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]

The doors to Hexsylvania creak open in Fortnite

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There's one more haunted house to conquer in online gaming -- and this one may end you once and for all. Fortnite announced the beginning...

The Stream Team: Trick-or-treating in Citadel: Forged with Fire

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Halloween is such a great time that everyone is getting in on it. Citadel is offering the chance to go trick-or-treating, with world chests...
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Magic: The Gathering Arena kicks off beta testing next month

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Out of mana in your life? Magic: The Gathering Arena has a refill for you waiting. The multiplayer card game announced today that it...

SuperData declares Destiny 2 the ‘fastest selling digital console game in history’

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SuperData's September 2017 video gaming market global revenue analysis should make Bungie happy, whether or not it was bleeding players ahead of the Destiny 2...
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Diablo III’s latest patch tweaks class balance and set balance

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While Diablo III is getting a bit long in the tooth, there's still plenty of space for the game to have its balance tweaked....

World of Warships recruits Tesla to fight the evil forces of Transylvania

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Do you recall back in the early days of World of Warships, when the game looked like it would be a World War II...

SMITE’s Tides of China update is live today, overseen by Super Chill Bacchus

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Patch 4.20: Tides of China is live in SMITE today, bringing with it seven Chinese quests (eight would have been more auspicious!) and the...

The Stream Team: Halloweening it up with Gigantic’s new necromancer

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What's more appropriate for the day of the dead than a necromancer? Massively OP's MJ continues her Halloween celebrations by trying out Gigantic's newest...

Enter to win a Gigantic Ezren Ghal hero unlock or Voden skin from PWE and MOP

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In honor of the launch of Gigantic's Halloween update and its concomitant new hero and map, PWE has granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies...

The Stream Team: Happy fourth anniversary Path of Exile!

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Has it really been four years since Path of Exile launched? It has! With so many expansions, you might have thought it had been...

Sea of Thieves teams up with Dark Horse for gorgeous art book

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Arrrrrr you the kind of video game geek who collects art books, spending more cash on coffee table tomes than actual in-game anything? Yeah,...

Former EA dev: EA only cares about what gamers will pay for

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Former BioWare dev Manveer Heir has piped up on the subject of EA's business model following the shutdown of Visceral Games and the so-called...
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SuperData says PUBG has now topped both WoW and Crossfire in global revenue

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SuperData announced this morning that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds continues to work its way up the revenue charts, now passing up even Crossfire. We presume the tweet...

Freeman: Star Edge is a slick-looking space sim that might go multiplayer

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Have that urge to explore the wild galactic yonder? Here's a potential candidate to steal your time in the future called Freeman: Star Edge....

The Stream Team: Down with ARK’s dragon!

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The first time Massively OP's MJ tried ARK's dragon boss raid, things didn't end particularly well. But the team learned from that experience and...

TwitchCon 2017: Get sneak peeks of ARK’s Aberration today

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Are you eager to learn more about ARK: Survival Evolved's upcoming underground expansion? How about watching some gameplay live? Three streamers at TwitchCon are...
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H1Z1’s three-day $500K prize pool Invitational tourneys kick off right now

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We may roll our eyes at H1Z1's flip-flopping on names, gameplay splits, and apparent inability to actually launch, but there's no doubt Daybreak is...

Master X Master tosses in troubled teen Xero, starts Halloween craziness

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If you could gather up teenage angst and a childhood twisted by mad science, what would it look like? A better question might be,...

SMITE to fold its Chinese players into the global community

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Contrary to popular belief, sometimes server merges can be a very good thing -- especially if your country or region has been kept isolated...

Cursed trees and magic traps arrive in Dark and Light

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Hope you weren't planning on getting any sleep today, because Dark and Light has brought nightmare fuel instead of donuts for today's update. I...