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]

Fallout 76 gets players in on the trick-or-treat action

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Halloween in the wasteland is set to arrive next week, as Fallout 76 activates its spoopy activities on October 19th through November 2nd. During the...

Animal Crossing New Horizons adds cooking and island design in major update and paid DLC

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If you thought Animal Crossing: New Horizons was effectively dead lately, you're not alone: The updates for the last six months were unhappy times even...

PWE has put Torchlight, Torchlight II, and Torchlight III on sale for the franchise’s 12th birthday

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It's hard for me to even look at the word Torchlight nowadays without thinking about all the lost potential of Torchlight III and Torchlight...

Blizzard pins Diablo II Resurrected’s server issues partly on 2001 netcode from the classic game

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While Diablo and brothers never really had much trouble returning to Sanctuary over and over again, the heroes who seek to slay them (over...

Genshin Impact introduces the Perilous Labyrinth of Fog in Update 2.2, aborts weird Elon Musk stunt

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Yesterday saw Genshin Impact get its newest update, which apparently tasks players with going Into the Perilous Labyrinth of Fog aka Tsurumi Island, the...

Path of Exile’s Scourge revamps skill tree, adds passive masteries and guild hideouts

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While Path of Exile's new Scourge league is fitting for Halloween, the expansion also brings some goodies and changes that will last beyond the...

Dauntless starts its Halloween event, launches a new hunt pass, and adds XP banking for max level weapons

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The Dark Harvest looms overhead in Dauntless. As in it's nearly arriving to the multiplayer monster slaying RPG as part of the game's latest...

Path of Exile’s spooky Scourge league offers tricks and treats starting October 22

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Path of Exile's new leagues and updates come like clockwork every three months, just like seasons of the year. But it isn't often that...
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Diablo III’s Wyatt Cheng claims the game’s tuning wasn’t based on the real-money auction house

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Remember the Diablo III real-money auction house? Of course you do; that stuff is like horse armor or "you think you want it, but you...

Former UK Star Citizen player outlines the steps he took to get a refund from CIG

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If you're dissatisfied with how Star Citizen is being managed to the point that you want a refund and you happen to live in...

Starbase adds expandable easy build areas for stations and blueprint shopping lists for the auction house

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"Honey, would you go to the auction house of Starbase and get me some blueprints? Make sure to use the shopping list." This is...

Hearthstone’s PvE-leaning Mercenaries expansion has arrived

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If you're the kind of Hearthstone player that prefers to play more single-player content, then the game's newest expansion, Mercenaries, could be right up...

The Stream Team: Firing up the demo of Monster Hunter Rise on PC

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It's going to be a bit of time before Monster Hunter Rise makes its way to PC players, but today marks the next best...

Not So Massively Roundup: LoL’s chat test, Overwatch Halloween, and Fortnite acknowledges Among Us

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Our not-particularly-massively-multiplayer news has started to pile up, which means it's time for a quick run-down of games in the MMORPG genre's orbit. We've...

MMO Business Roundup: China’s crackdown, the COVID bubble, MY.GAMES hires, and the Shatterline leak

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Welcome back to another super fun roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Remember how regulators in China have cracked down on youth gaming in...

Destiny 2’s Halloween-themed Festival of the Lost brings haunted sectors and spooky goodies

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Today is the day when Guardians in Destiny 2 remember the fallen, put on masks, and blow away foes for the chance at candy...

Here’s how Path of Exile is tweaking the Atlas of Worlds in Scourge and beyond

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Path of Exile's Scourge expansion isn't just balancing flasks, defense, and DOTs; it's also planning a preliminary rollout of tweaks ahead of next year's...

GTA Online plans to mark the 20th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III with events, goodies, and surprises

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Later this month will mark 20 years since Grand Theft Auto III, the groundbreaking game that set the standard for all entries in the...

Path of Exile explains how Scourge is balancing auras, curses, and elemental DOTs

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Path of Exile’s 3.16 Scourge expansion inches closer, and we're expecting the big reveal on October 14th. But in the meantime, Grinding Gear has...

Diablo II Resurrected is still suffering from major outages several weeks after launch

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MMO players have been a been preoccupied with the launch of New World over the last two weeks to pay Diablo II Resurrected too...

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