Bree Royce
Editor-in-Chief
Bree is an unrepentant escapist with a predilection for MMOs. When not compulsively proofreading cereal boxes and newspapers, she can be found modding, PvPing on the auction hall, and touring the Next Big Thing with her guild on a quest for the elusive perfect game.
Working As Intended and Ask Mo are her pet op-ed columns, but she also pens Daily Grinds and compiles Massively Overthinking, the Week in Review, and Make My MMO. You can hear her ramble about MMOs every week on the Massively OP podcast. If you're nice, she'll even talk about something other than Star Wars Galaxies.
Personal blog: SkycandyTwitter: @nbrianna
Favorite MMOs: Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, Lord of the Rings Online, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Ultima Online
MMO Week in Review: Defiance, Repentance, and Fallen Banners
It's not every week when MMO Week in Review gets to recap a week where the MMO genre got some incredibly good news, but...
Make My MMO: Stars Reach triples its Kickstarter ask, Fractured Online celebrates its own buyout
Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP's long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and...
Diablo Immortal’s 2025 roadmap promises Writhing Wilds next week and a new class this summer
NetEase might be pulling back in other corners of the global market, but it's apparently full-speed ahead on its Blizzard Diablo Immortal collaboration, as...
The Steam spring sale is upon us with deals on MMOs from New World Aeternum to Pantheon
Is it actually spring? No. But do you actually need an excuse for a Steam sale? Also no! But that's exactly what we got...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG deserves its own TV series?
Way back in January, Square-Enix's Yoshinori Kitase teased that he would "would love to see something come out of creators in terms of...
Massively Overthinking: Toxic positivity in the land of MMORPGs
As I type this, we've been watching the Lord of the Rings Online transfer situation unfold for over a week now, and I've personally...
Trove’s St Patrick’s Day event, St Qubeslick 2025, has returned to the sandbox
I don't mean to alarm you, but St Patrick's Day is coming up on Monday, which means a whole lot of leprechauns, pots of...
Guild Wars 2 nerfs Lowland Expertise to fix it in today’s mini-update
Today's Guild Wars 2 hotfix comes with a specific fix for a Janthir Wilds bug that has sent some players into a tizzy. Initially,...
Defiance’s revival team didn’t get the database, will start with the final patch, and can’t commit to major updates yet
Back on Tuesday, we reported on the news that Fawkes Games - which in the past has picked up multiple discarded Gamigo MMORPGs -...
Throne & Liberty’s Wilds of Talandre expansion expands more today with the addition of Nebula Island
When Throne & Liberty's Wilds of Talandre launched last week, it did so with a new zone - but without one of the key...
Lord of the Rings Online patches the old deed log back in today as transfers surpass 1M characters
It's patch day for the long-suffering Lord of the Rings Online playerbase as the patch originally planned for Wednesday is finally launching today. Update...
World of Warcraft teases its housing decoration tools, including 3-axis rotation and dyes
When Blizzard last talked about World of Warcraft's housing, it was a vague overview of the studio's philosophies that left a lot of players...
Inflexion says Nightingale City, live today, is a ‘satisfying denouement’ to the Nightingale experience
When last we looked in on Nightingale, the early access fantasy-steampunk sandbox was celebrating its first birthday, Inflexion was busy rolling out the dyes...
Project Gorgon celebrates its seventh year of Steam early access with a gift of explosive love
When I saw the memo on Discord about Project Gorgon's seventh anniversary on Steam, I did a little double-take, as I knew the game...
Blade & Soul NEO’s Moonwater Plains part 1 is live with a new region, level cap, and PvP content
As promised, Blade & Soul NEO has officially launched its first major update - Moonwater Plains part one, which NCsoft is calling an expansion...
Niantic has indeed sold Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now to Savvy Games’ Scopely
Not quite a month ago, we got wind of rumors that Niantic was negotiating a sale of its games division - including Pokemon Go...
Star Trek Online’s Unveiled, the MMO’s 33rd season, is live on console today
Console Captains, it's finally your moment in Star Trek Online, as the Unveiled season is officially live on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox...
Multiplayer sandbox Aloft launches its first big early access update, Critters & Wonders
When we previewed cozy co-op survivalbox Aloft back in January, we were surprised at how good it was - but already cognizant of the...
Blizzard says BlizzCon will return again at last… in 2026
If you had your hopes up for a 2025 BlizzCon, well, don't. But you can get excited for next year already.
"Today, Blizzard Entertainment announced...
Stars Reach begins testing accelerated seasons and the public event system
As Stars Reach lumbers on through its Kickstarter phase, Playable Worlds is continuing to patch up the test behind the scenes, which means that...
