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
This is the cheeky player program that trivializes Fallout 76’s nuke code decryption
Hey, did you think all of Fallout 76's problems would magically disappear once it launched? Welp, you were wrong. As Bethsoft plays whack-a-mole with...
Star Citizen kicks off a free-fly event next week, welcoming non-backers to play over Thanksgiving
Oh yeah, you know a big holiday is coming up when every single game, even the ones deep in alpha, are cranking out demos...
Project Gorgon now has a free demo as Elder Game previews upcoming development
If you've ever wanted to become a cow or learn phrenology in a video game, you're going to like this post: Project Gorgon now...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a Wheel of Time MMO?
During this week's podcast, we happened to mention the sprawling Wheel of Time series, a TV adaptation of which is currently being worked on...
Vindictus is launching new hero Grimden in December
Hot on the heels of its eighth anniversary celebrations last month, Nexon's hack-and-slash MMO Vindictus has announced a brand-new hero: the "warrior-turned-merciless-assassin" named Grimden....
Niantic’s Harry Potter ARG Wizards Unite opens enlistment with new trailer
Turns out that Ingress Prime wasn't the only fun thing Niantic was plotting for November: The studio best known for Pokemon Go also announced...
Enter to win a sweet Neverwinter cloak in honor of Heart of Fire for PC
To celebrate the launch of Heart of Fire for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 100 cloak keys to give away to our readers!...
Path of Exile’s revamped Hideouts make housing persistent in Betrayal
Hands-down, the most exciting thing to me - and I suspect maybe MJ too - coming out of the Path of Exile Betrayal expansion reveal...
Gamigo compensates ArcheAge players for merge messes and Relics of Hiram delays
With promises about future content and revamps plus the launch of Relics of Hiram finally out the door, Gamigo is finally turning its attention...
Leaderboard: Is a ‘WoW Immortal’ a very real possibility?
During this week's podcast, Justin made a joke about the potential for a "WoW Immortal" that... doesn't seem like such a joke, especially given...
Amazon’s New World teases blacksmithing and ‘master craftsmen’
Look at these new New World blacksmithing screenshots. Consider it a Rorschach test.
Some of you will perk up at the idea of crafting in...
WildStar sunsets November 28 – and it’s still dropping lore
Salt in the wound here: Carbine, or what's left of it, has released this week another leg in WildStar's meta plot and the slow...
MMO designer Raph Koster lays out the component parts of making MMORPGs
Veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster has up a new blog post that sheds some light on the many angles of developing an MMORPG. In...
Classic MapleStory players will prepare to challenge the Black Mage in today’s big update
Lest you suspect that Nexon has abandoned classic MapleStory in favor of its bubbly new sibling MapleStory 2, the original is getting a major...
Check out the trailer for Torchlight Frontiers’ Forged class
Oh yeah, you know a game is about to start really moving with its alphas when it starts dropping keys, business model blogs, and...
Brad McQuaid’s MMO Pantheon has snapped up Trion’s Linda ‘Brasse’ Carlson
Did you wonder where Linda "Brasse" Carlson was going to end up post-Trion Worlds' implosion? Because you had to know she'd end up somewhere;...
Lavish multiplayer space sandbox Astroneer is finally launching in February
I have a rule that I'm pretty good at sticking to: I usually don't buy early access games. I've been burned too many times,...
Black Desert’s long-awaited Drieghan expansion is live
Here we go folks: Black Desert's Drieghan expansion is finally here and live as of today in the western PC version of the game....
Shoot, shoot, shoot, bullet, bullet, gun! Ashe – and B.O.B. – are live in Overwatch
As I type this article, my husband's in Overwatch playing Ashe. In fact, he's in an arcade mode where literally everyone is playing Ashe,...
Otherland deep-dives its brand-new Fire Isle expansion
Yesterday, Drago Entertainment announced that Otherland's - or rather, Otherland Next's, as the Tad Williams MMO appears to have gotten a rebrand - next...
