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
Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide
GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...
Sea of Thieves extends the Cursed Sails campaign another week, teases open-world skeleton ships
This week's Sea of Thieves patch is... well, it's kinda more of the same, as Rare has extended the Cursed Sails run another week,...
Elite Dangerous’ Beyond Chapter Three launches on August 28, players take on massive effort to salute community helpers
The next phase of Elite Dangerous is en route - specifically, that's chapter three of the Beyond rollout. In a brief tweet this afternoon,...
Hi-Rez’s Realm Royale playerbase and reviews are way down on Steam
Yikes - Realm Royale is apparently struggling, proving once again just how hard it is to break into one of these new runaway subgenres. GitHyp...
Pre-alpha colony sim MMO Seed will grant players the tools to fight toxicity
Seed resurfaced this summer after intensive work by studio Klang Games building out the colony simulation MMO (plus a big influx of investor money),...
Check out some of the new dwarven zones coming in Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 23
At GenCon earlier this month, Lord of the Rings Online studio Standing Stone dished on some of the goodies coming to the game in...
MMO Skyforge is getting a battle royale mode, but it won’t utilize your MMO character
So this is happening. Skyforge is getting a battle royale mode of its very own, following in the footsteps of other MMOs that have...
In Conan Exiles’ upcoming pet patch, thralls ‘don’t poop, somehow’
Conan Exiles' parity patch has finally hit the Xbox One servers after a week's delay. Funcom says it ought to mop up crash problems,...
Broke Protocol is currently free on Steam to celebrate its first birthday
Remember Broke Protocol, the funky sandbox that's basically a mash-up of Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto, with voxel graphics bolstering cops-and-robbers gameplay? It's apparently...
Trion’s compensation for Trove’s exploit-driven downtime is absurdly generous
Last week, Trion Worlds was forced to take MMORPGÂ Trove offline for more than a day on PC thanks to what was clearly a massive...
Functional music boxes are coming in Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire
One of my most beloved possessions in Ultima Online is my music box: I spent months, probably years, collecting each "track" to insert into...
Black Desert revamps and shortens Savage Rift, implements offline leveling
Black Desert players are being treated to a big update this week featuring the revamp of Savage Rift that basically makes the PvE co-op...
A judge has mostly denied Star Citizen studio’s motion to dismiss the Crytek copyright lawsuit
MMO-watchers will recall that just before the turn of the new year, Crytek filed to sue Cloud Imperium, the company behind the sprawling and...
Wild Buster is back as Champions of Titan under a new publisher
Remember Wild Buster? Back in February, Valve booted its publisher, Insel Games, off Steam, accusing it of review manipulation after a dev leaked a...
Blade & Soul patches in the Frozen Firing Range event dungeon, new cosmetics, and PvP matchmaking tweak
Live this week in Blade & Soul is... swimsuits. But seriously, what's the obsession with bathing suits in MMORPGs? We cannot fight in bikinis...
Leaderboard: Must MMORPGs revolve around grouping to be MMORPGs?
It would be easy to dismiss Saga of Lucimia's pervasive "group-based or go home" ideas as mere rhetoric, but the reality is, there exists...
NCsoft Q3 2018: Aion, Blade & Soul, Guild Wars 2 revenues dip, while NCsoft teases three new titles
NCsoft's second quarter financials for the year hit this morning, and it's not exactly bad news. Sales are down slightly, but everything looks wimpy...
Hi-Rez reorganizes SMITE, Paladins, and Realm Royale teams as newly renamed substudios
Hi-Rez Studios is making bold moves today: It's just announced that it's splitting up the band, unbundling its games teams into separate but joined...
The Daily Grind: Did you go back to World of Warcraft for Battle for Azeroth?
Did they getcha? Did they suck you in again for another go-round?
I have a flurry of guildies in World of Warcraft right now thanks...
Star Citizen highlights community rover events, the group system, and atmospheric worlds
Cloud Imperium's Sandi Gardiner and Chris Roberts are both back in the latest instalment of Star Citizen's Around the Verse. You've probably noticed the...
