All our E3 2018 MMO and multiplayer coverage!

The Stream Team: MOP’s 12-hour Kickstarter countdown extravaganza - We're down to the wire, folks! Our Kickstarter clock is ticking down, and there are only 12 hours left in one of the greatest reroll endeavors ever. And just how are…

Cyberpunk 2077 could be coming to E3 with a playable demo and new trailer - Following a single "beep" of Twitter activity last week, CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 holds the rapt attention of gamers across the world who are eager to see development on…

EA hypes Anthem trailer and combat ahead of its pre-E3 EA Play show - We're just a week and change away from E3, and you know what that means: Every major game company is going to be trickling out info ahead of time, negating…

Perfect World is showing two new games at E3: Mobile sandbox MMORPG ReEvolve and battle royale FarSide - Perfect World is up to some stuff at E3 this year. Some good stuff, by my estimation. The company sent 'round PR on two of its upcoming games today: a…

E3 2018: Fallout 76 takes over the L.A. skyline - If you're heading to E3 in Los Angeles next week, it is going to be quite difficult indeed to avoid any thoughts of Bethesda's new Fallout 76. It could be…

E3 2018: EA confirms its open-world Star Wars game, Jedi Fallen Order - At EA Play this afternoon, Electronic Arts confirmed that it is indeed working on a Star Wars game, previously rumored as an open-world game. The game's title is Star Wars: Jedi…

E3 2018: BioWare’s Anthem has soloable co-op open world, no lockboxes, a sweet trailer, and a February 22 launch - At this afternoon's EA Play, EA and BioWare have revealed Anthem's brand-new trailer. The game is now slated to launch on February 22nd, 2019. During the developer discussion, BioWare said…

E3 2018: Fallout 76 is absolutely massive — and here’s the trailer - Right now, every Fallout fan in the world has been singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" nonstop for the past week or so. That's probably not going to change after…

E3 2018: Elder Scrolls Online announces Wolfhunter and Murkmire DLC (oh yeah, and Elder Scrolls VI is coming!) - [AL:ESO]At Bethesda's E3 presentation this evening, ZeniMax's Matt Firor announced that The Elder Scrolls Online's next DLC is called Wolfhunter, complete with werewolf theme. And even later this year, we can…

E3 2018: ‘Fallout 76 is entirely online’ - You've seen the teaser. You've heard the rumors. You've watched the E3 trailer. And now it's time to find out, exactly, what Fallout 76 is. On Sunday night, Bethesda took…

The Daily Grind: Will you sub to EA’s new ‘Origin Access Premier’ service? - During EA Play this weekend, EA announced Origin Access Premier, its attempt at a subscription service on PC. For $100 a year, you'll basically get a service pretty similar to…

E3 2018: Cyberpunk 2077 debuts its trailer, but multiplayer is nowhere to be found - Let's start with the good news because you're going to need it: CD Projekt Red did indeed bring Cyberpunk 2077 to E3 2018, and its trailer is a glorious introduction…

E3 2018: Sea of Thieves foresees a summer of skeleton ships, volcanic danger, and new player vessels - The next two big summer content updates are the main focus at Sea of Thieves' E3 presence this week and will hopefully beef up the content in this lean pirate…

E3 2018: Black Desert gets a teaser trailer for Xbox One - [AL:BDO]Hey, do you remember about how Black Desert is headed for the Xbox One? That's been quiet for quite some time. But now it's moving forward again with the launch…

E3 2018: The Division 2 shows off its story and its early gameplay, launches March 15 – with raids - There's no pretense that The Division 2 is not going to build on what worked for the original The Division. You can watch the story trailer just below and see…

E3 2018: Fallout 76 partners with Habitat for Humanity for charity – you can contribute for a song (literally) - Still pumped for the full Fallout 76 reveal from last night? Or maybe concerned over the potential for PvP abuse? Regardless of your current position, Bethsoft is already moving to…

E3 2018: Dissecting the Elder Scrolls VI teaser that broke the internet - [AL:ESO]Last night, Bethesda Director Todd Howard took the E3 stage and practically broke the internet. Of course, he talked about Fallout 76, which everyone expected. After all, Bethesda teased that…

Final Fantasy XIV and Monster Hunter World team up for a bizarre collaboration - [AL:FFXIV]Fancy some Monster Hunter in your Final Fantasy XIV? How about a bona fide Monster Hunter World collab? That's what you're getting, according to Square Enix's E3 presser today. It sounds as…

E3 2018: Dauntless promises The Coming Storm arrives in August 2018 - [AL:DNT]The Coming Storm is arriving. No, the storm itself is not arriving. You see, Dauntless has announced its first big content pack, which is itself called The Coming Storm. That's…

