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
MMO Week in Review: The Division 2 is now a game *and* an athletics tier
The Division 2 joined the online gaming world's roster of looter-shooters this week, giving grumpy Anthem refugees something new to try. Meanwhile, Gamigo canceled RIFT's...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Astroflux, Star Sonata, and Mankind Reborn
Welcome back to another brief roundup of MMOs and other online games you've (probably) never heard of.
Astroflux is an interesting one that came across...
Make My MMO: Saga of Lucimia’s quests, Dual Universe’s 30K, SOTA’s spring
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, spring has sprung in Shroud of the Avatar, whose latest community newsletter teases a bunny basket full of...
Sea of Thieves on birthday plans, mega update, tester program, and next week’s content drop
It's been a hot minute since we checked in on Sea of Thieves, so this week's developer update video marks the perfect time to...
Population Zero releases world design video ahead of weekend alpha and next week’s update
Ahead of this weekend's alpha play test, the Population Zero developers have posted up a video ostensibly about world design. You'll need to flip...
Legends of Aria makes its roadmap public as it preps its experimental test server
Legends of Aria's new community lead has a new letter for the playerbase this week, and while it's not bristling with critical info, it's...
BioWare patches Anthem to buff loot quality at higher difficulties
If you're following the loot saga of Anthem, you might have begun to suspect that nothing BioWare could do would actually make everyone happy....
Star Citizen previews urban dystopia and in-game holidays, drops February studio report
Very few settings in games spark as much joy in me as a glowy rainbow neon urban cyberpunk dystopia, so that makes this week's...
Part two of Warframe’s Buried Debts operation is live as community grumbles over events
Part two of Warframe's Buried Debts events is live this week, following up on last week's operation launch. The best bit is that among...
Guild Wars 2 player builds Super Adventure Box guild hall in tribute to designer Josh Foreman
My kid has already started pestering me about Super Adventure Box this year. It's almost April 1st. Is it open yet? Will there be...
The Daily Grind: Has your MMO of choice ever had a major data loss?
When Justin mentioned to me on this week's podcast the rumor that Lord of the Rings Online's and Dungeons and Dragons Online's multi-day downtime...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs as distraction vs. culture
Earlier this month, there was a fascinating conversation swirling around a Gamasutra article by Bryant Francis, specifically a quote from game dev Patric Mondou. "We're moving away...
Crowfall previews the PvP map structure of its first campaign in feature walkthrough video
Since its original Kickstarter reveal, Crowfall has been absolutely clear on its key conceit: PvP. This is a PvP MMO. In fact, the devs...
Dual Universe counts 30,000 simulated players on the same planet in its latest alpha
If you're gonna be an MMO, we wanna see massive: lots of people on a server, lots of people in a fight. Dual Universe...
For everyone who fancies a trip to New Zealand, Path of Exile’s ExileCon tix are now on sale
Be honest, a visit to New Zealand to see all the Lord of the Rings filming locations is still on your bucket list. You...
MMO Business Roundup: Gaming inclusion, Peria Chronicles, Google, and PUBG’s Brendan Greene
Welcome to another fast roundup of MMO-related business news!
Bookmark this research study so that if ever the loud angry gatekeeping trolls of gaming are...
Villagers & Heroes has dispatched extravagant compensation for February’s hacking mess
Back in February, we learned the startling news that the cutesy indie crosssplatform MMORPG Villagers & Heroes had been hacked. At the time, the...
H1Z1’s PC version, Z1 Battle Royale, sees another leadership reshuffle as Jace Hall steps down
Yesterday, Daybreak and NantGMobile announced that Jace Hall is no longer consulting on the PC version of H1Z1 known as Z1 Battle Royale, having...
Gamigo promises a ‘new and improved gardening system’ for Trove in 2019
While Gamigo may be cutting back on RIFT's extracurricular activities, Trove appears to be getting both more content and events. St. Qubeslick 2019, for...
The first chunk of Fallout 76’s Wild Appalachia patch has launched today
After just one day's delay, minor indeed, Bethsoft has rolled out Fallout 76's next big thing - against an admittedly much more crowded multiplayer...
