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
New World’s Season of the Guardian teases new trial, cooking revamp, animation buffs, and OPR mounts
Amazon has taken the veil off New World's Season of the Guardian this afternoon, and it sounds as if it'll have a little bit...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG you think shouldn’t be classified as an MMORPG?
We have the MMORPG subreddit to thank for this morning's Daily Grind: At the beginning of January, some bright spark over there posted a...
MMO Week in Review: Skull & Bones departs drydock
Skull & Bones finally drifted into its soft launch open beta after eleventy billion delays and do-overs, and... it's actually not terrible? And it's...
Q4 2023: Nexon, Krafton, and Roblox all posted soaring revenues in 2023
Welcome back to another MMO business roundup - this one all about financials for some of the companies we keep an eye on 'round...
RuneScape’s Jagex confirms it’s being sold for the fourth time in eight years as it talks up ‘forever games’
Rumors from earlier this week that suggested RuneScape company Jagex was once again for sale have now been proven correct, thanks to a formal...
Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best player-crafted portal bases
A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...
Microsoft insists Activision-Blizzard was planning on mass layoffs before the merger
As we've been covering, earlier this week the FTC filed a complaint to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging that Microsoft misrepresented itself...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost a house in an MMO?
Last week, fellow MMO blogger Belghast wrote a blog post that sent a shot of panic through my own heart: He tells the tale...
Massively Overthinking: When the original MMO is better than the sequel
A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...
Star Wars Galaxies’ Restoration rogue server launches Schisms of Heretics with new Jedi content
If there were an award for slick rogue server promotions, Star Wars Galaxies Restoration 3 would win it this month, as the announcement newsletter...
Players rolled nearly 50K characters during Nightingale’s stress test last weekend
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...
Lunar New Year events around the MMORPG world, 2024 edition
Would you believe that this is only our third year with enough MMORPG Lunar New Year events that a roundup is necessary? A decade...
Lost Ark celebrates its second birthday by reminding you how many times it’s killed your characters
Lost Ark fans are already swept up in the game's second anniversary festivities thanks to the patch yesterday, but technically, the formal western birthday...
Skull & Bones’ soft launch is underway for preorder players ahead of next week’s formal release
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...
World of Warships and World of Tanks launch dueling lunar new year events today
Wargaming's stable of MMOs are rolling out fireworks and festivities for lunar new year to cap off the week.
Over in World of Tanks, the...
Think gamemaster-delivered content is dead? Multiplayer Helldivers 2 is trying it anyway
Approximately a thousand years ago in the lost age of 1997, I remember inching my way across an isometric Ultima Online screen, fighting insane...
Dungeons & Dragons Online is giving away archetypes, mounts, and more for the Year of the Dragon
Dungeons & Dragons Online teased its Year of the Dragon promotion last weekend, but now it's here: The D&D MMORPG will be following along...
Working As Intended: City of Heroes macros and popmenus for noobs
In my first braindump on City of Heroes for this column, I tried to ease superhero fans into the world of modding the 20-year-old...
Happy second birthday to Lost Ark, whose ‘2 Extreme’ update arrived this morning
I half expected to be able to make a "too extreme to launch on time" joke for today's Lost Ark patch, but actually Amazon...
New World’s 4.0.4 update lands today with cross-world expeditions
Happy launch day to New World's 4.0.4 patch - let's not take that number as any kind of sign - as the cross-world expeditions...
