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
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...
Path of Exile’s latest manifesto address sulphite issues, flare capacity, and fractured wall loot
When I hear the word "manifesto," I think of a massive tome filled with so many lofty promises that there's no way an MMO...
Neverwinter’s Heart of Fire includes a bank heist skirmish, but you’re the guard, not the thief
When Neverwinter's Heart of Fire module launches on November 6th, it'll bring with it one of my favorite types of content: a straight-up bank...
Mojang reveals multiplayer dungeon crawler Minecraft Dungeons
File this one under multiplayer: Mojang is having another go at Minecraft offspring, this one in the forum of classic dungeon crawler. It's called...
Ireland signed declaration of concern but won’t regulate lockboxes as gambling
Remember two weeks ago when a bunch of representatives from the Europe and US cosigned a declaration noting concerns over skin-betting and lockboxes at...
Overwatch’s Halloween Terror begins October 9, but don’t expect ‘dramatic new game modes’
Overwatch has joined the short list of online games prepping their Halloween events nearly a month in advance: Blizzard announced this morning that Halloween...
Ashes of Creation is testing MMORPG PvP in the alpha’s battle royale mode
Didn't have time for that hour-long Ashes of Creation stream on Friday? Don't sweat it; AOC Dungeon has the highlights recapped. A decent chunk...
‘Shave, bathe, or don’t – it’s up to you’: Red Dead Redemption 2’s latest gameplay trailer arrives
Rockstar's just pushed live the second of its teasery Red Dead Redemption 2 gameplay videos, this one filled with gunfights, explosions, and a promise...
The Daily Grind: What abandoned content in your favortite MMO do you want to see return?
I miss Guild Wars 2's dungeons.
I was trawling Reddit the other day when I saw someone raise a half-hearted complaint about the fact that...
MMO Week in Review: The WoW Classic BlizzCon promo is 50 bucks to alpha test your childhood
Blizzard stunned everyone this week by announcing that WoW Classic - or at least, two zones of it - will be playable at BlizzCon...
Mark Kern’s crowdfunded MMO shooter Em-8ER has ‘nearly’ finished its demo characters
It's been a while since we checked in on Em-8ER, Mark Kern's frustratingly named "massive planetary wargame," so we're rectifying that today.
MMO players will...
Grab a TERA Reach Your Apex bundle key (and dragon mount!) from En Masse and MOP
TERA is in the middle of its Reach Your Apex event in the lead-up to the Dark Reaches update launching October 16th, and to help...
Ask Mo: The real value of MMO interviews
MOP reader Avaera recently sent in a question that I thought would be fun to address here in my poor neglected Ask Mo column....
Guild Wars 2 plans balance patch, addresses lockbox regulation as armor crafting woes continue
We've got a bunch of scattered Guild Wars 2 news to cap off the week! First up: the balance patch. Unfortunately, in typical recent...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Conquest Resurgence Within, Rohan Mobile, Drawn to Death, El Somni Quas
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you’ve (probably) never heard of! Let’s run down a few more that crossed...
Fortnite claims yesterday’s boob physics patch was ‘unintended’
You might be wondering why, on a day like yesterday of all days, Epic Games would patch in lady boob jiggle as a tacky...
The Daily Grind: What race or species have you never seen in an MMORPG?
A week or so ago, Justin penned a popular Daily Grind about the non-humanoid races/species that always seem to be relegated to "minority status"...
The last remnants of Club Penguin are sunsetting, again, as Disney lays off Club Penguin Island staff
Back in 2017, Disney announced that it was shutting down kid-friendly MMO Club Penguin after 12 years of play, replacing it with a new...
