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
Camelot Unchained completes ‘first 30 days of beta 1’ doc
With the Seattle base a go, Camelot Unchained is pushing forward. City State's Tyler Rockwell says the team has been hard at work on...
University researchers harness Pokemon Go for education
Researchers continue to find new ways to make Pokemon Go dance for science. In a new paper, Iowa State University's Emily Howell suggests that...
Netmarble’s trading debut in Korea was freakin’ huge
Back in April, Tencent subsidiary Netmarble raised $2.3 billion in shares sold to investors during the first phase of its IPO, helping it reach...
Star Citizen Around the Verse deep-dives its player interaction system
On Star Citizen's Around the Verse episode this week, Erin Roberts checks in from the UK studios in Wilmslow, where the team is working...
Enter to win Marvel Heroes PC Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 loot from Gazillion and MOP
Tired of hearing about Marvel Heroes Omega on PlayStation 4 because you play on PC? This giveaway's for you! We've got 10 keys for all the Guardians of...
Day five of Crowfall’s teaser week: A ‘triad of confusion’
Yes, Crowfall's teaser week is coming to a close today, with two new images and a story excerpt commenting on the insidious nature of humans.
If yesterday's...
RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy name change was provoked by a trademark lawsuit
If you were a little bit puzzled by Trion's announcement this week that it was changing the name of RIFT's latest expansion from Starfall Prophecy...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most painful bug you’ve ever encountered in an MMORPG?
I've been playing a bit of Ultima Online lately, and the other night as I was working on my skills, I remembered a horrible...
Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO genre facing an identity crisis?
MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis."
"The MMO...
2006 MMOTBS Pox Nora lands on PlayStation 4 this month with solid cross-platform support
Long before Hearthstone, HEX, and the avalanche of other games trying to cash in on the legitimized online lottery that is TCGs, there was...
Day four of Crowfall’s teaser week: Are we getting warm yet?
ArtCraft is clearly taking Crowfall's teaser week super seriously, what with naming today's teaser images "hottiemchotster" and "jamesgoblinlikesthis." There's not much to the Thursday...
Ship of Heroes explores its spaceship mission maps
Raise your hand if you're a superhero MMORPG fan who really, really wants to see good mission maps. None of this office building #3457225...
Elder Scrolls Online’s latest trailer reveals the true balance of power in Morrowind
Over the past couple of weeks, ZeniMax has been releasing travelogues and trailers for The Elder Scrolls Online's Morrowind expansion, many of them voiced...
Russian Pokemon Go player sentenced over blasphemy law
The 22-year-old Russian vlogger convicted of playing Pokemon Go inside a church has been hit with a 3.5-year suspended sentence.
Ruslan Sokolovsky was found "guilty of inciting...
NCsoft Q1 2017: Tumbles for Lineage, Guild Wars 2, plus new leadership for Lineage Eternal
NCsoft's first quarter financials for 2017 have released, and... well, let's get the bad news out of the way. While sales dropped only slightly...
Cloud Pirates discusses e-sports, monetization, PvE, and update plans for 2017
We haven't heard much out of My.com's MOBA Cloud Pirates other than contests since it soft launched in April, but today the studio is...
Revelation Online adds Snowpine Reach to its travelogues
My.com has a pair of new dev blogs out this week. The first focuses on Snowpine Reach, a snowy Alpine zone in the northeast...
Valiance Online’s capital city hall is ‘akin to the Pentagon’ for supers
Back in April, Silverhelm Studios told players it was instituting "big changes" in the way it was rolling out information for City of Heroes-inspired...
Enter to win a Marvel Heroes Omega PS4 beta code from Gazillion and MOP
If you were curious about the Marvel Heroes Omega edition out on PlayStation 4 but didn't want to shell out for a founder pack...
Pantheon explains acclimation and recaps the Monk class in May’s newsletter
Indie MMO Pantheon's latest newsletter recaps the past month, so if you're paying plenty of attention to the game, you've already seen the featured Monk...
