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]

Valorant’s latest patch ends up a ‘technical nightmare’ and earns a rollback

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You know it's not a good patch week when the game's studio comes right out and admits that the release has been a "technical...

Counterstrike: Global Offensive players in Australia get a year-long ban for betting on themselves

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It turns out that professional athletes placing bets on their own performances in games is generally frowned upon in most sports. This is true...
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Don’t look now but Cyberpunk 2077 just got delayed for at least the third time, now to December

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I know you're all going to be super surprised, but CD Projekt has gone back on claims that it would not delay Cyberpunk 2077...

Destiny 2 offers up a calendar of events and a new ViDoc for Beyond Light’s upcoming launch

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While players of Destiny 2 are perhaps still ogling some freshly found story hints, there's other things for fans to point their eyeballs at....

Choose My Adventure: Counting the ways I love Dauntless

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Thank you all for letting me close out this month with some Dauntless because I seriously love this game so very, very much. I’ve been following...

Genshin Impact adds a story quest for Mona, with a big update coming next month

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While Genshin Impact's first major post-launch patch is still to come on November 13th, the team at Mihoyo put out a smaller update yesterday...
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Epic’s latest legal clapback says it couldn’t steal from Apple something Apple never owned

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The Epic v. Apple lawsuit is slated to begin in full next May, which means 10 more months of smaller salvos between the companies....

Destiny 2 fans clamor over some datamined story hints ahead of Beyond Light

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With only a couple of weeks left before the Beyond Light expansion arrives to Destiny 2 on November 10th, an intriguing leaked image has...

PvP-centric mobile MMO A3: Still Alive confirms a global launch on November 10

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We've been covering the arrival of A3: Still Alive a couple of times now, first with its initial reveal in 2019, then with some...

Roblox invites kids to a virtual Halloween block party to make up for lost trick-or-treating

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It goes without saying -- but I'm going to say it anyway -- that this year's Halloween isn't going to be quite normal due...

Life sim Identity languishes in early access development, asks for map builders

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Life usually moves pretty fast -- but for the aspiring simulator Identity, it's nearly slowed to a halt. The project, which we've been tracking...

War Thunder announces graphical upgrades, next-gen console release with crossplay

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There's New Power coming to the online multiplayer vehicle battler War Thunder. No, that's not a failure to understand proper capitalization, that's the name...

Not So Massively: StarCraft II’s maintenance mode doesn’t mean game over

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Earlier this month, we learned that Blizzard was effectively putting StarCraft II into maintenance mode. Considering what a massive fan of StarCraft II I...
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PSA: Oculus users who delete their linked Facebook account will lose their entire app library

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So, remember when Facebook commanded that Oculus Rift or Quest users link the device to their Facebook accounts? Wasn't that such a grand idea?...

Destiny 2 provides a peek at changes to weapon types, exotics, and adept weapons coming in Beyond Light

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As we've noted before, Destiny 2's Beyond Light expansion is going to be changing quite a bit. Earlier in the month there was a...
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Apex Legends confirms Steam launch November 4, delays Nintendo Switch launch to 2021

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In the blur of studio-specific reveal events that took place over the course of this past summer thanks to E3's closure, it's perhaps easy...
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APB Reloaded runs third beta test of update 2.1 to get it out ‘sooner rather than later’

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It's been a long, winding, and very likely frustrating road for APB Reloaded and its attempt to upgrade the game's engine, to the point...

Fallout 76 drops the bomb — and a new Steel Dawn trailer

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October in the Fallout 76 universe is Bombs Drop Day, the anniversary of the nuclear holocaust that ravaged the game world. To... celebrate? To...

Beyond the Wire thrusts you into a WWI multiplayer battlefield

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While World War II has been done and done and done some more in the gaming space, its prequel hasn't gotten as much coverage....

Voxelbox Staxel introduces a new area, new quests, and new items with the Hideaway Hollow update

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I have to admit, the name of the newly launched update for the voxel sandbox Staxel sounds kind of cozy and kitsch, like a...

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