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]

Not So Massively Roundup: Valorant’s Breeze, Apex’s Olympus, Runeterra’s expansion, and Jeff

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Welcome back to another roundup of news for Not-So-Massively and MMO-adjacent games in the MMORPG orbit! Valorant: Riot's Valorant has rolled out the Breeze map...
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Super Mario Party expands its online multiplayer offerings in latest update

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Yes, we know, Super Mario Party is not an MMO. Here's your celebratory basket of onion rings for pointing that out. For everyone else...

Elite Dangerous launches Odyssey alpha phase 4, affirms improvements to its final build in livestream

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Today is the last day for PC-playing Commanders in Elite: Dangerous to kick the tires of the Odyssey expansion as the fourth and final...
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Former Marvel Heroes developer Brian Waggoner is now working on Marvel’s Avengers

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Remember Marvel Heroes? You probably do! It was a pretty popular game, after all, and as we noted last year it was ultimately the implosion...
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Riot Games’ demand to shut down a fan-run 10 year-old League of Legends build causes a community uproar

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Riot Games is back in the news for yet another unsavory reason as the League of Legends developer has acted against a fan-made emulator...

Monster Hunter Rise unleashes Apexes and crossover with Monster Hunter Stories 2

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Hold on to your butts: Monster Hunter Rise is letting the current Apex monsters out of their rampage cages and into the wild. Capcom's...

Neople opens a teaser site for its new game Dungeon and Fighter: Overkill

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In a story from the tail end of last year (and in coverage from a year before that), we cast our eyes on Neople's...

Multiplayer PvPvE shooter Scavengers enters early access April 28, floats 9000-player-and-bot mode

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This past March we got a look at Scavengers, a multiplayer PvPvE survival shooter where up to 20 teams of three players are tasked...

EA insists it’s focused on ‘engagement,’ not monetizing FIFA players into gambleboxes

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Yesterday, Canadian outlet CBC published a massive Electronic Arts document leaked by a supposed "gaming insider" that seemingly confirms what you already thought about...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons announces content-light updates until June

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Nintendo just announced that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is expected to get some new content for the next several months, starting with a May Day event...

Survival shooter Vigor adds a new weapon and more loot events in Season 8 update

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The multiplayer survival shooter Vigor continues to cross our news desk like a whack-a-mole. This time around there's word of a new season for...

Not So Massively: Checking up on multiplayer RTS Iron Harvest 1920

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Last fall, this column covered Iron Harvest 1920, an alternate history RTS with a strong multiplayer emphasis and surprisingly poignant story-telling. Once I got...
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Stick and Rudder: The frustrating and unsuccessful search for life in Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha phase 3

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I should have been more capable. If I were a better exploration pilot in Elite: Dangerous, I suspect I would have had a better...

Chronicles of Elyria developer offers a look at Milestone 2 features coming to side game Kingdoms of Elyria

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Soulbound Studio CEO Jeromy Walsh is back once more with additional update details for Kingdoms of Elyria, the side piece standalone strategy title that...

Genshin Impact talks up its upcoming PlayStation 5 release in dev video

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As we noted last week, there's an update coming to the multiplayer RPG Genshin Impact on April 28th that is adding a variety of...

SMITE introduces Gilgamesh to the roster, elects to shut down Southeast Asia and Latin America North servers

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This past Tuesday saw a new update arrive to the MOBA SMITE, featuring a new Babylonian god, Gilgamesh the King of Uruk. Gilgamesh is...

Heroes of the Storm players lament Blizzard’s neglect and slow development

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While Blizzard's all-star character-filled MOBA Heroes of the Storm isn't shuttered or being completely ignored yet -- in fact, there have been a couple...

The Stream Team: Exploring the new biomes of Conan Exiles’ Isle of Siptah

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Conan Exiles' expansion Isle of Siptah got a huge update that expanded the map by 20%. That means there's more island for Massively OP's...
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Destiny 2’s proposed transmog system is out to punish you for looking fine

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Close your eyes and imagine a cosmetic transmog system for a looter shooter like Destiny 2. Not too complicated, right? Now open your eyes...

ARK Survival Evolved merges its classic PvP clusters, announces a new Conquest season on April 27

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PvP-loving players of ARK: Survival Evolved are seeing some fresh things to their portion of the game according to an announcement post on the...

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