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
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...
Giveaway: Grab a summer god skin key from SMITE and MOP! (All gone!)
SMITEÂ is in the midst of its huge summer 2016 promotion, with a mid-season patch just behind it and a Mac launch to boot. Among...
WoW’s patch preloading begins ahead of Legion beta launch test today
World of Warcraft players, get ready to hurry up and wait: A massive 20-gb patch has begin preloading in Battle.net, heralding the pre-launch 7.0...
Multiplayer ARPG Heroes of Incredible Tales is out on Android and iOS today
It's not quite an MMO, but Heroes of Incredible Tales does have an MMO pedigree: It's the first-born spawn of Yong-Hyun Park's NAT Games...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Temporal Agent Starter Pack from Massively OP and PWE
In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online's Agents of Yesterday expansion this week, PWE has granted Massively OP 50 Temporal Agent Starter Packs...
Blade & Soul plots Shadows of the Innocents update for July 20
It's a day that ends in -day, which means Blade &Â Soul has another content update in the works. The update's called Shadows of the...
H1Z1: King of the Kill got a major combat patch today
Daybreak's Garrett Fern is blessed with an epic RPG name. He's also the H1Z1 combat and gameplay designer on deck to tell King of...
Das Tal plans both US and EU servers for summer alpha
Are you getting hyped for Das Tal's summer alpha? If not, was it because Fairytale Distillery planned only an EU server for the test,...
ArcheAge continues its video teasers for the 3.0 Ascension update
A third trailer for ArcheAge's upcoming 3.0 update rolled out this week, this one highlighting the Dwarven and Warborn races. It's a slightly longer...
Riders of Icarus’ (soft) launch-day roundup and trailer
The high-flying, gorgeous Nexon MMORPG Riders of Icarus has soft launched into the skies of open beta today, meaning anyone and everyone can mount...
Black Desert wants to see your pretty faces in its Beauty Album
Why spend hours in an MMO character creator only to cover your face up in a helmet where no one, including you, ever gets...
Elder Scrolls Online launches a $59.99 gold edition with DLC included in September
Bethsoft has just announced a gold edition of The Elder Scrolls Online, due out on September 9th for all platforms. It'll include all the...
Kakao argues that Black Desert is not pay-to-win
Yesterday, Daum -- or I suppose we should be calling it Kakao Games Europe now -- posted up a quick Black Desert FAQ with...
Shroud of the Avatar outlines summer release plans
Portalarium is still celebrating the release of its 31st Shroud of the Avatar update last week, but the game's latest newsletter is already outlining...
