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
No, Funcom is not losing the Conan IP, but it did just invest in a Portuguese studio
Earlier this week, Marvel's website released a post positively crowing about the "return" of Conan to the ubiquitous superhero label. "Gather 'round, followers of...
Robot Entertainment is shutting down multiple online games, including Orcs Must Die! Unchained
They weren't big games on MMO websites, but online multiplayer fans will still be sad to see them go: Orcs Must Die! Unchained, Hero...
Trove patches up gem expertise quests in Crystal Combat on PC today and celebrates Renewas
Trove is due for a wee update today to fix some of the more unfortunate chunks of December's Crystal Combat content release. Gamigo says...
Black Desert is launching a battle royale mode called Shadow Arena as part of a year focused on systems clarity
Pearl Abyss spent 2018 busy busy busy with its projects, among them Black Desert. To sum all that up and tease the future, Executive...
Co-op ARPG Breach hits early access January 17, with packages live now
Co-op ARPG Breach was meant to hit early access before the end of 2018, and as it turns out, it'll be only a few...
The best Massively OP MMO community polls of 2018
Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don’t often get from our other articles - at least when they aren’t being brigaded...
Superhero MMO Ship of Heroes shows off group combat and shopping
Ship of Heroes just keeps on churning out the content videos! This week's entry in Heroic Games' long list of previews (26 videos and...
Craig Zinkievich’s Aliens shooter is looking more and more like an MMOFPS after all
A couple of years ago, several key devs who once built MMOs for Cryptic - Craig Zinkievich, Shannon Posniewski, and Matt Highison - announced...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio told the biggest fib in 2018?
It would be so awesome if I could come to work every day and know that everything developers say is absolutely truthful and no...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Trulion, Morna Tales, Laplace M, Project BBQ, Genesis, Endless Battle, Achaea, Lord of Chains, Star Sonata
We have a perilously tall pile of MMOs (and MUDs and MOBAs and such) that you've probably never heard of for today's roundup. We're gonna just jump right in, starting with Trulion Online, a new open-world sandbox MMORPG that just hit beta on Android. Yes, it's a mobile title with retro graphics, but not all of what we're looking at today falls into that category!
RuneScape has thoroughly revamped mining and smithing just in time for its 18th birthday
You might think that an 18-year-old MMO wouldn't keep needing to tweak basic skills like mining and smithing, but in the case of RuneScape,...
You’re never too old for esports, Swedish competitive team with an average age of 67 suggests
MMO players often joke about wanting to make sure the retirement homes of the future have decent internet to facilitate our MMO playing in...
Here’s what’s up with Ashes of Creation’s borked forums and website
Let's recap on what's going on with Ashes of Creation, shall we? Just ahead of the holidays, Intrepid rolled out Apocalypse, its battle royale...
MapleStory 2 interview: The Soul Binder, PvP, music, the western front, and battling pay-to-win
MapleStory 2 charmed our previewer, our podcasters, even our writers when it came time for picking out the underdog MMO of 2018, thanks in...
Ultima Online announces a year of high seas content, starting with publish 104: Rising Tide
A week ago, I finally sat down and cleaned out my ancient Ultima Online account, picking up a thousand items from my house and...
Pirate MMORPG Atlas steers away from hardcore mechanics with today’s balance patch
Wildcard/Grapeshot's sea-faring pirate MMORPG Atlas is gearing up for a massive patch this afternoon, and if you bought in to the early access, you're...
A look back at the MMO industry’s law dramas of 2018
Last year, we started a new end-of-the-year tradition: a recap of all the legal and political dramas that have affected the MMO genre over...
Black Desert launches on Xbox One March 4, with preorders opening today
We knew this day was coming: It's time to buckle up for Black Desert's Xbox One debut, as preorders for the game on that...
Camelot Unchained is building a new siege scenario test map as backer siege testing continues
Last week, I saw some commenters discussing how Camelot Unchained had nothing to show from years of development, but of course, testers know better....
The Daily Grind: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2018?
So here's a fun-slash-depressing annual Daily Grind we've been running for the past few years thanks to DK, who originally proposed it.
The knee-jerk answer,...
