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
Here’s what Steam’s new Library overhaul is going to look like
It's been hard to gauge whether Valve is feeling any pressure from the likes of Epic and Discord when it comes to its Steam...
Make My MMO: Temtem’s alpha, Destiny’s Sword Kickstarter midpoint
Last year's big crowdfunded MMO of the year, Temtem, officially rolled into alpha 0.2 this week, boasting "character customization, trading, new battle mechanics, minimap,...
Amazon Game Studios is apparently suffering layoffs and game cancelations
Next week, we've got a piece coming in which one of my colleagues remarks that Amazon Game Studios' greatest claim to fame right now...
EA held a summit about toxicity and healthy video game communities at E3
In March of last year, a whole truckton of video game companies announced the formation of what they called the Fair Play Alliance, a...
Fallout 76 will keep its battle royale mode Nuclear Winter live past its ‘pre-beta sneak peek’
Stop us if you saw this one coming: Bethsoft says it's going to go ahead and keep Fallout 76's Nuclear Winter mode "pre-beta sneak...
Recapping Black Desert’s massive E3 and Heidel Ball announcements
I said this morning that I thought Black Desert stole the show for E3 players - apart from the Phantasy Star Online 2 announcement,...
Star Citizen is putting an awful lot of effort into creating an epic space bar experience
If you're quite over joking about space caves and how the economy team is using ships' popularity to decide how to price them, Star...
No Man’s Sky players raised so much money for a gratitude billboard that they’re giving extra to charity
It doesn't seem like all that long ago that No Man's Sky was in the headlines for all the bad reasons: toxicity, hacking, meltdowns,...
Here’s how Crowfall is rewriting its hunger and food system to be more fun
Hi my name is Bree, and I like to cook in video games and not in real life. The most recent Crowfall dev blog...
Dauntless recaps E3 with roadmap update, mobile teaser, and new Switch trailer
Dauntless has a flurry of news to cap off what was a big week, given that it announced a Switch port and ding-up to...
Ship of Heroes says it plans ‘to top the City of Heroes character creator’
This week, Heroic Games' Casey McGeever hit the Ship of Heroes forums to discuss some of the content already in the game - and...
The Daily Grind: What was the best MMO-ish reveal or announcement of E3?
Another E3 has rolled in and rolled out, and it wasn't the worst E3 we've seen in recent years at all. In fact, insofar...
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO superfans, zealots, and insidious tribalism
We recently received two pieces of mail from longtime MOP readers and commenters that worked together perfectly to form a unified topic. Alex emailed...
APB Reloaded’s new battle royale mode is now online after a week’s delay
Last week, APB Reloaded was gearing up for a new patch, the biggest the game had seen since Little Orbit took over last year....
Guild Wars 2 reverses decision on raid craft mats, kicks off new mystery event
ArenaNet has updated Guild Wars 2 players on two points of contention relating most recent patch. For starters, the new update apparently reversed a...
Crowfall devs discuss solving MMO multiway warfare imbalance, reacquisition of EU publishing from Travian
ArtCraft Creative Director J. Todd Coleman and Design Director Thomas Blair are back on YouTube answering Crowfall questions from high-end backers and players this...
California says Riot Games is refusing to fully cooperate with its gender discrimination investigation
The Riot sexual harassment and gender discrimination fiasco is coming up on its anniversary this summer, and from a legal perspective, it's only just...
Jagex is retooling RuneScape Mobile’s UI to be more like the desktop version
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on RuneScape's upcoming 2019 RuneFest and did a little double-take that RuneScape Mobile is still one...
Space robot MMO Starbase drops new video teasing factory automation
Does it count as a leak if the studio puts it out? I'm gonna say no, especially if the studio puts it out publicly...
E3 2019: OARPG Torchlight II is launching on console, including the Switch, this fall
Torchlight Frontiers has a nice chunk of the MMO community occupied right now, but let's not forget about Torchlight II, an (O)ARPG that was...
