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
Camelot Unchained talks spiders mobs and game design in latest updates
Arachnophobes, the latest Camelot Unchained update is definitely not for you. The star of the update is Charlotte, and she's not the kind of...
MMO strategy title Destiny’s Sword fully funded its $23K Kickstarter this weekend
We dropped a brief mention of Destiny's Sword's successful Kickstarter funding in our recent crowdfunding column, but it's official now: The unusual strategy MMO,...
Hearthstone announces Saviors of Uldum for August 6
Blizzard has just unveiled Hearthstone's next big thing: It's called Saviors of Uldum, it picks up where Rise of Shadows and The Dalaran Heist...
The Daily Grind: How do you avoid MMO burnout?
If you've been playing video games long enough, you've probably bumped up against burnout at some point. But for MMO players who are invested...
MMO Week in Review: Shadowbringers and Rise of Azshara’s duel to the pain
World of Warcraft has never been one to just let a Final Fantasy XIV expansion just roll by and take all its bored players,...
Make My MMO: Shroud of the Avatar’s R67, Destiny’s Sword’s successful Kickstarter
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Shroud of the Avatar released its 67th update. In the release instructions, the devs note the update was intended...
Vrooooooom: Ship of Heroes demos its superspeed travel power
Superspeed: It's probably the first travel power that most superhero MMO players pick up. And now it's in Ship of Heroes, per the game's...
Elder Scrolls Online swaps midyear events over game performance, Elder Scrolls Legends launches Moons of Elsweyr
Traditionally, as we approach the middle of the year, Elder Scrolls Online pushes out the Midyear Mayhem PvP event. But you might have noticed...
Fractured’s second alpha begins in July with a focus on new content
It's been a while since we heard anything out of one of the more tantalizing MMORPG sandboxes on our horizon, the SpatialOS-based Fractured, but...
Farewell, Atlas Reactor: Gamigo has officially sunsetted the first of its Trion MMOs
Just two and and half years after its official launch, Atlas Reactor has officially sunsetted.
After buying up Trion's assets and games last year, Gamigo...
Massively Overthinking: Always be achievin’ (in MMOs)
A while back, my husband and I were idly chatting about MMO achievements. Neither one of us is much of an achievement hunter, or...
Black Desert is holding a GM-led parade tonight, and you’re invited
Everyone loves a parade! And how about a parade mixed with a live event? That's what Black Desert is up to tonight, as GMs...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers headstart has officially begun
When our office has gone quiet because half the staff got up at 5 a.m. to sit at their computers, there's usually only one...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see WoW’s factions dissolved?
World of Warcraft's latest cinematic has a lot of WoW fans in a frenzy right now because it's dropping some big hints about a...
Prepare to sink some boats in World of Warships new battle royale mode, Rogue Wave
It's long past a meme at this point for MMOs and online games to pick up battle royale modes on the side, even occasionally...
Fallout 76 vows better stability, rewards, and balance adjustments for Nuclear Winter battle royale
Nuclear Winter: It's not, as one deeply confused Twitter citizen insisted, a desperate game's winter update being rolled out in the summer but rather...
Torchlight Frontiers plans pet overhaul in July 16’s Beast Buddies update
It will never stop feeling weird to be reporting on genuine content updates for non-indie-studio MMOs in alpha, but here we are as PWE...
Black Desert localization typo shortchanges guilds by 90% of promised rewards
Let it never be said that video game localization isn't a big deal worth spending money on, as an error in Black Desert's event...
ArcheAge’s Echoes of Hiram is live with an all-new zone – check out the trailer
As promised, Echoes of Hiram has officially launched for the Gamigo-led version of ArcheAge here in the west. The Hiram patch series has been...
Mike Morhaime on why Project Titan became Overwatch: ‘It sort of never really came together’
We have a whole stack of these by now: these retrospectives from former Blizzard folks on what Project Titan could've been, had the MMO...
