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
Diablo IV team dishes on inventory revamp, PC vs. console UI layout, and cannibals
Blizzard's just dropped a "quarterly update" for Diablo 4, the first of apparently more planned blog posts from the team, this one focused on...
Temtem eyes a trading hall, console port, hardcore mode, and cosmetics cash shop by summer 2021
Yesterday, Crema dropped a big roadmap for Pokemon-esque MMO-lite Temtem. Deeming it the "short-term" plan, the studio elaborated on competitive matchmaking, spectator mode, chat...
New World may consider bringing back gankbox elements, talks up its uniqueness
Amazon Game Studios did an interview with IGN this week about New World that's part puzzler, part eyebrow-raiser, part declaration of war.
First, remember how...
Preloading is live for Bless Unleashed’s headstart launch this afternoon
Neowiz is about to try again-again with the Bless franchise, as Bless Unleashed rolls into headstart today. Well, it starts today if you shelled...
RuneScape’s Archaeology skill launches March 30 in ‘major expansion’
You probably saw the peeks on Twitter last night, but it's officially official now: RuneScape's Archaeology skill is finally launching on March 30th as...
Temtem’s roadmap reveals chat, guild, matchmaking updates – and player housing in 2020
Last week, amid announcing 500,000 sales of Temtem, Crema teased that it'd be dropping a full roadmap for the game's development through early access....
Star Wars’ Project Luminous and ‘High Republic’ era aren’t spilling into games – yet
In January, we floated a poll at you all about what you'd want to see in your next Star Wars game, and it was...
Guild Wars 2’s Call to Glory balancing update and newbie onboarding patch have arrived
Happy patch day, Guild Wars 2 players. Time to test out your nerfs and buffs in the flesh. The pixel flesh. You know what...
EVE Echoes has been ‘hindered’ by the coronavirus but will launch in ‘late 2020’
With CCP Games seemingly trying to sneak game cancelations under the radar, you might be wondering what's going on with EVE Echoes. The EVE...
PlanetSide 2’s Escalation update launch may be delayed again [Yep, it was]
All February, Daybreak and Rogue Planet Games have been teasing PlanetSide 2's Escalation update. It was first meant to launch on the 19th but...
EA becomes the latest studio to back out of a con over coronavirus concerns
This week's Boston-based PAX East has already felt the effects of multiple companies, from Sony to Square Enix, backing out over coronavirus fears -...
The Daily Grind: Do you care about world firsts in MMOs?
Hey, remember back when people used to type "first!" as the first reply to threads? Yeah, that was funny for like a whole week,...
The Daily Grind: What untapped folklore would you like to see more of in MMOs?
A week or two ago, I got a random PR in my inbox about Operencia: The Stolen Sun, a game we will probably never...
MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft’s subber casualties
World of Warcraft had quite a week: It began Shadowlands' alpha, opened a Classic test server, and took heavy subscriber casualties over the last...
The MOP Up: Coronavirus concerns are impacting PAX East 2020
Sony became the biggest game company to pull out of Boston-based PAX East 2020, citing concerns about the coronavirus not-quite-an-epidemic. "Sony Interactive Entertainment made...
Make My MMO: Temtem’s 500K sales, Kickstarter’s union, Elite’s lore debate
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Temtem studio Crema announced that it has officially sold over 500,000 copies of the game across the globe -...
Anarchy Online kicks off anniversary event celebrating one year of its classic server, Rubi-Ka 2019
It was the summer of 2001, dystopian sci-fi was at its apex, and everyone I knew was trying Anarchy Online. And by trying, I...
Multiplayer RPG Portal Knights just got new DLC with druids, Furfolk, and new mounts
It's been half a hot minute since we last checked in with Portal Knights, so we're rectifying that today. Gamers will recall that the...
Visions of N’Zoth boosted World of Warcraft subs, but it’s lost tons since WoW Classic’s 2019 peak
SuperData's January 2020 games industry revenue rankings are up, with only mild shakeups since December 2019. On the PC side, Red Dead Redemption 2 dropped...
Square Enix has canceled most of its Final Fantasy XIV and FFXI PAX East festivities over the coronavirus
Whether or not you think the Coronavirus scare is overblown, it's been impacting launches, ports, and conventions for the last month. The latest such...
