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
Neverwinter counts 18M players as it celebrates its fifth birthday
Eighteen million! No, that's not how many dollars you've dumped into your Steam account; that's just about how many people have played Neverwinter in...
Bless Online patches in a 3v3 arena and class buffs as players call for server merges
Bless Online is trucking out a brand-new patch today. The highlight is the Certanon Arena, essentially a 3v3 best-of-five PvP minigame for level 45...
The Daily Grind: How much dough have you dropped on Steam in its lifetime?
VentureBeat noticed this week that it's possible to figure out just how much money you've blown on video games, at least through Steam, by...
Worlds Adrift teaches you to git gud, promises instruments someday
Still having a rough time in Worlds Adrift? Bossa Studios has a new humorous guide out to help players "git gud." Among the tips...
Black Desert’s weekly update introduces soccer-themed event, guild crafting overhaul, and summer sales
Gooooaaaalllll! Yes, Black Desert is getting into the soccer hype season with its Golden Goal event starting tomorrow. Slay monsters, fish, and harvest to...
Star Citizen alpha 3.2 hits the PTU as backers play with mining, grouping, and pixel ships
The Star Citizen Reddit is abuzz today - and no, not just about EVE Online's "Venture Capitalist" skin bundle joke, although they're doing that...
Elder Scrolls Online offers Steam downtime compensation as review-bombing hits ‘mostly negative’
Earlier this week, we covered the messy business between Elder Scrolls Online and Steam - specifically, that Steam logins for the game have been toast...
Shroud of the Avatar suffers layoffs, saying ‘right-sizing’ is needed ahead of episode 2
It appears as if Portalarium is suffering some layoffs and downsizing in the wake of the launch of Shroud of the Avatar: The studio's...
ARK Survival Evolved promises Extinction expansion for November 6
Exctinction is coming! Wait, that's a bad thing... unless you're a player of ARK Survival Evolved, where Extinction is just the name of the...
Closers launches Violet character, nukes the fatigue system on July 3
En Masse has big plans for its action MMO Closers, the studio announced in a press release today. Not only will Closers launch new...
Video game industry groups across the globe reject WHO’s ‘gaming disorder’ classification
As we noted yesterday, the World Health Organization has gone ahead with the inclusion of "gaming disorder" in the publication of its most recent...
Smed weighs in on Sony’s historical PlayStation crossplay hangups
Sony's managed to piss off a whole lotta gamers over its unwillingness to play ball on Fortnite. As we covered last week, the PlayStation...
More MMOs pledge to fully remove Red Shell spyware, including Secret World Legends
At the beginning of June, we covered The Elder Scrolls Online's implementation of spyware program Red Shell, which is designed to track specific information...
Guild Wars 2’s next episode, Long Live the Lich, launches June 26 – here’s the trailer (finally!)
Who had June 26th for Guild Wars 2's next big thing? Oh, everyone? Because we had gobs of time to speculate in the delay...
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer ‘work’ simulation MMOs to more fantastic game worlds?
In the comments of my piece on Raph Koster's book last week, a commenter brought up the idea that mimicking the real world in...
Cuisine Royale is the goofy reskin the battle royale genre deserves
Be careful what you wish for! Apparently, Gaijin (you know it from WarThunder) ran an April Fools' day joke mode for online shooter Enlisted...
The World Health Organization advances its ‘gaming disorder’ classification in spite of heavy criticism
The World Health Organization has gone ahead with the inclusion of "gaming disorder" in the publication of its most recent edition of its disease...
PUBG admits to reusing assets but argues that doesn’t make it an asset flip
Tired of hearing the words "asset flip"? PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is too. Apparently at E3 last week, PUBG creator Brendan Greene gently joked that he...
Elder Scrolls Online players politely review-bomb the game over excessive Steam login woes
If you've been struggling to play Elder Scrolls Online on Steam this weekend, you're not alone. Apparently the Steam logins have been crapping out...
Two teens who allegedly contributed to Call of Duty swatting murder plead not guilty
Reuters has an update on the ongoing criminal cases against the some of the defendants in the Call of Duty swatting incident from last...
