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]

Escape from Tarkov’s alpha test is coming in August

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Watch out, everyone: The Russian invasion is coming this summer. Escape from Tarkov announced this past weekend that it will be heading into alpha testing...

Lifeless is staggering toward a June 16 early access launch

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There's one thing that we know about zombies: Fast or slow, they will keep on coming with a determination and a hunger that can't...

The MOP Up: EVE Online phases out DirectX 9 (June 5, 2016)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Black Death has four disgusting states of infection

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First of all, we hope you weren't planning on eating for the rest of today. No? Good. Black Death, the upcoming survival sandbox centered...

Overwatch racks up 7M players, bans 1500 of them

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It's been a little over a week since Overwatch launched, and in that short time Blizzard's new team shooter has become a bonafide success...

Heroes of the Storm turns one year old today

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Overwatch may be the darling of Blizzard's eye right now, but a year ago it was all about the studio's foray into MOBA gaming....

ARK: Survival Evolved celebrates a year of early access

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Bring out your party hats and kazoos because ARK: Survival Evolved is celebrating its first birthday as an early access title this week with...

Master X Master introduces WildStar’s Mondo Zax

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One of the hooks of NCsoft's upcoming Master X Master MOBA is that it pulls its heroes from all of NCsoft's games -- and...
The large old German man is not the villain. Groundbreaking!

Someone is already level 100 in Overwatch

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Overwatch player FenderOverwatch has successfully reached the level 100 cap on Tuesday, just a week since its formal launch. You can all give up now. The...

Atlas Reactor opens beta access to all this weekend

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Are you planning on purchasing the buy-to-play Atlas Reactor? If you haven't made up your mind yet, Trion Worlds is hoping that a weekend...
She's a knockout.

Blizzard pushes Overwatch’s redesigned competitive mode to June

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Update: Blizzard has corrected its tweets; the patch is June, not July. A series of tweets from Blizzard just before the holiday weekend have confirmed...
I don't understand what's going on here.

A TERA/Devilian mobile crossover game exists

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All right. So what do you get when you combine TERA with Devilian? No, not the concepts of those games, the actual games. What...
Perhaps the bank should be re-evaluated.

Launch impressions: Overwatch is good, but it’s only half a game

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The thing that bugs me about Overwatch is that it feels like half of a game. Unfortunately, it's also the less interesting half, the...
look out it is a spider

Kings and Heroes launches into Early Access today

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Do you feel a hole in your life that can only be filled by a first-person dungeon crawler with online co-op and procedural generation...

The Stream Team: Hippity hoppity HEX is on its way!

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Today, death comes upon the soft furry paws of a cuddly bunny as MassivelyOP's MJ dives back into the PvP campaign in HEX on...
Another Overwatch L.

Blizzard cracks down on Overwatch porn

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Surprising exactly no one familiar with Overwatch's art style, people are already making porn of it. Rule #34, guys. PCGamesN ran the numbers and...

The MOP Up: The future of skins in Paragon (May 29, 2016)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

The Black Death’s latest patch introduces VOIP, player gold looting

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The Black Death's latest patch is a biggun, complete with better guard AI, new NPCs and bosses, traveling merchants, new animals, player gold looting,...

SMITE debuts on the PlayStation 4 next week

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It's official: SMITE arrives on the PlayStation 4 on May 31st. Most recently, Hi-Rez has been touting its 20,000,000 registered players number, a figure sure...
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Perfect Ten: Apologies I must make to my fellow Overwatch players

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Fellow players of Overwatch, I am sorry. I don't know your names because I tried very hard to forget them, but I am still...