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
Epic secures early win against Apple for Unreal Engine, but Fortnite remains barred
If we're keeping score, and really that would be unnecessary since the courts are doing that for us, we're currently at Epic 1, Apple...
The Daily Grind: Do you do side quests in your MMOs?
I realize this question doesn't apply to all MMOs: Some MMOs don't have quests at all, while in others, there's no way you're leveling...
Supremacy 1 is a new mobile and browser MMORTS coming to Steam
August has seen another new mobile MMO launch, this one a strategy MMO Supremacy 1914 spinoff called just Supremacy 1, which developer Bytro says...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Stonethorn dungeon DLC and update 27 are live for PC and Mac today
It's patch day for Elder Scrolls Online, and this is no ordinary patch: It's the Stonethorn DLC and update 27, which as we've been...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most annoying ‘dark pattern’ in MMO gaming?
I've been kind of obsessed with dark patterns - that is, intentionally deceptive or annoying interface design - for kind of a while now,...
Multiplayer shooter Frostpoint VR is plotting a closed beta beginning next week
Somehow we've not covered Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds yet even in passing, so with its closed beta beginning next week, now's a good time....
Shadow Arena plans rival system for ranked matches, plus several new modes
When we covered Pearl Abyss' second quarter financial report a few weeks ago, one of the things that stood out to me is that...
Take on the evil plant queen Alice in Grand Fantasia’s August update
Gamigo has a slew of MMOs that don't get a lot of attention, especially since the Trion takeover, and one of those is the...
MapleStory previews its Astral Blessings event, winds down Burning World
MapleStory fans must be relieved to know that even after the closure of MapleStory 2, the franchise is still making money for Nexon hand...
Star Citizen video and AMA discuss environmental art, rocks, and throwing all the things
Star Citizen's been back in the headlines this week for all the wrong reasons - weird Squadron 42 communication mishaps, pixelships, and huge piles...
Past Fate’s Kickstarter is 80% funded as its end looms tomorrow
We're down to the wire for MMORPG Past Fate, whose second Kickstarter is set to expire tomorrow morning. A week or two ago, I...
Epic’s new #FreeFortnite Cup promo is another cynical dig on Apple
If you thought Epic Games was being childish or cynical in its attempts to rile up the video game faithful over its otherwise perfectly...
The Daily Grind: What malingering Kickstarter MMO do you most want to see launch?
With Crowfall hitting beta and carving out a clear path to launch, it's only natural that we start taking a hard look once again...
Massively Overthinking: Mixing and matching the best crafting systems in the MMO ‘verse
Longtime MOP reader Ken from Chicago recently asked us to talk about crafting - but he didn't want us to just list off the...
Remnant From the Ashes drops its biggest and last DLC, Subject 2923, today
Today's a bittersweet day for Perfect World and Gunfire Games, as their co-op shooter Remnant From the Ashes is dropping its biggest DLC ever...
Meat Week returns to Fallout 76 ahead of wood week
Literally every time Meat Week comes around in Fallout 76, I start snickering like a child, and I'm not even sorry. Yep, it's back...
New World’s preview event next week won’t have an NDA, will dispatch invites in waves
All week, Amazon has been offering up appetizers for the preview event it's launching in just a few days, but today, we're finally getting...
Astroneer’s second big automation update is live – here’s the new trailer
If you had asked me a year ago what game my whole family would be playing together this summer, I probably would not have...
Don’t look now, but LOTRO is having issues again
I know we joke that Massively OP is not an uptime monitor, but when it comes to Lord of the Rings Online, we have...
Did Amazon just sign on to be Lost Ark’s western publisher?
Last night, Amazon announced that it's signed on to an exclusive publishing agreement in North America and Europe with Smilegate, specifically to publish a...
