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
Riot Games-backed afrofantasy MMO The Wagadu Chronicles just went live on Kickstarter
MMO developer Alexander Zacherl kindly put this game on our radar today, and it couldn't be more timely, given that this summer's swelling of...
The Daily Grind: What location in your favorite MMO have you only recently discovered?
Until last week, somehow I had heard of the Agrilat Swamp but never actually visited it in Star Wars Galaxies. SWG Legends' @RoarAshley tweeted...
Microsoft just bought ZeniMax, Bethsoft, and Elder Scrolls Online’s ZOS for $7.5B
Here's your Monday bombshell: Microsoft announced this morning that it has acquired ZeniMax Media - and therefore Bethesda Softworks and ZeniMax Online Studios and...
The Daily Grind: What’s your ‘palate cleanser’ MMO or MMO zone?
A few weeks back, Justin said something on the MOP Podcast that stuck with me. He was talking about how he liked to go...
MMO Week in Review: Final Fantasy XVI’s sweet sixteen
Square-Enix raised eyebrows this week with the announcement of Final Fantasy XVI - and the revelation that FFXIV's Naoki Yoshida will be attempting to...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: LiteBringer, SamuTale, IcarusM, Stellar Warfare, Primordials of Amyrion, A3, Raid Shadow Legends, Second Extinction
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you've probably never heard of (or have entirely forgotten about).
LiteBringer: Tibia fans who aren't...
Make My MMO: TitanReach and Ilysia head to Kickstarter
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Titan Reach kicked off its Kickstarter, seeking $428,000 US to fund a modern take on an "old-school" MMO set...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Markarth DLC launches November 2 for PC, November 10 for console
As promised, ZeniMax has just dropped a ton of info about Elder Scrolls Online's next update during its year-end preview event stream.
We knew the...
Path of Exile’s Heist expansion officially launches this afternoon
It's expansion day for Path of Exile as Grinding Gear Games goes all Oceans 11 with the release of Heist for PC and Mac...
No Man’s Sky teases ‘the beginning of something new’: New update Origins, launching next week
No Man's Sky studio Hello Games has a bit of a habit of casually announcing major expansions out of the blue and crashing its...
Kickstarted MMO Fractured lowers price of entry, rearranges alpha and beta schedule
Dynamight Studios' latest dev blog has some big changes for Fractured and its fans, starting with the news that the game's price is coming...
The US government is now probing Epic and Riot in relation to Tencent’s data security
Remember back in August when the Trump administration made noise about trying to ban WeChat and Tencent from transactions with folks in the US?...
The Daily Grind: How important is player-generated content to you in MMOs?
When I look at the current crop of top MMORPGs, I'm dismayed to realize that not a single one of them has anything significant...
Massively Overthinking: How to deal with cheater scum in MMORPGs
I'm sure it was a random coincidence, but last week two different Star Wars Galaxies emulators posted about steps they were taking against cheaters...
Xbox Series X and S preorders go live on September 22nd, with hopefully no chaos
So apparently somebody at Xbox was watching the PlayStation 5 preorder debacle last night and said, "Hey so yeah let's not emulate that clownshow."...
Fallout 76 is merging some content releases and delaying others into 2021
With One Wasteland out in the wild this week and dynamic overland difficulty finally in the game, Fallout 76 is prepping for its next...
Crowfall says its new Shadowbane-inspired class design will create an ‘explosion’ of build possibilities
Yesterday, several members of the Crowfall dev team sat for an AMA with DownToQuest Twitch, and while the whole broadcast isn't up for non-subscribers...
Echo of Soul is sunsetting yet again, this time on Steam, and no it’s not giving refunds
We return now to the confusing story of Echo of Soul, which as we've previously chronicled has at least a million versions and has...
EVE Online’s Depths of the Abyss is live as CCP updates policies and World War Bee 2 endures
EVE Online has lots going on this week, from patches to policies to drama. Let's dig in: First, this week's patch, Depths of the...
Apple argues Epic’s lawsuit is ‘part of a marketing campaign’ to ‘reinvigorate interest in Fortnite’
The Epic/Apple legal drama continues as this week Apple's filed its response to Epic's request to force Fortnite back on the Appstore, and you...
