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
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...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained layoffs, Pantheon’s patch delay, Stars Reach’s impending Kickstarter
Welcome to Make My MMO, MOP's long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older...
Following painful layoffs, Camelot Unchained is apparently still planning to resurface in Q1 2025
Earlier this month, we expressed serious concern over the fate of Camelot Unchained when it became clear that studio Unchained Entertainment had laid off...
MultiVersus will close again in May, and this time it’s not coming back
MultiVersus is shutting down again, and unlike the last time, this one's going to stick.
"Season 5 will serve as the final seasonal content update...
Guild Wars 2, Overwatch 2 compensate players for recent tech and sale bungles
This is a tale of two MMO studios and how they handled recent fiascos competently. Happy Friday!
First, ArenaNet announced last night that it is...
Elder Scrolls Legends has officially sunsetted after years of lingering in maintenance mode
Back in November, we covered the sad news that multiplayer CCG Elder Scrolls Legends was truly doomed. After siloing the game off under a...
Richard Garriott is still toying with Ultima Online spinoff ideas – like maybe a TTRPG
MMORPG gamers might recall that last summer, Ultima Online creator Richard Garriott grabbed headlines a bit by accident when he casually told a player...
The Daily Grind: The perfect MMO guild doesn’t exist… or does it?
I must admit right up front that this is not my guild. I have a guild of weirdos who live mostly on Discord now....
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs where suddenly you’re a different character now
I was recently thumbing through my Lord of the Rings Online screenshots when I stumbled into one I'd taken of a player's extremely smart...
The Division 2 now says The Battle for Brooklyn DLC will launch in 2025
Earlier this week, following news that Ubisoft's was laying off another 185 people affecting four studios in Europe, the The Division 2 team -...
Throne & Liberty will merge 107 servers down to 25 in February – here’s the whole list
Amazon has been heralding server merges for Throne and Liberty for weeks now, and we have everything from a rationale (cleaning up the excess...
Worlds Adrift spinoff Lost Skies will have a demo at February’s Steam Next Fest – here’s the new trailer
If you're still missing Worlds Adrift, then put Lost Skies back on your radar: Bossa Studios is reviving the feel of the defunct MMO,...
Blade & Soul NEO is launching February 25 following a week-long character creation event
Just two weeks ago, NCsoft America announced that not only is Blade & Soul NEO launching in the west but the game is opening...
Vaultbreakers – fka Project F4E – is an upcoming co-op extraction OARPG that isn’t a shooter
Anybody out there remember BetaDwarf's upcoming MMO Project F4E? You'd be forgiven if you didn't. It was first announced in 2021 as Project Haven,...
Guild Wars 2 has finally updated its region transfer system, but it’s not gonna make anyone happy
Last March, following one of Guild Wars 2's world restructuring beta events, ArenaNet told players that it was planning to update its system for...
Marvel Snap has a new US publisher: Marvel Heroes boss David Brevik’s Skystone Games
Marvel Snap players have been through a lot over the last few weeks: The game was taken out in the crossfire of the US...
