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]

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Elite Dangerous Update 15 goes live today – here are the patch notes

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The time has come for another update to Elite: Dangerous. The 15th update, to be specific, as the Live 4.0/Odyssey edition of the spacefaring...

Bossa Studios CEO discusses company’s shift towards co-op and PvE multiplayer titles

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The name Bossa Studios tends to conjure up the story of Worlds Adrift 'round these parts. Readers might remember that the promising sky piracy...

Dinkum is a cutesy single player and co-op life sim set in the Australian outback

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If you were crestfallen at the latest news from Phoenix Labs and its own life sim title, perhaps you can be salved with an...

Fractured Veil answers questions about engine, update cadence, private servers, and representing Hawaii

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The developers of Fractured Veil have rounded up several interesting player questions together and shared their answers for the April community Q&A round-up. Here...

Dinosaur survival MMO Path of Titans brings nighttime dangers in its May 10 Night Stalker update

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Remember Path of Titans? It's a self-described "open-world dinosaur sandbox MMO adventure" that entered closed beta last summer after it tried to raise crowdfunding...

Riot Games’ $100M discrimination settlement payouts officially claimed by over 1500 affected people

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This could be considered an epilogue or the final chapter of a long and sordid ordeal for affected employees of Riot Games. Back in...

Conan Exiles celebrates its fifth anniversary with a special developer livestream

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It's been five years since the survival sandbox Conan Exiles released, and Funcom plans to mark the occasion not with an in-game event, but...
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War Thunder Edge is now War Thunder Mobile, entering open beta testing on Android

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Last November we were alerted to the upcoming release of War Thunder Edge, a mobile version of the multiplayer military vehicle battler that promised...

The MOP Up: World War II Online focuses on rebuilding squads

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"Squads" are the watchword of World War II Online as of late, with Cornered Rats pouring more effort into bolstering this group makeup in...
For SOME REASON

Mike Ybarra defends patent filing for AI art generator in Blizzard style

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The extremely sticky wicket of AI art generation and its impact on multiple creative industries has now hit the higher echelons of Blizzard's executive...
Yay, a thing we didn't want.

Overwatch 2’s director Aaron Keller takes a detailed look at Lifeweaver’s current state of balance

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So, how is Lifeweaver working out for Overwatch 2 at this point? Well, in terms of kissability, he's still very high on the list....

Fall Guys Season 4 arrives May 10 with tools that let players build their own obstacle courses

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It sure did feel like Season 3 of Fall Guys went on forever, didn't it? Well we can now all venture a guess as...
Please get out of my yard.

Pokemon Go pushes back against ‘incorrect’ estimates that its revenue has dropped this year

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Pokemon Go developer Niantic is a private company, which means that it doesn't share its quarterly financial reports with anyone since it's not being...

Massively on the Go: WalkScape’s Schamppu wants game to walk the fitness walk

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It turns out I wasn't alone in WalkScape piquing my curiosity, so those of you who are intrigued by a new RuneScape-inspired walking-centric MMOARG...

Star Citizen shows off development progress on its next indoor kart racetrack

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Last August, Star Citizen showed off the surprise reveal of indoor kart race tracks, which started life as a pet project done by some...
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Lawful Neutral: What if Activision-Blizzard just… sold Blizzard?

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Last week, Activision-Blizzard and Bobby Kotick got a bad surprise: The UK moved to block the acquisition of ABK by Microsoft, citing concerns over...

Destiny 2 is raising its standalone season prices, players are naturally displeased

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It's not just MMORPG subs that have gone up over the last year: Even season passes are creeping up in some online titles. The...

Elite Dangerous’ Update 15 is launching May 9, but we still don’t know what’s in it

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Players of Elite: Dangerous have mostly known about Update 15 as the one that got pushed back into May, but now Frontier Developments is...

Redfall’s messy release prompts apology from Xbox’s Phil Spencer

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Some vampires need to be staked right out of the coffin. This has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Bethesda and...

Requia Online Reborn brings an ‘accessible’ form of the mobile TCG RPG MMO to Steam early access on June 23

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It's not just a TCG, and it's not quite an MMORPG, but it does have a little bit of all three of these acronyms...

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