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]

Destiny Rising talks down fears of a stamina mechanic after a UI screenshot makes the rounds

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Earlier this month, NetEase officially confirmed the existence of Destiny: Rising, a mobile version of the looter shooter that was initially leaked by Bungie...
Cats

Vague Patch Notes: The MMO world you don’t control

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Last week in Vague Patch Notes, I attempted to lay out my thesis for what it means when we say MMOs require other people....
Nadir.

Zenith shuts down legacy shards for PS VR 1 and Quest 1 on November 6

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It's bad enough that Zenith fans have had to deal with the game hitting maintenance mode just a couple of months ago, but it...

My Time at Evershine’s Kickstarter ends successfully with nearly $3M raised from gamers

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The appetite for the multiplayer RPG My Time at Evershine was already pretty apparent when its Kickstarter campaign met its goal within 30 minutes,...
Ghoulfriend.

Fallout 76 previews its upcoming four-person Gleaming Depths raid and playable ghouls

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First and foremost, it is important to note that no matter how much you might want to, you will not automatically be as insanely...

The Stream Team: Fun with farming and questing for the crafters in Enshrouded

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Now that Massively OP's MJ and Larry have collected four crafter survivors to their Enshrouded base, it's time to embark upon their quests. The...

APB Reloaded brings back its Halloween Epidemic event after a five-year absence

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It's weird to think that the last time that APB Reloaded ran its Epidemic event was before the real-world pandemic, but it's true. And...

Dreamhaven-pubbed co-op roguelite Lynked Banner of the Spark enters early access

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Are you ready to take on adorable-sounding enemies known as Combots, befriend similarly adorable-sounding Unibots, and play with friends together in a colorful-looking co-op...

Nightingale patches in Halloween and confirms layoffs at Inflexion’s UK subsidiary

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It's patch day over in co-op sandbox Nightingale, and it's a good patch too as it includes the game's Halloween event. "Head on over to...

Diablo IV lets you send a ‘real toxic bouquet’ to a friend (or enemy) for Halloween

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Leave it to a game that once figured out how to combine 11 herbs and spices of KFC with the 11 torments of hell...

The Stream Team: The further escapades of two cats dressed in pirate costumes in Cat Quest III

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MOP's Chris and his best friend are dressing up like pirates! OK, technically they are pirate cats in the co-op RPG Cat Quest III,...

NCsoft MOBA Battle Crush will sunset in November without ever leaving early access

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With all the bad news out of NCsoft this week - and MMORPG players' fixation on the fate of NCsoft's core MMORPGs - it...

Fntastic pulls the plug on Escape Factory crowdfunding, shifts instead to another prop hunt game

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If we're all very honest, the crowdfunding drive for The Day Before developer Fntastic's obstacle course platformer Escape Factory was very likely never going...

Fallout 76 embraces Halloween with spooky Scorched and a haunted CAMP contest

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Is it possible for a nuked-out world full of mutated horrors and carnivorous cryptids to be scarier at Halloween than any other day of...

Dark and Darker Mobile delays launch from fall 2024 to the first half of 2025

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I'm sure you've noticed by now, but October is a huge month for game delays, as studios look at the fall calendar and all...

Age of Empires Mobile brings massively multiplayer strategy sieges to mobile devices in its global launch

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There's possibly a market out there for a mobile version of a venerated strategy series, right? We're not really capable of answering these questions;...

So now we know: Dauntless dev Phoenix Labs was bought out by a blockchain company last year

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Back in 2023, we were dismayed at the news that Dauntless and Fae Farm studio Phoenix Labs was being crushed with a nasty round...

V Rising conjures up some more Castlevania DLC goodies for the Halloween season

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If there was ever a perfect collab, it would be the vampire games V Rising and Castlevania coming together to make some children of...

Palia opens up the plushie trading system and adds new decor with today’s Fall’s Flourishes update

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Do you remember when there was a school-wide trading market for collectibles? Baseball cards, Micro Machines, Garbage Pail Kids cards; they were totally a...

Not So Massively: ZeroSpace is the last hope for multiplayer RTS fans

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All right, that headline is a bit of hyperbole, but it does reflect how I'm feeling right now. A bit over a year ago, I...