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: Palia releases its super-chill soundtrack
Feast your ear-tongues on these sound-pops: Palia's completely chill score is now available as a full 24-track album that you can listen to on...
Evercore Heroes shutters North American server after cutting team and entering maintenance mode
The shakeups surrounding fusion MMO/MOBA Evercore Heroes continues -- and not for the better. This title went into a paid closed beta this past...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: TrinityS, Once Human, Wild Country, Second Wave, Cyborg Immortal
Welcome back to another quick trip through news and announcement for some MMOs and other multiplayer titles you've probably never heard of!
TrinityS - This...
Evercore Heroes ends updates August 24, ‘significantly’ shrinks its dev team, and focuses on redesign
This past June saw Evercore Heroes, a self-described competitive PvE fusion of MMO and MOBA, enter into closed beta, and though it made an...
The MOP Up: EVE Online’s Fanfest has officially sold out
Well, that's it: EVE Online's Fanfest is officially sold out this year, so if you were hoping to snag a ticket at this late...
Hi-Rez Studio president adjusts a contract rider for voice actors after being called out for potential AI use
If you've been on gaming Twitter anytime recently, you might have seen a thread started by voice actor Henry Schrader that was calling attention...
Vague Patch Notes: The shell game of MMO subscriber numbers and player counts
Here is a very reasonable question: How many subscribers does Star Wars: The Old Republic have? Not how many players, but how many subscribers....
Warframe’s Digital Extremes joins other studios in raising funds for Hawaii wildfire relief
With the death toll from last week's devastating wildfires in Maui climbing well over a hundred people lost, and with an entire town displaced,...
Riot Games exec says MMO is still in early phases, but the studio is ‘committed to the genre’
A conversation between a Chinese streamer and a Riot Games executive indicated that we're still in for quite the wait to see Riot's unnamed...
SMITE runs charity sale to aid Maui wildfire relief efforts
Readers may have learned about a series of devastating wildfires that have caused havoc on the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this week, with...
The MOP Up: AdventureQuest 3D players spend five billion gold… in a weekend
A recent gold boost event led to a record-breaking level of transactions in AdventureQuest 3D as players splurged on augments.
"This was a new record...
Design Mockument: What would a Transformers MMORPG even look like?
Everyone who has read my work here for a while knows that a Transformers MMORPG is a longstanding element of my pie-in-the-sky wishlist. This...
Vague Patch Notes: Contemplating the origin of the Big Five in the MMO space
A few weeks back, I talked about the various tiers of MMORPGs, and that included a discussion of what we call the Big Five...
Not So Massively: Revisiting Heroes of the Storm in 2023
Social media algorithms are a dangerous thing. A few weeks back, Reddit began recommending me the sub for Heroes of the Storm. Although I...
PSA: SMITE is giving away a total of 10 million gems to mark its 10th anniversary
Are you a SMITE player? Would you like some free gems cash shop currency? How about 10,000 of them? That's the offer being made...
Wow Factor: The future of Blizzard is bleak
So yesterday our Massively Overthinking roundtable asked everyone to sound off on the future of Blizzard because... well, the studio had a plan to...
The Daily Grind: Do you have hope for ArcheAge or its sequel?
To me, ArcheAge will forever be the first of many South Korean games that was heralded as bringing back the mythical prelapsarian days of...
Project ST is a team vs. team shooter where players try to take down the opposition’s giant robot
Does anyone here remember Gigantic? It was a team vs. team "shooter MOBA" that was shuttered back in 2018; its overall objective was for...
‘Anime battle royale MOBA’ Eternal Return makes its full release after nearly three years of early access
We're happy to report that another game hatchling has made its way across the sands of early access into the full launch ocean: Eternal...
Evercore Heroes struggles to get enough matches going in its paid closed beta
So here's a situation that everyone could see coming. You have a competitive MOBA-like title that you want to put through closed beta testing,...
