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]

Whatever happened to Civil War simulator War of Rights?

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It's been nearly a year now since we checked in with controversial Civil War battle simulator War of Rights, and while the team has...

The Stream Team: Wandering Valheim’s caves of wonder

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OK, so it may not be a cave of wonders Aladdin-style, but Valheim does have new caves to explore, and Massively OP's MJ is...

PlanetSide 2’s next update is bringing changes to weapon attachments, directive weapons, and overall balance

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Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. For example, the next big update coming to PlanetSide 2 is called the Arsenal Update....
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Genshin Impact’s next update brings a new story area and the world’s prettiest samurai

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To be fair, all of the characters in Genshin Impact could be described as desperately pretty, but the next character arriving in the 2.6...

Conqueror’s Blade draws from French medieval history for a new map and new units in latest season

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The history of medieval France has a lot of places to draw inspiration from, whether it's Joan of Arc or the Hundred Years' War,...

Star Citizen outlines several changes to its loot system and tweaks to injuries coming in alpha 3.17

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While the upcoming alpha 3.17 build of Star Citizen is seeking to add things like the Hull A and a river, it also appears...

Hearthstone announces Voyage to the Sunken City card set for next month

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Scrounge up your SCUBA gear and make best friends with your neighborhood murlocs, because Hearthstone is heading underwater for its next card set. Blizzard...

This Means Warp is a Jagex-published spaceship management roguelike now in early access

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Space is hard. There are whole fields of science dedicated to the matter, after all. That doesn't mean that video games can't make these...

Elite Dangerous puts console to PC wealth transfers on hold to assess possible changes

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Before Elite: Dangerous studio Frontier Developments elected to put the kibosh on content development for consoles, it allowed players a one-time transfer of wealth...

Conan Chop Chop outlines a list of bug fixes planned for a future update on PC, attacks issues on console

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Conan Chop Chop, the cutesy yet challenging multiplayer roguelite from Funcom and Mighty Kingdom that launched earlier this month, has been pretty good fun....
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Atlas adds the new animal-hauling Pegasus ship with its latest patch

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Y'all seen the Pegasus? No, not a horse with wings, you silly banana, you. We meant the new Pegasus ship in Atlas, which is custom-tailored...

Star Citizen discusses the difficulty of creating visual effects

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It would appear that VFX Director Mikey Snowdon, the guest of Star Citizen's latest weekly dev Q&A video, has an extremely tough and exhausting...

Dauntless hints at work on social updates, the return of seasonal talent trees, and an ‘endless challenge’ mode

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It's never too early to consider what's coming next in Dauntless, at least as far as the devs at Phoenix Labs are concerned. This...

The Stream Team: Fighting for a sea fort and more in Sea of Thieves

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It's time once more to head into the Sea of Thieves for some maritime adventuring, but this time there's the addition of sea forts...

Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak brings western movie monsters soon and power leveling now

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Capcom's finally given us a meaty update for  Monster Hunter Rise's June 30th paid DLC, Sunbreak, and it seems to confirm some of the...
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Path of Exile plans to test PC controller support in patch 3.17.3

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You can play Path of Exile on a controller... on consoles. That seems a little unfair, doesn't it? If you really prefer playing with a...

Chinese regulators draft ‘youth mode’ requirement for online games and more

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It appears that China's gaming industry still hasn't come close to hitting rock bottom. According to the South China Morning Post, China's Cyberspace Administration...

Niantic suspends Pokemon Go and Ingress in Russia, donates to support Ukraine

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Late last week, Niantic announced that it was pulling its massively online alternate reality games from Russia and Belarus following Russia's invasion of Ukraine....
Right, right, space. We're in it.

Elite Dangerous brings Fleet Carrier interiors, functioning seats, and a new mission type in Update 11

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After a couple of delays and the unfortunate news that the console version is effectively going into maintenance mode, Update 11 of Elite: Dangerous...

Gamescom outlines efforts to be ‘climate neutral’ in 2022 and beyond

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Gamescom is, without a doubt, the single largest gaming convention on the planet, which means it also requires massive amounts of energy to operate...

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