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
The Daily Grind: Would you pay a sub for complete access to all cosmetics in an MMO?
Last month on the MOP Podcast, we tackled a question from a reader named Aaron who was musing on whether modern MMOs could learn...
Massively Overthinking: Do you even *like* MMO expansions?
This seems like an absurd question on its face, right? MMO players are supposed to like MMO expansions. They're progress. They're content. They're fresh...
Ultima Online announces Forsaken Foes update for this fall
With Forgotten Treasures live on the production servers, Broadsword is already looking ahead to the unkillable Ultima Online's next entry in its year of...
Ship of Heroes celebrates Independence Day with a new auction hall video
You folks wanna know how hard the Ship of Heroes people are working? They put out a new video on the Fourth of July....
Perfect Tenception: Our ten perfectest Perfect Tens (since last year) – 2019 edition
For the last two years on the Fourth of July, I've posted up my Perfect Ten list of my favorite Perfect Tens Justin and...
Another DDOS e-thug has landed jail time – this one owes Daybreak $95K
We get so many tips about MMOs being DDOSed that we often don't even cover them unless they stretch on for days or there's...
10-year-old Runes of Magic’s crafting festival has begun
Runes of Magic had admittedly fallen way off my radar over the last while, right up until our own MMO Cartographer dipped back into...
Everything you need to know about MapleStory’s brand-new Pathfinder class
Last week, classic MapleStory dropped a brand-new class, Pathfinder, a legendary arcane archer who's a bit like Legolas and Gandalf all rolled into one....
WoW Classic’s closed beta will end with an in-game event in July 12
World of Warcraft Classic beta testers, do you think, after your 17000+ bug reports, that the game is ready to finish up its fixes...
Pagan Online has big plans for its early access development this summer
OARPG fans have been keeping a keen eye on Pagan Online since its official announcement last year. Developed by Mad Head Games and Wargaming,...
Roblox’s latest transmedia synergy event is with… Stranger Things
If you had "transmedia synergy" on your MMO bingo card, you're going to be happy about this post right here. Roblox is apparently leaping...
Black Desert’s latest patch kicks off a new summer event and tweaks guild skills
Black Desert's having a bit of a good run the past week, what with the launch of the Shai and the announcement of a...
Atlas launches single-player mode beta amid promises that multiplayer is the team’s ‘priority’
Well here's something unexpected from a game that missed its own launch date back in December: Atlas is actually ahead of schedule on its...
Black Desert has begun preorders for its PlayStation 4 edition launching August 22
Back at E3, Pearl Abyss dropped a big announcement for Black Desert: The PC and Xbox One versions of the game were getting another...
Elder Scrolls Online details Scalebreaker’s dungeons, multibidding, and battleground updates
As announced back at E3 last month, the next big thing for a post-Elsweyr Elder Scrolls Online is a new DLC called Scalebreaker. Launching...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers has officially been brought
One of the summer's major releases for MMO players officially arrives today as Final Fantasy XIV's Shadowbringers formally launches out of headstart and into the...
Gamigo plans Defiance 2050 anniversary event with goodies for Classic Defiance too
When Gamigo sunsetted Atlas Reactor without any hoopla last week, a lot of folks in our comments and beyond wondered which former Trion Worlds...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs allow players to alter how other characters appear in their client?
Yesterday, PC Gamer posted a positively scathing article about Mordhau, the online knights-and-castles action ARPG. While the overall article is about the game's (and...
Camelot Unchained talks spiders mobs and game design in latest updates
Arachnophobes, the latest Camelot Unchained update is definitely not for you. The star of the update is Charlotte, and she's not the kind of...
MMO strategy title Destiny’s Sword fully funded its $23K Kickstarter this weekend
We dropped a brief mention of Destiny's Sword's successful Kickstarter funding in our recent crowdfunding column, but it's official now: The unusual strategy MMO,...
