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
City of Heroes community forms Round Table as Homecoming rogue servers count over 56,000 players
Multiple City of Heroes groups now say they're working under yet another initiative to bring the rogue server community together.
"The Round Table has been...
Camelot Unchained is hard at work on corpse-chuckers, mortars, and doors
Doors, doors, doors. Yes, "a good amount of work was done to bring doors into" Camelot Unchained this week. That probably sounds silly, but...
Here’s another clue that Red Dead Redemption 2 is heading (or was supposed to head) to PC
Rumors and frustrations over whether Red Dead Redemption 2 - and more importantly around these parts, Red Dead Online - will ever show up...
MapleStory 2 announces Awakening expansion at MapleStory Fest 2019
The sold-out MapleStory Fest 2019 ran this past weekend as classic MapleStory celebrated 14 years online and MapleStory 2 announced a huge expansion called...
The Daily Grind: Are you concerned about the future of Amazon’s New World?
When Amazon Game Studios announced last week that it was taking New World's always-on alpha offline "to design major new features" that are "large...
MMO Week in Review: The proposal to crack down on predatory video games
Lockboxes, lootboxes, gambleboxes: Whatever you wanna call 'em, they've been on a wild ride the last couple of years, elevated from something only MMORPG...
Mabinogi prepares to merge four servers down to two on June 3
If you're a player in Nexon's long-running MMO sandbox Mabinogi, you're going to want to hear what the company is planning for the game's...
Make My MMO: Who do you love now? HOVERBIKES
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen once again made headlines with a concept ship sale, though it wasn't actually for a ship -...
EVE Online developer releases pie chart of botter shame
Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob caught a fun popcorn moment from the EVE Online universe this week, thanks to a delicious pie chart...
Thirteen-year-old ARPG Titan Quest dropped its third expansion, Atlantis, this week
It's not really that surprising when an old MMORPG releases an expansion, but it's not exactly common in the world of ARPGs, which is...
Trove’s long-awaited gardening overhaul patch is now on the test server
Trove's gardening system has been in the works for a very long time - all the way back to early October. Of course, that...
Lineage II is streamlining its early game and adding water dragon raid as Lineage II Classic gets multiple new dungeons
NCsoft's Lineage teams must be working overtime here: Both core Lineage II and Lineage II Classic are getting updates this month.
Over in Lineage II...
Ashes of Creation previews its adorable hippogryph mounts
Hippos! No, not actual hippos, although that would be awesome: hippogryphs, that bizarre fantastic creature of legend that's basically a cross between a horse...
City of Heroes Homecoming delays move, plans EU server, offers XP boots, and battles toxicity
Remember how we were all preparing for an outage for the City of Heroes rogue servers run by the Homecoming team this weekend? It's...
Nexon’s huge first quarter financials made EA and Blizzard look downright shabby
While EA and Activision-Blizzard reported truly meh first quarter 2019 earnings, Nexon was out there making the case for why somebody ought to pay...
Star Citizen’s latest developer video premieres a ‘wheeled warrior of wickedness’
Yesterday when Star Citizen dropped its latest concept ship sale for Concierge players - for the Tumbril Ranger motorcycles - we guessed that not...
The Daily Grind: Are we watching the AAA video game market burst?
About four years ago, I wrote one of the pieces I'm still most proud of: It essentially argued that the MMO industry was suffering...
Massively Overthinking: Do you play MMO characters you like – or characters that are objectively good?
Earlier this week, some Massively OP writers were hanging out in team chat talking about favorite City of Heroes powersets from back in the...
Fortnite launches season 9 and location revamps, plus tweaks to Creative and Save the World modes
Fortnite's next big thing has arrived along with the 9.00 patch. "The volcano has erupted and forever changed some long lasting locations - from...
Path of Exile studio says it has no plans to make other games right now
Path of Exile's Grinding Gear Games has been tearing up the forums and Reddit addressing its playerbase's big questions lately - it even prompted...
