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
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Working As Intended: The gamification of the workification of games
Last weekend, my husband made the bold choice to let our young son play The Stanley Parable. I am not entirely sure the kid...
XL Games’ Jake Song is working with Gamigo to ‘stabilize’ and ‘revitalize’ ArcheAge
Western ArcheAge players who've been waiting patiently - or impatiently - for news on what exactly is happening with their game in the wake...
Blade & Soul is already rolling on to its Thanksgiving events
While some western gamers might still be grumpy over the delay of Blade & Soul's class specialization update - which is not hitting in...
Ashes of Creation announces Apocalypse, its free-to-play battle royale test mode
Over the last couple of months, Intrepid Studios has been talking up Ashes of Creation's alpha one, which was set to include a battle...
World of Warcraft is 14 years old this month – where were you when it launched?
How old were you when World of Warcraft launched in 2004? Now add 14 to that. Do ya feel super old yet? Where were...
EverQuest begins Burning Lands expansion preorders, EverQuest II previews Chaos Descending’s Plane of Earth
Fall is always the best time of the year for the EverQuest franchise - it's expansion season. Over in classic EverQuest, pre-orders for The...
Sea of Thieves adds makeup and improves tentacle collision with Festival of the Damned
Sea of Thieves is saying farewell to Forsaken Shores and hello to the Festival of the Damned today, just barely in time for the Halloween...
Leaderboard: Are you playing Fallout 76, Red Dead Redemption 2, or neither?
I have to wonder whether Bethsoft is having some regrets right now. It seems to me that Fallout 76's beta is being completely overshadowed...
Black Desert revamps pet exchange system, kicks off ‘Celebrating Millions’ events
Black Desert's Halloween day update has more than just sweets: It's got a revamp for the pet exchange system, intended to make the acquisition...
Ship of Heroes demos deadly Halloween trick-or-treating and spooky new models
Just because a game's still being built doesn't mean it can't work on seasonal events, Ship of Heroes proves once again today. Heroic Games...
Guild Wars 2’s legendary upgrade feature accidentally joins weekly patch as new RMT griefing trick emerges
If, like our staff, you looked at yesterday's Guild Wars 2 patch notes and thought it was a "filler patch" with just a handful...
Fallout 76’s PC beta window got off to a rough start
If you were aiming to tool around in last night's Fallout 76 PC beta episode, you probably found yourself a bit disappointed. Some folks...
Take home a MU Online, MU Legend, C9, Flyff, or Rappelz gift in Webzen’s Halloween 2018 giveaway
Webzen is celebrating the best holiday ever - Halloween, of course - with a round of bonus events across its whole catalogue of MMOs,...
Old School RuneScape has officially launched on mobile today
Is RuneScape a mainstream PC MMORPG? Even as big as it is, I might not have applied that moniker before, but Jagex has done...
Black Desert: DDOS attacks, South Korean lawsuit, and Halloween
If you've been having problems with your Black Desert server crashing this week, you're not alone. Kakao seems to be suffering a wave of...
World of Warcraft factionless player Doubleagent hits 120 after years of picking herbs
World of Warcraft "celebrity" player Doubleagent has done it again: leveled to 120 solely on harvesting without ever picking a faction in the eternal WoW...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most important example of death spiral development in MMOs?
A couple of weeks ago, Justin reminded me of a Guild Wars 2 panel from many years back where ArenaNet addressed Charr armor clipping.
"A Charr...
Star Wars Galaxies’ original emulator teases Jump to Lightspeed space content
One of the reasons I favor the Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator is that it's a late enough build of the game that it...
New World leaks make it sound more and more like a real MMO sandbox, not a survival game
The weird thing - or clever thing - about Amazon Game Studios' New World alpha is that seemingly everyone is in it, so nobody...
