MOBAs are multiplayer online battle arenas, PvP-centric, non-persistent online games that share some but not all mechanics in common with traditional MMORPGs. We formerly categorized MOBAs as “Not So Massively” games. You may also be interested in our Multiplayer category for other multiplayer online games that aren’t fully massive. [Follow the MOBA tag’s RSS feed]
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The MOP Up: SWG rogue server Empire in Flames celebrates five years
Star Wars Galaxies: Empire in Flames rogue server celebrated its fifth anniversary this past week. "Since the doors opened on May 4th 2017, EiF...
MMO Business Roundup: China’s gaming crackdown, NetEase Connect, Wild Rift plagiarism, and Valve’s anti-trust lawsuit
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business and industry news.
China: The Chinese government is continuing to widen its long-running crackdown on...
Russian Dota 2 esports player gets his team banned and his contract ended over support for Ukrainian invasion
The gaming world has caught on to the symbolism of the letter Z already, so one has to wonder what was going through the...
Whatever happened to social MOBA MMO Project F4E?
In an industry full of strictly delineated titles, it always catches our attention when a game throws everything into a pot and stirs vigorously....
Choose My Adventure: The quest for big punchy gloves in Albion Online
I don’t know whether I was just hungry for a positive experience after last month’s series, I came to this game with a newfound...
SMITE promotes Rambo to god status
It's official: Pop culture movie icon Rambo is now a god. Sort of.
SMITE, no stranger to franchise cross-promotions, added a Rambo skin for its...
Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street says the Riot MMO will likely be his ‘last major franchise’
Riot Games' not-so-secret MMORPG is "likely" to be the last big game project that Executive Producer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street will work on in his...
GDC 2022: Control, revenue, scarcity, ethics, and the human challenges of the gaming ‘metaverse’
While some panels at GDC 2022 have been deeply disappointing, the panel titled "A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and...
Prime Gaming teams up with Blizzard to offer freebies for Overwatch, Hearthstone, WoW, and StarCraft
Amazon Prime members are likely already very familiar with all of the free stuff they can claim for a wide variety of games, but...
The Stream Team: Eight years of SMITE is great
Eight is great! Especially when we are talking about years of SMITE. The MOBA celebrates its eighth anniversary today, and Massively OP's MJ is...
SMITE’s latest update has a birthday celebration, a chibi robot battle pass, and a Heavenly Light event
Looking for some events in SMITE? How about three of them? That's part of the MOBA's most recent update, kicking off a Heavenly Light...
Rogue Company launches a crossover with Rambo, SMITE swings the nerf hammer at mages
Sure, maybe you like the character of Seeker in Rogue Company, but have you considered that perhaps he'd be better as Sylvester Stallone's blockbuster...
The MOP Up: Apex Legends Mobile is almost here
The first phase of Apex Legends Mobile's release is almost here, with the Android and iOS title becoming available for Australia, New Zealand, Singapore,...
How video game player data collection processes have expanded outside of gaming
The EULA - aka the wall o' text that we all blitz past in order to get to play the MMORPG or multiplayer title...
Riot Games promotes Marc Merrill to president of games
If you could go back to visit younger me and tell my naive face that it was actually possible to be promoted to become...
Massively Uplifting: MMOs show true love through helping kids, planting trees
Attitudes and thoughts about Valentine's Day vary widely, from crass commercialism to idyllic romanticism to complete indifference. But the fact remains that the spirit...
The MOP Up: Fiesta Online logs into the Realm of Love
"The loveliest season of the year has begun and the little bees are busy transporting love letters from town to town. Bells are ringing...
Hearthstone gets a mini-set February 15, Overwatch adds ‘over-the-top’ heroes in Experimental
While a lot of attention is understandably focused on the Eternity's End update, that doesn't mean other Blizzard games aren't seeing updates (unless you're...
Over half a million people showed up at the same time to play Lost Ark’s headstart last night
In spite of its rocky start on Steam, Lost Ark has already rocketed to (almost) the top of the charts, even before its free-to-play...
Not So Massively: Hearthstone’s Lunar New Year, Apex Legend’s Defiance, LoL’s Renata
Welcome back to a quick roundup of news and events in the Not-So-Massively multiplayer realm!
Hearthstone - Lunar New Year begins in Blizzard's OTCG as...
