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, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Trove, Glitch, Elder Scrolls Online, Ultima Online
Grab a stack of currency and premium account time for Gaijin’s WW2 shooter Enlisted
Darkflow Software's multiplayer shooter Enlisted burst onto the scene this past spring as one of Gaijin's inCubator games, built on Gaijin's own engine and...
World of Warships spearheads 17-hour international virtual museum hop next week
If the suggestive World of Warships transmedia synergy we joked about earlier this week didn't grab you, maybe this much more serious and wholesome...
Gear and house deco await Oblivion portal plunderers in Elder Scrolls Online’s Blackwood
Elder Scrolls Online players might be buzzing about Blackwood's companion system and the chance to drag an NPC all over Tamriel to keep them...
Bless Unleashed’s final PC beta has begun, and yes you can play right now
If you've got a Steam account and played an older version of Bless (ahem), you might have noticed that your account has been flagged...
Blade & Soul’s Winds of Rage is live with new heroic dungeon and events
As promised, Blade & Soul's Winds of Rage update is live this week. The 12.1 patch includes the titular 6-perspon heroic dungeon Thornwind Cavern...
MMO Business Roundup: Q1 2021 financials for Roblox, Nexon, and Star Stable
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
Star Stable: I'm frankly just as surprised as anyone to be starting this...
Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones has been delayed for at least the fourth time
Ubisoft's Skull and Bones isn't dead, but it may as well be, given how long this thing has lingered in development. It was announced and demo'd...
Amazon’s New World posts big May alpha update, plans July 6 alpha end
Amazon's New World is heading into a transition period this summer as the company shifts from alpha to closed beta and then to launch....
Swords of Legends Online previews its first five dungeons in new video drops
Gameforge has already dropped a ton of trailers for Swords of Legends Online, but today's batch might be the clearest look at what you'll...
Elder Scrolls Online offers Blackwood backstory in a dramatic new lore trailer
Blizzard might be trying to horn in on its launch window, but Elder Scrolls Online is marching onward anyway with hype for the Blackwood...
Grab a free Super Squad key for this weekend’s closed beta test event
Is there room in the MOBA genre for one more? Indie devhouse Bad Fox Studios hopes so because it's brought Super Squad to play,...
Guild Wars 2 memorializes Stan LePard in-game in today’s big balance patch
Back in February, we shared the sad news that composer Stan LePard had passed away. LePard was a renowned musical artist who'd penned music...
Hands-on with Amazon’s New World first expedition, Amrine Excavation
The funny thing about our ongoing pandemic is that it didn't really change the way video game previews are done. It turns out that...
Here’s how animals in Kingdoms and Chronicles of Elyria will work
Soulbound Studios is back once again this week with a devblog about the animals of both Chronicles of Elyria and Kingdoms of Elyria, the...
WoW Classic begins one final massive Burning Crusade test tomorrowday
With just three weeks to go until the launch of WoW Classic's Burning Crusade jaunt, Blizzard is firing off beta invites like mad. If...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best age-agnostic MMO?
A while back, GamesIndustry.biz ran a piece from game dev Raj Pathmanathan discussing age-agnostic games. While the littlest kids are still happy in fluffy...
The Daily Grind: Do you even like classless MMOs, bro
Let's talk about classlessness. A few years after World of Warcraft took off, there was a push in the MMO industry to revive earlier...
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard’s depletion and a trip to Bespin
Activision-Blizzard stole the week of news when our little ol' post about how Blizzard itself has now dropped almost 29% of its active playerbase...
Make My MMO: The countdown to Elite Odyssey
This week in crowdfunded MMOs, we're less than two weeks away from Elite Dangerous' Odyssey launch, which means Chris did his final look-see in...
Guild Wars 2 deep-dives the what and why of next week’s balance patch
Earlier this week, Justin and I were noting that the problem with Guild Wars 2 balance patches is that the patch notes are often...
