wringing your hands over the possibility of losing your mail (or more importantly, your account warehouse items) during the upcoming Aion server merges ?
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Aion server merge mail and warehouse policies explained
Despite wowing the gamers at E3 with their hands-on demo this week, the folks at En Masse Entertainment still managed to find time to tease a few more screenshots of their upcoming TERA fantasy/action MMORPG.
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TERA teases E3 screens of the week
The popular collectible card game gets a tactical twist in this upcoming tactics game for the PC and PlayStation 3. During our visit to Sony Online Entertainment’s booth at E3 2010, we had a chance to see a bit of the upcoming Magic: The Gathering tactical game in action. If you know Magic, this game may surprise you.
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Magic: The Gathering – Tactics Impressions
We get a look at a tech demo for the upcoming strategy sequel. When we visited the Paradox Interactive booth at E3 2010, we had a surprise in store for us: a tech demo for the upcoming Sword of the Stars II: Lords of Winter. We were excited by the chance to see a glimpse of this game, as the original was one of the few remaining bastions of the famous 4X formula–that is, eXplore, eXploit, eXpand, and eXterminate.
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Sword of the Stars II Impressions
Ever wanted to know the inner workings of CCP Games’ Tranquility server cluster?
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EVE devblog peeks behind the Tranquility curtain
