Multiplayer News
The latest Multiplayer coverage curated for game developers.
GamesIndustry.biz says Activision's Team Ricochet is treating cheating like a major business, citing estimates that the market reaches $8.5 billion. A survey of 250 multiplayer studios found 69% see cheating …
eieio.games details Solitaire Alone Together, a multiplayer take on Windows 98 solitaire that lets everyone on the internet play the same game. It’s a tiny premise, but it turns a …
Defold Game Jam 2026 starts Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges, and free gifts for participants. The Defold Foundation is also running a free online conference ahead of the …
XBox Wire says Sea of Thieves is free for all Xbox members to try from September 17-20 on Xbox and PC, while Hell Let Loose: Vietnam is open to Game …
arXiv cs.GR details MoQSplat, a streaming approach for 3D Gaussian Splatting that targets gigabyte-scale scene delivery over QUIC. It splits scenes into spatial Tracks and progressive Subgroups, aiming to cut …
GamesIndustry.biz details how No More Robots is finally shipping its first in-house IP after nine years as a publisher. Cruise Control began as a multiplayer shooter, was shelved after a …
GamesIndustry.biz says Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show 2026 is stacking its business floor with Capcom, Bandai Namco, Nintendo and PlayStation partners, plus AMD, Lenovo, Razer and more. The Bangkok …
Season 06 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone is rolling out as The Haunting, bringing a themed content drop across both games. For teams watching live-service cadence, …
Unreal Engine Dev Days are heading to EMEA cities, giving local developers a chance to meet, learn, and swap production ideas in person. For teams building in Unreal, the practical …
Xbox Game Pass is adding a mixed September slate led by RuneScape: Dragonwilds, SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed, and The Royal Writ. The lineup also includes Shelldiver today, plus TCG …
Serious Sam: Shatterverse is taking the franchise into FPS roguelite territory, built in Unreal Engine with peer-to-peer multiplayer and an offline solo mode. Behaviour Interactive says the goal is a …
Dumpster Gang is headed to Xbox PC in December 2026, with day-one Game Pass support. The 1-4 player co-op sandbox casts players as raccoons pulling off house raids, trash runs, …
Weekend two of the Modern Warfare 4 open beta is live, giving players another chance to stress the game’s online stack and content pipeline. For developers, the useful signal is …
State of Decay 3 is widening its playtest program, with closed beta access planned before the end of 2026 after an alpha phase that began in April. Undead Labs says …
Unity details how Hologryph built SAND: Raiders of Sophie around a live ops pipeline that can keep shipping without destabilizing performance. The team leans on modular compartments, Burst jobs, Addressables, …
GDC Festival of Gaming 2027 is adding a dedicated Business Hall at Moscone West, aimed at meetings, deals, and relationship-building. The show is also splitting access into more focused passes, …
Defold 1.13.1 lands with new Light components, faster warm builds, and broader engine/editor support, while the summer newsletter also tees up a September game jam and a Defold presence at …
Modern Warfare 4 is pushing Multiplayer toward faster, more readable combat by trimming cover, adding new traversal, and building maps around South Korea. Infinity Ward is pairing photogrammetry-driven art with …
Modern Warfare 4 is opening its beta to all players, giving teams a live look at how a high-traffic shooter rollout is staged. For developers, the interesting part is less …
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is leaning hard into multiplayer feel, with a focus on movement, gunplay, modes, and map design. For developers, the interesting part is how the …