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
World of Warcraft’s Hazzikostas on content creep and the future of the game
Hey, it turns out that designing long-term MMORPGs that aren't pump-and-dump schemes is hard!
That's the takeaway from a new PC Gamer interview with Blizzard's...
Guild Wars 2 legendary armor for raiders launches next week
ArenaNet's Paul Ella has a fresh blog post out this afternoon revealing the plan for legendary armor in Guild Wars 2. If you're my...
Pantheon studio Visionary Realms finds firmer financial footing
Looking at Pantheon today, you almost wouldn't know it flopped its Kickstarter way back in 2014. That's because the team kept at it and...
MMORPG sandbox Arcfall is headed to Steam early access
I'm always wary nowadays when a game bills itself as a massively multiplayer sandbox gaming world, especially one that says it's akin to "old...
Join MOP in Paragon Chat for Friday’s City of Heroes anniversary bash
Beloved superhero MMORPG City of Heroes turns 13 years old tomorrow, and what better way to celebrate than in Paragon City? That's exactly what...
Dark Age of Camelot welcomes back old players, Ultima Online discusses summer updates
Broadsword's keeping fans of its MMORPGs Dark Age of Camelot and Ultima Online busy this week!
Dark Age of Camelot is running a Come Back...
Snag a Mu Online, Flyff, C9, or Rappelz key in honor of Webzen’s 8th anniversary
Webzen is celebrating 8 years of MMOs today, kicking off multiple events and patches across its games:Â MU Origin has posted its 1.7 update with...
Elder Scrolls Online offers a new video glimpse of Morrowind’s Vivec
The greatest city on Morrowind's island of Vvardenfell is Vivec -- and in The Elder Scrolls Online's expansion timeline, Vivec is still being built...
Conan Exiles patches in 50 emotes, exploit fixes
Update 25 has landed for Funcom's in-early-access survival sandbox Conan Exiles, bringing with it 50 new emotes as promised. You've got the basics, like...
Guild Wars 2 announces Flashpoint living story episode, price drop for Heart of Thorns
Super Adventure Box departed Guild Wars 2 last week, so you had to expect we were on the brink of seeing another episode of the...
Lord of the Rings Online celebrates 10 years with stream at noon
Lord of the Rings Online is currently in the middle of its 10th anniversary celebrations, only somewhat darkened by the grumbling over the event's...
RuneScape plans Menaphos update for June 5, addresses Spring Fayre uproar
RuneScape's been teasing its Menaphos: The Golden City update for what seems like months, but today, the expansion's getting a hard date: June 5th....
The Daily Grind: Do you believe MMO studios release overpowered new classes on purpose?
Yesterday's Elder Scrolls Online press embargo drop allowed us to talk a bit more about the overpowered state of the Morrowind Warden class --...
Osiris: New Dawn teases planetary changes coming in this week’s update
We're inching ever closer to the release of survival sandbox Osiris: New Dawn's "massive" next patch, all set to include new dungeons, better graphics, a...
Overwatch pro player sees career ended over racist diatribe
It's probably not the best idea to start shouting racial abuse in the middle of a live stream if you're public figure with a...
This in-game Elite Dangerous event will affect the game’s novelization
Cancel your plans for Saturday, folks: You're gonna want to be in Elite Dangerous. That's because Frontier has a big event planned that day...
Academics and addiction experts weigh in on ‘pay-to-loot’ gambleboxes and lockboxes
"Pay-to-win" is old news now -- game designers' new plan for hoovering all the cash out of our wallets is "pay-to-loot."
According to IGN's Nathan...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Tal Shiar Adapted Battlecruiser for Xbox One
In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online's season 12 Reckoning for console, PWE has granted Massively OP five Tier 6 Tal Shiar Adapted Battlecruisers...
MMOARG dev sues Milwaukee county over Pokemon Go-inspired park ordinance
Remember back in February when Milwaukee County in Wisconsin tried to handle the whole "Pokemon Go players are destroying parks and costing municipalities cash...
This player is rebuilding Ultima Online in Wurm Online
One of the best parts of Wurm Online's Unlimited version is that players can run wild with their own custom servers, tailoring them to...
