City of Heroes team rebranded as Paragon Studios

by Kyle Horner on Apr 14th 2009 3:00PM

Super-hero, City of Heroes, MMO industry, News items

Ever since Cryptic Studios sold the City of Heroes IP to NCsoft, the guys and gals left working on the game have been known as NCsoft NorCal. No longer! Nowadays, we'll be calling those fine folks Paragon Studios, according to a recent press release. Of course, the most obvious reason for the name and logo are that it sounds a lot better than the previous, and much more corporate, naming.

Still, a part of us wonders what exactly this means for the future of the newly named Paragon Studios. A name change like this with a shiny new logo doesn't usually happen unless said studio needs to be recognizable by everyone. So NCsoft can say things like, "From Paragon Studios, the team from City of Heroes" and such. So... new expansion? City of Heroes 2 to one effect or another? We'll have to wait and see, it seems.

Tags: city-of-heroes, city-of-villains, coh, ncsoft, ncsoft-norcal, paragon-studios

Reader Comments (4)

Also, this seperates them from the NCSoft in-house development. B/c "from the dev team at Paragon Studios" sounds much better then anything "From NCsoft" after their last several years.

The peeps at NCNC have been the one shining Western in-house dev team that's been profitbale enough to not get the Korean groin chop the last few years.

Don't forget Arena.Net and the Guild Wars games.

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NCsoft has had some backlash for the way they handled TABULA RASA. So it's really not surprising that Paragon Studios wants to differentiate themselves.