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
The Daily Grind: What theme song best represents your main MMORPG character?
In yesterday's Black Desert column, MOP's Matt Daniel joked about MMORPG mods that allow roleplayers to share their characters' profiles, right down to their theme songs. He...
Massively Overthinking: Solving the MMORPG grouping problem
Massively OP Patron Roger has another great question for the crew this week.
"I have the hardest time pushing myself to join a group, but...
ARK: Survival Evolved celebrates a year of early access
Bring out your party hats and kazoos because ARK: Survival Evolved is celebrating its first birthday as an early access title this week with...
Chronicles of Elyria releases world interaction tech preview video
Following its announcement yesterday that Chronicles of Elyria will make use of the SpatialOS platform for handling the massively multiplayer scope of the game,...
Master X Master introduces WildStar’s Mondo Zax
One of the hooks of NCsoft's upcoming Master X Master MOBA is that it pulls its heroes from all of NCsoft's games -- and...
Someone is already level 100 in Overwatch
Overwatch player FenderOverwatch has successfully reached the level 100 cap on Tuesday, just a week since its formal launch. You can all give up now.
The...
Neverwinter announces summer PS4 launch and Storm King’s Thunder expansion
D&D-flavored MMO Neverwinter has posted two huge announcements this week:Â First, the PC-and-Xbone MMORPG is bound for the PlayStation 4 this summer. "We are also...
Guild Wars 2 asks players to vote on lore
ArenaNet has a fun new diversion for the Guild Wars 2 playerbase: You get to determine the lore name of the band living story heroes...
Grab a Riders of Icarus closed beta key from Nexon and MOP
Riders of Icarus is gearing up for its third and final round of closed beta beginning tomorrow, complete with account rewards for participation. Nexon's granted us...
Camelot Unchained discusses CUBE, abilities, and beta one plans
Camelot Unchained's 22nd newsletter has arrived, and I feel it's tradition at this point to confirm that it clocks in just under 9000 words....
Snag a closed alpha key for a mystery space game from Exidium and MOP [All gone!]
French video game developer Asobo Studios is on the cusp of unveiling an original multiplayer sci-fi game whose name is still a secret to those...
Chronicles of Elyria announces SpatialOS platform integration
Soulbound Studios has just announced that Chronicles of Elyria will team up with a tech startup called Improbable to make use of its SpatialOS...
Black Desert’s karma patch has enraged the PvP community
Black Desert has a small patch out today, bringing to an end Mother's Day events and extending both the Rum and Black Stone events....
Blizzard pushes Overwatch’s redesigned competitive mode to June
Update: Blizzard has corrected its tweets; the patch is June, not July.
A series of tweets from Blizzard just before the holiday weekend have confirmed...
Valiance Online preps for alpha patch, Steam move
Valiance Online is packing up and prepping for a move... to Steam.
The City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPG was Greenlit on the platform back...
Ultima Online’s cash shop is now in-game
Ultima Online has had a cash shop for a long time. I mean a really long time. I mean since at least the early...
Crowfall has completely revamped its archetype power icons
If you ever whined about the "shouting lady face" minstrel icons in Lord of the Rings Online, then you are precisely the UI junkie...
The Daily Grind: How long do you test an MMORPG before judging it?
I know I need to put more time into Tree of Savior. When it launched, I logged in and was bombarded by a horrific control...
Blizzard cracks down on Overwatch porn
Surprising exactly no one familiar with Overwatch's art style, people are already making porn of it. Rule #34, guys. PCGamesN ran the numbers and...
DUST 514 sunsets today
Back in February, CCP announced that it was sunsetting console shooter DUST 514 on May 30th -- and now that day has arrived.
Players are...
