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]

Eight tips for success in Epic’s MOBA Paragon

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Nobody ever claimed that MOBAs were easy to comprehend in full. Sure, you can get in and start playing relatively quickly, but to truly...

Shakes and Fidget comes to Steam

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For years now Shakes and Fidget has been amusing and occupying players first as a browser title and then as a mobile app. Now...

Gabe Newell fires Dota 2 presenter, calling him ‘an ass’

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Dota 2's Shanghai Major tournament got off to a shaky start this week with a slew of technical problems and controversy over presenter James...

Path of Exile reveals the Ascendant class, new items and skills

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Path of Exile's Ascendancy expansion is set to be released next week on March 4th, adding the huge new Labyrinth endgame dungeon and a whole slew of new unique...

Star Crusade is a CCG with adjustable deck sizes

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Everyone seems to want a slice of the lucrative Hearthstone digital card game pie these days. The latest challenger to Blizzard's throne is ZiMAD's Star...

Valve pours millions of dollars into Counter-Strike e-sports

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There's no doubt that e-sports are starting to get very big, with many of the top tournaments now supporting prize pools in the range of...

Black Death pushes back its early release

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Hope you weren't expecting to contract the virtual bubonic plague any time soon. The grim medieval survival game The Black Death announced yesterday that...

League of Legends introduces mobile friend app, standardizes penalties

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Why else do you play League of Legends if not to make friends? And when you attain such friends, isn't it important to be...

The Stream Team: Killing all the Coyotles in HEX’s Castle Crayburn

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As MassivelyOP's MJ works her way through HEX's PvE campaign, she's constantly running into those horrid Coyotles. Last time, her battle may have taken...

The Repopulation spinoff Fragmented is hunting for a few good testers

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The Repopulation lead dev Joshua Halls says that Above & Beyond has opened closed testing for Fragmented to selected applicants. Interested gamers should fill...

The Division releases 60 FPS trailer, doom simulator ‘Collapse’

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Let's get that Division hype rolling! Ubisoft has posted a new trailer showcasing the game's visual quality in 60 frames per second. Not impressed by graphics...

Dam it all! Beavers and handcuffs are invading ARK

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By land or by sea? You don't have to choose if you nab yourself one of ARK: Survival Evolved's newest additions: the giant beaver....

The Stream Team: Growing attached to Paladins’ Grover

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MassivelyOP's MJ has always wanted to be a tree. And now, thanks to Paladins, she can leaf the confines of frail fleshy bodies behind...

Grim Dawn’s story trailer is appropriately macabre

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Not every game goes to the lengths of giving your character a backstory that starts before you log in, but then again, not every...

Rokh makes the planet Mars come alive

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There are so many multiplayer survival games swirling about these days that you might be forgiven for overlooking one or two. We haven't heard...

BattlEye clarifies anti-hacking program and privacy to ARK players

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After ARK: Survival Evolved players expressed some concerns about the new anti-hacking program BattlEye and its EULA, a BE dev took to the survival...

6.4 million people propelled The Division’s beta to a new console record

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The Division set a record this weekend for the biggest beta in a new-brand, current-gen console game. Ubisoft told blog readers today that more than...

Beta impressions of Motiga’s MOBA Gigantic

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About a week ago, I got an e-mail granting me access to the closed beta test of Motiga's in-development MOBA title, Gigantic. Now, most...

ARPG Grim Dawn is about to emerge from early access

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If you've been watching multiplayer action RPG Grim Dawn since it joined the Steam early access program back at the end of 2013 as we...

No Man’s Sky will have a physically accurate universe … almost

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If you've been following upcoming space exploration game No Man's Sky, you've probably heard a few things about its incredibly large procedurally generated universe....

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