NCsoft trademarks City of Heroes 2

By Robert Purchese Published 6 April, 2010

What could it mean. Nobody knows.

City of Heroes, the original superhero MMO, may be getting a sequel.

Publisher NCsoft was spotted trademarking City of Heroes 2 twice last week (by Superannuation).

Nothing further is known, and the trademark may be nothing more than future-proofing the name.

Nevertheless, City of Heroes - released 2004 in America and 2005 in Europe - is old. And with competition from Champions Online (developed by City of Heroes creator Cryptic Studios) and DC Universe, there's a Spandex-tight margin for error.

City of Heroes will expand again in a couple of months with expansion Going Rogue. The headline attraction of this will be Heroes being able to turn Villain and vice versa. There's a new world, items, quests and all that guff too, of course.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • SAMagic #1 2 years ago

    Huh, I've just been playing a trial version of the game (fun at least for the character creation) and couldn't stop thinking about how a reboot would be awesome for the game - the same game universe, same character creator (though there's plenty of room for improvement - custom textures maybe?) but all in a new engine could be awesome.

  • Eraysor #2 2 years ago

    Hopefully it'll be better than the mess that is Champions.

  • booner #3 2 years ago

    I LOVED this game, although I bought into it far too late. Bring out another and I might ditch the GF and take up MMORPG's again :)

  • organica #4 2 years ago

    Nah, I'm still pinning all my hopes on DCUO for the established world fanboy goodness. An update of CoX could be awesome if done right, though. The original is showing its age but still a great game.

  • Skandalle #5 2 years ago

    Character customization was spot on, its a shame the gameplay was left a little dry!
    i spent hours filling my character slots with pirates, zombies,zombie-pirates & zombie raising pirates etc.

  • McBradders #6 2 years ago

    Let's hope they don't break this one as bad as they did the first. What a clusterfuck.

  • Vyggo #7 2 years ago

    I loved the first game a lot. It made grouping so necessary, easy and casual that it just hit the sweet spot with me. I found the combat to be way more interesting than most other mmo's as well.

  • Chufty #8 2 years ago

    "Competition" from Champions Online? But CO is utterly dire...

  • Sar #9 2 years ago

    I hope they do go for a sequel, but allow you to bring your characters from the first game over. That would be awesome.

    \o/

  • sarcasmoidosis #10 2 years ago

    /scratches head

    Do you really need to trademark a sequel? I thought you just trademarked the name.

    If it's like that there, I'm trademarking Starcraft 3, Gears of War 3 and Uncharted 3 tomorrow :)

  • Sharzam #11 2 years ago

    I think CoV still is the only collectors edition MMO i have bought, it had little statues of all the main baddies in it. My desk had 8 of the little buggers while i was flying around shooting fireballs, ah good times.

    An update would be good but as with any reboots/sequels/updates i get worried they wont go after the money before gameplay. I know cryptic are no longer in charge of it but just look at the mess that is champions online to see how they can fall.

  • dacicus #12 2 years ago

    @Sharzam Call that Atari management. Rush an unfinished product out, cut the funds for the support and try to make a quick buck. But an update to COX would be nice. Lost two years nights on the game.
    Edited by 1 at 07/04/10 @ 07:43