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
Guild Wars 2 rehires a former programmer, drops PvP patch and season next week
You know what I don't love? Chronicling how more Guild Wars 2 devs have left the building. So I'm not going to do that....
Classic EverQuest PvPers plan a protest to agitate for a PvP progression server
If you've paid attention to EverQuest over the years, you likely recall that one of its hallmarks is lots of different types of servers,...
Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago
In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...
Leaderboard: Are you still interested in Amazon’s New World, knowing it won’t be reverting to a FFA PvP MMO?
There's been a big ol' ruckus about New World across Reddit the last day or two, ever since the closed alpha resumed. You know...
Grab a key for Shadow Arena’s February 27 closed beta, courtesy of Pearl Abyss and MOP
If you were a big fan of Black Desert's Shadow Arena when it joined the MMO and then was removed last year, then you're...
CCP confirms the death of Project Nova, will keep future games quiet until closer to ready
Yesterday, as part of our coverage of Pearl Abyss' Q4 2019 financial report, we broke the sad news that CCP Games' Project Nova had...
Elite Dangerous players agitate for the return of GalNet lore, even if they have to write it themselves
The trouble with petitions and open letters is that if a studio accedes to one, people are going to keep trying it. That seems...
Eden Falling clarifies its funding situation after investor rep disputes press release
On Sunday, we covered the news that multiplayer RPG Eden Falling had resurfaced with new development updates and and a major investment into developer...
Wild Terra 2: New Lands will hit closed alpha this week for high-end backers
Last fall, Juvty Worlds announced that it had run into the "ceiling of technology" with Wild Terra and was pointing its four-person dev team...
Albion Online has already nixed plan to cap alliances, hopes to balance with penalties instead
Last week, we covered Albion Online's big plans to overhaul its alliance system, citing both developer and player unhappiness with how dominant large alliances...
You can link your Neverwinter and Star Trek Online accounts to Steam as of today
Beginning today, Perfect World Entertainment is finally enabling account linking between Steam and Arc, its proprietary platform for distributing all of its MMOs here...
The Daily Grind: Does an MMO’s economy ever stop you from going back?
I've written before about MMO economies and how badly handled inflation can wreck them because it's one of my pet favorite topics, but the...
Pearl Abyss had a strong Q4 2019, but CCP’s EVE-spinoff Project Nova is officially canceled
South Korean gaming giant Pearl Abyss is on the rise once again - and unlike many of its mobile-focused competitors, PC MMORPGs and the...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs you love on one platform but hate on another?
I know, I know, PC master race and all that. I'm guessing most old-school MMORPG players think of themselves as PC players because that's...
MMO Week in Review: Anthem’s second verse
MOP celebrated its fifth birthday - thanks to you! Yep, we're still here, bringing you MMO news and opinions... like the fact that SWTOR...
Make My MMO: Fractured’s latest stress test brought it to 70K registered players
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured ended its second stress test with a bang this week, and unlike the first test,...
Fallout 76 previews Wastelanders’ C.A.M.P. allies – and teases ‘post-apocalyptic romance’
When Wastelanders finally arrives in Fallout 76 in April - and the game finally jumps to Steam - it's getting a long-delayed makeover in...
MMO Business Roundup: Tim Sweeney’s politics gaffe, Nexon’s Q4 2019, and the old BioWare crew
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Politics in games
Epic's Tim Sweeney opened this week's DICE Summit with a whopper of...
New World resumes closed alpha testing with NDA, teases new dev vlog
We're expecting another big day for Amazon's New World today.
First, the MMO has gone back into private player testing after many months dormant. "We...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for duoing in 2020?
Appropriate topic for Valentine's Day, right? I mean, sure, you could go get reservations and pay through the nose for expensive dinner along with...
