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
Make My MMO: Book of Travels has already doubled its Kickstarter ask
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we've got a new addition to the Make My MMO list: Book of Travels, the "tiny multiplayer online"...
MMO Business Roundup: Ubisoft’s stock drop, Skull & Bones’ delay, Google games
Welcome back to another depressing super fun roundup of business news from the MMO industry and adjacent climes.
Ubisoft
We don't cover a lot of Ubisoft...
Leaderboard: Did you go back to SWTOR for Onslaught?
When Star Wars The Old Republic's Onslaught was first announced last April, people were surprisingly excited for it. Oh sure, some folks in the...
EVE Vegas 2019: CCP and Hadean announce a third EVE Aether Wars event for November
Ahead of EVE Vegas today, CCP Games has announced a third go-round of EVE Aether Wars. Gamers will recall that's the tech partnership with...
City of Titans’ character creator, Titan Create, is now available for backers
If you'd been wondering what that countdown on City of Titans' Twitter last week was, well you probably just overlooked the announcement earlier this...
Gamigo has temporarily disabled ArcheAge’s ArchePass for a rework
So, how much did you hate ArcheAge Unchained's ArchePass? Because it's gone - or at least it's gone for now.
MMO gamers will recall that...
Interview: Population Zero explains its combat, training, raiding, and more
Population Zero, the survival MMO from Enplex Games, is currently in the midst of closed beta test weekends, with its third CBT live now...
The Daily Grind: What other MMOs need the ‘Archeage Unchained’ treatment?
Last year, it seemed like the trend was legacy servers for everyone. This year, the anti-pay-to-win push has been big, with ArcheAge Unchained at...
Massively Overthinking: Niche MMOs vs. everythingboxes
Earlier this month, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster announced that he's finally making a new MMORPG, with a suite of top devs and a...
Halloween approaches for RIFT, Skyforge, Destiny 2, ARK, and Dauntless
We'll have our complete guide to Halloween across the MMO universe early next week, but we would be remiss not to mention some big...
RuneScape’s new Executive Producer talks monetization as Halloween arrives to Old School
It's a transition week for RuneScape as Jagex has appointed a new Executive Producer for the game: Ryan "Mod Warden" Ward. It's a comfort,...
Pearl Abyss preps standalone Shadow Arena battle royale plucked from Black Desert
Remember Shadow Arena, Black Desert's short-lived PvP battle royale mode? It was announced just before 2019, released a few weeks later, and immediately devolved...
EVE Online’s NetEase-backed mobile EVE Echoes enters beta in December
EVE Online mobile MMO EVE Echoes is swooping past its summer alpha into a winter beta, according to an announcement from CCP Games and NetEase...
The Fallout 76 community is storming over the Fallout 1st sub
Yesterday's announcement that Fallout 76 is getting a "Fallout 1st" subscription plan that locks private world ownership behind a paywall and grants very Elder...
Torchlight Frontiers is adding customizable robot heads according to roadmap update
Here's the thing: If you're playing Torchlight Frontiers' alpha, you're playing a robot. There's no reason not to play a robot. And according to...
Bless Unleashed devs say they’ve ‘drastically reworked the entire crafting system’
As Neowiz and Bandai Namco march onward toward the open beta of Bless Unleashed in November, the teams have once again penned a dev...
Trove’s Halloween events begin on PC and console as Shadow’s Eve arrives
If you thought the voxel sandbox Trove couldn't possibly get weirder than it normally is, then you've clearly never seen it during the Halloween...
Elite Dangerous delays fleet carriers to 2020 in favor of multiple clean-up patches
Frontier hasn't had the best year when it comes to Elite Dangerous. After a line of patches that were plagued with many issues, notable...
Fallout 1st is a new Fallout 76 sub that locks private world ownership behind a paywall
"Do you think all these developers got together and were like, 'October 2019. That's the month we are all going to collectively sh*t the...
Space colony MMO SEED announces ‘Pioneers’ alpha coming in 2020
With SpatialOS titles bailing out of the genre left and right, it falls to games like Seed - now being marketed as SEED -...
