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
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...
Guild Wars 2 readies today’s balance update, followed by next Janthir Wilds chapter March 11
Readers might remember that the Guild Wars 2's roadmap has been a little off-kilter ever since the balance update was moved out of January...
Stars Reach has delayed its Kickstarter to get more testers in ahead of the campaign
If you've been anxiously awaiting the Stars Reach Kickstarter - or just watching how it goes - then you probably know it was supposed...
You can predownload Blade & Soul NEO today: Here’s everything we learned at the press event
NCsoft isn't calling Blade & Soul NEO this, but "B&S Classic Plus" is the fastest way I can communicate to core MMORPG players just...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the most annoying inventory situations?
Hi, my name is Bree, and I love to organize things. I genuinely love figuring out storage solutions for stuff, in real life and...
DECA games finally addresses Star Trek Online playerbase following Cryptic’s forced exit
Ever since Embracer announced that it was moving Cryptic's MMORPG operations from Cryptic to smol bean European studio DECA, the playerbases of Star Trek...
EG7 Q3 2024: Palia hits console this spring as EverQuest, LOTRO drive Daybreak revenue
EG7 - that's the Swedish games conglom that bought up Daybreak and then kinda got taken over by Daybreak, amusingly - released its year-end...
Pantheon’s CEO takes responsibility for problematically chummy staff-community relationship
Last week, we covered Visionary Realms' investigation into one of its own developers after Pantheon players accused said developer of guild favoritism. According to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish ran on a potato? (Not a literal potato)
Not quite a year ago, I asked the MOP readers about the best MMOs for playing on a potato - you know, a crap...
MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft is embracing time-tested MMO housing ideas
This week in MMOs, Blizzard laid out a rough outline for World of Warcraft's proposed housing system, and while the blueprint so far doesn't...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends’ Ewok Festival of Love is live alongside new Jabba’s themepark content
If you thought that Star Wars Galaxies' Wookiee Life Day was the weirdest seasonal event in the game, then you are sadly mistaken, for...
The beta for early access tiny MMO Book of Travels preps a patch with a handful of bug fixes
Around MOP, we're still a bit sad that Book of Travels didn't really take off. It was a unique low-combat "tiny MMO" from Might...
‘We are designing it to last for decades’: Stars Reach is hoping for ‘a few hundred thousand players’
Are you feeling the hype yet from the approach of the Stars Reach Kickstarter? Because Playable Worlds is kinda going all out with blogs...
New World gears up for its Coral Divide Outpost Rush map testing this weekend
New World has a big event weekend queued up: It's letting players preview the Coral Divide map en route to the game's Outpost Rush...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst-managed MMO sunset of all time?
A few weeks back, I asked you about the most painful sunset of 2024. That's not what I mean today! I mean the worst-managed...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting ways
This week's Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that "a good game can...
SMITE studio Hi-Rez is going through its second round of layoffs in four months
Bad news for fans of Hi-Rez's remaining multiplayer games: The company is apparently undergoing another round of layoffs. We say "another" because Hi-Rez just did...
Raph Koster offers a high-level overview of what Stars Reach is and what you’ll do in it
"Today I’m going to give you a tour of Stars Reach, the game. Like, the whole thing." So begins Raph Koster's latest dev blog...
Palia’s new loyalty club has arrived with a de facto discount for cash shop currency
Just two weeks ago, Palia studio Singularity 6 announced what it's calling Zeki's Loyalty Club. As teased, the club sounded like a cross between...
