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
Skyforge plans Valentine’s Day event, delays new planet to March
It's been a hot minute since we covered Skyforge, but My.com's MMORPG is still zooming along in the wake of its bard class launch...
Leaderboard: What’s the greatest MMO soundtrack of all time?
In collaboration with Justin's Jukebox Heroes column, we're taking stock of our readers' opinions on the best MMO soundtracks of all time in today's...
Trove compensates players for emergency outage over unconfirmed dupe bug
If you were trying to play Trove on Friday, you were likely stymied by a bout of emergency maintenance that lasted several hours. It...
Camelot Unchained’s latest battlefield test included nearly 3000 players and bots, surpassing Kickstarter promise
Camelot Unchained's beta has gotten a bit wider this week with the addition of more backers into the testing phase. It's still beta one;...
2013 voxelbox Cube World is apparently back in development, again-again
Last week, in the comments of our podcast ranting on early access, reader TomTurtle brought up the fate of Cube World. The blocky, sandboxy MineCraft-like from Picroma...
Bethsoft says it’s listening to player feedback on Fallout 76’s planned Survival mode
Last week, Bethsoft stirred consternation over its plans for Fallout 76's Survival mode ahead of its March beta. The mode will essentially add pure...
Anthem addresses ‘rocky’ demo launch, server capacity, ongoing issues, and compensation
If for some reason you thought the Anthem VIP demo was going to go smoothly this weekend, first I have to welcome you to...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best example of wasted aesthetics in an MMO?
If you somehow missed our award for meme of year, now's a good time to trot it back out because it could so apply...
MMO Week in Review: Daybreak’s Fan Faire, Anthem’s VIP demo
Blink and you'll have missed it: Daybreak actually hinted at the return of an official Fan Faire this year, something the studio hasn't done...
NetEase joins Tencent in move for ‘anti-addiction’ curfews on Chinese mobile gamers
NetEase has once again become a household name for gamers thanks to its partnership with Blizzard on Diablo Immortal and many other titles, but...
Extra Credits tackles why we buy into early access games even when we shouldn’t
If you missed our podcast's epic rant about the problems of early access this week, then strap in because the folks at Extra Credits...
Daybreak opens PlanetSide Arena closed beta signups, promises forums next week
Daybreak's announcement yesterday that it's delayed PlanetSide Arena's early access launch from January 29th to March 26th didn't seem to surprise any MMO players...
RuneScape dev Jagex is up for sale by its struggling Chinese owners after posting record high year
Remember a couple of years back when RuneScape company Jagex was bought out by China's Shandong Hongda, a company known primarily for its iron...
EA rushes to add more server capacity for Anthem’s overloaded VIP demo
Anthem's VIP demo is live today, and everything is just fine! Well, maybe not. BioWare maybe doesn't have quite enough servers for the massive...
Overwatch’s Lunar New Year event welcomes old maps, new skins, and plenty of nerfs as box price falls
Overwatch has officially joined the roster of games splashing out for the Lunar New Year. "From now until Feb. 18, you can ring in the...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse covers intuitive flight controls and landscaping desolate moons
Cloud Imperium's Sean Tracy and Steve Bender headline this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, and if you didn't expect clowning, then...
The Daily Grind: Do you approach all MMOs with PvP as ‘PvP games’?
I saw a thought-provoking exchange on Reddit this week that's too good to sit on. It was in a thread for an MMORPG in...
Massively Overthinking: Why aren’t you playing the MMO most like your favorite sunsetted game?
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from reader Smuggler-in-a-YT.
"Star Wars Galaxies had its problems, but the sense of community, purpose, and story (through...
Kickstarted sci-fi MMOFPS Pantropy will hit early access on January 31
Hey, remember Pantropy? We first began covering this sci-fi MMOFPS back in 2017; since then, it's run two Kickstarters, the first of which was...
Mobile MMORPG Rebirth M launches in North America after aborted Kickstarter
Live today for iOS and Android is another new free-to-play mobile MMO, this one Caret Games' RebirthM. The game's been playable in Brazil since last...
