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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‘Online combat RPG’ Absolver plans 2017 launch

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Absolver is... probably not an MMORPG. But it is an "online combat RPG," which sure sounds like an action combat MMORPG without the "massive"...

Path of Exile releases expansion ‘manifesto’

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Path of Exile has a new "manifesto" out this week describing the full extent of the balance changes coming in the 2.3.0 patch. Of note,...

Survival sandbox Lifeless demos PvP, weapons, and grouping

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Move over, H1Z1: Green Man Gaming, the company behind medieval survival sandbox The Black Death, is also working on Lifeless, a modern survival sandbox......
The Olympic committee looks really different now.

Analyst argues game devs are abandoning free-to-play in some genres

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Red Fox Insights analyst Jake Parmley has another piece on Gamasutra this week, this one arguing that video game developers are "backing away from...

Chronicle: RuneScape Legends launches on Steam today

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It's full Steam ahead today for Chronicle: RuneScape Legends as the CCG-meets-tabletop game not only launches but launches on Steam. To celebrate, devs will start...

The Stream Team: Ambling across ARK’s The Center map

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Dying is such a part of life in ARK: Survival Evolved. And now, besides dying to new dinos, you can die on a whole...

The Stream Team: A Steam-y Chronicle: RuneScape Legends match

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In honor of Chronicle: RuneScape Legends launching on Steam tomorrow, MassivelyOP's MJ is launching herself back into the fray! She is even testing those...
Guns.

Master X Master introduces Innowin and a livestreamed tournament

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Master X Master continues its tour of the playable heroes within with the introduction of Innowin, a scout and damage-dealer who prefers that enemies...
I guess this is sought.

Get a quick rundown of the lore relationships in Overwatch

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With 21 characters, 12 maps, and 0 actual in-game story, it can occasionally be difficult to place what's happening in Overwatch within the context...

Slay ARK’s bosses first on The Center and win cash

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Fame and fortune are a good combination, right? Beyond bragging rights, Studio Wildcard is offering cold hard cash to the first tribes to defeat...
Um.

The Division’s Conflict update and Clear Sky incursion are live

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The Division's 1.2: Conflict update is live today, complete with the 4-man level 30 Clear Sky incursion, four new gear sets, new weapons, loot...

The Vikings invade SMITE today

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Hi-Rez MOBA SMITE has big plans this summer -- Viking plans. Players who pony up 900 gems (a little over $15) to participate in the Viking...
FRIENDS

Overwatch shares plans for bringing back competitive play

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Every match in Overwatch is, by its very nature, a competition. You have two teams struggling to complete an objective; it's not going to...
The rumor, the danger, the threat, the horror.

The Daily Grind: So are you playing Overwatch?

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Sure it's not Project Titan, but Overwatch is the next big thing, and it's well and truly sucked the air out of the room....

SMITE has officially racked up 20,000,000 players

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Mythology MOBA SMITE has now racked up 20,000,000 players -- that's according to Hi-Rez President Stewart Chisam, who announced the milestone on Twitter...

Check out H1Z1: King of the Kill’s Ignition trailer

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Daybreak's H1Z1 King of the Kill version saw the introduction of a new game mode with its latest patch: Ignition. "Ignition is a high-intensity, frenzied...

The Stream Team: A first peek at Battleborn

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She's not exactly sure how it happened, but MassivelyOP's MJ has started poking around more outside the MMOverse. It all starts with, "Have you...
Perhaps the bank should be re-evaluated.

Overwatch’s launch day has arrived; here’s our giant roundup

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Blizzard's Overwatch, the shooty remains of what was once destined to be MMORPG Project Titan, formally launches tonight at midnight -- if you're in...

The MOP Up: Mark Hamill’s new tour of duty (May 22, 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...
Masterful.

Master x Master spotlights the support abilities of Demenos

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Do you ever wonder about how characters in MOBAs go to the bathroom? The newest video highlighting Master x Master's support caster Demenos makes...