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]

Fight or Kite: Spellbreak’s epic combat and classes set it far apart from the battle royale pack

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Another week, another battle royale arrives at my doorstep, this time with a subtle but sweet note attached: Please kind sir, take it in,...

Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts says the game’s economy simulation tech is still a ways off

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Star Citizen's Chris Roberts, bleary-eyed and exhausted from the self-reported "running a company of 630 people spread around the globe, while directing two projects...

Epic ends support for Fortnite: Save the World on Mac because Apple won’t sign patch updates

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The saga of Epic and Apple's legal spat has once more applied a ripple effect to players, this time to Fortnite's PvE mode Save...

Microsoft just bought ZeniMax, Bethsoft, and Elder Scrolls Online’s ZOS for $7.5B

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Here's your Monday bombshell: Microsoft announced this morning that it has acquired ZeniMax Media - and therefore Bethesda Softworks and ZeniMax Online Studios and...

Voxelbox MMO Elteria Adventures provides a roadmap of its next four ‘mega patches’

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Elteria Adventures, the cutesy voxelbox MMO of "creative freedom," has offered up a look ahead to its next major content updates, aka mega patches,...

Conan Exiles’ producer explains healing and food tweaks, outlines update plans for the Isle of Siptah

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I haven't read many of the Conan the Barbarian books, but I'm reasonably sure that whenever he was brought low in a fight, he...

The Stream Team: Preparing for a first Heist in Path of Exile

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Path of Exile's latest league Heist just launched today, and Massively OP's MJ is ready to turn to a life of crime. Well, commit...

The Division 2 previews Concealed Agenda, the Summit, and gear transmogging

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With the latest update to The Division 2 arriving on Tuesday, September 22nd, now seems as good a time as any for the devs...
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The World of Warships Transformers promotional event is live

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Do you like World of Warships? Do you like Transformers? If the answer to both of those questions is "yes," you are the reason why...
How we make the mess.

Torchlight III promises a date for final data wipe and launch ‘soon’

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So the last patch for Torchlight III took a little while to arrive, but you can rest easy knowing that launch approaches! A date...
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Path of Exile’s Heist expansion officially launches this afternoon

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It's expansion day for Path of Exile as Grinding Gear Games goes all Oceans 11 with the release of Heist for PC and Mac...
See! It's a robot in a jacket.

Disintegration is shutting its multiplayer servers down after less than five months

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In what will no doubt be a non-surprise to pretty much anyone who has paid attention to the industry over the past decade, it...

Inside Star Citizen shows off an improved personal inventory, planet painting, and homestead concepts

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This week, Star Citizen is all about mucking with its inventory as the latest video digest opened with a look at an improved personal...

Capcom unveils new single-player RPG and multiplayer Monster Hunter games for the Nintendo Switch

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2021 is bringing a couple of new additions to the Monster Hunter series and both of them are going to be on the Nintendo...

Last Oasis drops three new bomb types on players in its weekly update

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Blowing things up usually doesn't get too old, but there's always room for new and unique ways for stuff to go boom. Enter Last...

APB Reloaded makes clothing more accessible and balances weapons in its latest patch

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Looking good and firing guns. That's what APB Reloaded is all about. OK, maybe not all it's about, but those two arguably important aspects...

Fallout 76 is merging some content releases and delaying others into 2021

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With One Wasteland out in the wild this week and dynamic overland difficulty finally in the game, Fallout 76 is prepping for its next...

The Survivalist: First impressions of Conan Exiles’ Isle of Siptah expansion

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Framed. Convicted. Exiled. Now, shipwrecked? What do the fates have in store for me next? Perhaps this Isle of Siptah will be my redress....

Valorant’s game director discusses rough plans for new Agents, maps, and modes that promote ‘social downtime’

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Riot Games' team-based tactical shooter Valorant has been, by all accounts, enjoying some quiet yet steady success. Even so, that only means that the...
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Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on the newly announced Final Fantasy XVI

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So, uh... hey! Final Fantasy XVI! That's a thing we learned about yesterday, huh? I'm sure we're all shocked that Naoki Yoshida's very specific dismissal of...

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