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
Trion’s 2013 transmedia synergy MMO Defiance is being revived by Fawkes Games
Two days ago I was explaining to my gen alpha children the origins of Trove's Heckbugs event and how the whole game was a...
The Daily Grind: Are virtual reality MMOs ever coming back?
Back in February, we covered the unfortunate news that OrbusVR, one of the very first serious MMORPGs in the VR space, was throwing in...
Guild Wars 2’s Repentance launches tomorrow – without some player character voices, however
We're less than a day away from the release of part three of Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds, dubbed Repentance, and unfortunately, ArenaNet has...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Fallen Banners DLC and Update 45 are live on PC/Mac – but you can’t just buy the DLC outright
It's a big day for Elder Scrolls Online fans - as long as they're on PC or Mac, anyway - as the Fallen Banners...
You can cosplay as Princess Leia in Stars Reach if it collects 5000 Kickstarter backers
While the major stretch goals of Stars Reach's Kickstarter have come thus far at predictable funding milestones, Playable Worlds is granting perks for smaller...
Here’s where the Lord of the Rings Online server transfer situation stands as queues surpass 48 hours
We're on the seventh day of transfer chaos over at Lord of the Rings Online now and about to venture into week two. Here's...
The Daily Grind: Are you still a fan of tab-target MMOs in 2025?
Throne and Liberty is unusual in the MMO space because NCsoft baked in two very different methods for playing the game: an action-oriented system...
MMO Week in Review: LOTRO’s painful queue, Throne & Liberty’s Wilds of Talandre
Any hopes we had that Lord of the Rings Online's Great Server Migration would go to plan were dashed immediately this week as it...
SWG Legends confirms Jedi Themepark 2.0 is coming this year as devs consider apartment tweaks
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has released its winter newsletter this past week as the server celebrates its ninth birthday. But the...
APB Reloaded is fully online after a month in the void as Little Orbit calls Fallen Earth its ‘next big priority’
After a month offline, APB Reloaded is fully back - and we don't just mean the test server.
At the beginning of February, both Little...
Stars Reach passes $550K on Kickstarter and unlocks a detailed guild alliance system
The Stars Reach Kickstarter continues to climb since its debut last week, as Playable Worlds has now pulled in over $550,000 from players eager...
The Daily Grind: How often do you update your Steam reviews of MMOs and multiplayer games?
MMO veteran Scott Hartsman recently skeeted a gamedev article about Steam reviews, specifically looking at the data on whether or not spending time replying...
Massively Overthinking: What should MMO corpse runs look like in 2025?
A couple of years ago - yeah, I save weird things in my "ideas bin" folder - MMO designer Damion Schubert tweeted about a...
Fractured Online and its dev team have been bought out by a new studio – and it’s not a crypto scheme
Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured has been teasing something big coming for the last month, punctuated by a promise from Dynamight's Jacopo Gallelli earlier this...
Crystal of Atlan is a new ‘magicpunk’ anime action MMO from Nuverse
Well here's a bizarre one: I'm first hearing about an MMO because it appeared in our ads today, and it's one we would've covered...
‘I think we’ve cooked’: MMO sandbox BitCraft prepares for a Steam early access beta
Way back in 2021, we started following an up-and-coming MMORPG sandbox sim called BitCraft that - despite its perhaps inauspicious name - was not...
Dark and Darker was yeeted from the Epic Games Store following Nexon lawsuit
Last month, we covered what appeared to be the messy middle of the ongoing legal saga between Nexon and Ironmace over the Dark and...
Throne and Liberty’s Wilds of Talandre expansion goes live this afternoon
Throne and Liberty's first major expansion, Wilds of Talandre, is officially going live today following significant downtime that began yesterday.
The expansion, already out in...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: QANGA, Urban Dead, Voxile, and Cyborg Immortal
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you've never heard of!
QANGA
QANGA is a new-to-us multiplayer sci-fi survivalbox from iolaCorp Studio...
Black Desert is promoting a Korea tourism package inspired by Land of the Morning Light
Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light and Land of the Morning Light: Seoul expansions have been a beacon of historical transmedia synergy over...
