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
Pantheon on ghost towns, hardcore raiding, and dungeon attunement
Selected "VIP" members of the Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen forums were recently treated to a special Q&A session with the Visionary Realms devs,...
Crowfall’s next big update is aimed at serious testers
In this month's Crowfall Q&A video, Creative Director J. Todd Coleman and Design Lead Thomas Blair give fair warning: The next round of testing is...
The Daily Grind: Will Blizzard announce vanilla WoW servers at BlizzCon 2016?
BlizzCon kicks off in just a few short weeks, and already expectations are high. Unsubstantiated Diablo 4 rumors have begun circulating, and the Nostalrius...
Massively Overthinking: The classes MMORPGs never do
No one wants to play Uncle Owen, a certain MMORPG exec famously said -- except, you know, for all the people who really, really...
The Exiled plans wipe and patch for AI and casting modes next week
Indie sandbox The Exiled (fka Das Tal) has a sizable patch coming on Monday. Unceremoniously dubbed Alpha 43, it will unfortunately include a wipe...
Halloween takes over SMITE with Terror of the Night… and bats
SMITE's Terror of the Night patch hit PC earlier this week, complete with the "unique jungler" Camazotz, Deadly God of Bats, and an array...
World of Warcraft’s Ion Hazzikostas replaces Tom Chilton as game director
Blizzard is losing yet another veteran developer from the World of Warcraft team today: Tom "Kalgan" Chilton, who says he's staying on with the...
A Blood Moon rises over Champions Online once again
I think it was Eliot who recently joked that Halloween in a superhero game is just gilding the lily -- everyone in a superhero...
Skyforge demos the trick-shot Outlaw class in a new trailer
Skyforge has a new trailer and dev blog out today covering the Outlaw class, which rolled out last week for CE buyers ahead of...
Enter to win a Revelation Online closed beta key from My.com and Massively OP
Earlier this week, we learned exactly when Revelation Online's western closed beta will run: October 25th through November 8th. As My.com explained it, "The first...
EVE Valkyrie and Gunjack launch today for PlayStation VR
In conjunction with the PlayStation VR launch today, CCP is touting the availability of EVE Valkyrie and EVE Gunjack as launch titles for the...
EVE Online player promises $75,000 reward for thwarting enemies
If yesterday's CCP crackdown on gambling and RMT in the EVE Online universe wasn't enough drama for you, order some more popcorn for this...
Warframe cordially invites you to a real-world digital wedding
If you've played MMORPGs long enough, you've probably been to at least one in-game wedding -- maybe even one for your own character. But...
CCP outlaws gambling in EVE Online, bans RMT organizations
Changes to EVE Online's EULA coming in November with the launch of Ascension and the free-to-play conversion will effectively outlaw gambling, which has been a...
Pokemon Go: The Dutch suspend the case against Niantic
Remember back in September when a community in the Netherlands announced it was taking Niantic to court in The Hague because the company had...
Seed the world yourself with Chronicles of Elyria’s influence points
Chronicles of Elyria has a long blog post out today, and while this one is unlikely to generate a flurry of confusion like the...
Today’s Black Desert patch brings life to the seas, awakening to the Ranger
Update: And it's live, but it's a trainwreck, so it's down again under emergency maintenance.
Margoria is coming to Black Desert this winter, but in...
Gazillion to sunset Marvel Super Hero Squad Online in January 2017
When I first joined the Massively crew back in 2010, the very first long-form piece I did was on Super Hero Squad Online, a Marvel-themed...
Revelation Online’s closed beta begins October 25; here’s the new trailer
Revelation Online announced this morning that its closed beta will kick off on October 25th and run through November 8th. If you've picked up a...
Crush Online doesn’t play to bake bread, it plays to… crush
If you got that title, you're old.
Yes, studio GAMESinFLAMES -- we don't make these up, folks -- pushed Crush Online into open beta a...
