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
Interview: Bless Online on early access, pay-to-win, and its western refuge on Steam
Last night's bombshell that Bless Online is closing down its final Korean servers, leaving the game's Steam version in the west as the only...
Valve has finally decided to start moderating its Steam forums cesspool
Steam's forums are notorious throughout the gaming industry for being truly awful. Journalists across the industry have been pestering Valve for almost a year...
PSA: No, Gina Bruno is not leaving Elder Scrolls Online or Bethsoft
Last night, Elder Scrolls Online Community Manager Gina Bruno's Twitter account began blurting out a series of awful tweets that usually means only one...
Bless Online’s last remaining Korean servers are shutting down
Bad news for players of Bless Online in Korea: Neowiz announced today that the game is shutting down in that region as its last...
Part one of Villagers & Heroes’ Wrath of the Black Thrush expansion is live
Will Wrath of the Black Thrush eventually become Villagers & Heroes'Â very own WOTLK? I dunno about that, but I do know it's live, as...
Red Dead Redemption 2’s multiplayer version, Red Dead Online, hits beta this November
When I mentioned I was writing this piece, one of my colleages politely asked why the heck we were covering Red Dead Redemption 2...
Neverwinter is completely overhauling its entire crafting system
It's shaping up to be a big week for crafting across the MMO space, and Neverwinter is getting in on the action. PWE has...
H1Z1’s PC ‘Z1 Battle Royale’ gets its first big update under its new joint studio today
When Daybreak announced its new investment and development partnership with NantWorks and Jace Hall set up shop inside the company, H1Z1 fans expected big...
Secret World Legends has launched its new Occult Defense scenario
Secret World Legends' latest content drop is here and live, Funcom tweeted this morning. We're talking, of course, about the new scenario, Occult Defence,...
Fortnite player arrested for threatening to kill an 11-year-old opponent
This week in why we can't have nice things, a grown man apparently threatened to kill a little kid who beat him in Fortnite.
Yesterday,...
Fortnite patches in port-a-fortresses and spiky stadiums
Fortnite's latest patch is out today with a brand-new playground perk for the battle royale king, dubbed Spiky Stadium. This is inarguably a terrible...
World of Warcraft announces Tides of Vengeance with new content and account-wide rep tweaks
If you're enjoying World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth, you're probably OK with more of the same, as long as it's shiny and new....
Grab a War Thunder Naval Battles closed beta key from Gaijin and Massively OP!
For the last couple of months, War Thunder studio Gaijin Entertainment has been hard at work running a closed beta for its Naval Battles...
Sunsoft’s virtual reality MOBA, Dark Eclipse, launches for PlayStation VR September 25
Japanese developer Sunsoft has this morning announced the impending global release of Dark Eclipse, a brand-new free-to-play MOBA, with a twist: It's being billed as...
Wargaming is building a new ‘free-to-play multiplatform MMO’ in the UK
It looks as if Wargaming is planning to push even further into the MMO market.
According to GIbiz, the company known best for World of...
The Daily Grind: Do you think you’ve aged out of MMOs?
There's this particular template for covering MMORPGs on mainstream gaming websites that I cannot stand: the old "haha, MMOs are weird and old, let's...
Guild Wars 2 narrative: ‘It’s like working on a television show’
Just ahead of the launch of Guild Wars 2's next living story episode, GIbiz has a fun interview with multiple members of the current...
International regulators co-sign declaration to investigate lockboxes and skin gambling
If you thought Belgium and The Netherlands were going to keep on standing alone in the fight against lootboxes, you were very much mistaken,...
UK divorce firm says Fortnite and other online games contributed to 5% of this year’s divorces
Are people getting divorced over Fortnite? Or does a UK divorce website deserve a medal for SEO trick of the year? Why not both? A...
MMOARPG Lost Ark will finally launch in South Korea on November 7
Lost Ark is finally hitting open beta, MMO Culture reports.
Smilegate's media conference this morning revealed that its soft launch open beta will land for...
