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]

Tales from the Holodeck: Altair Breaker is an unfinished and unsatisfying example of multiplayer VR swordplay

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One of the best things I've experienced in VR gaming has been swordfighting. Sure, waving a controller around to translate it into sword strikes...

Elite Dangerous on 4.0 update and playerbase split: ‘We’re not trying to be done with Odyssey’

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After 13 updates to the Odyssey expansion of Elite: Dangerous with still very little joy to be found among players when compared to the...

CCP Games is hunting for veteran DUST 514 players to test its next EVE universe FPS

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If you're hankering to take peek at CCP Games' next big thing - and yes it's another attempt at an EVE Online-universe shooter -...
Fine.

Hearthstone’s second battleground season begins next week with major monetization charges

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Practice your fancy shuffle, my friends, for Hearthstone's second battlegrounds season is set to start next week on August 30th. Yesterday, Blizzard announced what...

The First Descendant announces Steam beta test for October 20, unveils its new trailer

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Nexon's co-op looter shooter The First Descendant has been making a lot of noise recently. The game was first revealed as Project Magnum during...

Arcane Waters enters early access November 15, kicks off a new playtest with a perks system this week

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The pixel-y pirating multiplayer playground of Arcane Waters is continuing its steady slide forward in development. The biggest news to come out of the...
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Multi-franchise brawler Multiversus rockets to 20 million players in its first month

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You totally know that there are so many execs over at Warner Bros. Games spinning in their office chairs like delighted children over seeing...

Hi-Rez updates Realm Royale after a two year-long span of silence

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It would appear that Hi-Rez Studios is in the business of bringing games back from the dead. After a two year-long span of no...

Gamescom Opening Night Live: Funcom’s Dune Awakening survival MMO and more multiplayer news

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In-person Gamescom is back in Cologne, Germany, and tonight - as it's tonight over there already of course - we're getting the Opening Night...

Destiny 2 begins the Season of Plunder today, readies a new raid August 26, unveils Lightfall expansion for February 2023

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The showcase presentation for Destiny 2 is well underway and Bungie has been absolutely flooding fans with video previews, update plans, and (sure enough)...

Choose My Adventure: Chimeraland’s weirdness routine continues to become a comfortable cadence

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There's always a point when you're playing a new game that things become comfortable. A lot of folks tend to refer to that as...

Rumor: Destiny 2 will unveil a crossover with Fortnite and arrival to EGS during its showcase today

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Today at 12:00 p.m. EDT is the day when Destiny 2 will be broadcasting a showcase for content coming to the game among other...

The Stream Team: Trying Warframe’s taser whip

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Although Masively OP's MJ is generally not a fan of melee, there is one weapon that she fell in love with all the way...

Monstrum 2 is an asymmetrical multiplayer spook-em-up leaving early access on September 6

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Fans of multiplayer asymmetrical titles with one player being a killer and the others being potential targets is something of a sub-genre all its...
Screw you, trees.

MechWarrior Online adds even more shiny ‘Mechs and makes further quirk and weapon tweaks

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You'd be forgiven for thinking that the patch notes for MechWarrior Online are kind of entering Groundhog Day levels of repetition, particularly since the...

Legends of Runeterra welcomes Master Yi to its world next week with Awakening

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Legends of Runeterra, Riot Games' digital card game, is readying a new expansion called Awakening that is set to go live on August 31st....
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Tower of Fantasy has expelled over 10,000 accounts worldwide for cheating so far

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This past week was an extremely busy one for the Tower of Fantasy team, specifically the Hykros Central Control Room, which is a fancy...

Fight or Kite: I had a MultiVersus hole in my heart all this time and never knew it

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I honestly can’t get enough of MultiVersus. It’s completely consumed my nightly game time, almost in its entirety. Maybe it’s just been too long...
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Path of Exile’s adjustments to item drops in Lake of Kalandra light a tinderbox of fury among players

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The subreddit for Path of Exile is a particularly unhappy place right now, especially in light of a recent dev blog talking about update...

Tower of Fantasy applies a fix and issues compensation for a bugged gacha banner

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Tower of Fantasy is a game with a gacha monetization model, which means that those who engage in the practice of pulling for a...

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