Multiplayer online game

A multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which can be played via a game server over the internet, with other players around the world. Some prominent examples of this include fighting games (e.g. Street Fighter IV and Tekken 6), sports games (e.g. NHL 14 and Grid Autosport), older online games (e.g. Sega Meganet titles), first-person shooters (Battlefield 2, BZFlag, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Quake 3, Resistance 3 and Unreal Tournament), a subgenre of shooter games called hero shooter (Battleborn, Overwatch and Paladins), strategy video games (e.g. Warcraft 3 and StarCraft or II) and a subgenre of strategy games called multiplayer online battle arena (e.g. Defense of the Ancients, League of Legends, Dota 2 and Heroes of the Storm).

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