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
The Daily Grind: Should roads in MMORPGs actually matter?
Readers might remember that when we awarded the rogue server of the year to Star Wars Galaxies Legends back in December, we specifically noted...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Luckcatchers 2, Storebound, Might of Spells
Welcome back to a roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you've (very likely) never heard of. If you have, then pat yourself on the...
Dark Age of Camelot is running classic Valentine’s Day quests alongside the Golden Lovers event
We can't let Valentine's Day slip by without mentioning at least one more event, this one in one of the most classic MMORPGs our...
MMO Business Roundup: Olympic esports, Unity layoffs, and Krafton Q4 2024 financials
Welcome back for a quick roundup of some of the MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news bits from the week!
Esports: If for some reason you...
Nexon Q4 2024: MapleStory and MapleStory Worlds offset FC and The First Descendant’s shortfalls
Ladies and gentlebeings, I give you the latest contender for Mystery Chart of 2025! It's Nexon's growth chart for Q4 2024, which seems to...
Cozy mini MMO Palia teases its next update with plushes, spa day decor, and makeup
Palia is teasing next week's update, the Kilima Couture update, which lands on Tuesday. Granted, it doesn't seem to be a particularly large update,...
Korean court finds Dark and Darker studio infringed Nexon’s trade secrets
Over the last couple of years, we've been covering the seemingly endless lawsuit drama between Nexon and Ironmace over Dark and Darker. Nexon accused...
Massively Overthinking: Reminiscing on 10 years of MassivelyOP
We're celebrating our Independence Day - our 10th birthday since launching as an indie site after the demise of OG Massively - so this...
Pax Dei outlines its building revamp with an eye toward accessibility and consistency
Mainframe's sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei is back with yet another Discord dev blog today, this one homing in on homes - well, more specifically,...
Black Desert is literally launching flying mounts for Valentine’s Day
Pearl Abyss may be up to shenanigans with its latest financial report, but Black Desert's patch is deadly serious, as the global PC version...
Pearl Abyss Q4 2024: PA is obscuring EVE Online and Black Desert revenues in its best quarter all year
Pearl Abyss ended its 2024 financial year on a high-ish note - a welcome surprise after a year of muddling-through - but also a...
Legacy Steel & Sorcery, an extraction-focused ‘mini MMORPG’ from former WoW devs, just hit early access
As promised, extraction RPG Legacy Steel & Sorcery is officially hitting early access today, and it's one we've paid a bit more attention to...
NCsoft Q4 2024: Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul are doing great, with Aion 2 waiting in the wings
The MMO company financial news just keeps coming this week as now we've got NCsoft's Q4 2024 financial report, and no, this one isn't...
Kakao Q4 2024: Mobile drives revenue dip as Kakao queues up ArcheAge Chronicles and Chrono Odyssey
Kakao Games did not have the best quarter, and the "why" is complicated.
According to the Korean games giant's Q4 2024 financials, its PC segment...
Working As Intended: Playing house – er, apartment – in SWG Legends
This week, I'm starting up a new miniseries called Playing House here in the Working As Intended column, and it's entirely the fault of...
Riders of Icarus, which once had 1M western players, is riding into the sunset under Valofe’s banners
A week ago, we covered the odd news that Valofe's Riders of Icarus had abruptly canceled its plans to merge down the North American...
New World is merging its PC servers again, with 28 servers total affected this time
Just two months after the last New World server merge, Amazon is already doing another one. Last night, the company announced it'll take 18...
The Riot MMO just lost yet another key staffer, this time its technical director
Don't panic, but another top dev has moved on from Riot Game's Runeterra MMO, what we usually refer to around here as the Riot...
Star Trek Online’s 33rd season, Unveiled, is live today for the game’s 15th birthday
As promised, Star Trek Online's Unveiled season - the MMORPG's 33rd since launch - is officially live on PC today, only a smidge past...
Speak friend and enter: Lord of the Rings Online has finally launched its official Discord
If you can remember last July - and I realize last July was several decades ago, but bear with me - you might recall...
