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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Wayfinder promises ‘juicy details’ on testing, highlights part of its playable roster

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After a holiday hiatus, the crew at Airship Syndicate is back to crank out development and testing for this year's Wayfinder. The team said...

Among Us lookalike Goose Goose Duck surges in popularity thanks to K-pop group BTS

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It's barely January and we're already writing a completely weird headline, so let's try to contextualize what's happening here. This is a story about...

The Stream Team: Gunning down the nanobot menace in the Synced open beta

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The world has been taken over by killer nanobots and it's up to MOP's Chris to try to stop them! He'll be heading into...

New video looks at the history of microtransactions and how they flooded all of video gaming

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The cosmetics shop. The battle pass. The lock box. Microtransactions are a part of our MMO, MMORPG, and multiplayer lives, not to mention many...

Tower of Fantasy gets a sniper rifle-wielding maid on January 12 and kicks off a Lucky Tarot event

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I don't claim to be intimately familiar with the Edwardian style of service, but I have to assume that maids don't normally carry immense...

Starbase prepares for its next in-game spaceship showcase on January 27

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If you're a fan of starships, specifically the ones built in the early access sandbox of Starbase, then you've got an important couple of...

Torchlight Infinite offers patch notes and a video preview of its January 12 Season of Blacksail

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Torchlight Infinite may have already shared a preview of its January 12th Season of Blacksail, but now it's sharing another preview as well as...
Every other screenshot looks bad, that's the thing.

Marvel Snap rakes in $30M in revenue while welcoming players to the Savage Land

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Following its October launch, digital card game Marvel Snap has enjoyed incredible popularity, numerous end-of-year awards, and -- most importantly -- a strong revenue...
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Deathverse: Let It Die announces that it will suspend services in July

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Normally, we'd say something like "don't title your game Deathverse: Let It Die if you don't want some snarky commentary if the game shuts...

Overwatch 2’s new free-for-all deathmatch Battle for Olympus has begun

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Overwatch 2's first big release of 2023 launched last night, sending the intersection of multiplayer gaming and classical studies fans into a frenzy. There...
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Microsoft walks back constitutional rights complaints in re-filed response to FTC antitrust lawsuit

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Microsoft caused plenty of eye rolling and head shaking when it filed its response to the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit, claiming among other...

SMITE opens voting for its 2023 player council, Divine Knockout releases Zeus and a new battlefied

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While Divine Knockout and SMITE don't have much in common in terms of gameplay, they are both Hi-Rez games where deific beings battle it...

Early access life sim RPG My Time at Sandrock tests its multiplayer mode January 12

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If you love those cozy life sim RPGs like Animal Crossing and Rune Factory, you're perhaps familiar with My Time at Sandrock, an in-development...
Oh, good, you're finally awake.

Halo Infinite gets Skyrim’s Whiterun as a player-created map

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Hey, you. You're finally awake. We thought we'd lost you in a horrible nightmare; you just kept rolling over and mumbling how Skyrim is...

FTC and Microsoft confirm a lack of ‘substantive’ settlement talks as UK regulatory body extends its investigation

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There have been a couple of small but no less important steps in the continuing story of Microsoft's buyout of Activision-Blizzard. We begin with...

For Science: New research tries to link game choices, soft skills, and career paths

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I suspect most long-time MMORPG gamers can point to a useful skill, contact, or experience in gaming that helped them in their careers or...

The Stream Team: Experiencing some PvE dragon riding in Century Age of Ashes

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MOP's Chris is taking a dragon flight, but not the one you're thinking! Instead he's returning to the dragon flying multiplayer title Century: Age...
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Overwatch 2’s limited-time Battle for Olympus game mode brings a clash of the gods in FFA deathmatch

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The characters of Overwatch 2 are already regular humans with some god-like power and strength, but the Battle for Olympus game mode arriving on...

Elite Dangerous lore post hints at an upcoming rise in the amount of anti-xeno weapons ships can field

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If your answer to the Thargoid threat in Elite: Dangerous is to shoot them with anti-xeno weaponry, you're already very familiar with the hard...

Project Visitor, the emulator of Sega’s 10Six, is still going strong after six years

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We're dipping deep into antiquity with this question: Who here remembers 10Six? If you don't, that's all right because we unearthed it back in...

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