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
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs without player housing in 2024
Last week, Guild Wars 2 became the latest western MMORPG to finally add proper housing, with pages lifted straight out of Wildstar and RIFT....
New World tempts would-be Aeternum players with another landmarks video
Remember how we lamented that New World is one of the prettiest game worlds in the MMO genre? Well, Amazon is twisting the knife...
Stars Reach previews its pre-alpha cameras and movement, from grappling to sliding
Raph Koster is back with another set of blogs on his upcoming MMORPG sandbox Stars Reach, this batch focusing on something that seems mundane...
Wizard101 is launching on PlayStation, Xbox, and the Switch ‘soon’
Well here's some good news for MMO fans: KingsIsle is continuing its efforts to get kid-friendly MMO Wizard101 on aaaaaalllll the platforms, as today...
Black Desert’s roadmap sets Land of the Morning Light Seoul expansion for September 12
Well lookit Pearl Abyss, getting all fancy with its roadmap game. Yep, the Korean company has indeed dropped a new roadmap for Black Desert,...
You can get your free mini-expansion, mount, minipet, and dungeon in LOTRO now
Hey who wants some free stuff?! Lord of the Rings Online was supposed to drop a big patch and promo yesterday, but it got...
RuneScape fans revolt over Jagex’s second subscription fee hike in three years
Welp, the party is over for RuneScape fans: Jagex has once again announced that it's raising the price of the game.
"Membership pricing has been...
Elder Scrolls Online is giving away the Dragon Bones DLC for logging in four times in September
As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, The Elder Scrolls Online has been handing out some insane freebies all year, and next month, the...
Kickstarted VR MMO Zenith just released its last content patch before heading into maintenance mode
This week's Zenith patch is a bit of a bittersweet one - or grumpy one, depending on your view. That's because it's the last...
Lost Ark finally tackles raid balance for Echidna, Akkan, and Thaemine in today’s patch
This week's Lost Ark update is a bit of a smol bean in terms of actual new content, but it's still worth pointing out...
Albion Online’s next big patch addresses solo mechanics and open-world PvE
Sandbox Interactive's Robin Henkys is sitting down one month after Albion Online's Paths to Glory to talk about what comes next for the PvP...
Tarisland turns one-month bans into 10-year bans for cheaters following player ‘feedback’
Furbish up your "well that escalated quickly" memes because that Tarisland cheating debacle from earlier this week just got much weirder and more punitive.
Yesterday,...
EverQuest II’s GU 126, aka The Immeasurable Menagerie, is live
OK, I learned something today: When Daybreak uses the word menagerie, it is not, in fact, the same as the nickname I give to...
New World’s new territories video walks through one of the prettiest game worlds in MMOs
Last week, Amazon restarted its video series for New World, with a heavy emphasis on acclimating new and returning players to the upcoming Aeternum....
Tarisland temp-bans players caught cheating in the Blight Dragon speed race event
All right, who here wants to see cheaters tracked, caught, and punished? Big show of hands, great. Now who here wants to see a...
Palia’s Sunset Soiree rolls out today with housing upgrades and piles of cuteness
As promised, cozy MMO Palia has released update 0.183, Sunset Soiree, to beta players as of this afternoon - and no, it's not that...
Aion Classic EU promises a new PvP map and two endgame instances in Dominance update
Aion Classic EU has been cranking out updates all year - and it's got at least one more in store for 2024. Gameforge announced...
Fractured extends free-play through the weekend, drops short-term content roadmap
Fractured has a new dev blog out with a roadmap and some good news for folks who've been enjoying the free-play event: The event...
NetEase abruptly announces an October sunset for Harry Potter Magic Awakened’s western version
NetEase and WB Games have some dreadful and abrupt news for fans of the mobile MMO Harry Potter Magic Awakened: It's sunsetting in the...
The Daily Grind: Do you expect MMORPGs to maintain full regional and platform parity?
Earlier this year, the team behind the western/global version of MapleStory announced that it was planning to fork away from the Korean version, basically...
