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
E3 2019: Black Desert announces Great Expedition expansion and adorable Shai class
Black Desert brought the good stuff to fan con Heidel Ball this weekend thanks to a slew of announcements about new content inbound for...
Sea of Thieves talks next update plans, Battle for LA event, and commendation rebalance
Sea of Thieves' Joe Neate is back to cap off the week with another quick run-down of what Rare has been up to. According...
Worlds Adrift is launching one last patch and character wipe before it sunsets in July
Among the sadder bits of news we've covered in the last few weeks - maybe even the whole spring season - was the news...
Grab a Conqueror’s Blade Well-Made Mortar key from My.com and MOP
My.com's MMO Conqueror's Blade officially soft launched into open beta this week. It's being billed as a "medieval free-to-play tactical MMO" with 15v15 battles...
Leaderboard: Are you all-in for Google Stadia?
When Google first announced Stadia this past spring, promising it would "revolutionize" the industry, our readers were skeptical. And now that we know much...
Bless Online’s western version will sunset on September 9
Yesterday, we covered the news that Bless Online was sunsetting in Japan, leading many of us to wonder whether the Steam version live in...
Path of Exile’s Legion league is now live and launched – and hitting record concurrency
Here's the bad news: Path of Exile is offline for the next three hours. But there's good news too, and that's that when the...
Star Citizen’s alpha 3.5.1 is live as CIG seeks feedback on ship customization pricing
Ship customization rolled out to PTU testers this week as part of Star Citizen's alpha 3.5.1, but CIG didn't waste much time pushing it...
H1Z1 launches season 4 as Daybreak says it’s ‘not ready to call it quits’ on Z1 Battle Royale
Z1 Battle Royale - the PC game once known as H1Z1 - has had a rough year or two, losing most of its playerbase,...
The ArcheAge consumer lawsuit against Trion Worlds is still inching onward
It seems weird to be writing about Trion Worlds again, but here we are. MMO players will recall that back in 2015, three gamers...
The Daily Grind: Is the future of online games dev really ‘conversation mode’ rather than ‘presentation mode’?
Last month, PC Gamer ran a piece about Anthem and EA focusing on EA's belief that the way the industry goes about releasing games...
Massively Overthinking: Does the MMO genre have too many games for its own good?
Last month I saw a video from YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes with an eyebrow-raiser of a thesis: He essentially argues that we have too...
Take-Two boss shrugs off Fortnite’s impact on the gaming industry
Thank goodness it's a sunny day out there because Strauss Zelnick brought some serious shade for the industry to Baird's 2019 Global Consume, Technology,...
Bless Online’s Japanese server is sunsetting in August
It looks like yet another version of Bless Online is calling it quits, as the Japanese server admins announced yesterday it'll close down that...
Google reveals Stadia pricing, release window, and games – including Elder Scrolls Online and Baldur’s Gate 3
Back in March (which somehow feels like a hundred years ago?), Google announced Google Stadia - not a console but a platform that will...
Interview: Astellia’s westernization covers everything from monetization and VO to dodging and grouping
It seems as if every time we write about incoming MMORPG Astellia, confusion over its guiding principles dominates the ensuing discussion. One of those...
Elite Dangerous greyhat ‘protest’ over hacking ends in player ban
You wouldn't think Elite Dangerous would be the site of so much drama, but it's offering up the goods this week. Yesterday, one of...
Destiny 2 is going free-to-play as Destiny 2: New Light as Bungie confirms Steam launch and cross-save
(This article has been updated since publication; updates are at the end, and the original is as follows.)
In what at least appears to be...
Indie MMO ‘spaceship design game’ Exocraft ports from PC to mobile today
Exocraft caught my eye earlier this year chiefly because I cannot stay away from these retro games with colorways that just glow right off...
Watch Elder Scrolls Online’s E3 presentation, get a free mount
Bethsoft's and ZeniMax's E3 presentation last year really blew away our staff and readers - I can't remember the last time a studio really...
