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
I’m totally playing a naked gerbil pistoleer when Crowfall launches
The latest entry in Crowfall's ongoing Monster Month is also the best, full-stop, for it features the adorable and spunky Guineceans. Usually with more clothes,...
Leaderboard: Are you buying a BlizzCon virtual ticket this year, and is WoW Classic the reason?
Oof, some people really, really do not like jokes about BlizzCon, as I found out Sunday when my throwaway headline about paying Blizzard 50...
Legends of Aria plans Steam early access launch on December 4, preorders are live
Legends of Aria is headed to Steam early access, Citadel Studios announced this morning. The launch is set for December 4th. Preorders are live...
Tencent is working on locking kids out of Chinese games using facial recognition tech
So add this one to your creepy dystopian nightmare-fuel bin: In the war on supposed gaming addiction, at least one corporation is hoping to...
New World alpha leak video highlights the map, action combat, and dizzying UI
As Amazon Game Studios continues dispatching new alpha invites for its upcoming survival sandbox MMORPG New World, it's casting a huge net - and...
Bless Online launches free-to-play on October 23, new raid and Halloween event today
If you're still watching to see how Bless Online shapes up come its official launch, you'll want to pay attention to today's announcement: Neowiz...
PUBG has banned 13M cheaters since 2017, rolls out new anti-cheat systems
You know what I'm really, really tired of? Freakin' cheaters. They aren't just cheating at the game itself; they are robbing all of us...
Mike Morhaime steps down as Blizzard president; J Allen Brack takes over
Looks like there's a changing of the guard over at Activision Blizzard: The company just announced that World of Warcraft Executive Producer J. Allen...
Trove interview teases upcoming Geode surface world, gem tutorial, dungeon design, and Bomber Royale’s reception
At the tail end of September, Trove website Trovesaurus posted up a belated but quite welcome Gamescom interview with Trion Worlds that gives a...
Get Black Desert for free… if you can get to level 56 during your trial week
Kakao and Pearl Abyss have been touting Black Desert's 10M players number for a while now, but it's popping the bubbly now with a...
Elder Scrolls Online is sending you to Blackrose Prison in the upcoming Murkmire DLC
You're going to jail! OK, you're going to prison, but you're not exactly a prisoner; you're actually on a rescue mission. Such is the...
BlizzCon 2018: Blizzard reveals key panels for Diablo, WoW Classic
We're just a month away from BlizzCon now, and as it's the biggest last gaming con of the year that we focus on, we're...
Lineage 2 Classic launches in NA today as Lineage 2 Revolution teases Batman collab and Lineage II Dark Legacy hits mobile
The Lineage franchise is working overtime this week.
For starters, Lineage II Classic launches for North America today, after a successful run in Europe and...
The Repopulation is revamping Plymouth Control ahead of cleanup and optimization patch
You may have been tempted to give up on The Repopulation after its engine-propelled collapse and takeover by Idea Fabrik almost two years ago,...
Guild Wars 2 tweaks class balance, adds buyable stools and resource contracts
Guild Wars 2's promised mini-balance-patch has arrived on schedule, and it... sure is a pile of class tweaks. Even Reddit doesn't know quite what...
Crowfall previews playable Centaurs and Elken for ‘Monster Month’
Now this is what I call getting into the spirit of Octo-Halloween-ber, the best month of the year: ArtCraft is rolling out previews of...
Ubisoft previews The Division 2’s overhauled weapons systems
In all the buzz around Destiny 2 and Anthem, you'd be forgiven for having forgotten that The Division 2 is still on the way,...
MMO Business Roundup: FIFA lockboxes, anti-swatting policy, Fortnite on SNL, Free Guy, UO postmortem
Whenever our newsroom gets overloaded with weird industry-related articles that nobody feels like writing, another edition of the MMO Business Roundup gets its wings!
FIFA...
The Daily Grind: What MMO still needs legacy servers?
2018 has seemed like the year of the legacy/vanilla MMO server, thanks to not just World of Warcraft but RIFT and Age of Conan...
Pirates of the Burning Sea gains another month of life thanks to community and dev efforts
Ever since Portalus announced it'd be shutting down eight-year-old sailing MMORPG Pirates of the Burning Sea, we've found ourselves instead covering efforts to save...
