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
BlizzConline 2021: Overwatch 2 shows off New York City, visceral combat, and PvE content
"Patience" was the word of the day for the BlizzConline Overwatch 2 behind-the-scenes panel tonight at Blizzard's show, but that's to be expected for...
BlizzConline 2021: Hearthstone’s Forged in the Barrens and Mercenaries
Surprisingly, the single game with the most individual announcements at tonight's BlizzConline was Hearthstone. It's all bundled under what Blizzard is calling the Year...
House financial services committee investigates Gamestonk as investors sue Reddit ‘agitator’
As promised, the US House Financial Services Committee held its hearing on Gamestonk yesterday, and to read some of the coverage, you'd think the...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG offers the best tutorial?
MMORPG developer Raph Koster recently put this neat article by experimental game developer Nicky Case on my radar. Case notes that common wisdom is...
The Daily Grind: Would you play an MMO with randomly generated characters?
MMORPGs are traditionally games where people spend a lot of time designing their characters. Even in titles where there's not much to character creation,...
Not So Massively Roundup: Fortnite Short Night, Runeterra’s Empires of the Ascended
Welcome to a roundup of some MMO-adjacent titles that sit just on the edge of our wheelhouse but not enough to tip it over...
Gamigo is merging down ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained’s servers, and yes there will be new land rushes
ArcheAge's misery just compounds lately: Gamigo has announced that it's merging many of the gamers servers servers under the "server evolution" catchphrase. Across both...
Enter to win a Maplestory M Xenon swag bag, including a battery pack, from Nexon and MOP!
In honor of the launch of Xenon in MapleStory M this month (and the concomitant avalanche of new events), Nexon is offering a nifty...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Tribunal Celebration fêtes Morrowind with bonuses and sales next week
I'ma let you finish, but Morrowind is the best thing in the Elder Scrolls franchise. If you agree, you'll want to point your eyeballs...
Chronicles of Elyria is releasing Kingdoms of Elyria as a standalone product for backers
In early 2020, Chronicles of Elyria stunned MMO gamers by announcing it was out of money, had laid off the devs, had closed Soulbound...
Istaria plans new content, quest classifications, and revamps for races and armor in 2021
It's been about a million years since we last checked in on Istaria, fka Horizons, but that changes today thanks to the Virtrium team's...
Black Desert is deleting accounts not transferred to Pearl Abyss by May 31
If you haven't transferred your Black Desert account from Kakao to Pearl Abyss - perhaps because of the chaos last week - then you...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia’s bungle, Axie Infinity’s $1.5M in-game property
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Stadia: The Google mess just gets thicker, as apparently, developers on Stadia's internal...
Fractured Veil is a new open-world survival MMO – and it’s hunting for stress-testers
Here's a new game on our radar thanks to a post the developer dropped on Reddit: It's called Fractured Veil, and it's flagged as...
Whatever happened to Legends of Aria?
The last time Legends of Aria studio Citadel made a formal announcement, it was two months ago, and it was an apology, as the...
Neverwinter’s Sharandar: The Iron Tooth is live on PC today
After a week's delay and a combat overhaul that set the playerbase ablaze, Perfect World has finally unleashed Neverwinter's next big thing: Sharandar. As...
Gamestonk’s gamified guerilla trading made losers of both the good and bad guys
It seems like a long time ago, but just a few weeks back, the mainstream news cycle was absolutely obsessed with Gamestop thanks to...
Amazon has delayed New World for at least the third time, now to August 2021
Amazon has delayed New World yet again, clearing your spring and summer calendars for other MMOs. "We’ve been hard at work on compelling end-game features...
Blizzard is collecting BlizzConline Q&A questions for WoW, Diablo, and Hearthstone
BlizzCon is gonna be a little bit different this year. Yes, it's called BlizzConline, which is silly. Yes, it's in February, and that's weird....
Star Wars The Old Republic delays GU 6.2.1 due to Austin’s winter storms
Ice is civilization, except when it's busy destroying said civilization: I'm afraid the Star Wars: The Old Republic update scheduled for today as been...
