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
Amazon’s New World MMO dispatches more alpha invites, teases locales and armor images
It's been a while since we checked in with New World's Twitter feed and... ahhh! A whole bunch of miniature videos and screenshots and other ephemera to tide everyone over. To wit: Here's an animated setting of an outpost.
Path of Exile’s Synthesis expansion is officially live
It's here! It's here! Path of Exile has officially launched its Synthesis expansion for both PC and Xbox One. Still wondering about that PlayStation...
RuneScape’s lady devs host AMA on getting started in the industry, stream abuse, and rocks
In honor of International Womens' Day, the ladies (and at least one dude) who work at RuneScape studio Jagex have graciously teamed up for...
BioWare doesn’t think Anthem’s ‘loot is lame’ – it’s fixing damage scaling bugs next week
Anthem wasn't done when it launched. Let's just get that out of the way: The consensus across journalists and players (including ours!) is that...
Star Citizen’s hair tech has come a long way, as proven in this week’s Around the Verse
Sure, obsess about your space pixels and starships, but the spacelegs content in Star Citizen is still most compelling to me, and that's exactly...
Here’s what The Division 2’s ‘living world’ endgame is going to look like
If your body is ready for The Division 2's launch, better get your mind right too: Ubisoft ran a state-of-the-game stream this week, and...
SpatialOS company Improbable reveals new AAA online multiplayer title helmed by SWTOR vet
Back in January, after the dust of the SpatialOS vs. Unity spat had settled, Improbable and Crytek made an intriguing announcement: They were partnering...
Warframe’s Operation Buried Debts, Hildryn ‘frame, and melee combat revamp are live
Digital Extremes is keeping the pressure up with Warframe's incessant content rollouts, and we are not mad about it at all. Last night, the...
Kickstarted MMORPG Ashes of Creation delays alpha one slightly for infrastructure refactoring
If you're one of the folks still wondering what's going on with Ashes of Creation since it began alpha testing a battle royale mode...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for getting your character super drunk?
Fallout 76's dev blog a few weeks ago about its upcoming brewing and distilling skills - which are actually surprisingly detailed - got me...
Massively Overthinking: The paradox MMO
Back in February, the MMORPG subreddit offered up yet another fun thread: User Friendly_Fire told the MMO community that what it really wants is...
EverQuest II outlines progression server plans, offers paid 110 character boosters
EverQuest II's recent offerings have a little bit of something for everyone. For example, if you just want to leap to the endgame in...
World War II Online aka Battleground Europe just got a fresh update with a new campaign
So here's a little bit of old-school awesome for your week: World War II Online just rolled out a big update. The 2001 MMORPG...
Here’s how Star Trek Online is revamping its character creation UI
If you're still upset over the impending loss of the Star Trek Online player-made quest Foundry system, make this will perk you and your...
Squadron 42 studio Foundry 42 is rebranding under Star Citizen’s Cloud Imperium conglomerate
Foundry 42, the Chris Roberts subsidiary studio that's been working on Star Citizen's singleplayer spinoff Squadron 42, is getting a bit of a rebrand...
Exclusive: Upcoming MMORPG Astellia Online deep-dives its skill systems
We've been keeping an eye on Korean-born Astellia for several years now as the full-scale MMORPG has trekked through development. As revealed in January,...
Confusing ports of One Hour One Life demonstrate the frustrations of generous public domain games
Remember indie game One Hour One Life? Back in November, it made headlines for its Steam launch; it's an one-man-dev-team MMO where you start...
MMO Business Roundup: Skyrim’s multiplayer mod mess, Neural MMO, and the rise of Overwatch League
Welcome back to another roundup of stuff happening in the gaming business world relevant to MMOers. Remember Skyrim Together, the multiplayer Skyrim mod that...
Try out level 60 PvE characters with Black Desert’s new trial toons system
Black Desert's western anniversary celebrations continue this week with the rollout of trial characters. If you've ever hated the idea of spending tons of...
Anarchy Online’s first-ever progression server, Rubi-Ka 2019, is now live
As promised, Funcom has rolled out Anarchy Online's first "fresh-start" progression server today. The studio's calling it Rubi-Ka 2019, and yes, you will need...
