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 is launching a new fabled zone in August’s GU111
EverQuest II would surely like you to stop fretting about the future of the franchise and focus on the immediate future of the game,...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers have joined the Titan Network/NCsoft negotiations
Exactly one month ago, tangent to our interview with the Homecoming server team that's part now-flourishing City of Heroes rogue server community, we also...
MMO Business Roundup: Riot’s diversity ‘progress’, NetEase’s esports arena, DayZ down under, and Twitch threats
Welcome back to another roundup of what's going on in the business of making online games! Let's start with the most controversial of the...
The ESA’s 2019 E3 journalist database breach wasn’t at all a one-time thing
Last weekend, we learned that the Electronic Software Association, the US's biggest video game lobby backed by some of the biggest companies in the...
The ESA says a crapton of game companies are finally embracing lockbox transparency
Under pressure from no less than the US Senate, the FTC held the first of its planned video game monetization workshops today, and while...
Black Desert: PC’s fishing event and Archer tweaks, Xbox One’s Kamasylvia, and PS4’s beta events
With Black Desert's current rapid pace of development - and sprawling console reach - we'll forgive this week's PC patch for being a little...
EVE Online’s NetEase-backed mobile edition EVE Echoes hits alpha later this month
EVE Online is taking another step closer to mobile with EVE Echoes: Infinite Galaxy Mobile (yes, we know that's confusing!), which CCP and NetEase...
Working As Intended: We’re all full up on moral panics right now, but thanks
It's no great secret that MMORPG fans fall toward the middle of the age spectrum, given the history and peak of our genre. This...
Anthem just stealth-launched the massive Cataclysm update today
It's patch day for Anthem! What, you didn't see that coming? Nobody else did either. BioWare just stealth-launched Anthem 1.30 Cataclysm today without any...
DC Universe Online drops on the Nintendo Switch today with GU96
It's about to be a good day for MMO players who've always wanted to play superheroes on their Nintendo handheld, as DC Universe Online's...
Legends of Aria hits Steam early access today with the PvP patch, a sale, and a free month of sub for loyalists
Legends of Aria's big day has arrived - or will when the gates open today around 3 p.m. EDT.
A few weeks ago, Citadel Studios...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG boasts the most outrageously oversized weapons?
Last week, an old friend of my family (who happens to be an amazing photographer) uploaded a fab shot of a statue of a...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO with housing do you wish had even better housing?
A weekend or two ago, I finally decided to get a house in Villagers & Heroes. I've been building it up in my mind...
MMO Week in Review: New shinies for LOTRO, DDO, and Star Trek Online as E3 suffers data breach
Multiple big MMORPGs got major announcement this week: Lord of the Rings Online announced a new Dwarf race, Dungeons and Dragons Online revealed a...
Starbase’s latest videos demo ship sabotage and small-scale ship battles
Robot-centric sandbox-building MMO Starbase just isn't gonna let up with the barrage of videos, and you know what? We're OK with that. Finnish developer...
Make My MMO: City of Titans devs release lore novel, Ship of Heroes talks character creation beta
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Kickstarted City of Heroes spiritual successor City of Titans released a novel penned by Jack Snyder from Missing Worlds...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best farming and gardening experience?
Not gonna lie, I really like farming in MMOs. No, not the grindy kind of farming, just the actual process of farming crops on...
Neverwinter is revamping pretty much everything about newbie play in Uprising
Perfect World has now discussed multiple facets of Neverwinter's upcoming Uprising module: the appearance system, the new raid, the loot, the Gith, the lore,...
WoW Classic’s next global stress test is dated for August 8 and 9
Ever since WoW Classic's closed beta ended a tad early back in July, would-be Vanilla players have been anxious to get back in there....
Conan Exiles disables avatar summoning – again! – after players abuse exploit to… dupe gods
Dangit people, some of y'all just can't resist an exploit, can ya? Apparently an exploit with avatar tokens in Conan Exiles is causing such...
