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
Vampire MMO Shadow’s Kiss makes good on mature content
If you were super sad when Revival and World of Darkness closed up shop, you should probably point your eyeballs over at Shadow's Kiss....
Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King is live for Halloween fun
Stop him if you've heard this one: "Two quaggans were walking in a cow pasture. The first turns to the second and says, 'Foo.'...
Black Desert’s Halloween event bosses bring tricks and treats this week
Halloween shenanigans will cloak the world of Black Desert starting tomorrow, Kakao announced this morning.
"Pearl Abyss and Kakao Games have announced that the skies...
Another leg of the Oculus-ZeniMax lawsuit drama has ended as John Carmack and ZeniMax settle dispute
If it seems like we've been talking about the Oculus lawsuit for a really long time, that's because we have. The original suit itself...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst Halloween event in the MMOverse?
No real salt from me today: I personally loved Star Wars Galaxies'Â Halloweeny Galactic Moon Festival, as ridiculous as it was, and as I mentioned...
Worlds Adrift says PvE servers didn’t ‘split a tiny playerbase’ but instead ‘added to it’
When was the last time you heard an MMO studio outright admit it was wrong? It's pretty rare, for sure. Bossa Studios says as...
Elite Dangerous announces Beyond Chapter Four, beginning beta October 23
If you point your brain back to August, you'll recall that players were a bit miffed over the Elite Dangerous' most recent Beyond chapter....
Star Citizen’s CitizenCon didn’t help make as much money as last year, but damn it made a lot
So, how much money did Star Citizen make last week as a result of its CitizenCon push and concomitant ship sale? A lot. Eurogamer's...
Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss claims Russian publisher is using players as a ‘weapon’
Over the month, we've been covering the supposed license transfer of Black Desert’s Russian branch from publisher GameNet back to Korean owner Pearl Abyss. Initially,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest thing you ever did to get into an MMO guild?
On last week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I were joking around about how much guild applications have changed over the last many years...
MMO Week in Review: CitizenCon, the Black Desert disaster, and a bundle of MMO updates
You can probably go ahead and stop calling Star Citizen vaporware, given this week's demo at CitizenCon and tease that Squadron 42 is coming...
You can play long-sunsetted Motor City Online offline thanks to emulation
If you were gaming back in those heady MMO days before World of Warcraft, you probably remember Motor City Online, a short-lived racing MMO...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s dazzling CitizenCon
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen wowed audiences in Austin and at home with its annual CitizenCon event, plus CIG rolled out...
Black Desert’s Russian servers and accounts are toast as Pearl Abyss says transfer negotiations failed
Over the last month and change, we've been covering the news that GameNet, Black Desert's Russian publisher, was handing the service in the CIS...
Betawatch: Fortnite begins true Android open beta
Fortnite rolled into a true open beta for Android this week, allowing everyone a chance to get in there and die on a phone,...
EVE Online’s Crimson Harvest returns for Halloween on October 23
I've always loved the name of EVE Online's Halloween event. Sure, it makes no sense for an internet spaceships MMORPG to have Halloween at...
Go gnome or go home: The Running of the Gnomes in WoW kicks off tomorrow
It's once again time for the Running of the Gnomes in World of Warcraft, as the community bands together to help fight breast cancer...
Bless Online says its early access met a ‘mismatch of expectations’ between studio and playerbase
Bless Online, as we've previously written, is due to launch for realsies at the end of October, but to say that its early access...
MMO Business Roundup: Bethsoft Moscow, A:IR publishing, OSU esports, SpatialOS, and Square-Enix
Business business business numbers, is this working?! Let's dip into some of the scattered online gaming business tidbits of the week that might otherwise...
Diablo ‘Reign of Terror’ merch in Blizz store revives speculation on Diablo IV
Set aside your French history knowledge for a sec and consider the phrase Reign of Terror in a new light: a light that also...
