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]

Players rolled nearly 50K characters during Nightingale’s stress test last weekend

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When Inflexion announced this week that it's planning to launch Nightingale's early access two days earlier than originally planned, it casually mentioned that it...

Fortnite opens the doors to its own Trevor Noah-produced virtual stand-up comedy club

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In-game concerts have already been a thing in Fortnite, so where does the games platform go from there? Why, opening the doors to its...

Lunar New Year events around the MMORPG world, 2024 edition

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Would you believe that this is only our third year with enough MMORPG Lunar New Year events that a roundup is necessary? A decade...

Skull & Bones’ soft launch is underway for preorder players ahead of next week’s formal release

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Ubisoft's long, long delayed pirate "co-op pirate open world action RPG" MMO Skull & Bones has finally set sail with a soft launch into...
I mean, perhaps you should, but...

Overwatch 2’s Season 9 calls to Champions next week

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The ninth season of Overwatch 2 is ticking down to launch next week on February 13th with an array of "eldritch horrors" waiting on...

Star Citizen firms up April’s alpha 3.23 features and recounts development progress for January

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It's roundup day for Star Citizen fans, as CIG has put out its latest roadmap update outline and January development report for fans to...

Disney invests $1.5B into Epic Games with plans to create a ‘huge Disney universe’ in Fortnite

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Seeing Disney's various IPs in Fortnite isn't exactly news by this point, but it appears as if there will be a whole lot more...

The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming watches a virtual reality giant fight tiny PC knights in Davigo

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What happens when one giant playing in virtual reality faces off against itty bitty rocket-firing knights playing on PC? You get Davigo, the VR...

Monster Hunter Now celebrates the Lunar New Year with limited quests and thematic rewards

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The Year of the Dragon has arrived to the mobile ARG Monster Hunter Now, bringing some Lunar New Year-themed events and goodies for players...

Think gamemaster-delivered content is dead? Multiplayer Helldivers 2 is trying it anyway

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Approximately a thousand years ago in the lost age of 1997, I remember inching my way across an isometric Ultima Online screen, fighting insane...

The Stream Team: Learning how to play War Thunder the Matriarch way

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MOP's Chris is entering all-new territory for him in today's stream: He'll be taking up the role of pilot or tanker (or both!) in...

Enshrouded offers up some beginner’s tips in its latest video

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Enshrouded might be familiar to survival sandbox vets, but it's also possible that some of its systems are unique to those players, or that...

Dune Awakening’s latest video snippet is all about playing both solo and with friends

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Who here would like another vertically oriented video snippet out of Dune: Awakening? If you raised your hand, then you're probably reading this on...

Not So Massively: Stormgate isn’t delivering a revolution (yet)

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Stormgate's marketing is laser-focused on studio Frost Giant's plan to deliver an "RTS revolution." With StarCraft II still popular but slowly waning as it...

Enshrouded’s first major patch addresses bugs, crashes, multiplayer stability, and world reset timing

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It's been a couple of weeks since the survival sandbox Enshrouded made its early access debut, and while the game has received several hotfixes...

Actress Michelle Rodriguez demos Skull and Bones’ intro and events in latest video

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Earlier Skull and Bones offered up a look at what general gameplay and endgame looks like in its last video preview, but now we're...

Jeff Strain’s indie studio Crop Circle Games lays staff, reportedly without severance

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Back in 2022 we saw former ArenaNet and Undead Labs co-founder Jeff Strain open his own indie studio called Crop Circle Games with the...

The Stream Team: Spelunking for snowmen for Astroneer’s 5th birthday Breakdown event

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Massively OP's MJ was pretty sad that she couldn't complete Astroneer's Christmas event owing to the lack of event drops; no toys nor snowmen...

Animal Crossing-inspired cozy MMO Galactic Getaway launches $50,000 Kickstarter

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Twice last spring, we covered a new-to-us MMO called Galactic Getaway, a game that had been in production already since 2021. We originally binned...

Tencent buys up majority stake of Swords of Legends developer and gains access to the IP

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Tencent has walked over to another games studio and smacked it with its wallet, only this time it's a bit of a surprise purchase...

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