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
Runes of Magic plans an August filled with bonus drops and extra expies
It turns out it's been 115 days since we last talked about Runes of Magic, an unintended slight for an MMO that once commanded...
Grab a Crossout Beach Buggy code from Gaijin and Massively OP!
Post-apoc MMO action game Crossout has football, and I'm not even kidding! Gaijin has spent the better part of the summer on its Steel...
Legends of Aria just announced The Shifting Sands, its fourth season of content
Just a few weeks after leaving early access and finally formally launching, Legends of Aria is already moving on to its next content phase....
Rumor: Halo Infinite leak suggests a free-to-play multiplayer experience
So, who had Halo goes free-to-play on the summer 2020 bingo card? OK, not really, but a leak circulating on the internet today suggests...
Here’s what to expect from Elder Scrolls Online at QuakeCon 2020
With COVID-19 still raging around the country, Bethesda has turned this year's QuakeCon into a virtual event running August 7th through August 9th. Do...
DC Universe Online’s Wonderverse is now available, with its new raid, mission, and alert
As promised, DC Universe Online's Wonderverse episode rolled out after hefty patching last evening. Daybreak's Dimensional Ink Games has delivered a Wonder Woman-centric storyline,...
The Daily Grind: How should MMO end-of-life care play out?
Nonameplease recently sent us a concerned email about the future of MMOs, specifically Star Trek Online. "I have spent a ton of money on rare...
Path of Exile is launching on Mac in September
If you're an MMO fan and a Mac user and you really want to do those two things together... well, you're a trouper, we'll...
New World’s first ‘density’ stress test begins today at 5 p.m. EDT
MMO gamers are gearing up for stress testing in Amazon's New World today and into the weekend. As we previously posted, today's event kicks...
TERA announces ‘team-based battle mode’ called TERA Battle Arena, launching in 2020
So here's a press release I wasn't expecting to get in my inbox today: En Masse MMORPG TERA is apparently rolling out a "team-based...
ArcheAge announces The Ipnysh Sanctuary, coming August 13 [Updated]
ArcheAge is getting another content update in the form of Garden of the Gods: The Ipnysh Sanctuary next month on August 13th. Gamigo's press...
Riot Games canceled its League of Legends esports partnership with Saudia Arabia after massive backlash
The League of Legends esports community was set on fire and then partially doused this week thanks to a decision - now rescinded -...
Echo of Soul’s EOS The Blue revamp is open for preregistration, kinda
Back in June, we covered the news that Echo of Soul was being revitalized by a coterie of game development companies - welcome news,...
Warhammer Online rogue server Return of Reckoning is getting Twitch drops, no kidding
I can't think of a whole lot of rogue servers or player-run emulators that make the leap to Twitch drops, but Return of Reckoning,...
Dragon’s Prophet’s new Steam entry is not a legitimate revival, Runewaker says
We've updated the end of this piece with the latest info as of July 31st.
MMO gamers were bummed back in May when Gamigo sunsetted...
This week’s Black Desert update is Cursed, literally, as the Netflix collab begins
Cursed by Netflix transmedia synergy, that is! Yes, as promised, the Netflix fantasy series Cursed has a big crossover with the Black Desert franchise...
Pokemon Go Fest’s Saturday haul marked POGO’s highest one-day revenue since 2016
No matter what you think about Pokemon Go and mobile MMOARGs in general, you gotta give Niantic some credit for managing to pivot a...
Amazon’s New World gears up for ‘density’ stress testing this week
It was no real surprise earlier this month when Amazon said it was delaying New World yet again, this time until 2021 - frankly,...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Gift of the Noble Guard for PS4 from PWE and MOP!
To celebrate the arrival of Avernus for Neverwinter on console today - yes it's happening, folks! - PWE has granted Massively OP a stack...
LOTRO and DDO offer apologies and gifts for two weeks of troubles
Two weeks ago, Lord of the Rings Online players were treated to "cascading" issues across the game servers that led to multiple days of...
