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]

Starbase shares work on buzzsaws, mining ships, and railguns blowing things apart

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The past five weeks of Starbase development have been busy, and as is always the case, the folks at Frozenbyte have fastidiously shared their...

Pokemon Go home options expand to cover a refreshed Community Day

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Niantic has already been shaking up Pokemon Go so it can function better at home, but changes to coming to the usual monthly Community Day...

Star Stable adds new mounted games and animal herding activities to its latest location

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Heck yeah, horsies! Let's get some horsies up in here. It's time for another peek in on Star Stable updates, with the latest one...

Dauntless teases next Escalation and battle pass, previews the Torgadoro monster

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While we got an earlier, more broad-strokes look at what's coming next to Dauntless, the development roadmap update is often the location where players...

Here’s a visual guide to the features that have been removed from Star Citizen alpha 3.9

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To be fair, alpha 3.9 of Star Citizen is still bringing a fair number of things to the sandbox side of the game, but...

Star Citizen Live’s Q&A session discusses social features and quantum travel

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Star Citizen held a Q&A session with its US Persistent Universe team this past Friday, which touched on a variety of topics regarding update...
Heroes do actually die, but...

Overwatch honors a fan on the medical front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak

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Overwatch esports has many fans, but the devs felt that some special mention should go towards one fan in particular, a woman by the...

Riot Games defends Valorant’s Vanguard security driver, offers a $100k bounty to exploit it

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Last week, Riot Games unveiled that their in-development competitive FPS Valorant runs an anti-cheat process in the background of player systems, which caused no...

The Stream Team: Astroneer’s clean up event

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EXO has introduced a better way for folks to clean up Astoneer's planets, and it's encouraging everyone to do just that with some special...

The Stream Team: Hunting Warframe Eidolons

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With her delve into Warframe's Sacrlet Spear mission on the horizon, Massively OP's MJ wants to prepare a bit more by upgrading her gear....

Destiny 2 pits its three classes against one another in the Guardian Games event on April 21

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The spirit of competition is coming to Destiny 2 and for once it's not about PvP. OK, it will likely involve a bit of...

Sea of Thieves on reviving crewmates, finding Tall Tales, and dealing with ragequitters

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In the most recent news roundup video from Sea of Thieves, players are getting a little peek at the home environments of some of...
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Sandboxy-ish Minecraft-ish spinoff Hytale is acquired by Riot Games

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We know that Riot Games has been making a hard push to move beyond its status of just having one major game under its...

Lawful Neutral: Leakers, trade secrets, and lawsuits in the online gaming world

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In recent years, you might have noticed a new type of lawsuit coming out of game companies, as some of the more litigation-happy studios...

Riot Games outlines rules for Valorant esports competition including a ‘no blood’ toggle

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With Valorant all over the gaming news recently and in the minds of a fair few (judging by the number of people watching streams...
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Magic: Legends details the mechanics of Artifacts

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In the traditional card game of Magic: The Gathering, Artifacts are special sorts of permanents that offer a variety of different effects for gameplay...

Leaderboard: Are you giving Fallout 76 a second chance?

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Fallout 76 has not had the best couple of years. As MOP's Justin said in his column rounding up Bethsoft's worst flubs - and...
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COVID-19: Gamescom goes digital, Star Trek Online honors medics, Raph Koster tackles pandemic denialism

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Welcome back to another roundup of how MMOs and the gaming industry are handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday we reported on the news that Germany...

MMOs you’ve never heard of: Red Stone, Euotopia, Ogre Island, Stendhal, and Astonia

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (probably) never heard of — or have totally forgotten about until now! If you're...

Terraria’s fourth and final update, Journey’s End, launches in May

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I have a soft spot in my soul for Terraria, mostly thanks to the fact that several of my guildies ran multiplayer servers on...

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