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
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...
The Daily Grind: What do you want your ‘legacy’ in your current MMO to be?
A few months back, a player on the Pantheon forums posted a neat question asking fellow players what they wanted to be known for...
MMO Week in Review: So BlizzCon in a couple of weeks is gonna be interesting
This week, Blizzard shot itself in the foot and then waited a few days and shot itself in the other foot just to make...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen drops alpha 3.7 as it turns 7 itself
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Star Citizen went absolutely mad with infodumps, and I almost feel sorry for it because it got half...
Daybreak confirms yesterday’s layoffs and ‘realignment of the company into separate franchise teams’
Yesterday, we reported on the sad news that MMORPG company Daybreak Games had suffered yet another round of layoffs. As developers began weighing in...
Blizzard finally addresses Hong Kong esports fiasco, reducing bans and reinstating prize money
All week, we've been covering the absolute chaos surrounding the punishment of pro Hearthstone esports player Ng “blitzchung” Wai Chung, whom Blizzard banned along...
League of Legends tells casters and pro players to avoid ‘sensitive issues’ at the World Champs
So Riot's not having a good week with the whole China thing either.
While the League of Legends studio was able to successfully fend off...
It looks like Daybreak’s been hit with yet another round of layoffs
Former H1Z1 Technical Director and PlanetSide Arena dev Josh "Autenil" Kriegshauser posted a tweet this evening suggesting that Daybreak has once again undergone layoffs.
"Sorry...
ArcheAge Unchained fans are getting antsy about proposed cosmetic gifting
During Gamigo's ArcheAge Unchained stream this afternoon, the chat erupted with cries of "pay-to-win confirmed" over the revelation that cosmetic gifting will be in...
Fiesta Online is getting a… battle royale mode? And it’s live right now
Remember in 2018 when adding a battle royale to your MMORPG was all the rage? (Heck, remember when adding a battle royale to your...
Mark Kern didn’t just quit WoW Classic: He accused his old Firefall studio of Chinese corruption
Earlier this week, we reported that former World of Warcraft Team Lead Mark Kern had very publicly posted that he was quitting WoW over...
