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 is already hotfixing bugs out of Season of the Guardian
"I hope just this once it's flawless," I said yesterday morning as the New World servers were finally coming back online with Season of...
MMO Business Roundup: Embracer finishes restructure, Riot settles lawsuit, Ubisoft continues layoffs
Welcome back to another brief roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Embracer: Embracer has been a dumpster fire of epic proportions...
Crossplatform gacha MMO Astra Knights of Veda has officially launched as Steam reviews turn red
As promised, Astra Knights of Veda has officially launched today under the HYBE IM banner. The free-to-play fantasy anime mini-MMO boasts crossplay between the...
New World’s Scot Lane talks Summer Game Fest announcement timing and Amazon support
As we noted this morning, New World's Season of the Guardian is live today - in fact, it was only a few minutes later...
Eternal Tombs opens a one-day playtest on Steam – here’s how to get in and play
Eternal Tombs - the MMO formerly known as War of Dragnorox and currently known as the MMO that's trying to bring back a new...
Tarisland’s latest beta preview video showcases the male Paladin class
The fact that Tencent's World of Warcraft-lookalike Tarisland has a Paladin class isn't a surprise, both because of the source material and because Tarisland...
Conan Exiles’ Age of War Chapter 4 is live today with a new event, fatalities, and the updated battle pass
Conan Exiles' Age of War is coming to a close today with the release of Age of War Chapter 4. The update, live now...
New World’s Season of the Guardian finally launches this morning
New World's Season of the Guardian is finally set to launch today after a significant delay during which Amazon worked on its massive new...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most predictable MMORPG?
MMORPGs have an impossible problem: If they patch whenever they can - big patches, small patches, whatever is finished and ready to go -...
Final Stand Ragnarok releases 1.0 update with updated maps and hero models
Unchained Entertainment fka City State Entertainment launched Camelot Unchained prequel Final Stand Ragnarok into its third and final early access earlier this month, kicking...
Working As Intended: The top 10 hot tubs in MMORPGs
It's been a running joke for a few years that I always put hot tubs in my MMO houses whenever possible, and once that...
April Fools’ Day 2024 events and gags from around the MMORPG world
Welcome to weird MMORPG game mode day! I mean, April Fools' Day - not that we're sorry a lot of the "pranks" have become...
MMO Week in Review: Awaiting Guild Wars 3, accounting World of Warcraft
If you were prescient enough to put Guild Wars 3 on your predictions post from last year, congratulations: an NCsoft exec defending another NCsoft...
Ships at Sea is a new multiplayer maritime ship sim, setting sail for early access in May
Here's a new title I've never heard of, and it turns out it's for a reasonable reason: It's called Ships at Sea, and it's...
Noah’s Heart is sunsetting April 29 as Archosaur diverts players to Dragon Raja
Cozy multiplatform MMO Noah's Heart has never been a loud and splashy MMO, with news about its updates since its official global launch in...
Osiris New Dawn resurfaces with a new April update after 2023 Steam delisting
It's been almost a year since we heard much from Osiris New Dawn, and it's apparently not just us as the official site hasn't...
The Daily Grind: When has a wholesome MMO feature wound up backfiring?
A few weeks ago, the Ultima Online team released a newsletter, and its very first entry caught my eye.
"I want to address a pressing...
Massively Overthinking: Lies about MMOs we thought were true
A totally not-gaming video inspired this week's Massively Overthinking: Hank Green's video called I Believed These Four Lies. Green elaborates on a quad of...
Paragon-spinoff Predecessor has soft launched into F2P open beta early access on Steam (and everywhere else)
Predecessor - the latest shooter spawned from the ashes of Epic Games' defunct MOBA Paragon - has officially launched into open beta today on...
MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and layoffs for SEGA and Smilegate
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Embracer - The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored...
