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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E3 2017: Former SWTOR writer Drew Karpyshyn is working on Anthem

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It's still very early to get excited about BioWare's upcoming co-op shooter Anthem, but the game is bringing in veteran talent for development. Drew...

E3 2017: Sea of Thieves launches a banana meme

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How do you eat a banana? Well, you're wrong -- at least according to Sea of Thieves. The seafaring game's E3 trailer showed a brief...

E3 2017: SMITE and Paladins are coming to the Xbox One X on day one

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Hi-Rez has just announced this morning that both its MOBA SMITE and its MOBA Paladins will launch for the Xbox One X on November...

Overwatch begins booking trips to the moon on June 20

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Next week Joe and Jane Gamer can secure their own ticket to the moon itself -- granted that they are playing Overwatch. Blizzard is...

Conan Exiles announces Xbox One date, Xbox One X migration, and a free expansion for all

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Funcom has taken the hustle and bustle of E3 to tease a new expansion and put a date on its Xbox One Conan Exiles...
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E3 2017: ‘Gravity-defying’ LawBreakers releasing this August 8, PC beta on June 28

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Hope the start of your summer is calm, peaceful, and orderly, because it's sure as heck not going to end that way if LawBreakers...

Bethsoft says Elder Scrolls VI ‘is not in dev,’ gamers spurn Creation Club modding plans

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Get comfy in The Elder Scrolls Online, TES franchise fans: While there will eventually be another single-player game in the Elder Scrolls series, it's...

E3 2017: Absolver reveals fourth combat style, plans August 29 launch on PC and PS4

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We've kept an eye on multiplayer ARPG Absolver since its debut just before last year's E3, and it's back at the show again in...

E3 2017: CCP’s VR sports game Sparc debuts new trailer, summer PSVR launch

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First announced back in February, CCP's multiplayer VR sports sim Sparc is getting the E3 treatment this week, being available for play (and spectating)...
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E3 2017: Capcom announces Monster Hunter World for consoles and PC

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First, the bad news: Monster Hunter World is not an MMO version of the long-running franchise. But it is a new installment bringing in...

E3 2017: Destiny 2 is launching September 6 on consoles, October 24 on PC

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The launch dates for Bungie's highly anticipated Destiny 2 have been revealed, and PC players are going to need an extra-large dose of patience...

E3 2017: Survival sandbox Ashen boasts ‘passive multiplayer’

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One of the indie highlights of this weekend's pre-E3 show was Ashen, a beautiful survival sandbox with a former Guild Wars 2 artist on board...

The Stream Team: First landing in ROKH

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There are a number of survival games out there, but only one that let's Massively OP's MJ live out a dream of living on...

E3 2017: Ubisoft announces Skull and Bones, a multiplayer pirate sandbox

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Sea of Thieves, you have a new challenger in the realm of MMOsy pirate games: Ubisoft just announced Skull and Bones at E3. The...

E3 2017: ARK Survival Evolved launches August 8

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The time is fast approaching when we can stop cocking eyebrows at ARK: Survival Evolved for launching expansions while still in early access as...

Em-8er creates 20-page ‘pitch’ book to sell the game concept

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Mark Kern's Em-8er project has reached another internal milestone, with the team achieving a few small (and decidedly quirky) goals such as creating an...

E3 2017: Hands-on with Star Wars Battlefront 2

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Electronic Arts' pre-E3 event, EA Play, this past weekend afforded us not only the chance to scope out the details of what's new with Star...

Scale walls and cliffs with Conan Exiles’ climbing system

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That tall wall or cliff face that in other video games would represent an impassable barrier is nothing more than an adult-sized playground in...

E3 2017: State of Decay 2 targets spring 2018 launch

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Call it State of Delay 2. Players are going to have to wait a little bit longer to get their next hit of Undead Labs'...

E3 2017: Sea of Thieves delays release to early 2018

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While it should come as no shock that Sea of Thieves was going to fail to make its projected spring 2017 release window, especially...