Multiplayer

It’s tough to go alone, so take some friends in Palworld multiplayer and let them do the hard work. You can join four or 32 players, depending on the platform, for your Palworld adventures, but the monster-catching game isn’t keen on actually telling you how to do it. Our Palworld multiplayer guide explains how to play with friends and what co-op features are available on each platform.How to play Palworld multiplayer sessionsIf you want to play Palworld with friends, you have two options. You can create…

2022’s Front Mission 1st: Remake will be getting a free content update this year with some pretty swell new features. It’s coming sometime in 2024. I think what will interest most people about this content update is the arrival of local multiplayer hot-seat skirmishes. I know, I know, it’s not online multiplayer, but the Front Mission series has rarely had multiplayer at all. Considering this is the remake of a 1995 SNES game, and it’s already been available for over a year, it’s sort of remarkable to see. Beyond just…

After hitting Early Access back in June 2021, we finally have a date for the initial launch of Phantom Abyss. The trap-dodging asynchronous multiplayer game is coming to Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam and the Humble Store on January 25.  Publisher Devolver Digital and developer Team WIBY let the latest announcement loose on Steam. You can see some lightning-fast snippets of Version 1.0 in action in the launch date trailer below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFo6ssoUAQ For those just now seeing what Team WIBY…

343 Industries While I once enjoyed jumping into a few matches of Halo or Street Fighter, lately I almost never engage with multiplayer titles. Where we once enjoyed a game’s multiplayer component for what it was and for as long as we found it fun, an ongoing industry push toward “live services” wants those titles to be our only games. Gone are the days of jumping in and playing a round or two of capture the flag or team deathmatch for a quick burst of fun before turning the game off. Games like Fortnite, Call of…

Peter Thoman, more commonly known in gaming circles as “Durante,” is renowned for his work on the infamously horrid Dark Souls port from the early 2010s. Focusing on technical rendering solutions as of late, Durante has now set his sights on a new kind of local multiplayer gaming. More specifically, Durante’s latest blog post, titled “A New Approach to Local Multiplayer / Splitscreen Perspective With Raytracing,” goes in-depth on Thoman’s idea of leveraging raytracing to develop a new kind of hotseat multiplayer…

Naughty Dog has confirmed the cancellation of its multiplayer spin-off for The Last Of Us. The video game developer took to its blog last week to announce the news, writing: “We realize many of you have been anticipating news around the project that we’ve been calling The Last of Us Online. There’s no easy way to say this: We’ve made the incredibly difficult decision to stop development on that game.” After acknowledging that the decision was a tough one to make and that it will understandably upset loyal fans as well…

The Last of Us multiplayer game has been cancelled. In a blog post, developer Naughty Dog confirmed that the development on the promised online experience within the post-apocalyptic universe, which it was calling ‘The Last of Us Online,' has been stopped. The astonishing news comes just a month after game director Vinit Agarwal assured fans that the project was still happening despite the numerous reported setbacks, including the laying off of 25 employees. One can't simply release a live-service game into the wild and…

The Last of Us multiplayer project, which Naughty Dog says it had been calling The Last of Us Online internally, has been canceled. The studio revealed the news in a blog post, citing the game's ambitions as being so big that it would require the full attention of the studio, thereby taking any part of the team off of narrative-driven single-player games, the likes of which have been Naughty Dog's M.O. to this point."In ramping up to full production, the massive scope of our ambition became clear," the…

The Last of Us won’t be returning to its multiplayer side after all. Naughty Dog confirmed today that it has stopped development on what it’s been calling The Last of Us Online, a multiplayer TLOU experience. The project has been in development for some time, with Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann taking the stage at Summer Game Fest 2022 to talk about it. Outside of concept art, the multiplayer endeavor has been mostly quiet, with the team saying it needed more time earlier this year. In today’s statement, the studio…

Naughty Dog announced Thursday that it’s canceled the multiplayer game it was building in The Last of Us universe.The studio says it has been in pre-production on The Last of Us Online even while working on The Last of Us Part II. “We were enthusiastic about the direction in which we were headed,” according to a blog post about the news.However, “to release and support The Last of Us Online we’d have to put all our studio resources behind supporting post launch content for years to come, severely impacting development on…