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
The Daily Grind: Would you rather an MMO be backed by a publisher or investor group?
Polygon (via Gamasutra) put out a piece last week covering Kowloon Nights, the Hong Kong investment fund that is basically backing a bunch of...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2’s guiding star
Guild Wars 2 carried this week in MMOs, with its announcement of A Star To Guide Us, previews of the new legendary and raid,...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon builds a new city, Camelot Unchained teases Star Citizen
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Project Gorgon has been cooking up a big patch. "Next week's update includes a new city for players with...
UK researchers identify link between lootboxes and problem gambling
Are lockboxes just another form of gambling? That depends on which government entity, scientist, lawyer, or doctor you ask. But maybe the question we...
Diablo III’s 15th season, Boon of the Horadrim, launches September 21
Holy crap, Diablo III is up to season 15. I think the last one I actually played through was 7. Maybe I'll be rectifying...
Ultima Online’s 101st update is rolling out as player-made castles are ported into the game
Ultima Online's publish 101 has begun rolling out to the first-wave production servers today, meaning the update will trickle out to the rest of...
Absolver’s free-to-play Downfall expansion is due out September 25
Absolver was one of last year's bigger stories, with its slick multiplayer combat style, but as we reported last month, its high player concurrency...
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Get ready to be flushed down Guild Wars 2’s mystic toilet raid in S4E4
Whether you love the new info format or hate it, ArenaNet is committed to a series of videos dishing out the details of Guild...
Path of Exile now has big plans to rebalance sulphite drops and Delve’s azurite mines
It turns out that yesterday's patch to Delve League wasn't the only change Grinding Gear has in store for Path of Exile. As we...
THQ Nordic suggests it bought Kingdoms of Amalur and MMO Project Copernicus chiefly for their IP
When THQ Nordic announced last week that it was acquiring 38 Studios' castoffs - Kingdoms of Amalur and MMORPG Project Copernicus - the news...
The Daily Grind: Do you still log in to play MMOs that are scheduled to sunset?
Last night, I saw a tweet go out from the WildStar account that made me super sad. "It’s show time!" Carbine said. "Sara Conavius...
Guild Wars 2 previews the minipet that makes its next legendary weapon so unique
If you just skimmed through Guild Wars 2's living world season 4 episode 4 announcement video yesterday, fixated on the new zone and personal...
Path of Exile’s latest minipatch doesn’t address the sulphite pain
Path of Exile will see another update today, this one intended to patch up some issues in the recent Delve League expansion. It focuses...
NetEase’s blockbuster battle royale game Knives Out is porting to PlayStation 4
Knives Out, which deserves an award based on the fact that it has the best battle royale game name ever, is coming to the...
ZeniMax outlines everything coming in Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire DLC
Murkmire cometh to The Elder Scrolls Online, and ZeniMax has a preview of the DLC up today to entice players into the swamp along...
New World’s latest screenshot teases include multiple landscapes, including the Damned Capital
Years ago on Massively-that-was, our former editor-in-chief once was forced to institute a rule that we could have only one TERA screenshot post per...
Dauntless previews The Middleman, its new NPC cell crafter
Some folks would be trying to cut out the middleman, but not Phoenix Labs: The studio is bringing The Middleman into Dauntless. He's basically...
Secret World Legends previews the Stonehenge Occult Defence Scenario in a new video
Last week (and during DragonCon), Funcom teased a new scenario type for Secret World Legends that had everybody buzzing because of its focus on...
Ship of Heroes’ latest video demos city street immersion on the spaceship
Ship of Heroes is following up its roadmap and immersive NPC AI discussion with a video that puts the content progress into perspective.
"Immersion is...
