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 reinvented Guns of Icarus Alliance arrives on Steam with fresh PvE

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The reinvented Guns of Icarus Alliance is sailing into a bold new world with its debut on Steam. Players can pick up a copy...

Cloud Pirates launches with a huge update

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Happy launch day to Cloud Pirates, which has graduated from Beta University with a degree in Aeronautic Conflict Resolution and taken its first steps...

The 2022 Asian Games will include e-sports events

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Go ahead and keep mocking e-sports, but they are only getting bigger and more respectable as they keep creating tremendous piles of money. In...
Freedom, sort of.

StarCraft: Brood War is now available for free as a Blizzard Classic

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The year was 1998. Bill Clinton was the president of the United States of America. Everyone spent an enormous amount of time and money...

Rend’s environments get tougher and more amazing as you progress

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What's your favorite video game zone? Green hill zone? Marble zone? Aqua lake zone? When Rend comes out, players will find that zone biomes are...

The Stream Team: Beating the dungeon boss in Conan Exiles

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Facing new foes is always a learning experience, and Massively OP's MJ and the group learned quite a bit the first time they took...

Absolver offers multiplayer melee action, now in open beta form

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Ever fancy yourself the wanderer type, fated to roam the lands while righting wrongs and becoming a legend in your own right? A new...
E-sports

Analyst suggests Tencent’s new global games service will compete with Steam

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If you're not a big fan of Steam's dominance of gaming trends in the west, maybe you think a competitor will do the service...

Marvel Heroes’ console version will include local co-op, beta begins Friday

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Add this to the list of cool stuff for console that PC players are unlikely to see: Marvel Heroes Omega is getting a local...
Alive again!

Diablo III temporarily removes the Necromancer from testing

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And lo, it did pass that a select group of players of Diablo III were invited to test the Necromancer in the beta version...
Well well well, how the turntable.

Greg Street discusses balancing League of Legends for all skill levels

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How do you balance a video game? It's kind of an ongoing question, but it's also one that Greg Street (aka Ghostcrawler) has been...

The Stream Team: Post-Easter battle bunnies in HEX

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Most people think of cute and cuddly bunnies when they wax nostalgic about Easter, but not Massively OP's MJ. No, she also envisions battle...

Overwatch’s Genji and Hanamura map leap into Heroes of the Storm

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A fourth Overwatch toon is coming to Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard revealed today: The assassin Genji will join Lucio, Tracer, and Zarya in...
This, obviously, is just a boring old non-animated picture.

Path of Exile offers animated teasers for Fall of Oriath

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Video games are usually a pretty visual medium, especially these days, interactive fiction and Dwarf Fortress notwithstanding. It's why we all like screenshots. But...

The Stream Team: Completing Chronicle RuneScape Legends’ campaign mode (plus giveaway)

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It's taken a few rounds, but Massively OP's MJ is nearing the end of Chronicle: RuneScape Legends‘ PvE campaign. She has only two more...

Hellion wants its systems to be breaking down more

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Hellion has a systems problem, in that its in-game systems are just too darn functional and well-maintained. That would be terrific news if you...

Rend’s mix-and-match class system is deeper than it appears

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Start small, grow wide: This is the class philosophy in the upcoming survival sandbox Rend. While there are only four classes in the game,...
Well, all right, then.

Sea of Thieves’ technical alpha is up to 39k testers, but PC crowd is still waiting to be invited

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As Sea of Thieves sails across the choppy waters of its technical alpha tests, the team makes a point to occasionally descending the rigging...

Eternal Crusade unleashes an Ork waaagh! campaign

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If there's one thing that has always been associated with the Warhammer franchise, it's the terrible and overwhelming crusades that its greenskins occasionally unleash....

The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to survival games, single-player and beyond

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As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on...