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
Obsidian’s Armored Warfare team hit with layoffs
Obsidian Entertainment has announced layoffs for an unknown number of staffers working on military MMO Armored Warfare.
Gamasutra reports that the cuts are planned to...
Heroes of the Storm’s game director passes the torch, moves to new Blizzard project
Heroes of the Storm Game Director Dustin Browder announced this afternoon that he's hanging up his hat and moving elsewhere within Blizzard to work...
Conan Exiles infographic details the thin barriers between you and death
Turns out yesterday's Conan Exiles survival video wasn't the only thing Funcom had in store on the topic. Today, the studio's put out a...
China is cracking down on MMORPG lockbox vendors
Violently authoritarian government regulates nasty video gaming monetization exploit, and gamers are cheering? Yep, China is cracking down on lockboxes. A notice from the creepy Ministry of...
WildStar promises ‘exciting features’ and new content in 2017
WildStar is "rocketing" into 2017, declares a new dev blog from Carbine's clearly indefatigable Chad "Pappylicious" Moore today. After recapping last month's Redmoon Mutiny...
Elite: Dangerous charts a course for the PlayStation 4 in 2017
Elite Dangerous is coming to the PlayStation 4 -- and while it is not bringing its lost colon, it's bringing everything else. Frontier CEO...
Blade & Soul’s Ruins of Khanda Vihar patch brings new storyline, dungeon, and winter holiday content
"The winds of Fate beckon!" NCsoft posted today following Blade & Soul's return to service after maintenance. Yes, the 2.9 update is live now...
Conan Exiles’ new trailer features elephants, sandstorms, shelter, and dancing thralls
Funcom has a long video out today on Conan Exiles, and while it begins with a retread of the basics of starting out in...
Pantheon’s Shaman will look familiar to traditional MMORPG players
Ahead of its big stream on Friday, Pantheon's newsletter today is bursting with details on the Shaman class, which is due for its reveal...
Black Desert’s Ninja and Kunoichi awaken this morning
Yes, the Ninja and Kunoichi awakening update is live today in Black Desert. Kakao has upgraded both classes with their new weapons, both designed...
SMITE launches the goddess Nike with the Wings of Victory patch today
SMITE's 3.23 update, more colorfully known as Wings of Victory, has rolled out to the PC version of the game today. Chief among the...
Stardew Valley comes to console next week, updates multiplayer progress
Chucklefish Games announced today that adorable farm sim Stardew Valley is destined for console, and soon: It launches on Xbox One and PlayStation 4...
Conan Exiles discusses character creation and your list of crimes
Conan Exiles' latest dev blog is all about first steps... yours. Specifically, it's about the character creation and earliest stages of the game, and...
Former Cryptic devs form Cold Iron studio to build ‘AAA online action games’
Every wonder what happened to Craig Zinkievich after he moved on from Star Trek Online and Cryptic Studios? Turns out he and several other...
ARK: Survival Evolved launches on PS4 today, plans spring 2017 ‘final product’
Welcome to ARK: Survival Evolved, PS4 players. Watch out for the dinos.
Yes, Studio Wildcard's dino survival sandbox has launched for the Sony console today...
Guild Wars 2’s fifth season of PvP and Wintersday begin next week [Updated]
Guild Wars 2 PvP players, listen up: You're getting some of what you've been craving. Anet confirmed today that its PvP revamp is landing...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG developer has the best communication with players?
MMORPG developers come in lots of flavors of communication, with PR and community teams that run the gamut from "oh, we still pay for...
Daybreak confirms its president has stepped down, Columbus Nova exec continues in his stead
Last week, we reported on the news that Daybreak President Russell Shanks, who had been the President of the company ever since John Smedley resigned last...
South Korea outlaws creation and distribution of game hacking programs
Think the worst thing that can happen to you for helping gamers cheat in a video game is a ban? Think again, at least...
Anybody wanna ‘Gatecrash’ EVE Valkyrie this Wednesday?
EVE Valkyrie is getting its third major update this week: Gatecrash.
"Gatecrash inaugurates new gameplay possibilities, a pilot personalization system and the Gateway multiplayer map,"...
