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 Elder Scrolls Online is planning a freeplay event next week plus free lockboxes for subbers
Do you want to play The Elder Scrolls Online for free this weekend? Too bad. You can't. But you can play next week! Yes,...
Todd Howard says ‘Elder Scrolls Online is one of the biggest online games in the world’ as Ubisoft and Bethsoft weigh in on games as a service
Are you all in on games as a service? Are single player-games over, replaced by much more profitable eternally online (and lockbox-ridden) titles? Bethsoft's...
Star Citizen offers a speedy look at some of what’s coming in alpha 3.3
Star Citizen's Around the Verse this week is even shorter than the last few weeks' episodes, clocking it at under five minutes as alluded...
The Daily Grind: How early should an MMORPG’s hype cycle begin?
GIbiz put out an interesting piece this week looking 10 years into the past to see where the buzz was in the game industry...
ArenaNet has let go two Guild Wars 2 devs following a heated Twitter confrontation
Please note that this article has been heavily updated over the last week as this story has continued developing. New additions are at the...
Sea of Thieves fixes cannon teleporting (sort of) and bans cheaters
This week's Sea of Thieves update did keep the servers down extralong on the holiday, but there wasn't much to it. There's a new...
It’s starting to look like Valve is trying to murder SteamSpy on purpose
Back in April, Valve announced new supposedly privacy-oriented changes for Steam that had what everyone assumed to be an unintended (and unannounced) side-effect: It...
Elder Scrolls Online deep-dives the dungeons and PvP upgrades of the Wolfhunter DLC and GU19
ZeniMax is back to work today and hyping up Elder Scrolls Online's next DLC. Announced at E3, the Wolfhunter pack will roll out two...
ArenaNet is working on inventory tweaks and bug fixes for Classic Guild Wars – yes, a real patch!
ArenaNet isn't giving up on Classic Guild Wars, it seems, and it's not stopping at the basics.
"In the spirit of cupcakes, here's a sneak...
Former Star Citizen dev refutes fake Glassdoor review made by troll on his behalf
The battle of the trolls in the Star Citizen community reached new lows this week as someone apparently impersonated a former dev on Glassdoor...
Richard Garriott rejects idea that Shroud of the Avatar is a ‘flop’, says the game will run ‘forever’
Shroud of the Avatar has long been an odd bird in the MMORPG crowdfunding space. Driven by the eccentric Richard Garriott, it raised large...
Fractured devs discuss planetary travel, stargates, survival, and more in Kickstarter Q&A video
MMORPG sandbox Fractured continues its Kickstarter this week, with just 20 days to go on Kickstarter; as I type this, it's pulled in just...
Conan Exiles has set another Funcom record, announces Jewel of the West DLC and patch
Funcom's fortunes continue to rise thanks to Conan Exiles: The company announced today that it's "both the best-selling and fastest-selling game" in its history,...
Crowfall introduces mega deeds and panels for tricking out your Eternal Kingdom castles
Set aside your castles in the air: Crowfall's castles are built on solid ground. ArtCraft's most recent dev blog is all about them, or...
Perfect Tenception: Our ten perfectest Perfect Tens (since last year) – 2018 edition
Last year on the Fourth of July, I posted up a Perfect Ten that was a list of my favorite Perfect Tens Justin and...
Bless Online’s 4th of July patch adds new PvE dailies and a PvP battleground this evening
Live in Bless Online on the holiday today is the 1.3.0.0 patch as promised, with its two big chunks of new content. PvE players are...
TERA announces endgame-centric Phantom’s Keep update for July 12
TERA players are due for a big update next week as the En Masse drums keep to their monthly content cadence. The update is...
Ashes of Creation claims it’s ‘now among the largest MMOs in production’
Ashes of Creation claims it's "now among the largest MMOs in production" thanks to the addition of a large crew of new hires and...
Journalists and academics clash over the World Health Organization’s ‘gaming disorder’ classification
Ever since the World Health Organization decided it will include its "gaming disorder" classification in its upcoming disease classification manual revision, game journalists, mainstream...
Closers Online’s Season of Wolves is live with the fatigue system rework
If you're hungry like the wolf, strut on a line right on over to Closers, where En Masse has just introduced Season of Wolves...
