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
Elder Scrolls Online’s new video summarizes the snobby elves of Summerset
Just as Morrowind was much more than elves, so is Summerset, but it's hard for the elves in this elven kingdom not to take...
Conan Exiles just patched in farming, fast travel, The Purge, and the combat revamp on both platforms
It's a big day over in Conan Exiles, whether you're on PC or Xbox One, as Funcom's just rolled out a major patch ahead...
Bot-maker Bossland’s legit game flops, Germany rejects Blizzard’s US court victory and won’t enforce damages
Are you surprised to be hearing about Bossland again? We're surprised to be reporting on it. The German-based botmaker made headlines for the last...
Tencent is bringing mobile OARPG Raziel westward for your clicking pleasure
If OARPGs with Torchlight-esque graphics are your thing and your mobile device packs a punch, then feast your eyes and wallet on Raziel. Gaming...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the dumbest armor?
Back in February, PC Gamer put out a piece on the absolute dumbest character armor in gaming history. There's more than one MMORPG in...
SuperData examines the lootbox controversy’s effect on EA and the gaming industry
How big a deal with the lootbox controversy that finally hit the mainstream last year? Pretty big, SuperData argues. In a new blog post,...
Next year’s EVE Fanfest won’t be in Iceland, obviating your efforts to properly spell Reykjavik
Last autumn, when CCP Games began dumping assets and studios and VR holdings overboard, it also sent almost all of its EVE Online community...
Guild Wars 2 plans bonus harvesting weekend, backs player artists crowdfunding a GW2 tarot deck for charity
So here's something Guild Wars 2 doesn't do much: special weekend bonus events. This one's probably more about getting folks to buy harvesting tools...
Defiance 2050 delays its console closed beta event, but the PC event will go on as planned
A couple of weeks ago, Trion announced that it was prepping a big closed beta test for Defiance 2050 across all platforms - this...
Police who killed innocent man during Call of Duty swatting incident won’t be charged
At the tail end of 2017, a Call of Duty swatting incident in Kansas took the life of a completely innocent man after police killed him...
Saga of Lucimia defends Star Citizen’s slow progress, Shroud of the Avatar’s transparency
One of the challenges for indie and crowdfunded MMORPGs is surely the nature of their development: plugging along without much fanfare, with players seeing...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest scandal the MMORPG genre has ever seen?
Over the weekend in the Guild Wars 2 spyware article comments, a commenter remarked that Blizzard's Warden spyware was "the biggest scandal in MMOs"...
MMO Week in Review: When you gaze too long into EVE’s Abyss, the Abyss also… actually it just PKs you (April 15, 2018)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
After...
Make My MMO: PAX’s hands-on, Star Citizen’s free-fly, and Camelot’s weekend tests (April 14, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen is running a free-fly this weekend, as teased yesterday. The game's currently testing alpha 3.1.2, which also...
Guild Wars 2 used client-side spyware to aid its latest purge of potential cheaters
ArenaNet's just gone on a purge of potential cheaters in Guild Wars 2.
"Yesterday we suspended 1,583 accounts for a period of 6 months," Gaile...
Romain ‘Tilty’ Amiel departs Funcom and Secret World Legends
Secret World Legends players are in for a shock: Game Director Romain Amiel is moving on from Funcom. MMO vets will recall he's been...
PUBG Corp’s infringement lawsuit against NetEase may not be completely ridiculous after all
Last week, we wrote about how PUBG Corp is suing NetEase (and NetEase is threatening to sue everyone) over alleged copyright infringement in regard...
Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018
The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...
Here’s how to playtest Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerset chapter next week
Summerset is closer than you think! The Elder Scrolls Online team announced today that the chapter is expected to hit the test server on...
Star Citizen runs down ships and kicks off a free-fly weekend
On this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse, I can't decide whether Sandi Gardiner or Eric Kieron Davis has the cooler shirt, but it...