E3 2018: PUBG will launch Sanhok map June 22, plans snow mechanics and map for this winter - During yesterday's pre-E3 Xbox conference, Bluehole didn't trot out Brendan Greene himself to talk PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, but it did confirm what Reddit has apparently known for several days now thanks…

E3 2018: Microsoft picks up State of Decay 2’s Undead Labs - Buried under the avalanche of pre-E3 news this weekend was the blip that Microsoft is spinning up five internal studios, including a brand-new one. The other four are basically being…

The Daily Grind: Will Fallout 76 be a griefer’s paradise or a gamer’s dream? - On Sunday night, the Massively OP staff gathered in our virtual office to watch and discuss the Bethesda conference. There really was a little something for all of us, including…

E3 2018: Star Citizen’s ‘alpha 3.2 teaser’ trailer is gorgeous, and it’s not alpha 3.2 - During last night's PC Gaming Show at E3, Cloud Imperium showed a nifty video of Star Citizen that has the community abuzz. Considered out of context, it's an in-engine video…

E3 2018: Fallout 76 confirms private servers, mod support, and no living NPCs - As players continue to try to wrap their heads around Bethesda's vision for Fallout 76 (and fear a gaming apocalypse in which their previous single-player game is "ruined" by MMO…

E3 2018: En Masse on TERA’s lootboxes, console port, PvE vs. PvP, and the June 26 Gunner class launch - [AL:TERA]It's E3 2018, and you know what that means: covering hot new mobile games of IPs you wanted for PC/console! No? Oh, well, that's probably for the best, as En Masse…

E3 2018: Defiance 2050 reboot launches on PC and console July 10th - We've got an official launch date for the new Defiance, folks: Trion announced this morning that Defiance 2050 will hit all three major platforms on July 10th, pursuant to an…

Get Elder Scrolls Online and Morrowind for 8 bucks, check out the Murkmire DLC teaser from E3 - If you somehow missed the Morrowind chapter of the MMORPG we named game of the year in 2018, then this sale is most definitely for you: Green Man Gaming has…

E3 2018: The Crew 2’s open beta starts on June 21 - Ready to drive cars around? How about boats? Dirtbikes? Formula 1 racers? Planes? If it's got an engine, you're going to be racing it in The Crew 2, and you…

E3 2018: Rapture Rejects is isometric battle royale for those left behind - The battle royale genre isn't really one overly concerned with story, but the team behind Rapture Rejects captured a pretty good premise. In short: The Rapture has happened, and the…

E3 2018: Perfect World is paving the way to bring Steam to China - If you want to go somewhere to escape Steam's spreading influence, you might be tempted to head to China, where the country has officially operated free of Valve's platform to…

E3 2018: Mavericks is battle royale on a massively multiplayer scale - Battle royale is all the rage these days, but as we've been covering over the last few months, the SpatialOS-based Mavericks is aiming to bring a new approach to the…

E3 2018: Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be a first-person-shooter and RPG both - The bad news, Cyberpunk 2077 hopefuls, is that there's still no word on the alleged multiplayer elements for the game. The good news, or at least the news, is that…

Here’s everything you want to know about Fallout 76, including the making-of documentary - With players compiling a massive amount of useful information and Noclip releasing a making-of documentary for Fallout 76, we're starting to arrive at a much better understanding of what this…

E3 2018: Pearl Abyss’ CEO on Black Desert’s Xbox port, Switch considerations, and PvP - [AL:BDO]Pearl Abyss' Kyungin "Robin" Jung isn't just a CEO. He's also got a background in engineering. He may not have developed any game-saving tech for Black Desert, but at least he's…

Tamriel Infinium: Unpacking the Elder Scrolls Online presentation at E3 - [AL:ESO]Elder Scrolls Online is obviously a huge draw for MMORPG players, but it's far from an exciting title for the vast majority of gamers attending E3, so I was surprised to…

E3 2018: Sony blocks Fortnite crossplay with rival consoles, waffles on a response - This week's showing at E3 should have been a victory lap for one of gaming's hottest titles, but Sony seems bound and determined to rain on Fortnite's parade. The problem…

E3 2018: Skull and Bones fleshes out its gameplay with the Hunting Grounds - Player choice and random map elements are the key to the meat of Skull and Bones' replayability said Ubisoft at this week's E3 2018. The studio made a concerted effort…

E3 2018: Square Enix says it hasn’t given up on bringing Dragon Quest X westward - In an alternate universe, Dragon Quest X got ported to western shores in 2012 when Square Enix launched the MMORPG in Japan. Sadly, we're stuck in this crap universe, where…

