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’s the best MMO for small-scale PvP?
A while back, we did a Daily Grind about whether size mattered in MMO PvP. We talked about how multiple MMOs are talking up...
RuneScape studio Jagex has been sold, again, this time valued at $530M
Back at the beginning of 2019, we covered the news that RuneScape developer Jagex was being put up for sale by the Chinese holding company...
Wakfu and Dofus both dropped summer patches and trailers
Wakfu never gets enough love from MMO players, but maybe its latest update will pique your interest: It's called Pandalucia, and French developer Ankama...
Sci-fi sandbox MMO Starbase deep-dives space combat in new video
You were probably busy on the Fourth of July, and so was Starbase: Finnish developer Frozenbyte posted another video for everyone to gawk over,...
Catching up with City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers as NCsoft negotiations continue
It's been a while since we checked in on the flourishing City of Heroes rogue server community, but it's been busy indeed, with multiple...
Bless Unleashed says it fixed 99% of crash bugs ahead of this weekend’s closed beta
Console fans, furbish up your controllers: Bless Unleashed is readying a new round of beta testing for you this weekend. "Our next Closed Beta...
RuneScape’s Land Out of Time has launched – check out the trailer
It's a big day for RuneScape: Land Out of Time is dropping for the original-flavor game. Well, the most original-flavor version of the game...
The Daily Grind: Is there any IP that would get you into MMOARGs?
I get why MMO players are tired of hearing the word "mobile" in association with our genre, but I'm not prepared to give up...
MMO Week in Review: Help, our staff got eaten by Shadowbringers
It would've been hard for an MMO to compete with Final Fantasy XIV this week, a game whose brand-new Shadowbringers expansion our columnist described...
Secondhand Lands is yet another weird and wonderful MMO you’ve never heard of
One of my favorite things about the MMORPG genre is that there are so many titles out there that there's always something that even...
The MOP Up: Lost Ark expands to Japan and eyes an Assassin class
Lost Ark is setting its sights on new horizons - are we next? We still don't know, but this past week, Smilegate revealed it...
Make My MMO: Ship of Heroes’ auction hall looks good, RAW’s Kickstarter progresses
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ship of Heroes dropped a new video showing off both its night effects and the current functionality of its...
OrbusVR has launched a Steam demo so you can try it out for free
Every time we cover OrbusVR, I wish once again that I owned a virtual reality headset (and also lived in a child-free zone where...
Warframe’s Tennocon Live broadcast starts at 6 p.m. EDT – watch it here!
Massively OP's Warframe of Mind columnist MJ Guthrie is at Tennocon this weekend to report on Warframe's big drops, and indeed there have been...
Fallout 76 delays patch 11 to mid-July but promises a big lowbie experience overhaul
The latest Fallout 76 preview blog dropped this week, and it details some of the highlights coming in patch 11 - including the fact...
Rock out in Lord of the Rings Online’s Shirefest 2019 music festival this weekend
Few MMORPGs offer music tools as robust as Lord of the Rings Online's, and this weekend, MMO players will prove it as they host...
Black Desert will launch Altar of Blood, a small-group ‘defensive horde mode,’ next week
If you thought that Wednesday's Black Desert update was a little on the thin side, welp, that's only because Kakao and Pearl Abyss were...
The Daily Grind: Would you pay a sub for complete access to all cosmetics in an MMO?
Last month on the MOP Podcast, we tackled a question from a reader named Aaron who was musing on whether modern MMOs could learn...
Massively Overthinking: Do you even *like* MMO expansions?
This seems like an absurd question on its face, right? MMO players are supposed to like MMO expansions. They're progress. They're content. They're fresh...
Ultima Online announces Forsaken Foes update for this fall
With Forgotten Treasures live on the production servers, Broadsword is already looking ahead to the unkillable Ultima Online's next entry in its year of...
