Multiplayer

Games in our Multiplayer category are multiplayer online games that share some but not all mechanics in common with traditional MMORPGs. Generally, their “massive” nature is contested. They frequently include OARPGs, online shooters, online strategy games, mobile MMOs, and other pseudo-MMOs that optionally provide single-player, offline, or custom-server support. We formerly categorized Multiplayer titles as “Not So Massively” games. You may also be interested in our MOBA category for PvP-centric arena battlers. [Follow the Multiplayer Online Games category’s RSS feed]

Star Citizen talks up its newly added spaceship crash sites and their future in latest video

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Star Citizen is back once again from its quarterly video creation break, which means that Inside Star Citizen episodes are returning to fan YouTube...

Sea of Thieves plans new content seasons for 2022 but sunsets arena mode

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Sea of Thieves went a bit Mary Celeste over the holidays, but this week, Rare has resurfaced with an outline of content through the...

Raph Koster talks metaverse creation and learning lessons from past game design mistakes

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"Metaverse." It's the one word that, apparently, drives game execs and investors into a babbling frenzy just seconds before they explode into venture capital...

Atlas expands and bosses multiply in Path of Exile’s Siege of the Atlas expansion, launching February 4th

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In Path of Exile's history of consistent, regular updates, sometimes there is a larger focus on the league, and sometimes its on the expansion...

The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming brings some team-based gunplay in Halo Infinite

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Backseat Streaming is back once again to showcase some gameplay from someone else's perspective! This time MOP's MJ and Chris slip into the view...

Overwatch lights up Lunar New Years, Diablo II expects a testing log jam for Patch 2.4

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The Year of the Tiger roared into Overwatch this week with a multi-week Lunar New Year celebration event. The celebration, which goes until February 15th,...

SMITE’s new season adds a new Slash game mode, tweaks existing game modes, and reworks relics

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SMITE launched its ninth season this week, and that means there's been a whole lot of new changes that came down the pike, like...

PlanetSide 2’s long-delayed Oshur continent is officially online today for PC players

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Rome wasn't built in a day, and PlanetSide 2's new continent of Oshur wasn't either; in fact, it took the devs at Daybreak's Rogue...
Popcorn appropriately.

Raven Software files for union election after ActiBlizz ignores recognition request

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Activision Blizzard's Raven Software has moved forward with its next step in officially forming its Game Workers Alliance union. Readers will recall that ActiBlizz...
KNOWLEDGE!

Path of Exile outlines extensive balance changes and the philosophy behind them for Siege of the Atlas

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You can perhaps fault the Path of Exile designers for laying out walls of text that require advanced knowledge of most of the game to...
Last cast.

Harry Potter Wizards Unite hosts final round of events before its sunset

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This month has been a bittersweet one for players of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, as the mobile ARG announced last November that it would...

Elite Dangerous Odyssey gets several faction-based adjustments and additional fixes in Update 10

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Tenth time's the charm, as the classic saying goes: Elite Dangerous: Odyssey's hammering out the dents on its PC version continues as the expansion...

Blizzard is hiring for a new unnamed survival game set in an ‘all-new universe’

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We've long known that Blizzard is working on several new unannounced games, but today, the company has confirmed that one of them is a...
Paws for impact.

MMO Business Roundup: Unionbusting, Kakao, sportswashing, DDOS attacks, plagiarism, and PUBG

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news. I'm sorry. Raven Software: The internal Activision studio that saw first a strike and...

Electronic Arts announces multiple Star Wars games, including a new shooter

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EA and Respawn aren't letting that ol' Star Wars license go to waste: The companies just announced that their partnership with Lucasfilm Games will...

The Stream Team: Spoiler stream of starting Warframe’s The New War

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Frame indecision aside, Massively OP's MJ can't keep putting Warframe's The New War off forever. Tonight, she's biting the bullet and jumping into the...
Here we go.

Epic Games says it’s not establishing ‘Europe’s largest esports center’ in Norway

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We've updated the title and the end of this article as Epic says the Norwegian source article is in error and that it is...

Palia promises discoverable lore and questlines that sees players ‘navigate negative emotional experiences’

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The month of January hasn't seen any major developmental announcements from Palia, the self-described "cozy community sim MMO." That said, there have been a...

SpatialOS developer Improbable’s polling says 90% of gamers think the metaverse will form in ten years

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The joke is that 80% of poll stats are just made up numbers. That could certainly be applied to data released by SpatialOS developer...

Battlefield 2042 eyes F2P in desperation while rascally zombies break the game

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Whether it be from the living or the dead, Battlefield 2042 can't seem to catch a break these days. The latest iteration of this long-running...

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