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 Stream Team: Heading back into SMITE Tactic’s Hand of the Gods

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With Hands of the Gods opening beta up, more folks can jump in to see what is happening in the SMITE Tactics game. Massively...

7 Days to Die turns the electricity on and hits Steam’s 100 best-selling games of all time

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If you don't already have a copy of 7 Days to Die in your Steam library, you may be part of a shrinking crowd...
Well, cats.

Paragon introduces its new character, Zinx

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The lack of humanoid cat-people in certain games is a failing that urgently needs to be addressed by developers, so it's a good thing...
Here in the open air!

Here’s how magic in Citadel: Forged With Fire will work

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This morning, we wrote about a new "massive online sandbox RPG," Citadel: Forged With Fire, built by Slender devhouse Blue Isle Studios and expected to...

Grim Dawn takes you on tour with the new Inquisitor

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While Diablo III fans have their shiny (decaying) Necromancer to play with, Grim Dawn players are still tapping impatiently as they wait for the...

DreamHack Valencia: SMITE’s Project Olympus, Hand of the Gods’ open beta, Paladin’s Jenos

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Hi-Rez took the floor of DreamHack Valencia in Spain today for announcements across its stable of games. First, the renamed online TCG Hand of the...

The Survivalist: Osiris New Dawn is doing early access right even amid disappointments

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A couple of weeks ago, when Osiris: New Dawn introduced new classes, I'd delved back into the sci-fi survival sandbox after a bit of...

Sea of Thieves shares the risks and rewards of shipwrecks

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As part of the emergent gameplay of Sea of Thieves' missions, player crews will occasionally come upon signs in their voyage of shipwrecks lying...

Diablo III activates double XP weekend tomorrow as an ‘apology’ for a Patch 2.6 exploit

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A Diablo III exploit has caused some stress and rampant cheating within the community lately, leading to a hotfix, rollback, and bonus XP event...
Oh no son.

Hearthstone’s Lich King is the game designer we deserve

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One gets the feeling Blizzard isn't taking promotion of Hearthstone's Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion too seriously, what with its latest video in...

Citadel: Forged With Fire is a brand-new ‘massive online sandbox RPG’ debuting this month

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Well well, lookie what popped up on Steam: It's a new "massive online sandbox RPG," Citadel: Forged With Fire, and it came out of...

Atlas Reactor adds a hula-hooping catgirl to its crazy roster

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Hula-hoops and cats -- they go together like cats and anything else that cats aren't especially known to do. But somehow Atlas Reactor is...
Stabby stabby

Gigantic highlights the backstabbing fun of Tripp

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Every game needs one character who slinks around in the shadows and stabs people in the back, and in Gigantic that character is Tripp....

The Stream Team: Scoping out Elite Dangerous on the PlayStation 4

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It's time to get dangerous. Elite Dangerous. Er, with me. On YouTube. As a newbie. On a PlayStation 4. You know, this is already sounding pretty...

Armored Warfare announces Eye of the Storm expansion

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This morning we had a lively discussion in the Massively OP office over whether or not Armored Warfare had ever actually launched. We thought...
ROBOT!

NetEase and Kabam join Blizzard’s star-studded global Overwatch League

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The ESPN report earlier this week suggesting that Blizzard has several agreements from big-name sports-affiliated venture capitalists to host Overwatch League teams across the US and East Asia...

Osiris New Dawn CEO to community grumping: ‘I will take these lashings and learn from them’

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Fenix Fire CEO Brian McRae is "not having fun either," according to his latest dev blog on the Osiris: New Dawn Steam page. His...

The Stream Team: Climbing to the top of Conan Exiles

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Climb every mountain! Massively OP's MJ is no longer restricted to just singing this in Conan Exiles, she can finally do it! The new...
Live by the ripoff, die by the ripoff.

Riot Games files a lawsuit against the developer of an alleged League of Legends clone

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Once upon a time, a studio named Riot Games made a game called League of Legends, which was essentially a Warcraft III map given...

Barbaric turns on friendly fire during its co-op dungeon crawls

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How tolerant and forgiving are you of your friends' missteps? Let's hope a lot, because Barbaric is going to test your patience when it...