City of Heroes Private server is now a thing

[ThatDarnOwl]

City of Heroes an mmorpg that went down close to a decade ago is coming back due to a private server. However this isn't where the story actually starts.

 

Apparently the lead designer of the game handed off the source code to someone who asked for it. Who then made their own private server and kept it running for 6 years and had illegal subscriptions for it. Existence of this server only came to light within a few days ago and the full source was only dumped after he was harassed into releasing it.

 

Now it's back, another dead game that's been resurrected.