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
Revelation Online announces Skyward World expansion with new raid, tutorial, and weddings
Revelation Online is having a bit of a moment. Not only is MY.GAMES celebrating the MMO's third birthday here in the west, but it's...
For Science: New paper examines the whos and whys of online trolling
MOP reader Miol recently pointed us to an intriguing academic paper on trolling. Seriously. "Trolls" or "warriors of faith"? Differentiating dysfunctional forms of media...
Gamigo has finally brought back RIFT’s birthday events for Carnival 2020
Does this count as an anniversary celebration for RIFT? Maybe? Close enough? We'll take it! Yes, we've ribbed Gamigo a few times this week for...
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on funding, development, launch, and business models
Upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia has been somewhat dark over the last year as its developers hunkered down to develop rather than hype. But...
Chronicles of Elyria just dropped a new mood and gameplay video
Chronicles of Elyria has a new preview up for watchers of the Kickstarted, in-development MMO. Last last night, Soulbound Studios posted up its latest...
Destiny 2 staff told to work remotely to keep season on track (and the novel coronavirus at bay)
As the coronavirus has now passed 100,000 cases worldwide, more than just gaming conventions are angling to make sure they aren't among the list...
Cryptic is killing off cross-game chat in Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online
One of the best features of Cryptic's MMOs over the years was the fact that players could communicate cross-game in a unique multi-server global...
The Daily Grind: What MMO quality-of-life update had the biggest impact on your gameplay?
Quality-of-life updates in MMOs don't usually get all that much attention from the most plugged-in gamers, but the truth is, they can have an...
Massively Overthinking: How could MMOs combat endgame rushing?
Rushers, content locusts, world-firsters: Whatever you want to call them, these folks are both a boon and a bane for MMORPGs. They buy the...
PlanetSide 2’s Escalation is really truly launching, this time on March 11
Back in February, Daybreak and Rogue Planet Games were talking up PlanetSide 2's Escalation update, at one point meant to launch February 19th, then...
Reign of Terror rebuilds Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction in ARPG Grim Dawn
If Diablo III's latest update isn't doing it for you, how about a little Diablo 2... in your Grim Dawn?
One of my guildies (thanks...
Kickstarted cyberpunk MMO Zenith’s pre-alpha is now slated for March 21
Last fall, Zenith came out of nowhere to raise over a quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter. Its tiny team - the three-person...
Blue Protocol’s Japanese closed beta has been delayed nearly a month over coronavirus
We've previously noted how some MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles, from EVE Echoes to Path of Exile, had seen delays and setbacks thanks to the...
Frontier tells Elite Dangerous fans there are ‘no plans’ to return GalNet and other lore initiatives to the game
(This post has been updated at the end.) Over the course of February, we covered a growing thunderstorm in the Elite Dangerous community about...
For Science: Academics blast APA’s updated resolution on games and aggression
My Twitter feed was on fire about three things today: politics, coronavirus, and violence in video games. The last entry there is all because...
The coronavirus has shut down another six gaming and tech events
Another day, another round of gaming and tech event cancellations over growing fears of the spreading coronavirus.
Epic Games, which had already exited GDC even...
Star Trek Online Legacy and Measure of Mortality arrive for consoles today
Console players of Star Trek Online are finally catching up with their PC compariots today as the Legacy update has gone live on on...
Black Desert’s ominous O’dylitta update is launching ‘later this year’
Remember back at E3 and Heidel Ball last year, when in the midst of the hoopla around Black Desert's Shai and Great Expedition expansion...
Guild Wars 2’s Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire content lands March 17 – here’s the trailer
During PAX East this year, Guild Wars 2 may not have been granting interviews or talking to media about the state of the game,...
ArcheAge’s Treacherous Tides is live with a new ocean raid boss and Swiftblade ancestral skills
RIFT's ninth birthday may have come and gone without so much as a whisper from Gamigo this past weekend, but ArcheAge is still getting...
