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
Star Citizen touts Squadron 42 progress, monthly studio report, and the 3.0.1 alpha
The Star Citizen crew is back to work on Squadron 42 in 2018, as chronicled in the latest episode of Around the Verse. The...
Greed Monger has actually begun refunding Kickstarter backers from 2012
Way back in 2015, Kickstarted MMORPG Greed Monger was dead in the water, ripped apart by development delays, infighting amongst the developers, lawsuit threats,...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually care whether game studios apologize for screw-ups?
Bungie. Epic. Hi-Rez. Lots of apologies this week for one thing or another. As one of our readers, @Helltrek, put it, "It seems that the...
Trove launches in Japan this spring, offers freebies through Twitch Prime promo
Trion announced today that Trove is launching in Japan on PS4 this spring, with closed beta coming "soon." You'll recall it launched in China...
Age of Conan rolls out brand-new forums, with Secret World Legends and Anarchy Online to follow
It's been a big week for the supposedly-in-maintenance-mode Age of Conan: First it got a new time-limited progression server, then it lowered its sub...
Fortnite’s 2.4.0 patch was delayed in part to fix the dang building glitch
Fortnite's 2.4.0 patch was supposed to release today, but last night, Epic announced a delay to "further improve stability and hammer out some remaining...
Elder Scrolls Online previews update 17’s new storage and cosmetic customization options
When the B2P Dragon Bones DLC launches for Elder Scrolls Online on February 12th, it won't launch alone. Update 17 launches the same day,...
Star Citizen: Subber PTU access ‘perk’, developments in the Crytek lawsuit, and patch 3.0.1
Who says subscriptions are dead? Not Star Citizen. The alpha MMORPG has long taken a page out of the Pathfinder Online playbook by offering...
Red Dead Redemption 2 has been delayed yet again, this time to October 2018
Red Dead Redemption 2 is suffering another long delay, this time to October. The new official launch date is October 26th, 2018.
"We apologize to...
Conan Exiles turns one, teases combat overhaul stream and biome progress
Happy birthday, Conan Exiles! Yes, Funcom's blood-and-guts survival sandbox is turning one this week, or more specifically, one year in early access on PC....
Guild Wars 2 proposes massive overhaul of WvW with world restructuring and creation
World vs. world content has long been a sore spot for Guild Wars 2, at least as far as world PvPers are concerned, which...
PWE will sunset MOBA Gigantic in July because it couldn’t ‘break through in a crowded market’
Gigantic is on the short road to sunset, I'm sorry to report.
The move by publisher PWE won't surprise many players, as the development studio...
RIFT lead systems designer Andy ‘Vladd’ Kirton steps down
According to a thread on RIFT's official forums today, a new lead systems designer is apparently on order in the flagship Trion MMORPG as Andy "Vladd"...
Crowfall’s new hires bring studio to 45 people as ‘complete game loop’ testing is mapped out
Let's talk about money. Specifically, let's talk about Crowfall's money. ArtCraft is doing just that in a dev blog out today.
Referencing the $6M cash...
Black Desert patches in new guild boss and campsite, teases costume contest
Black Desert's biweekly patch has arrived, complete with new guild boss Muskan, a new campsite, and the Call of Moonlight Fragment challenge. As always,...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Dragon Bones DLC will launch on February 12
ZeniMax has just announced release dates for Elder Scrolls Online's Dragon Bones DLC - and of course, the free release of update 17 too....
Elite Dangerous community thwarts griefers’ attempt to ruin final in-game voyage of terminally ill player
Elite Dangerous has once again become the battleground between griefers and everybody else, this time with real-life stakes.
A few weeks ago, the Elite community...
Linkrealms is sunsetting today
Sad news this morning: Linkrealms is sunsetting, today if our read of the letter sent to players yesterday is correct, since today is the...
Atlas Reactor’s fifth season is live with new cyborg character Vonn and Valentine loot
We mentioned on the podcast that Trion Worlds seems to be moving into high gear here at the beginning of 2018 with all of...
SMITE 5.1 is a virtual do-over for the Conquest map
SMITE's massive 5.1 patch is live today on PC, complete with the heavily overhauled and graphically updated Conquest map. There's a new tutorial for...
