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, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Trove, Glitch, Elder Scrolls Online, Ultima Online
MMO Business Roundup: Steam Game Festival, My.Games, Taipei Gameshow, Niantic, and RazerCon
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and gaming industry news relevant to the MMO-playing audience.
Steam Game Festival: Yes, another online event! The "autumn...
World of Warcraft drops Shadowlands pre-patch notes, merges Battle for Azeroth into sub
We've got a bundle of World of Warcraft news here to cap off your Thursday.
First, if all the jeering for Battle for Azeroth...
Valorant bumps Icebox map up to next week, delays and reveals new toon Skye
Riot Games' Valorant is smooshing around its fall lineup. The good news it's that it's pushed the new arctic wilderness map, Icebox, up...
Sea of Thieves posts a musical tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen
I realize the news cycle has been wild this week, so you may have missed the sad news that Van Halen co-founder Eddie...
Wurm Online’s Steam success means a bigger team, tutorial improvements, and new content
With Wurm Online safely enshrined on Steam and pulling in "unprecedented" numbers of players thanks to the platform, Code Club is moving on...
‘Boob streamers’ and ‘boys clubs’: Twitch staffers blast sexist, racist corporate culture
GI.biz has a detailed expose of Twitch's corporate culture out today, painting a picture of ongoing and systemic racism, sexism, and abuse, both...
Elder Scrolls Online teases the setting and atmosphere of its upcoming Markarth DLC
Elder Scrolls Online's Markarth DLC is less than a month away now for PC players, so you know what that means: time to...
Star Wars Squadrons creative director: ‘We’re not trying to treat the game as a live service’
If EA wanted a fast way to chill all the fervor for Star Wars Squadrons, then what it told UploadVR this week...
Nexon will take MapleStory Fest all-digital on November 11
Nexon is getting ready to kick off its third MapleStory Fest, and like so many other gaming events this year, this version will indeed...
Riot Games is shuttering its Sydney, Australia, office as it sunsets its Oceanic Pro League
Activision-Blizzard isn't the only company shuttering overseas holdings this week, it seems: Riot Games is closing one down too, this time the company's Sydney,...
O’dyllita is live for Black Desert PC as console launches its first Succession classes
The O'dyllita region is finally open for PC players of Black Desert today! Readers will recall that the high-level area was
Cryptic’s Stephen D’Angelo on City of Heroes’ lessons, Star Trek Online’s booming revenues
It's been a wild year for PWE's Cryptic Studios, as it's been busy maintaining its core MMORPGs but also working on Magic Legends,...
Star Trek Online’s House Shattered is live on PC as the game heads to the Epic Games Store
Star Trek Online's new season is called House Shattered, but it is not in fact about shattering actual houses, as satisfying as that...
Guild Wars 2’s Halloween festival, Shadow of the Mad King, returns October 13
On today's podcast, Justin asked me which MMO NPC needed more screentime, and I don't remember whom I picked but it was wrong. Obviously,...
Activision-Blizzard is reportedly shuttering its Versailles, France, office
Activision-Blizzard is apparently closing down one of its offices, specifically the one in Versailles, France. The news comes from Bloomberg, which this morning...
World of Warcraft addresses LGBTQ storytelling: ‘Whatever your background is, there’s a place for you in this world’
TechRadar has an interview up this week with Blizzard's Steve Danuser, currently the lead narrative designer on World of Warcraft, and Johnny...
The Daily Grind: What’s the goofiest not-an-MMO acronym you’ve seen an MMO try to adopt?
There was a phase our genre went through about five or so years ago when every new MMO - even the ones that most...
The Daily Grind: Are you honestly having The Fun in your MMO of choice?
This is a serious question! A few weeks ago, I was talking to one of our writers about a game he was playing and writing...
MMO Week in Review: Shadowlands postponed
World of Warcraft's Shadowlands delay - to later in 2020 - was by far the biggest news of the week, all but...
Make My MMO: Wagadu and Ilysia breeze past Kickstarter goals
It's been a positively packed couple of weeks for crowdfunded MMOs new and old. A few of the highlights:
Afrofantasy MMO The Wagadu...
