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]

Grab an Ironsight Trinitium Pack in honor of its free-to-play launch, courtesy of Gamigo and MOP!

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Gamigo's open beta multiplayer shooter Ironsight has passed a big milestone this week: It's live on Steam, and it's gone free-to-play to boot, meaning...

The MMOs of the Steam winter 2019 sale

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Valve's summer winter sale has arrived, bad gateways and all, along with a dopey (sorry) winter market minigame thinger. Here's everything that caught our...

Destiny 2’s The Dawning 2019 rewards players for giving out cookies to NPCs

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The Guardians of Destiny 2 are asked a lot of things. Fight the Darkness. Stop a war. Save time. Now, though, they're being asked...

Winter events kick off in Anarchy Online and Age of Conan, Conan Exiles launches a holiday contest

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It seems like a lot of MMOs and multiplayer games are starting to realize that Christmas is arriving in less than a week. Case...

Funcom’s Conan Chop Chop, newly retooled with ‘full online multiplayer,’ arrives February 25 2020

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Do you folks remember the goofball multiplayer title Funcom's been teasing all year, Conan Chop Chop? It was originally floated as an April Fools'...
Again and again and again and...

World of Warcraft’s predecessor, Warcraft III: Reforged, gets a January launch date

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Whether you cut your teeth on the Warcraft trio of real-time strategy games or only came to the franchise after World of Warcraft released,...

Undead Labs founder Jeff Strain to open a game dev studio and academy in New Orleans

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Jeff Strain, the former ArenaNet co-founder who went on to helm State of Decay developer Undead Labs, has decided to expand his horizons with...

Pokemon Go announces Buddy Adventure features that enhance Buddy Pokemon

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Assigning a Pokemon as your Buddy in Pokemon Go is lovely, but most of the time it just sort of followed you around and...

Warframe teases fresh dangers awaiting players in Empyrean’s new trailer

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Just because Warframe's Empyrean has launched and players can finally fly their Railjacks into epic space battles doesn't mean that's all Digital Extremes has...

Fight or Kite: 2010-2019, the decade when PvP boomed and MMOs languished

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The end of the decade is upon us. Many are now reflecting on how our lives have changed over the past 10 years. We’ve...
Buzzer buzzer, cling clang.

No Man’s Sky introduces music creation with the ByteBeat device

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Just because you're in a big lonely void of space doesn't mean you can't fill the emptiness with incredibly fresh beats. The latest patch...

The Stream Team: Making a Ranger for Path of Exile’s new Metamorph league

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Let the metamorphosis begin! Path of Exile's Conquerors of the Atlas has launched, along with its companion Metamorph league. And that means Massively OP's...

PlanetSide 2 shows off new NSO items and the Sanctuary social hub in latest stream

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Seeing how PlanetSide Arena is shutting down, we can perhaps expect some more attention paid to PlanetSide 2 from both Daybreak Games and the...

Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene explains that Prologue is not PUBG 2

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Out of the deluge of trailers that were shotgunned into your face during this year's Game Awards, perhaps one that flew beyond your notice...

Elite Dangerous celebrates five years with a retrospective and a celebratory Community Goal

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Happy fifth birthday to Elite Dangerous! The internet spaceship sandbox is marking its latest milestone with a whole lot of looking back, some warm...

The Stream Team: Double the hunting fun in Dauntless’ Escalation mode

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MassivelyOP's resident critter crasher Chris is back in Dauntless once more for the game's latest update which has, among other things, added a new...

Hearthstone will nerf the Descent of Dragons Galakrond Shaman and other cards soon

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If you play Hearthstone with any regularity, you might have noticed that the recently released Descent of Dragons expansion has introduced a new meta...
Another character who has been well-done by this expansion!

Activision Blizzard Media is launching a new player research community called King’s Council

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So this is something new. Activision Blizzard Media has announced that it's forming a new player research community composed of its most active and...

Here’s how Fortnite’s Star Wars scene screening event this past weekend went down

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Did you happen to miss out on Fortnite's in-game event this weekend, where you could watch a scene from the upcoming Star Wars film...

The Stream Team: Doing battle royale with cars in Forza Horizon 4

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"You got battle royale in my racing game!" "You got a racing game in my battle royale!" However it happened, MassivelyOP's Chris is about...

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