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Paragon Studios did indeed try to purchase itself from NCSoft, and was shocked when the deal fell through at the lats minute.

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City of Heroes was put to bed in November last year, and developer Paragon Studios were laid off. However, players of the game have come together for their love of the concept and have formed an independent studio. Their first title is The Phoenix Project, a spiritual successor to City of Heroes.

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City of Heroes, the first superhero MMO which launched in 2004, is no more, as NCSoft shut the game servers down last night at 11.59pm PST. Players held a final Unity Rally on all servers at City Hall as a last goodbye until the lights went out over Paragon City. NCSoft announced in August the MMO would be shuttered along with Paragon Studios due to a “realignment of company focus and publishing support.” Surely the game’s players gave CoH a send off worthy of a superhero last night. Thanks, TenTonHammer.

City of Heroes cannot be saved, publisher NCSoft has told fans campaigning to keep the MMORPG running.

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City of Heroes fans have poured tremendous effort into trying to save the MMORPG, which is scheduled to close before the end of the year.

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City of Heroes players with outstanding balances will start getting automatic refunds next Wednesday, September 26, Paragon Studios has announced.

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City of Heroes, City of Villains and Paragon Studios may yet escape a fateful late November shutdown.

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Paragon Studios has announced City of Heroes will be shut down by the end of the year, as will the studio itself.

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NCSoft has announced details for this year’s Summer Blockbuster Event for City of Heroes, featuring two back-to-back quests for players to get into.

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NCSoft and Paragon Studios have announced the full details of this year’s Player Summit.

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NCSoft has detailed its Spring Fling plans for City of Heroes. On top of the three traditional Spring Fling co-op missions , characters of level 30 or above can take on a quest involving the Red Widow to score the Widow Maker badge, while level 20 and above can access Valentines, which awards players with the Match Maker or Missed Connection badges, and grants one of two temporary abilities, Arrows of Romance and Arrows of Jealousy. The fun kicked off this morning in the US and runs through February 27.

Paragon’s announced the 2012 Salute to Statesman Loyalty Program for City of Heroes. The scheme will enable players of the MMO to gain exclusive costume parts, emotes and more by remaining a loyal sub. Those who would like to gain their extras will need to make sure their subscription doesn’t run out between December 1 and March 31.

More details here. Thanks, Massively.

During the City of Heroes panel at Comic-Con, Paragon Studios’ lead game designers Melissa Bianco and Matt Miller along with art lead David Nakayama, development producer Nate Birkholz and community manager Andy Belford chatted with attendees about the MMO going free-to-play, and going under the new name City of Heroes: Freedom.

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Paragon Studios has promised to continue regularly adding content to City of Heroes, despite a recent slowdown in updates for the ageing MMO.

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Launched two weeks ago, City of Heroes’ Issue 20 update introduced ‘Incarnates’, adding new missions, powers and group options for up to 48 players.

Developer Paragon Studios spoke out on large scale raids and the response of the players.

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City of Heroes today saw the release of Issue 20, the MMO’s latest free content update.

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Paragon MMO City of Heroes is to get a double XP weekend starting today.

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NCSoft has registered a trademark for City of Heroes 2, as discovered by Superannuation.

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Loads of stuff happened this week with MMOs. Bethesda laughed off an Elder Scrolls MMO, APB started the Beta application process, Aion released pretty trailers, Star Wars will be playable at GamesCom and all other sorts of interesting things happened.

What we didn’t tell you about was that Lord of the Rings Online got some new jewelry and bounty quests in Esteldin, Funcom will announce Conan stuff at PAX, and there were some rumored leaks on the upcoming WoW expansion posted all over God’s green earth.

For all of this and more, read on past the break.

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Loads of stuff as usual going on this week with MMOs.

CCP has files a trademark fro Dust 514, which strangely enough resembles the EvE Logo, Warhammer’s latest patch is up on the test server, Guild Wars had some more class tweaks, and the summer festivities have been extended for Lord of the Rings Online.

Load of stuff, really. Read on past the break for more.

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