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
Make My MMO: Star Citizen offers a free-fly while Elite Dangerous is just free
It's been a weird couple of weeks for MMO crowdfunding:Â Book of Travels teased a big update coming next week, Valiance Online and Titan Reach...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: 4Story, Wing of Misadventure, Legendarium Online, Apsis Online, TwoKinds
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've probably never heard of. Please, by all means, go down into...
Ultima Online’s New Legacy will introduce family surnames and heraldry
In September 2020, Ultima Online studio Broadsword announced something new for the 23-year-old MMORPG: New Legacy, which is basically a shard for newbies with...
The Daily Grind: Do server merges make you worried about an MMO’s health?
I've been covering the MMORPG genre professionally for well over 10 years now, and a whole lot has changed in that timespan, including the...
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the devs of the MMO genre
Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.
Even Star Wars Galaxies emulators are getting in on The Mandalorian hype
Star Wars The Old Republic and Star Wars Squadrons aren't the only Star Wars games in town milking The Mandalorian's latest season and hefty...
The Daily Grind: How many MMO guilds are you in?
I'm always impressed when I talk to MOP's Justin and he's just joined a new guild in the MMORPG he's playing at the moment....
The best MMO sales and events of Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2020
Thanksgiving and Black Friday are pretty different in 2020 than in past years, but the online gaming sales and events? They're eternal. Join us...
Wild Terra 2’s early access has been postponed to the end of January 2021
My inbox is telling an interesting story today - the story of how gaming studios are busy dumping all their bad news right before...
Kickstarted MMO The Wagadu Chronicles teases its island-gen tool and rainforest art
We haven't heard much out of afrofantasy MMORPG The Wagadu Chronicles since it scored almost $200,000 in Kickstarter funding a month ago, but as...
Mechwarrior Online’s Piranha Games is being bought out by EG7 for $24M+
If you were a bit surprised to see MechWarrior Online perk back up this fall after a long period of neglect in the wake...
City of Heroes Homecoming Issue 27 with its major enhancement overhaul is live today
So it seems I picked the right week to head back into City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers, as the patch that's been in...
Red Dead Online becomes a $4.99 standalone title next week, teases new bounty hunter content
If you thought it was a bit odd yesterday to see an uncritical interview in mainstream media on Red Dead Online after the game...
Fortnite’s new subscription option is a $12 monthly program called Fortnite Crew
Earlier this month, we covered a leak that seemed to suggest Epic Games was once again reviving its plan to implement a subscription service...
NCsoft Q3 2020: Guild Wars 2 just had its best revenue quarter in two years
Let's get the best news for western players in this NCsoft financial report out first: Guild Wars 2 just saw a bit of a...
We’re years away from an open beta for Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings MMO
How far away is the next Lord of the Rings MMORPG? Years, fam, so get comfy where you are.
The news comes via Wccftech, which...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite ‘oh shit’ button in an MMO?
Last summer, I put up a Daily Grind on how people feel about "oh shit" buttons in MMOs - you know, those long-cooldown panic...
World of Warcraft Shadowlands is upon us tonight as WoW turns 16 years old
At long last - and I do mean long, since the expansion broke with modern tradition and actually saw a delay at almost the...
The Daily Grind: Do you organize your houses and inventories in MMOs?
I've seen your screenshots and houses and accounts and I know some of you folks are really not into organizing your video game characters'...
MMO Week in Review: Calling a Truce
It was a surprisingly huge week for MMORPGs, even setting aside the fact that WoW Shadowlands launches tomorrowday. Guild Wars 2 released Truce, we...
