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
Meadow developer Might & Delight announces a new unnamed online RPG
Last year, I hopped on our podcast to talk about an obscure but long-running and adorable MMO: Meadow. It's one of those games that...
Co-op action RPG Killsquad is in early access and already topping Steam’s sale list
OARPG fans, it's been a good week for you, and it's gotten even better with the release of Killsquad. It's a co-op action RPG...
EVE Online is handing out skill points like candy and planning a second huge Aether Wars playtest
CCP Games has been pushing out so many promos and events for EVE Online the last few weeks that it's hard to even keep...
Gamer-oriented ‘Gamer Goo’ lotion vows to ‘banish sweaty palms for good’
I didn't think it was possible to top game-branded Pop-Tarts or candles or bubble tea or Cheez-It, but I was wrong. Today, we got...
Persistent world VR MMO Neon Exile is slated for Steam early access this summer
So here's a brand-new MMO we'd never heard of until today, thanks to its feature on the SpatialOS blog: It's called Neon Exile, and...
Black Desert beats the heat with six weeks of Termian Waterpark festivities
I dunno about you folks, but where MOP is headquartered, we're on our third straight day of "extreme heat" warnings, bad enough for the...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Decentraland, Monster & Me, and Grand Fantasia
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!).
Up first:...
MMORPG Seed’s devs want their AI NPCs to learn from, simulate, and fool actual players
We've been keeping an eye on MMO colony sim Seed - the SpatialOS one, not this one - for a few years now, in...
Torchlight II’s console preorders begin today – check out the goofy new trailer
There are few games that break my "no preorders" rule, but the Torchlight franchise is one of them. So it's lucky for me that...
Cheating cheaters and the online video game companies that fight them
I'm so tired of cheaters in video games. Well, I mean, also cheaters at life, but we're on a video game website, so today,...
Villagers & Heroes’ massive A Tale of Earth and Sea expansion launches Shamans and much more today
Indie MMORPG Villagers & Heroes has officially launched its summer expansion, and if you're a fan of underrated and under-the-radar MMOs, this is one...
Star Wars The Old Republic’s gives love to non-subbers in today’s update
It's a big day for Star Wars The Old Republic - well, maybe a medium day. Though today's patch comes emblazoned with the forgettable...
The Daily Grind: What was the last MMORPG you played out of pure nostalgia?
Yesterday, Rock Paper Shotgun penned a piece on video game nostalgia. Editor Brian Caldwell interviewed a pile of game devs about why specifically they're...
RuneScape patches holes in Land Out of Time, promotes summer special sub sale
With RuneScape's Land Out of Time fresh on the live servers as of last week, Jagex is already looking ahead to post-launch fixes and...
Kickstarter canceled the campaign for MMORPG RAW just a day before it funded
Tomorrow was supposed to be a big day for Killerwhale Games' MMO RAW as it concluded its Kickstarter campaign - in fact, we had...
No, Ship of Heroes is not officially launching on July 4, 2020
Our inbox lit up this morning over a redname post on the Ship of Heroes forum that appeared to tell a player that Heroic...
Would you try a single-player spinoff of The Division 2, or are you happy with it as it is?
Over the weekend, multiple game devs, including The Division 2's creative director, floated the idea of a "single player narrative driven spin off" of...
For Science: New longitudinal study demonstrates no link between video games and aggression
It seems we have another one of these papers every few months, and each time we cover them we get comments and tweets that...
Leaderboard: Do you care more about story or combat in MMOs?
After E3, VG247 posted up an excerpt of an interview with Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red that included a startling comment: The studio...
Neverwinter previews the new Gith race launching in August’s Uprising module
Last week, Perfect World and Cryptic announced Neverwinter's next big thing: the Uprising module, which launches August 13th. And the heart of the content...
