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]

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Doomfist punches his way onto Overwatch’s test servers

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It makes sense that if you're expanding your popular team-based shooter, you'll want to introduce a character who punches really, really hard. Actually, it...

Pokemon Go’s first anniversary report card

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July 6th, 2017, marks Pokemon Go's first year anniversary. Love it or hate it, it's a game that quickly made a global impact. It's been released...
It lurks.

League of Legends increases prices in the UK over Brexit currency woes

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Your pounds won't carry you quite as far in League of Legends at this point. The game's prices for Riot Points (i.e., the currency...

Unofficial Guild Wars 2 CCG gets a Prophecies-themed expansion

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Back in March, Guild Wars 2 player Luke Dowding announced that he was building a free and unofficial collectible card game for the community...

ARK Survival Evolved has doubled in price ahead of August 8 launch

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Welp, hope you bought ARK: Survival Evolved back when it was super cheap on Steam because its price has now increased for PC players...

Diablo III turns its seasons up to 11

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How is Diablo III at 11 seasons already? Well it is and we must deal with it, probably by clicking furiously and mindlessly looting...
Well, this is fine.

GTAV OpenIV modding continues, but Rockstar’s barred the Liberty City module

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The Rockstar modding fiasco still isn't over. Back in June, Rockstar and TakeTwo began sending takedowns to the operators of modding tools of varying skeeviness,...

Crossout hits 3M players, bans almost 1K of them for cheating

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Things are cruising along rather well for the post-apocalyptic death car MMO Crossout, as the team reported late last week that the game had...

The Stream Team: Celebrating the 4th with a Celtic SMITE giveaway

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The USA celebrates the gift of freedom today for the 4th of July, and Massively OP's MJ celebrates giving gifts in SMITE! She has...

The Stream Team: Peeking at a procedurally generated ARK

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One of the features ARK:Survival Evolved owners can enjoy is settling on a procedurally generated island. This can make things a bit more interesting...

The Stream Team: Kill or be killed in Conan Exiles

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Survival is serious business, and Massively OP's MJ is all business when it comes to Conan Exiles. OK, so maybe not: She is a...
fart

LawBreakers opens its beta wide this weekend thanks to Steam

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Steamgoers are getting their first chance to hop into LawBreakers this weekend as Nexon and Boss Key are kicking off another beta event on...

Pokemon Go: The Milwaukee lawsuit, rare Pikachu, and the gym reporting problem

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It's been almost a year now since non-expat Americans were able to play Niantic's Pokemon Go. While we're naturally seeing birthday rumors, the game's unique...
Old-school.

Don’t look now, but StarCraft’s HD remake is going to zerg your base

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Thanks to job postings this wasn't a complete surprise, but yesterday Blizzard officially confirmed that it will be releasing a high definition remake of its...

The Stream Team: A look at Osiris New Dawn’s new classes

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This week Osiris: New Dawn introduced two new classes, Marine and The Engineer. The same update also put in skill trees, a first-person view,...

Enter to win a Paladins Realm Pack from Hi-Rez and MOP

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Paladins' Sunsational patch -- yeah, it's really called that! -- is live this week in the open beta with lots of summer goodies, a...
Well, that's better.

Ghost Widow gets a spotlight on her Master x Master incarnation

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While very few veteran City of Heroes fans were happy about the inclusion of Statesman in Master x Master for a variety of reasons,...

Survival sandbox Rust has refunded $4.38M to players so far

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Have you ever wondered how many copies of any particular game players return for refunds on Steam? In the case of the popular survival...
It would be more interesting if there were some actual ghosts involved.

Armored Warfare reworks the Ghost Field map

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After some major mechanical changes, it's possible that a lot of maps in Armored Warfare just don't have the pop they used to. But...
Weill, that's... more of a pier, really.

Path of Exile previews the upcoming Harbour Bridge area

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Players testing Path of Exile's upcoming The Fall of Oriath are going to be hit with a beta server wipe later this week when...