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: Beyond SMITE’s 8th PvE round in the charity challenge

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With the SMITE PvE charity challenge coming to an end next week, MassivelyOP's MJ and the MOP team want to climb up the leaderboard...

Paladins touts one million early access players, starts console beta sign-ups

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Is Hi-Rez Studios' Paladins having a good week or a bad one? It's... kind of hard to tell, to be honest. It probably didn't...

The Stream Team: A peek into Cloud Pirates

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If you had the chance to check out something that combines flight with pirates, you would, wouldn't you? MassivelyOP's MJ certainly couldn't pass up...
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Battleborn boss denies free-to-play plans

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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has denied a Kotaku report that Gearbox is about to take its flagging shooter Battleborn free-to-play within a couple of...
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So one of Amazon’s new games is an MMORPG sandbox, and it’s called New World

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Those ex-ArenaNet folks won't be going to waste at Amazon Game Studios after all: One of the three games the company is working on...
To be fair, I suppose you can't make a game with that title and then have lots of water, but.

Cloud Pirates invites select players into this weekend’s friends and family test

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Cloud Pirates, the MOBA set in the Allods Online universe, is hosting a friends and family test this weekend. Why should that concern you?...

Riding Club Championships brings you into the world of online horse competitions

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Let's face it: Horses are downright expensive in real life to acquire, maintain, and train for professional championships. There is no doubt that you...

Tribes: Ascend’s last patch ushers in maintenance mode

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Hi-Rez has implemented several patches since breathing life back into Tribes: Ascend last year. December's patch was its first since 2013, followed by updates...

The Stream Team: Smashing past round six in SMITE’s charity challenge

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MassivelyOP's MJ and the team have met their first goal (second actually, if you count getting past round one!); they have clawed their way...

Wasteland 3 is coming with snow and multiplayer

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The second sequel to the 1988 post-apocalyptic classic CRPG Wasteland is coming -- and it's bringing multiplayer with it. InXile Entertainment announced today that it...

Osiris: New Dawn has launched on Steam early access

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Enough slacking and lollygagging about in your humdrum life -- there's an alien planet that needs some serious colonizing, and you look just like...

Mars survival sandbox ROKH delays early access to January 2017

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Fans of Mars-themed survival sandbox ROKH, I have good news and slightly bad news. Developer Darewise originally pitched a $114,803 US Kickstarter campaign back in...

Battleheart 2 announced, will come with four-player co-op

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Mika Mobile is returning to the series that made it a star in the mobile games industry, as it announced yesterday that it has...

The Stream Team: Facing HEX’s Frost Ring Arena

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The Frost Ring Arena. That HEX challenge has been beckoning to MassivelyOP's MJ for quite some time, and she's ready to dive in and...

Twitter teasers suggest Amazon’s Breakaway probably isn’t what we’re hoping it is

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If you're still hungering for savory facts about Breakaway, Amazon Game Studios' soon-to-be-revealed game that's scooped up so many MMORPG developers in Seattle, welp, that dinner...

Contract Wars successor Hired Ops plans Q4 early access launch

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Last week, Russian games developer AbsolutSoft unveiled Hired Ops, or maybe I should say unveiled again, as it was previously known Contract Wars Standalone...

Bloodline Champions spinoff Battlerite hits Steam early access

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Earlier this year, Bloodline Champions' original developer, Stunlock Studios, announced a spiritual successor: Battlerite. That MOBA has now gone live on Steam's early access...

The Stream Team: More Mo capes in AdventureQuest 3D!

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Are you lamenting your lack of a Mo cape in AdventureQuest 3D? Cry no more! MassivelyOP's MJ has another batch of special Mo capes to...

Paladins expands e-sport tourney after early access ‘Steam success’

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Hi-Rez is touting Paladins' successful early access open beta launch in a press release out earlier this morning. The studio says that "within the first...

Grim Dawn delivers a sneak peek of its first expansion

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A bonafide expansion is in the works for the multiplayer ARPG Grim Dawn, although a name and time frame have yet to be revealed....