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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Betawatch: Brighter Shores is really launching in November after one last beta

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You should get your whites whiter and your shores brighter when Brighter Shores goes into testing in late October ahead of a full release...

Microsoft is sunsetting multiplayer functionality for Age of Empires 3’s classic version

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So we have some good news and some bad news about multiplayer RTS Age of Empires 3. Let's do the bad news first: It's...

Overwatch 2 launches Halloween events October 15, Hearthstone opens The Great Dark Beyond November 5

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It's about to get spooky, ookie, and kooky in both Overwatch 2 and Hearthstone over the next few weeks, with the superheroic PvP FPS...

Torchlight Infinite brings a new character and hints at bringing color to a dull land in October 25’s Season 66

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What does bringing color to a snow white world mean in Torchlight: Infinite? We'll all find out on Friday, October 25th, when Season 66...

Conan Exiles sets October 17 date for Age of Heroes and its massive NPC revamp

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As of this afternoon, we've got a hard date for Conan Exiles' Age of Heroes: October 17th. First announced back in August, it's the...

Landing Party is a new mobile alternate reality RPG from an old-school Turbine founder

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Old salts of MMORPGs are likely familiar with the name of Johnny Monsarrat. He effectively had a hand in creating the genre with Asheron's...

Sea of Thieves’ Season 14 emphasizes stealth and skullduggery with new weapons and tricks October 17

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Most of the time in Sea of Thieves, players are effectively loud and brash pirates owing to the fact that they fire cannons, throw...

Diablo IV elaborates on the fights and rewards of its ongoing Season of Hatred Rising

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Things are looking grim for the denizens of Sanctuary. That might sound like "water is wet" kind of news considering everything that's happening, but...

Stream Team: A hero’s work is never done in Enshrouded

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It's time to step into Enshrouded again with Larry and MJ. They have a lot of house guests now, and all of them are...

Skull & Bones boosts event rewards and talks up September’s patch improvements

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It would be pretty easy to remember Skull & Bones' last patch purely because of its long deployment delay and subsequent bugs, but the...

My Time at Evershine devs: Get our Kickstarter to $2.5M and we’ll leap past early access

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We weren't particularly surprised to see My Time at Evershine, the multiplayer follow-up to Pathea Games' My Time at Portia and My Time at...

The Stream Team: Answering the call of Purribean adventure in Cat Quest III

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MOP's Chris and his best friend Britarnya are back once more for another round of cat-based swashbuckling! That's right, it's time for some more...

Roblox Corp denies short-seller’s report that it lies to investors and hosts ‘a pedophile hellscape’

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The dark clouds that hang over Roblox have been well-documented by us for quite some time, but now there's a damning new report from...
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Apex Legends gets transparent about drop rates in response to a recent South Korean gaming law amendment

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It's a generally widely understood assumption that items are made rare purely because the drop rate numbers are fudged by game studios, but players...
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Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots

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CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...

Bungie faces copyright infringement lawsuit from an author over Destiny 2’s Red War story beats

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It's been a long time since Destiny 2's launch, so it might have been easy to forget the Red War and some of its...

Battle royale shooter Supervive plunges into this month’s Steam Next Fest with a feature-rich demo

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How many video game genres can you cram into a single title before it becomes a stew? Supervive is pushing that limit with elements...

Valheim will introduce a new cooking and farming skill with its bog witch swamp biome update

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"The Spill" may sound like your favorite MMO's requisite sewer zone, but today we're talking tea, as it's the name of Coffee Stain's and...

Destiny 2’s Revenant episode launches today – here’s the new trailer

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Today is the day when Destiny 2 can go from Guardians to Slayer Barons. The newest episode/season for the shooter, Revenant, is going live...

Project Friendship, Spry Fox’s new cozy MMO, just opened tester signups

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Way back in 2021, we first caught wind that indie developer Spry Fox was hiring for a new "non-violent" MMO, essentially a cozy game....