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
Make My MMO: Wagadu’s untimely end, Legends of Aria’s new beginning
The grave is claiming another Kickstarted MMORPG: The Wagadu Chronicles developer Twin Drums announced in May that it'll throw in the towel on the...
Lost Ark outlines plan for merging South American region into US East
Amazon has been talking up a big global merge for Lost Ark for the last few weeks, and now, we're finally getting some hard...
Tencent discusses plans for Tarisland’s experience, raid, class, and energy optimization
Apparently all we had to do is complain a lil bit about Tarisland going quiet because this week, Tencent has opened the floodgates. Just...
NCsoft Q1 2024: Guild Wars 2 is on one hell of a revenue streak as Throne & Liberty stalls
NCsoft's Q1 2024 financial report is a tale of two worlds as mobile games continue their decline in popularity. Corporate revenues fell 17% compared...
The Daily Grind: What is the ‘gold standard’ example of MMORPGs?
Earlier this year, a poster on the MMORPG subreddit posted a controversial take: While admitting that he hadn't actually played EVE Online in a...
Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons
Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
PlanetSide 2’s latest update revamps warzone rotation and the friends list
PlanetSide 2 has been in a state of limbo for the past several months following revelations that Daybreak had sold the IP for cash...
Dauntless and Fae Farm dev Phoenix Labs has laid off another 100+ people in latest restructure
I'm sorry to add to the endless parade of bad news today, but this afternoon, we learned that Dauntless and Fae Farm studio Phoenix...
World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix speed-leveling event is live this afternoon
As we alluded to in this morning's Daily Grind, today is the day for World of Warcraft's Mists of Pandaria remix hullabaloo, so if...
EG7 Q1 2024: Daybreak still mum on PlanetSide 2, new H1Z1 game hires lead designer
It's not even been two weeks since Daybreak owner EG7 published its 2023 annual financial report, which of course omitted everything relevant that happened...
Interview: Wayfinder’s AJ LaSaracina on the Echoes transition, launch, and long-term plans
Following yesterday's surprise reveal that Airship Syndicate is planning to transition the always-online MMO looter shooter Wayfinder into a buy-to-play online-optional title - without...
Ubisoft cancels The Division Heartland in spite of record annual corporate revenues
There's a big blast of bad news for Ubisoft and everyone else coming out of the company's latest financial report: The company has outright...
Tarisland opens applications for another technical beta test at the end of May
Well, it's not the release date Tencent was promising is coming soon, but Tarisland is finally getting a little movement thanks to an incoming...
Palia studio Singularity 6 has been slammed with yet another layoff round
Singularity 6, the studio behind beta cozy MMO Palia, is dealing with yet another round of layoffs this week, following a round back in...
Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones teases season 2 content and resets for season 1
As Ubisoft's beleaguered pirate MMO Skull & Bones approaches the end of its first season of play, the company has dispatched a dev stream...
Monsters & Memories opens registration for *two* June tests – a stress test and playtest weekend
Last week, Monsters & Memories studio Niche Worlds Cult told players it's been plotting another playtest for June - and now we've got the...
Elder Scrolls Online devs offer their favorite Scribing spell combos ahead of Gold Road
So here's the thing about the Elder Scrolls franchise's spellcrafting systems: Whenever I get my hands on them, imagination kind of flies out the...
Unleashed’s MMORPG Haven is aimed at parents who grew up playing EverQuest and WoW
Back in February, we covered an upcoming but low-key crossplatform MMORPG called Haven by an indie studio called Unleashed games, whose star-studded dev team...
Amid release date rumors, Tarisland promises ‘exciting updates soon’
I don't know if you've noticed, but Tarisland has been kinda weird lately. Updates and announcements and test news out of Tencent has slowed...
Lost Ark video recaps Chaos Rising, summer merges, and western skins
This week's Lost Ark Eye on Arkesia this week begins with accolades: Lost Ark players finally stopped cheating long enough for Amazon to crown...
