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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Sea of Thieves is ‘fixing’ Safer Seas by making it… less usable for leveling

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Look out, Sea of Thieves has laid out a cunning trap for you! It's called a developer update for the week, and it's in...

G-Star 2024: Nexon teases Supervive, Project Overkill, and Arc Raiders as it celebrates its 30th birthday

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Nexon brought its A-game to G-Star 2024 in Busan, South Korea, and by A-game, we really mean its whole game because the company has...

The Stream Team: Multiplayer MechWarrior 5 Clans action with a friend

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It's time once again for MOP's Chris and his best friend to take command of their favorite walking combat tanks in MechWarrior 5: Clans!...

Warcraft Direct: World of Warcraft Midnight has player housing, WoW Classic Pandaria in 2025, and WoW Classic Classic

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Friends, today is not-BlizzCon, which is to say that Blizzard decided not to hold a BlizzCon event in the year when World of Warcraft...

PvE co-op survivalbox Aloft confirms its early access launch for January 15

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We've been following the development Aloft for a little while now; it's the upcoming co-op survival sandbox that involves exploring floating islands and transforming...

Destiny 2 brings new weapons, new game mode, and Street Fighter 6 collab November 19

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Yesterday brought the promised information livestream from Destiny 2 and its upcoming Act II update for the current Revenant episode, and sure enough, there...

Pearl Abyss Q3 2024: Black Desert declines, EVE Online flattens, Crimson Desert dithers

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Pearl Abyss - minus Pearl Abyss America head Jeonghee Jin, who left for NCsoft America this past summer - released its Q3 2024 financials...

Overwatch 2 launches Overwatch Classic, Diablo IV says way too many of y’all are playing Spiritborn

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Blizzard fans eagerly awaiting the Warcraft Direct showcase later today already have plenty to tide them over thanks to two big drops from the...

Choose My Adventure: Roaming the wild frontier is the quintessence of Red Dead Online

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When my best friend Britarnya started to get deep into her Red Dead Online cups, she was mostly just riding around the game's prairie...
A bit of a message disconnect.

Ubisoft faces proposed class action lawsuit over shutdown of The Crew

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In spite of Ubisoft's attempts to mollify angry gamers over its shuttering and subsequent removal of The Crew by confirming offline modes for the...

Overwatch Classic comes to Overwatch 2 ‘for a limited time’ starting tomorrow

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For Overwatch players still feeling the sting of the forced transition to Overwatch 2 and a heavy sense of longing to return to the...

Genshin Impact opens a new area, adds aerial traversal, and brings two new toons November 20

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It's almost time for another update to Genshin Impact, and much like others before it, this one has some new things like gacha characters,...

Adorable multiplayer life sim Dinkum is headed to mobile devices with Dinkum Together

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Since last year, we've been keeping an eye on Dinkum, a cutesy and cozy survival life sim RPG that has plenty to do for...

Skygard Arena is a turn-based tactical battler headed for Steam early access November 18

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It's an absolute shame to consider what happened to a game as unique as Atlas Reactor, and it was possible the multiplayer gaming world...

Marvel Rivals officially unveils Moon Knight’s arrival to the team shooter’s launch roster

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Readers might recall that Marvel Rivals teased the next character coming to the shooter's roster at the very end of its Psylocke trailer, but...

Terraria sells over 60.7M units worldwide with over half them on PC

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Do you lack a copy of Terraria on your computer's hard drive? If so, you might be in the shrinking minority as this long-running...

Publisher Masangsoft opens Steam pages for several old and previously shuttered MMOs

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The name Masangsoft might sound vaguely familiar to our regular readers, but it also has been some time since it blipped on our radar....

MultiVersus takes a $100M bite out of WB Games’ profits as the fighter outlines Season 4

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You would be forgiven for believing that platform fighter MultiVersus was doing well enough from the outside looking in, as the game continued to...

Nintendo’s patent lawsuit against Palworld studio is hunting for an injunction and $66K

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The middle of September saw the megahit monster collecting survivalbox Palworld rouse the boundless litigious ire of Nintendo when the latter slapped the former...

Dauntless breaks its long radio silence with a commitment to releasing its revamp by the end of the year

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It has been quite some time since we specifically checked in on the multiplayer Behemoth-hunting RPG Dauntless, but that was primarily because news coming...