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: 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...
Lost Ark celebrates three years of service in the west with a ton of free gifts
Pop on your party hats, Arkesians, because it's time to celebrate Lost Ark's third birthday. OK, its third birthday since arriving to the west....
Blizzard lays out the design pillars for World of Warcraft’s accessible neighborhood housing
The news that World of Warcraft is getting housing with its next expansion, Midnight, shocked the whole MMORPG genre - and us too, as...
EA is plotting Apex Legends 2.0 while scapegoating Dragon Age 4’s lack of live-service features
Last week's news that BioWare had shed a significant portion of its remaining team following Dragon Age: The Veilguard failing to meet EA's ambitious...
Pokemon Go isn’t canceling its LA tour after the wildfires, but it’s offering refunds
If you were planning on attending Pokemon Go's Unova - Los Angeles tour later this month, there are two things you need to know:...
Fractured Online is ‘not being abandoned,’ devs vow while teasing some sort of new investment
When last we checked in on Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured, Dynamight Studios was telling players that it was laying off four of its seven...
Elder Scrolls Online explains Cyrodiil Champions, its multi-stage PvP revamp test
As ZeniMax Online Studios continue testing Elder Scrolls Online's update 45 on the PTS, it's been teasing much more for testers - and that...
MMO Business Roundup: ESA’s tariff statement, the LA wildfires, and EA’s Battlefield Labs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business.
LA wildfires: If you followed the LA wildfires closely last month,...
UK rebuffs game preservationists’ petition to make retroactively breaking old games unlawful
One of the big industry-wide narratives that emerged from the wreckage of 2024 was player-initiated efforts to center game preservation - indeed, even to...
Stars Reach lays out its four major Kickstarter tiers, including one where you can design a planet
We're a week away from the Stars Reach Kickstarter launch, but Playable Worlds is already teasing what the Kickstarter tiers - and therefore some...
New World is running an open preview event for its new OPR map, Coral Divide, this weekend
One of the chunks of content promised for later in New World's current season is the new map for Outpost Rush, and if you...
Ultima Online’s producer steps down after 26 years working on the MMORPG
It's the end of an era in Ultima Online: Bonnie "Mesanna" Armstrong has announced what sure sounds like a retirement from her role as...
The Daily Grind: Do you consider immersion the highest ideal in MMOs?
A while back, when I was doing a first impressions piece about Aloft, I was writing a section about how the wind was surprisingly...
The Daily Grind: Do you use atypical controls in MMORPGs?
I've mentioned before in our comments that I have small hands even for a woman, which has made finding a great MMO mouse impossible...
MMO Week in Review: Gorgon and Phoenix
I would like to say this past week wasn't another bad one for the genre, but I'm just not that big a liar. Most...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2025?
You know, you're not reading this piece until January, but I sat down to write it ahead of the turn of the year, when...
