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
Second Life developer Linden Lab has been acquired by an investment group
Fun trivia fact: The AOL blog that eventually became Massively actually started life as a Second Life blog back when Second Life was huge....
Albion Online’s next big update adds a massive explorable transportation system
When Rise of Avalon launches for Albion Online later this summer, it's adding a new system that turns ol' Doc Brown's mantra on its...
The Daily Grind: Do you pine for a lost era of a specific MMO?
A few weeks back, I saw a Reddit thread from a fellow MMO gamer who missed a specific version of Guild Wars 2. "Players...
Massively Overthinking: How much should MMOs cost in 2020?
MOP reader Castagere recently wrote to us with a nod to the growing sentiment across the gaming industry that might indicate a shift in...
Elder Scrolls Online announces Stonethorn, its next DLC, includes two-person mounts in tow
During its livestream this afternoon, ZeniMax Online Studios busted out with something you probably weren't expecting for The Elder Scrolls Online today, though you...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Federation Fleet Admiral Faction or Elite Starter pack in honor of House Divided’s launch
With Star Trek Online's House Divided update now out in the wild on PC (and earning kudos from our own writer), PWE has kindly...
Legends of Aria, Kickstarted in 2014 as Shards Online, has officially left early access and launched
As promised, Legends of Aria officially launched out of early access and into the wild last night. We should also probably say "finally," as...
Working As Intended: Decorating MMORPG houses in SWG Legends and beyond
I've been mulling over how to do a piece about MMO housing for a while now, spurred on by colleagues and readers who've said...
Trove celebrates its fifth birthday with Delves on console and Sunfest for all
I can hardly believe that Trove - the toy that was created in a Trion office by devs on their breaks and eventually turned...
SuperData calls expansions the ‘lifeblood’ for World of Warcraft
I have a thing about graphs without labeled axes. Just yesterday, I was literally making fun of the time Nexon turned in this unitless graph in its investor report. Yay squiggly lines!
RuneScape resorts to Desperate Measures with its July 27 content drop
New content is always on the way to RuneScape, and this round, it's called Desperate Measures. As revealed yesterday, the new chapter will follow...
EA shareholders criticize ‘exorbitant’ executive pay, slam ‘payoffs for layoffs’
Over the course of June, we covered attempts by Activision-Blizzard shareholders to agitate against the company's "Say-on-Pay" policy, which critics say effectively overpays CEO...
EVE Online’s CCP Games cancels EVE San Diego and all 2021 events over COVID
April's EVE Fanfest won't be the only EVE Online live event that will succumb to COVID-19, unfortunately: CCP Games announced today that it will...
Lord of the Rings Online’s latest update sweetens the subscription deal
With the wedding of Arwen and Aragorn and the massive festival quest going on in Lord of the Rings Online right now, it'd be...
Pagan Online is sunsetting its multiplayer servers, but the singleplayer campaign will live on
The 2020 downsizing of MMOs and multiplayer titles into singleplayer ones continues today with the announcement that Pagan Online will shift to a solo-only...
Dual Universe is finally entering beta in August – with a subscription model
Long-running MMORPG fansite Gamespot (/s) has just posted the not-so-exclusive-now news that sci-fi MMO Dual Universe is expected to hit beta on August 27th.
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Guild Wars 2’s latest balancing patch is live as ArenaNet offers summer roadmap
Happy patch day, Guild Wars 2 fans. As we noted last week, Guild Wars 2's latest class balancing update is live today, and now it's...
Kingdoms of Amalur’s Re-Reckoning launches September 8, announces Fatesworn expansion
Remember back in June when THQ Nordic announced it was remastering Kingdoms of Amalur as Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning? And everyone groaned inwardly but...
Ubisoft devs speak out on their ‘inability to feel safe or protected within’ the studio
You know who's probably breathing a big sigh of relief right now? Riot Games, whose multi-year scandal and lawsuit over sexual harassment and discrimination...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever visited a memorial in an MMO?
I was strolling around the PvP areas on Dathomir on SWG Legends the other day and a stumbled into a building that was clearly...
