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
Here’s a quick peek into the two ‘MMOs’ Pearl Abyss is working on
Back in September during Pearl Abyss' IPO press conference, the South Korean company reps let loose with a ton of information about the state...
The Crew 2 has been delayed deeper into 2018
We've known Ubisoft was working on a sequel to driving MMO The Crew since this past spring, when the company confirmed what it would...
Crowfall’s crafting looks more and more like Star Wars Galaxies’
Hey crafters. Let's talk Crowfall for a minute. ArtCraft Design Lead Thomas "Blixtev" Blair explains today in a new dev blog that crafting in...
Hawaii state rep Chris Lee urges gamers to contact their local governments about lockboxes
Say you were a legislator concerned about the lootbox/lockbox gambling issues in gaming. How would you actually go about drafting a law that targets...
Crowfall studio ArtCraft just raised another $6M from investors to launch the game
Lest you be dispirited by the fact that Crowfall's soft launch isn't going to make 2017 as promised (after also not making 2016), ArtCraft...
Roll a Mystic in Black Desert for fun and profit starting today
Fancy yourself a new Mystic toon in Black Desert? You can't play her just yet, but you can roll one starting today. The MMORPG...
Wild West Online seems to be dropping FFA PvP in favor of faction-based PvP
Still bummed out about Wild West Online's delay to 2018? Wait until you see the game's latest dev blog! 612 Games doesn't mention the...
Blade & Soul’s Dawn of the Lost Continent launches today (and it has a flying pirate ship)
Blade & Soul's biggest update ever is live today - or will be this afternoon once the servers are back from maintenance tonight!
As we've...
Crowfall: ‘You don’t have to get into the stats to have a good time in this game’
Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman and Billy Garretsen are back for another ACE Q&A - you can pretty much mark the months by these things....
Here’s all the stuff being nerfed in Path of Exile’s War for the Atlas on Friday
Path of Exile is fond of issuing manifestos, especially when it's nerfing stuff and trying to break it to you gently. This week's manifesto...
EA patches Star Wars Battlefront 2 as petition asking Lucasfilm to drop EA reaches 120K sigs
How hard is EA trying to salvage its rep hit from the Star Wars Battlefront 2 drama? It's hard to judge right now. This...
Wintersday returns to Guild Wars 2 next week
Break out your snowflakes, your sparkling daggers, and your dancing snowmen, as Wintersday returns to Guild Wars 2 next week - Tuesday, December 12th,...
Star Wars Galaxies’ main emulator got a major infrastructure upgrade and the Village Jedi system
If you've not played on the original Star Wars Galaxies emulator in a season or two, it's probably escaped your notice entirely that its...
Wild West Online’s early access has been delayed into next year
In a move that will shock nobody who's played the game, watched the game being played, or followed the multiple delays suffered by the game...
Black Desert lays out roadmap with new toon, region, class swapping, and weapon buffs
Over the weekend during South Korea's FESTA event, Pearl Abyss slipped out the news that Black Desert is due to get another character: Ran....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO needs a better music system – or any music system?
If you ask any Star Wars Galaxies veteran about the game's most amazing features, I guarantee that the music and dance system will make...
RuneScape and Final Fantasy studios sponsor new charity initiatives
Two MMO companies are working on new charity efforts to help those in need.
Jagex says that it's testing a new cash-shop setup that allows...
Warframe on how studios should ‘learn to fight superficial microtransaction integration’
Warframe has become aggressively popular according to Digital Extremes' own metrics, and our own readers back that up. Part of the reason is the...
Funcom is raising the price of Conan Exiles on console to $49.99
Funcom has just announced to Conan Exiles players anxiously awaiting the game on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 that they'll be paying more than...
Niantic will reboot Ingress into Ingress Prime next year
Niantic is delivering a massive upgrade for Ingress next year. "Reboot" might even be a more appropriate term.
The company most people know for its...
