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
Elder Scrolls Online plans in-game jester-themed festival events for April Fools’ Day
It's time to be sorry you whined and moaned for holidays in The Elder Scrolls Online. Or not sorry. It depends on whether you...
Overwatch’s Orisa is live today, Blizzard considers map editor
Tankbot Orisa is live in Overwatch today for those of you not too busy jacking into Andromeda. While she'll be accessible on all three platforms...
Blade & Soul switches to larger, slower updates with brand-new Secrets of the Stratus
Blade & Soul is rolling out a massive expansion next month, one NCsoft says "marks a shift in pace for the game."
Dubbed Secrets of...
The Daily Grind: What one thing should MMORPGs do to increase player retention?
Zubon at Kill Ten Rats recently spied a lovely tidbit over on Dr Richard Bartle's blog. Bartle, I shouldn't need to type, is considered...
Shroud of the Avatar: Kas Ruins, custom NPCs, and marble columns
Shroud of the Avatar's 219th newsletter has arrived! Of note is the segment on the Kas Ruins, whose biome is based on the Rockies...
Grim Dawn reveals Necromancer class for this year’s expansion
Guess who's getting a Necromancer class this year! If you said Diablo III, well, I can't tell you you're wrong because that's also happening....
Path of Exile on virtual reality, auto-sort, and offline play
Path of Exile's latest dev Q&A has a few nuggets of interest for followers of the MMOARPG. What caught our eye? Don't expect an...
Leaderboard: The Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind ‘chapter vs. DLC’ fee debate
In the comments of a Daily Grind last week, a few commenters tangented into debate about The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind pricing.
See, the original...
Conan Exiles on this week’s patch, The Purge, and a ‘partial wipe’
DualShockers has a new interview out with Conan Exiles' Joel Bylos. It's from GDC, but it's still worth a look given that it includes...
Star Citizen will drop DX11, avoid DX12 support
Over the weekend, Cloud Imperium fielded questions from players on some of the more technical elements on display in Star Citizen's last Around the...
South Korea’s Netmarble to launch ambitious IPO
South Korean Tencent affiliate Netmarble announced today that it will launch an initial public offering to the tune of $2.35 billion US. That works...
The Repopulation is back, but major bugs ensure the next patch is a ways off
Idea Fabrik's internal dev team published a dev update on The Repopulation this morning, following the game's relaunch last week. The studio says it's...
The Daily Grind: Do you roll multiple MMO characters of the same class?
I'm closing in on "done" -- my own peculiar version of done, anyway -- on my ninth character in Guild Wars 2. I've rolled...
MMO Week in Review: PAX East awards, EverQuest’s 18th, and ESO’s battlegrounds (March 19, 2017)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
A...
Make My MMO: Pathfinder is alive, Starfighter seeks crowdfunds (March 18, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Pathfinder Online resurfaced this weekend with good and bad news. Paizo's Lisa Stevens tells fans that efforts and research into selling...
Star Citizen’s level design is coming along much faster than you probably thought
Following what turned out to be an intriguing Ten for the Chairman earlier this week, Cloud Imperium has released a Star Citizen Around the...
League of Legends on LGBT representation and pro team mistreatment allegations
League of Legends will probably introduce non-straight characters eventually, a new interview on Polygon with Riot Games' Greg Street suggests. The publication asked Street...
UK Gambling Commission argues game studios should avoid complicity with unlicensed gambling operations
The UK doesn't take kindly to illegal gambling, as anyone who followed the FIFA YouTuber gambling case in the region over the last year....
The U.S. Navy solicits players for ‘massively multiplayer online war game’
Remember back in 2011, when the U.S. Navy rolled out the world's first MMOWGLI -- that is, massively multiplayer online wargame leveraging the internet?...
Conan Exiles contemplates official server wipes following massive duping exploit
Funcom says it's "weighing its options" following a series of rampant duping and apparent character hacking exploits in Conan Exiles.
Players on Reddit have begun...
