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 Daily Grind: Do MMORPGs still need traditional guilds?
In the game's design docs and our interviews, Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs is positively adamant that multiguilding (that is, being able to join more than...
Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs
Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...
Citadel Forged With Fire = Harry Potter + IKEA
Blue Isle is decorating the heck out of Citadel: Forged With Fire with this week's patch. "Before this update, many players gave the feedback...
Crowfall devs on why they don’t make their soft launch production checklist public
Happy October: It's time for another Crowfall Q&A. ArtCraft's Thomas Blair and Mark Halash and sit down to answer questions from high-end Crowfall backers....
British alt rock band Muse will close out BlizzCon 2017
Blizzard's going old school once again with its band selection for this year's BlizzCon: UK alt rock band Muse. Here's the spiel:
"Widely renowned as...
Warframe: New Plains of Eidolon trailer, players host 100-hour charity stream
Digital Extremes told Warframe players yesterday that the Plains of Eidolon expansion was planned to launch "within the next 10 days," and today's press...
Spacetime Studios announces Pocket Legends Adventures
Last week, we broke the news that Spacetime Studios was working on a new mobile MMO, and as of today's announcement, it's been confirmed....
Free Realms ‘Sunrise’ emulator prepares for second alpha test
Last year, almost three years after SOE shut down Free Realms for good, a group of players announced that it was resurrecting the title...
Elder Scrolls Online kicks off ‘#10MillionStories’ campaign in honor of 10M players
Back at E3, the ZeniMax Elder Scrolls Online team announced that it had accumulated 10 million unique players since its original launch in 2014 -...
Atlas Reactor turns one year old with free stuff, fourth season, and Halloween
Whoa, has it been a year since Atlas Reactor launched already? Indeed it has! And Trion's marking the occasion with hoopla and presents and...
Grab a Total War: ARENA closed beta key from Wargaming and MOP
At the tail end of last year, Wargaming's then-new publishing label, Wargaming Alliance, announced it was picking up SEGA's Total War: ARENA, a "free-to-play,...
Warframe’s Plains of Eidolon is aiming to launch by Friday the 13th
Are we there yet? Almost, actually. Digital Extremes told Warframe players yesterday that the Plains of Eidolon expansion is coming sooner that you might...
Indie space sandbox MMO Dual Universe launches pre-alpha with a fresh trailer
Happy pre-alpha, Dual Universe! The ambitious indie space sandbox MMORPG kicked off the pre-alpha over the weekend, bringing 2500 backers in to test. You'll...
Conan Exiles updates community on farming, PS4 development, and console/PC parity
Conan Exiles' latest community update is a great example of why excessive community updates might not really be necessary. The team spends a ton...
Armored Warfare reorients its business model to ‘improve overall ecosystem health’
If you were one of the folks who suspected the Cloud Pirates sunset was intended to divert resources to My.com's other games, well, today's...
Guild Wars 2 is now selling waypoint unlocks in the cash shop
With today's update, ArenaNet has begun selling waypoint unlocks in the Guild Wars 2 cash shop.
"You know the drill. You’re trying to reach East...
Rumor: Blizzard is buffing Battlenet with chat channels, offline mode
The dataminers at MMO-Champion may have just figured out one of the big reveals Blizzard has cooking for BlizzCon next month. It revolves around...
RIFT’s Crucia’s Claw update introduces Bastion of Steel raid and Mystic Archer soul
RIFT players, Trion's turned its attention back to you with a major update coming October 25th. Dubbed Crucia's Claw, the 4.3 patch includes a...
Fortnite buffs its PvE mode in this week’s Horde Bash update
PvE players, this Fortnite update's for you: Epic's plotting what it's calling "Horde Bash" for the game's PvE side, due out on Thursday of...
Secret World Legends’ Tokyo: Orochi Tower drops next week, followed by Halloween
Funcom posted up a new Secret World Legends infodump over the weekend, and if you were expecting it in a new post as we...
