Bree Royce

Bree Royce
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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: Skycandy
Twitter: @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’s the best MMO customer experience you’ve ever had?

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Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, before I worked for Massively, I called up SOE. I wanted to move my Star Wars...
Well, crap.

MMO Week in Review: Blade & Soul’s western frontier (January 24, 2016)

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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! NCsoft's...
Much like TERA, having a discussion about this game's attitude towards women is mostly a matter of shaking your head in exasperation.

Leaderboard: What’s your opinion of Blade & Soul, one week in?

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On Friday, we updated our beta impressions of Blade & Soul with fresh impressions after a week of play, and the underlying theme of...

Make My MMO: Smedley’s Hero’s Song sings for its supper (January 23, 2016)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, former SOE/Daybreak CEO John Smedley revealed his new company, Pixelmage Games, and its first game, sandboxy OARPG Hero's...

Paladins introduces two new game modes in today’s ‘Chicken Patch’

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Hi-Rez's online shooter Paladins is undergoing a major patch for its ongoing closed beta today. The so-dubbed "Chicken Patch" introduces new game modes, Survival and Payload, the...
Shoot pile.

The Division’s new map, system reqs, and commitment to the PC

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Want to see the map you'll be traversing when you leap into The Division next week? Great. Ubisoft has uploaded an interactive map to...

David Brevik is streaming his one-man game design process

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Ever wonder how a one-man game studio functions? Former Marvel Heroes boss David Brevik is giving you an inside look on his Twitch channel. Brevik,...

Camelot Unchained on new website, animations, and beta crafting

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Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs is getting out in front of "Snowniño," the massive blizzard bearing down on the a large swath of the Eastern...

Star Citizen’s Around the Verse on ‘Star Engine,’ new hires, and Port Olisar design

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The latest of installment of Star Citizen's Around the Verse has arrived and sees the return of Ben Lesnick to the show. Lesnick and...
That's going to take an engineer to fix, ironically.

Elite: Dangerous is not abandoning the Oculus Rift

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In response to a Eurogamer article that seemingly suggested Elite: Dangerous was dropping support for the Oculus Rift headset in favor of SteamVR, Frontier...

The Daily Grind: Do MMO graphics influence your immersion?

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This past week, in the hubub surrounding Smed's new OARPG, Hero's Song, we interviewed bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss, who's building the lore of the game's...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO dev brains we’d like to pick

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This week's Overthinking question comes to us from longtime Patron Roger. "If you guys could magically open a connection to any dev team, which team...

Blizzard delays the return of Overwatch’s beta to February

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Blizzard has delayed the return of Overwatch's beta, according to a post on the official forums today. Game Director Jeff Kaplan says that the tentatively...

Star Citizen showcases actress Gillian Anderson’s Squadron 42 role

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Cloud Imperium is hyping Squadron 42 in today's behind the scenes video, this one showcasing the involvement of X-Files actress Gillian Anderson, who remains...

Here’s how Hero’s Song’s gods and races work according to Smed

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How do gods work in Hero's Song? What races can you play? John Smedley's just posted a new and lengthy explanation on both to Reddit. In his upcoming...

Retro MMO 8BitMMO was hacked; change your passwords

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If you've ever played retro 2-D MMORPG 8BitMMO, the time has come to change your password. We recommend 256-bit. Archive Entertainment's Robby Zinchak told players...
To be fair, some of these dudes are probably not good at this.

The Elder Scrolls Online previews Thieves Guild DLC with a new trailer

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The Elder Scrolls Online has been teasing its Thieves Guild DLC for a while now, and today we have a closer look at the...

Firefall’s Razor’s Edge update suffers migration-related delays and downtime

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Firefall's Razor's Edge update yesterday didn't exactly go to plan, which you know if you've been desperately trying to log in to no avail. Red...

Blade & Soul plans new servers to combat queues

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The good news is that Blade & Soul is turning out to be pretty popular here in the west. The bad news is that...
uhhhhhhhhhhhh

Age of Conan has a new game director with plans for 2016

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Funcom's Romain "Tilty" Amiel, well known to MMORPG gamers as the lead designer on The Secret World, has taken over game director duties from...

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