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]

Fortnite devs focus on performance issues following 811K weekend concurrency

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If you struggled to play Fortnite this weekend, you're not alone, and Epic Games is on the case. "The Battle Bus had 811K concurrent...

Dauntless has rolled out a fresh newbie experience and character customization

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Closed beta MMOARPG Dauntless is rolling out what Phoenix Labs is calling its first major content update, dubbed Forge Your Legend and bejeweled with...

The Stream Team: Delving into Fortnite’s fortnitemares

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Zombies are particularly perfect this time of year, but Fortnite ups its Halloween game with a whole new zone, Hexsylvania. Massively OP's MJ is...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds faces potential censorship in China

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GIbiz has picked up a Bloomberg piece that suggests China may be poised to crack down on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. China's Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association...

The Stream Team: An aerial tour of scary things in ARK’s Ragnarok

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Depressingly, it appears that Studio WildCard isn't bothering to turn the Halloween event on at all this year. At least Massively OP's MJ has...
We're the good guys this week, right? No? Well, we're going anyway.

League of Legends encourages new players to embrace being noobs

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Today marks the eighth year of League of Legends on the market, and it's a legacy of players being told to git gud. Thus,...

Daybreak on H1Z1 and Just Survive: ‘It’s best to consider each game as a separate entity moving forward’

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Gotta stop teasing Daybreak for a month: Just Survive, the actual zombie sandbox half of the H1Z1 salmagundi, is getting love. The latest patch...
All errors should have been ingored

Destiny 2 passes the baton to the live team, outlines future updates

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"Right now at Bungie, we’ve passed the development torch from the people that made Destiny 2 to the people who will sustain it." With both...
Here's Mei! You like mei, right?

Overwatch reveals its plans to improve its e-sports viewing experience

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Are you a lurker, a spectator, a lookie-loo when it comes to Overwatch? For fans of the game who love to watch matches yet...
Broken

Amazon confirms that Breakaway is on hiatus

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Is Breakaway dead? We don't know for sure, but the rumors started flying yesterday, and the latest official word certainly reads like a death...

Survival sandbox ROKH got bogged down in a ‘legal dispute,’ but it’s been resolved

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It's been a few weeks since ROKH's last developer update, but there's a reason for that: a legal dispute. "Two teams were investigating the source...
Undead tanks. Cool.

World of Tanks pits players against the lord of the tank underworld for Halloween

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However you feel about World of Tanks on a whole, it's hard not to appreciate the game's Halloween event this year. After all, you...
My wooden fort.

Rend is changing up its base system to offer more personal ownership

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Your home base in Rend is important; defending it is one of the central parts of the game, after all. However, the structure of...

Spacetime Studios’ Pocket Legends Adventures has soft launched into open beta

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Earlier this fall, we learned that Spacetime Studios was working on a new mobile MMO: It's called Pocket Legends Adventures, an "homage" to what Spacetime says...

The Survivalist: ARK Aberration has already been delayed, but here’s what to expect

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Surprise! ARK: Aberration, the survival sandbox's next expansion that was slated to launch this month, is delayed. Shocking, I know. Actually, if any fans...
See, this is why no one likes you. It's because of this.

Cliffy B on LawBreakers: ‘As far as I’m concerned, [the press] can fuck off’

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Here at Massively Overpowered, we generally try to avoid cursing, but there really are no two ways to put the Cliff Bleszinski quote from...

ARK Survival Evolved will soon let you sleep on a bed – or handcuff someone to one

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Late last night a couple of interesting announcements came through the Twitter pipeline about ARK: Survival Evolved -- namely, the ability to sleep on...

Amazon may have already canceled Breakaway

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Kotaku is reporting that Amazon has "basically canceled" Breakaway, with two sources confirming that the game is over - on "indefinite hiatus," one said,...

Digital Extremes halts development on The Amazing Eternals

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Digital Extremes announced this morning that it's halting development on The Amazing Eternals. "After many discussions internally on the state of The Amazing Eternals, we...
Unsteady!

Dark and Light embraces uncertainty with its new Chaos server type

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If the PvP of Dark and Light feels too regimented and orderly for you, you'll be happy to take part in the game's upcoming...