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
ArcheAge Unchained is free-to-play right now for the whole holiday weekend
If ArcheAge Unchained - the buy-to-play, generally anti-pay-to-win version of ArcheAge launched by Gamigo in 2019 - caught your fancy but didn't prompt you...
Chronicles of Elyria boss says development is still ongoing, still seeking funding
Over the last couple of weeks, we've been covering the abrupt cancellation of Chronicles of Elyria, a Kickstarted MMORPG that raised millions of dollars...
Blizzard hasn’t canceled BlizzCon 2020 over the pandemic, is still working on the show
Every week that goes by during the COVID-19 pandemic, we've seen more and more gaming conventions throw in the towel and go digital, some...
Amazon’s MMO New World just delayed launch from May to August 25
Amazon's New World isn't going to make its planned May launch, as you've probably already guessed, given the fact that spring was supposed to...
Fallout 76 drops new trailer ahead of April 14 Wastelanders launch
No more delays for Fallout 76: Bethsoft confirmed again today that the freebie Wastelanders expansion is indeed launching for PC, PS4, and Xbox One...
Check out Population Zero’s new combat video – and pick up a key for this weekend’s beta
Population Zero is dropping two fun things today for watchers of the MMO survival sandbox: a dev blog all about combat, including a new...
Spring and Easter events drop in Albion Online, Roblox, Runes of Magic, and ARK
Spring is in the air, and if you're largely stuck at home, you may as well enjoy it in your MMOs. Yep, it's getting...
Indie MMO Starborne accidentally exposes alpha tester contact info in email blast
If you participated in the alpha for indie MMORTS Starborne, you might wanna check your email: Multiple alpha participants are now reporting that they...
MMO Business Roundup: Funcom’s corporate move, Japan’s ratings board, and Dean Hall’s next big thing
We're back with another roundup of MMO industry and business stories related to our corner of the online gaming world.
Funcom: Funcom is moving to...
For Science: Steam just told on itself with its new games performance analysis
Steam has long been regarded as a pit of doom, loaded with asset flips and scams, where where indies go to die and MMO...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor has been delayed, but only by about a week
Elder Scrolls Online's Skyrim-centric Greymoor chapter isn't going to make its original release window, unfortunately. ZeniMax's Matt Firor delivered the news to fans this...
Trove’s Bunfest offers new spring event content for Gamigo’s voxelbox
My five-year-old literally woke me up this morning chattering excitedly about "Bunfest" in Trove. Not bunnies - buns. She was insistent that this was...
Guild Wars 2 Super Adventure Box reopens next week, plus somebody bought the golden sink
Finally! ArenaNet had previously announced that Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box, inarguably the best April Fools' event in all of MMO land, was...
Disgruntled Chronicles of Elyria backers seek aid from the Washington attorney general
Ever since Kickstarted MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria went belly-up, players have been trying to figure out what to do about it. Some had sunk...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the messiest combat?
I don't like messes. They freak me out. The chaos, the uncertainty, it gets to me. And it's as true in real life as...
World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands closed alpha is finally beginning this week
Earlier today, we noted fresh changes in World of Warcraft's launcher that indicated Shadowlands' testing was imminent, and this afternoon, Blizzard has confirmed it.
"Later...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best character hair in the genre?
This might sound silly but I care a lot more about any given MMO character's hair than face. Realistically, I'm never gonna see the...
MMO Week in Review: AIR’s Elyon rebrand, Elyria’s ‘road to nowhere’
There's no slowing down for the MMO industry right now, which feels pretty bizarre under the circumstances, but here we are. This week, we...
Skyforge will disable its unpopular battle royale mode for a full revamp
As MMO players will recall, 2018 was the year when it seemed as if every other MMORPG was adding a battle royale side-game. Skyforge's...
Massively Overthinking: How are MMO players faring through the pandemic?
This week's Overthinking is going to be a bit different from normal. As we've been covering extensively for more than the past two months,...
