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
Kritika Online’s last day up in the west is April 30, but TERA and Closers are offering incentives to refugees
Next week, the lights go down on Kritika Online. As announced back in March, En Masse is shuttering the game on April 30th after...
Shroud of the Avatar’s R65 is live with upgrades for performance, pets, and item weight
And it's live: Shroud of the Avatar's 65th release rolled out to players yesterday, meaning you'll have all weekend to break play it. Notably,...
Star Citizen swaps Around the Verse for Inside Star Citizen as it deep dives its own Cloud City
Around the Verse is back this week for Star Citizen fans, although it's gotten a bit of an overhaul: It's now called Inside Star...
The Daily Grind: How obsessively do you plan your MMO characters?
All right, moment of truth here: I'm still really excited about the potential for playing City of Heroes again. I want the legal version...
Massively Overthinking: Is there a ‘do or die’ moment for MMOs now?
This week MOP's Eliot and I were chatting about the wild summer the MMO industry is about to have, what with a whole bunch...
PUBG Corp. is suing over the Chinese term for Chicken Dinner as Update 28 goes live
PUBG Corp. is back in court, and this time it's suing not another game company or clone but the Chinese bureaucracy itself.
As MMO Culture...
Following Elite Dangerous’ messy April update, Frontier rolled back drag munitions changes
So the big Elite Dangerous update for April didn't exactly go to plan. Following the rollout earlier this week, Redditors put up a bug...
CCP Games withdraws all accusations against EVE Online CSM member it banned for supposed leaks
At the beginning of April, we covered the latest scandal to rock MMORPG EVE Online, as studio CCP Games rather publicly removed a member...
SWG: Beyond is the latest in a long line of Star Wars Galaxies emulators
Is it rogue server week or something? Fans have now announced another privately run Star Wars Galaxies server, this one called SWG: Beyond. Longtime fans...
Another crunch-ridden game studio exposed: This time it’s Fortnite’s Epic Games
"Crunch" was surely the gaming industry word of the year in 2018, thanks to a massive backlash over horrible working conditions at some Rockstar...
Black Desert’s new roadmap teases new maps and new group-based content on the way
There's big news coming out of Black Desert today, as Pearl Abyss and Kakao have dropped a roadmap of new content coming to the...
Aaaaand now there’s a new temporary City of Heroes rogue server up
This story has been updated several times over the last few days; updates are at the end. The original story follows.
Can we just agree...
ARK Survival Evolved-inspired voxel sandbox PixARK is launching May 31
It's been a year since Snail Games' survival-centric voxelbox PixARK hit early access, but its time in testing is almost up: The company announced...
Exclusive: MMORPG Astellia Online deep-dives its Warrior and Scholar classes
Korean-born Astellia has been hovering on the horizon for the last few years of its development as Barunson E&A - the majority owner of...
The Titan Network is negotiating to open a legal community-run City of Heroes server
Following the abrupt shut-down of the first City of Heroes rogue server yesterday, the game's community has been in turmoil as leaders urged patience....
Surprise! TERA just dropped the Elin Brawler on console in its Suckerpunch update
Raise your hand if you saw this one coming: Just a few weeks after the Elin Gunner rolled out to TERA: Reloaded on console,...
Dauntless is offline prepping its massive Mastery system patch for tomorrow
Dauntless is offline for extended maintance until tomorrow, but it's all for a good cause: the launch of OB 0.7.1. OK, so maybe that...
SuperData March 2019: The Division 2’s strong entry and the dominance of battle royale
Were you worried about the success of The Division 2? Maybe don't be. Ubisoft's big multiplayer sequel entered Superdata's global gaming revenue charts at...
Guild Wars 2 just dropped its massive balance patch and War Eternal Supply Drop Requisition
Happy patch day, Guild Wars 2 players. As promised, ArenaNet has implemented a wide-ranging balancing update for multiple professions and elite professions. Definitely read...
Neverwinter has officially launched the Undermountain expansion for PC players
It's expansion day for Perfect World's Neverwinter! At least if you're on PC, that is; console players will be waiting until June 11th for...
