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
More older adults play games than ever before, according to AARP study of people over 50
Earlier this week, we wrote about Skyrim's "gaming grandma" and other older gamers who've staked out claims in the online gaming space on platforms...
Elite Dangerous’ latest update will launch ahead of schedule on January 14
Last fall, Frontier announced that in response to player feedback, it was holding off on Elite Dangerous' December fleet carriers update, bumping it to...
EVE Echoes’ open beta comes to a close with a big event on January 10
It's been about a month since EVE Echoes hit open beta, and we hope you got enough time in it because CCP Games is...
Albion Online’s Queen update is crowned January 20 with Outlands rework, hideouts, and new faction
Albion Online's next big thing, Queen, is launching on January 20th, and fans of the PvP sandbox will want to prep for this one,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive MMO to play at the start of 2020?
Let's talk about money. Everyone knows that you can go over to Star Citizen right now and drop thousands of dollars on stuff in the...
A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2019
Since becoming MassivelyOP, our staff has worked hard to buff up our gaming science-related articles. Last year, we noted that our pile of science...
Grab an Ironsight Zigzag Booster Pack from Gamigo and MOP
Gamigo's open beta multiplayer shooter Ironsight has followed up its Steam launch ahead of the holidays with a new community event called Bounty Hunt: Apex...
TERA’s SEA servers emigrate from Playwith to Gameforge this week
Tomorrow's moving day for TERA players in the Southeast Asian region, as publisher Playwith is transferring its arm of the MMORPG over to Gameforge...
Fallout 76 previews Wastelanders’ City of the Future, preps weekend double XP
OK, Fallout 76, it's a new year, a new decade, and hopefully a new you, with your many 2019 trainwrecks behind us, Fallout First...
The Daily Grind: What was the biggest MMO mess that flew under the radar in 2019?
With all of our awards, positive and negative, mostly behind us now, I want to reflect on something almost no one talked about at...
MMO Week in Review: Welcome to the 2020s, MMO fans
Welp, we made it, we're here, we're now in the midst of a fourth decadal bracket of MMORPGs. Yay us! Don't imagine for a...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2019: Transmedia sub synergy
Today we're finishing off our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2019!
Coming in at #1 on our list is...
Guild Wars 2 kicks...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2019: Gamer goo
Today we're continuing our countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2019!
Coming in at #2 on our list is...
Gamer-oriented 'Gamer Goo' lotion vows...
RIFT players sponsor an elaborate contest to build cave dimensions
Yesterday, we watched in bemusement as our piece about MMOs people want to play in 2020 blew up on Twitter, specifically with former RIFT...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2019
Last year, I counted it up: The first Daily Grind on Massively was written on November 3rd, 2007, one day after Old Massively was...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2019
The good news is that our sunsetted MMO list from 2019 is shorter than in most years. The bad news, of course, is that...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2020?
It's become a bit of an unhappy tradition here on MOP to take stock of Daybreak at the start of every year, due in...
SuperData says the premium games market took a ‘gap year’ in 2019
If you tire of all the end-of-the-year content and roundups on our site and many others, then you're not going to like SuperData's either,...
The Daily Grind: Will you kickstart any MMOs in 2020?
I ask you guys this every year. And every year I get the same wary replies. Everyone's sick of Kickstarter. Nobody trusts Kickstarter games....
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2020
All right, 2019. We're done with you. We're moving on. We're in a whole new decade. We've got a brand-new year full of new...
