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
ArcheAge Unchained’s Steam launch is still driving queues as land claims start tomorrow
ArcheAge Unchained officially hit Steam last night after a couple of delays, and while name-claiming and character-creation locking and unlocking is still a bit...
Riot Games expresses ’empathy’ for Blizzard after its Hong Kong fiasco
One might wonder why, possessed as it was of a pretty good week of announcements, Riot Games would willingly put Blizzard's One Ring on...
The Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs for the fashion wars?
Whether you call it "fashion wars" as in Guild Wars 2 or "space barbie" as in Star Trek Online or "dolly dress-up" as in...
Massively Overthinking: Are you boycotting Blizzard?
Tyler's piece this week about the Blizzard he loved being dead actually brought tears to my eyes. It hurts to lose a game and...
UK art studio accuses Kickstarted MMORPG Oath of incompetence and failure to pay for work
Last spring, we covered an incredibly ambitious new MMO called Oath. Developer Ready-Up Studios rolled out a $35,000-ask Kickstarter to build a free-to-play, action-combat...
How Pokemon Go company Niantic is collecting (and using) your life’s data
We probably don't need to tell our audience this, given that while yes, you all have phones, you're also typically not obsessive about gaming...
Bethsoft delays Fallout 76’s Wastelanders to 2020, but private servers launch next week
Fallout 76's Wastelanders expansion, which Bethesda says is "one of the largest expansions" the company has ever done, has been delayed until 2020, a...
EverQuest’s Torment of Velious preorders and beta begin next week
All of Daybreak's true MMORPGs have now weighed in post-layoffs: The most recent confirmation that everything's OK with the EverQuest franchise team comes in...
Blizzard finally decides to ban the college Hearthstone team that called for a Blizzard boycott too
Did it bother you that Blizzard had punished Blitzchung over his Hong Kong liberation stunt but planned to permit American University players who similarly...
Nexon is sunsetting mobile survival MMO Durango Wild Lands already
Welp, that didn't last long: Nexon announced last night that it's sunsetting Durango Wild Lands, a mobile survival MMO that kicked around in various...
EverQuest II asks players to keep raiding without custom UIs for server lag test
I dunno about you, but when my heavily customized UI stops working, I tend to want to just not play the MMO. That's the...
Black Desert preps Halloween and Great Expedition on PC, awakens the Tamer on Xbox One
Black Desert Online's PC version is busy prepping its boat for the Great Expedition update coming next week, but in the meantime, there's Halloween...
ArcheAge Unchained delays Steam, beholds mighty queues during launch rollout
Gamigo's touting it as a "successful launch," but ArcheAge Unchained's slow rollout yesterday was more like a typical MMO launch, beset by queues, crashes,...
The Daily Grind: Do you think MMORPG communities are too cynical?
A while back, I stumbled across the most bizarre and lovely multiplayer game I think I've ever seen. It's called Kind Words, and the...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Dragonhold’s drama and destinations
Elder Scrolls Online's Dragonhold DLC is less than a week away now on PC, and for those who are curious - maybe even curious...
Fortnite returns to service with Season 11 as Save the World players grumble
This past weekend, Epic Games ended Fortnite's season 10 not with a big bang but with a big crunch when it welcomed players to...
Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King has returned once again through November 5
It's Halloween time in Guild Wars 2 as of today, as Shadows of the Mad King has returned as promised. The gameworld will be...
Buy-to-play ArcheAge Unchained is officially live today with the Shadows Revealed update
Back in August, Gamigo stunned the MMORPG genre by announcing a do-over for 2014 Korean MMORPG ArcheAge called ArcheAge Unchained: It's a buy-to-play, sub-free...
Blizzard solves its ‘one company, two policies’ problem by hiding pro players and canceling an event
While many gamers are now looking ahead to BlizzCon for its reveals after the Hearthstone Hong Kong esports fiasco, I'm far more curious about...
Fortnite literally vanished into a black hole, and the internet lost its mind
In what's being called one of the most-watched gaming events in the west ever, Epic Games trolled Fortnite players hard yesterday afternoon by taking...
