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 Daily Grind: What MMO deserves its own movie or TV show?
In going through our annual posts ahead of our December awards and whatnot, I noticed a bunch of stories about movies and TV shows...
MMO Week in Review: Not all heroes (in Guild Wars 2) wear capes
Guild Wars 2 stole the show this week by dropping a mostly welcome update with new capes, a dynamic HUD, and quality-of-life goodies for...
Make My MMO: The vanishing of Seconds from Silence
Remember this past summer when we covered the emergence of Abstract Era's new sandbox MMO Seconds from Silence? At the time, we expressed a...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Past Fate, Rulers of the Sea, Legend of Mir Eternal, Dragon Raja, Fantasy Earth Genesis
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you've (probably) never heard of - or have totally forgotten about until now!
First up:...
Ultima Online’s Jolly Roger update is officially live this week
Here we go: Ultima Online's last major update of 2019 is now upon us as the Jolly Roger has officially set sail on the...
Bethesda’s MMOTCG Elder Scrolls Legends is destined for maintenance mode
Bad news for fans of the Elder Scrolls franchise card battler Elder Scrolls Legends: Bethsoft announced today that it's effectively putting the game into...
Riot Games opens Riot Forge to publish ‘bespoke’ League of Legends IP games
If you watched Riot Games' presentation of its upcoming titles this past fall and wondered why it wasn't branching out into every genre you...
The Daily Grind: What MMO will change its business model dramatically in 2020?
It used to be our tradition around the end of the year to speculate on which MMORPG that hadn't yet gone free-to-play would be...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2019
It's long-since become a multi-year and fun tradition on Massively OP to do an end-of-year recap of the best and worst MMO dev quotes...
Pantheon’s Visionary Realms and Brad McQuaid’s family are sponsoring a design scholarship in his memory
Given that Visionary Realms has already made clear its commitment to continuing development of Pantheon in the wake of studio head Brad McQuaid's untimely...
ArcheAge Unchained’s ArchePass is back as XLGAMES reveals the next mega patch [Update: Aaaaaand it’s gone again]
You know what I would love to not have to type anymore? The word "ArchePass." The loyalty system that launched with ArcheAge's Unchained version...
Conan Exiles has officially launched HORSIES with today’s free update and Riders of Hyboria DLC
It's mount day in Conan Exiles, folks! Look, every game needs mounts. This is known. This is a good day. It's an even better...
Guild Wars 2 players are pretty bummed about this week’s fall damage trait nerf
When ArenaNet dropped Guild Wars 2's skill balancing update earlier this week, one change went a bit overlooked by a lot of observers: the...
Fans are invited to a real-world memorial for Brad McQuaid later this month
MMORPG fans have been in mourning for the last few weeks following the death of Brad McQuaid, one of the most popular veteran developers...
WoW’s alpaca adoption promo, Hearthstone’s Winter Veil, and Heroes of the Storm’s Deathwing update
Diablo IV isn't the only thing getting big news from Blizzard this week - the studio's busy in most of its other big games...
Blade & Soul previews Will of Iron’s heart rebalance and fishing overhaul
Just ahead of the holiday, NCsoft announced that Will of Iron was on its way to Blade & Soul, with the Rise of the...
Black Desert rolls out initial succession skills on PC, Shai and Mystic on PS4
It's succession day in Black Desert's PC version! No, not the succession of power; the introduction of succession skills to the first batch of...
SuperData says people really splashed out on gaming over Black Friday weekend
If you've been watching the downward trend of consumer spending on the games industry with growing fear over the last few months, take heart:...
Guild Wars 2’s skill balancing update is live with weapon swap, dynamic HUD, and… capes
The latest Guild Wars 2 patch is officially upon us. As we noted yesterday, players players can expect multiple quality-of-life tweaks to specific skills...
Astellia Online’s Miodan Mines patch is live today with a new newbie quest too
It's patch day for fans of the still-got-that-new-smell Astellia Online MMO, as Barunson pushes live the Miodan Mines zone.
"Miodan Mine is a brand-new, never...
