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
Trove is headed to console as it celebrates 5M players
Here's some happy news for this week's birthday game: Trion is launching voxelbox Trove on PS4 and Xbox One later this year and touting...
The MMOs with deals on Amazon Prime Day
The second-biggest holiday of the year has arrived: I'm talking about Prime Day, of course, the summer's Black Friday, when Amazon puts a ton...
Black Desert’s Ninja and Kunoichi arrive July 20, siege system July 17
The Ninja and Kunoichi are coming! This would probably be bad news for you in real life, but it's lovely news for Black Desert...
The Daily Grind: When has going back to an MMO gone wrong for you?
I'm a big supporter of walking away from MMORPGs when they don't work for you, especially at launch -- but I always stay open...
Elite: Dangerous postpones CQC tournament in favor of PvP Icarus Cup
Frontier has canceled the Elite: Dangerous CQC tournament intended to run this year, at least as it was originally planned. Head of Community Zac...
Leaderboard: Are you preparing for WoW Legion?
Legion is coming.
Last week, Blizzard began pushing out the pre-patch for pre-launch events for World of Warcraft's Legion expansion. That means Demon Hunters are...
Warframe game director apologizes for the ‘mess’ created by its last update
Warframe's Spectres of the Rail update on Friday hasn't quite gone to plan. Redditors have taken Digital Extremes to task for pushing out a...
Join Starfall Tactics’ pre-alpha event with a key from Snowforged and MOP
Snowforged Entertainment's online space strategy MMO Starfall Tactics is running another pre-alpha event for testers later this week.
"Prepare to crash your opponents in intense tactical battles,...
The Daily Grind: How would you design a Pokemon MMORPG?
It's been a good week for the alternate reality game genre: Aside from Ingress, most of the ARGs on mobile are teeny-tiny, and even writing about...
MMO Week in Review: Lament for Turbine (July 10, 2016)
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!
The...
Make My MMO: People are actually buying Richard Garriott’s blood (July 9, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Shroud of the Avatar's Richard Garriott and Starr Long shocked gamers by auctioning off art pieces that include their...
Star Citizen’s celebratory Around the Verse features the Bengal Carrier
Star Citizen is continuing its rollout of a three-part Around the Verse in celebration of its 100th episode. Sandi Gardiner is joined this week...
Atlas Reactor reveals free-play event, new toons, and Blur trailer
Trion has a huge closed beta week planned for Atlas Reactor starting today (through July 17th) with a free-play event for the normally B2P,...
Trion has filed a Starfall Prophecy trademark – is it for RIFT?
Trion Worlds has filed a new trademark relating to video games this week: Starfall Prophecy.
A thread on the official RIFT forums has led to a...
Richard Garriott and Starr Long are literally selling their blood for Shroud of the Avatar
Remember last year back when Richard Garriott raffled off his rat tail to raise money for Shroud of the Avatar? Yeah, good times. Now...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs reward vets for helping newbies?
During this week's podcast, Justin explained to me something that Trion is up to in RIFT that blew me away: Players who have run...
Massively Overthinking: What’s never going to happen in your favorite MMO?
Last week's Overthinking question was a very broad one all about genre-wide wishes that go unfulfilled. But what if we drill that down? That's...
Riders of Icarus is already opening a new server
That didn't take long -- Nexon is apparently already opening new servers, at least in Europe, to handle the influx of players sweeping into Riders...
Turbine layoffs confirmed: Turbine is transitioning into a ‘mobile’ dev studio
We've updated the end of this post with Warner Bros.' statement to us.
It sounds as if Turbine may have been hit with another round...
Tribes: Ascend Creative Director resigns, Hi-Rez plans final patch in his honor [Updated]
A few weeks ago, Hi Rez Creative Director Sean McBride announced that he was leaving the company. "Unfortunately at this point in time Hi-Rez...
