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
World of Warcraft kicks off Lunar New Year, Season of Discovery phase 7, and Mythic+ revision
World of Warcraft is having a busy week in multiple versions of the game, but let's start with the holiday: the Lunar Festival is...
EVE Online’s 2025 roadmap promises a pair of expansions in Q2 and Q4
CCP Games has delivered a solid roadmap for EVE Online today - the punchy short version and the hour-long stream version. So let's get...
Guild Wars 2’s lunar new year festival is live with snake tail pants
As promised, Guild Wars 2's Lunar New Year event is officially live this afternoon. "Shed the old year and slither into the next -...
Throne & Liberty’s Wilds of Talandre expansion launches March 6 – here’s what’s in it
When Amazon started namedropping the Talandre expansion for Throne and Liberty earlier this month, it threw us for a loop for a sec until...
Following Ubisoft’s latest round of layoffs, The Division 2 delays its next DLC – again
Ubisoft's Division 2 team posted a memo to players this morning that seems like good news but is being read as the opposite. For starters,...
Survivalbox Enshrouded sets launch target of spring 2026 as Pact of the Flame goes live
It's a hardwritten rule in the great codex of survival games that they must launch in January, which means quite a few of them...
Dark and Darker Mobile will include US players in its soft launch next week
Dark and Darker is indeed headed to mobile soft launch next week - and not just in Canada as planned, as US players will...
Obituary: Project Gorgon developer Sandra Powers has passed away
I'm horribly sorry to be the bearer of this dreadful news this morning: Sandra Powers, one of the two key devs behind Project Gorgon...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the best small group content for 2-3 players?
One of the reasons my family keeps gravitating back to MMOs like Guild Wars 2 and City of Heroes is that they have an...
A ‘majority’ of Dauntless and Fae Farm devs at Phoenix Labs have apparently been laid off
We've got bad news for fans of Dauntless and Fae Farm tonight: Studio Phoenix Labs posted to Linkedin that its owners have "made the tough...
Ubisoft is laying off another 185 game devs in Europe
The bad news for Ubisoft just keeps rolling this week as the company has admitted it's laying off another 185 people and closing down...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best-worst MMO chat mistell you’ve ever seen?
PC Gamer had a fun report up on a heartwarming mishap in the Path of Exile 2 community that I thought MMO players could...
MMO Week in Review: New World, Quinfall, and Unchained
If this week in the MMORPG industry had a theme, it would be "things fall apart" or perhaps "oh no honey no."
First, Unchained Entertainment...
Indie MMO The Quinfall launches into $19.99 early access today
As promised, MMORPG The Quinfall has officially entered early access as of this afternoon.
For those who don't quite remember The Quinfall, a refresher: Turkish...
New World’s overnight update broke the PvP season servers, and yeah, it’s real bad
(Updated with Amazon's latest response at the end.)
Amazon's overnight patch for New World seems to have unintentionally broken a few rather important parts of...
Blizzard donated one million dollars to a relief charity supporting California wildfire victims
The response to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires this past month has been particularly strong from the gaming industry, owing to the fact that...
The Daily Grind: Are there ‘acceptable levels of jank’ in MMORPGs?
I have to credit MOP's Chris for the phrase "acceptable levels of jank" here: He used in in a (positive!) conversation we were having...
Massively Overthinking: Has an MMO cadence switch-up ever actually worked out for the best?
When I was going through our historical awards for the debrief earlier this month, I had a little chuckle looking at the awards for...
Transfer or be transferred: Here’s what to expect from Throne & Liberty’s big server merge
Earlier this week, Amazon's Tico Talks video touched lightly on the studio's planned merges for Throne & Liberty's global edition, and now today, we're...
Yes, you can pet the wolf pup in Soulframe’s Preludes 8
However bad the snow is for our readers in the Northern Hemisphere, at least you're not the Canadian Digital Extremes dev, Steve Sinclair, who...