E3 2018: hands-on with The Division 2 – a major upgrade over the original game - At this year's E3, Ubisoft creative director Julian Gerighty said team behind The Division 2 tried to learn "everything" from The Division to help make the sequel better. As he reminded me, the…

E3 2018: Nintendo thinks lockboxes are unfairly maligned, help ‘drive engagement’ - You know how sometimes, when nosy press asks you a question with no good answer, you're better off shutting up? And when they don't ask you about a tricky subject,…

E3 2018: Blizzard discusses keeping storytelling going in World of Warcraft - There are a lot of elements to weave together to tell stories in World of Warcraft. You can argue over whether or not the team doing so is actually very…

E3 2018: Hands-on with Bethsoft’s Elder Scrolls: Blades (yes, in portrait mode) - Out of all the announcements Bethesda had at its pre-E3 presser, The Elder Scrolls: Blades was the last title I thought we'd be offered. Oh, we had asked about others, but they…

E3 2018: Vigor brings a DayZ-like experience to a post-war Norway - Bohemia Interactive, the developer behind DayZ, knows what it does well, and it's going to continue to create games within its specific field of expertise. The studio just announced its…

E3 2018: Deep-diving Trion’s kid-friendly voxelbox Trove and its upcoming Geode expansion - [AL:Trove]One thing Trion Senior Producer James Karras drove home during my meeting with the team at this year's E3 is that with Trove's Geode update, the team is experimenting. Yes,…

E3 2018: Hands-on with Super Smash Bros Ultimate - With all the online talk about Nintendo this year, it feels only fitting to give Nintendo's Super Smash Bros Ultimate a little time. We've talked recently about the unbundling of MMOs and…

E3 2018: Hands-on with Pokemon Let’s Go - You know with my being the one at this year's E3 that this would happen. A console Pokemon game that also connects to Pokemon Go? The possibility for a way to…

E3 2018: Well-earned hype for Rend’s pets, construction, modding, and PvPvE - When I met Frostkeep Studios' CEO Jeremy Wood and crew at GDC earlier this year, I walked away impressed. I finally felt like I understood why other MOP staff are…

E3 2018: Hands-on with Ubisoft’s open-world pirate PvP game Skull & Bones - So, you want to be a pirate, but Sea of Thieves isn't your cup of tea? If the issue was PvP, well, you're probably out of luck, as Ubisoft Producer Karl von der…

E3 2018: A second look at Trion’s Defiance 2050 reboot - GDC 2018 back in March was good to Defiance 2050, at least in terms of making people aware of the goals of the game. It doesn't necessarily mean people like…

E3 2018: Hands-on with Funcom’s upcoming Mutant Year Zero - Apparently, GDC was good to Funcom, The Bearded Ladies, and Mutant: Year Zero. The teams had originally thought to skip E3 this year, but after the reveal led to even…

E3 2018: Hands-on with the superb (and hopefully Switch-bound) Black Desert Mobile - While I've had kind words to say about the potential for mobile in the past - particularly MMOARGs - I just haven't been able to get into mobile MMORPGs. The…

E3 2018: Hands-on with ReEvolve, Perfect World’s new mobile sandbox MMORPG - Remember how we learned that Perfect World would be showing off some new games at E3? Well, things happen at conventions like this - they don't always go to plan.…

E3 2018: Hands-on with Descent, the future of space mining - Fallout 76 wasn't the only Interplay throwback at E3 2018: Descent, one of the games that defined the six degrees of freedom genre, is no longer underground. That is, the former title…

Massively Overthinking: Massively OP’s E3 2018 awards - We've finished rolling out all of our E3 2018 content this year, save a few last stragglers coming this weekend, so now we've chosen our favorites out of what we…

E3 2018: Bill Roper on gaming’s smoke and mirrors, Worlds Adrift, and building on SpatialOS - For MMO players, Improbable brought some interesting ideas to GDC this past spring. It also brought some games I wasn't expecting, and the ones I was expecting were kind of downplayed.…

E3 2018: Hands-on with Mavericks, the MMO battle royale hybrid - Automaton Games CEO James Thompson came along with Improbable, Bill Roper, and Mavericks to this year's E3, where I got a second chance to see how everything in the battle…

ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2’s living story, Heart of Thorns vs. Path of Fire, security, and momentum - [AL:GW2]Though ArenaNet was technically at E3 this year, the group representing Guild Wars 2 was chiefly a marketing and business one, so they carted our interview questions back to team members more…

Interview: Worlds Adrift’s Bossa Studios on giving, griefing, and gittin’ gud - After the launch of Worlds Adrift but prior to E3, we sent off an interview to Bossa Studios and recently received our answers, complete with current news about how the…