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 folks working on Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds MMO provide clues into what it’ll be
If like many hardcore MMORPG players you're keeping half an eye on the very early MMO development at Playable Worlds, the studio Raph Koster...
Destiny 2’s Beyond Light expansion sends players to Europa today
No more delays: Destiny 2's Beyond Light expansion is finally upon us today. As promised, the update sends players to Europa, certainly the most...
Would you pay a hefty monthly sub for Fortnite? Epic Games thinks you might
Subscriptions have been trending deeply unpopular in the online gaming space for nearly a decade now, so you might be surprised to learn that...
The Daily Grind: What ‘lost’ content from your favorite MMO do you wish would be restored?
A while back, YouTuber Wooden Potatoes did a video invoking the "Guild Wars 2 graveyard" of lost profession skills. I... love stuff like this,...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite crowd control class in MMORPGs?
I know that crowd controllers as a standalone class have long since fallen out of fashion - most MMORPG players don't even remember when...
MMO Week in Review: Marching to Markarth
If the last couple of years have taught us anything, it's to appreciate a low-key week when everything was fine and nothing was actively...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMO quests you refuse to do?
Today's Daily Grind comes to us courtesy of MOP's Carlo, who is really not about this one quest in Black Desert.
"So I'm questing in...
WRUP: Googly eyes
So! That was a week.
Since we are all super mature adults here, we're going to spend the traditional Saturday morning What Are You Playing talking...
Betawatch: Fractured’s fall alpha is underway
MMORPG sandbox Fractured pushed its way into its fall alpha this week, in spite of technical difficulties and a downtime outage on Wednesday that...
Black Desert launches $29.99 ‘prestige’ editions for console today
As promised, Pearl Abyss is today launching its Prestige edition for MMORPG Black Desert, making it one of the few modern MMORPGs to actually...
Elder Scrolls Online moves Markarth DLC launch on console by a day, promise next-gen news ‘soon’
Elder Scrolls Online's Markarth DLC and update 28, which launched for PC players earlier this week and put a mighty fine hat on the...
Legends of Aria deep-dives The Outlands’ Necromancer class
Legends of Aria has a fresh dev vlog out this week previewing its upcoming Outlands release, both its locations and its planned Necromancer class.
"The...
The Daily Grind: What MMO really shouldn’t attempt a classic server?
Back in August, Standing Stone Games told players to stop trying to make a classic Lord of the Rings Online server happen. It is...
Massively Overthinking: Does early access kill an MMO’s buzz?
A while back on the Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I were flipping through Steamcharts checking in on Torchlight III, and we were a...
Fallout 76 demos the quests and rewards of the Steel Dawn update
Bethsoft is pumping up Fallout 76 players for the December launch of Steel Dawn today with a new dev gameplay video. "The Brotherhood of Steel...
Inactive World of Warcraft players can return for free starting today through the weekend
I dunno how your circle of friends is handling the World of Warcraft patch and Shadowlands expansion plan, but over here at Massively OP,...
SWTOR on how Feast of Prosperity revives old planets and makes the galaxy ‘feel more lived-in’
With Star Wars The Old Republic's Feast of Prosperity update out in the wild, BioWare has put together a dev blog interview from World...
Warframe is launching on PlayStation 5 this year with cross-gen play and upgraded visuals
Big news for Digital Extremes' Warframe today: The company is pushing the game to next-gen consoles a release on PlayStation 5 "this year" and...
ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained announce Rise of Nehliya for November 12
If you caught Gamigo's teases earlier this week on Twitter, you might have wondered what ArcheAge was up to. Wonder no more: The company...
Guild Wars 2 teases November 17 ‘Truce’ living world content chapter with brand-new trailer
As promised, Guild Wars 2 has dropped the new trailer for its next chapter, The Icebrood Saga: Champions, Chapter 1: Truce. Is it possible...
