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’ Homecoming servers port to Canada this weekend, server status page is live
The City of Heroes Homecoming servers are packing up their bags and moving to new hosting this weekend, so you should probably expect some...
Guild Wars 2’s War Eternal living story episode launches May 14 – here’s the trailer!
ArenaNet has this morning announced that the final episode for Guild Wars 2's fourth season of living story content, War Eternal, will officially launch...
MMO Business Roundup: Bonfire Studios’ new multiplayer game, EA Access on PS4, and Pokebrains
Welcome back to another quick roundup from the land of games industry business...
Remember in 2016 when former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo...
US Senator takes aim at lockboxes and pay-to-win with ‘Protecting Children From Abusive Games Act’
The gamblebox issue isn't dying down any time soon, it appears. As Kotaku first reported, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley has announced he plans to...
Leaderboard: Would you donate for a City of Heroes rogue server?
Last night's public announcement that the City of Heroes Homecoming team was changing its stance on donations and felt "comfortable" accepting them now after...
TERA just launched a new companion system for Skywatch
TERA's seventh anniversary celebrations roll onward, this week with a big bonus: a content patch specifically adding a new companion system to the game's...
Black Desert teases Underwater Ruins expansion on PC, updates with Valencia expansion on Xbox One
Aquaphobic folks would do well to avoid Black Desert's upcoming content rollout. But for everyone else, the Underwater Ruins expansion approaches on May 22nd....
Conan Exiles is launching The Riddle of Steel DLC to honor the 1982 Conan movie
Conan Exiles is due for a fresh round of DLC this week: It's called The Riddle of Steel, and it's specifically an homage to...
EA sees quarterly and yearly revenue dropoffs, plans to port Apex Legends to mobile
Activision-Blizzard wasn't the only company to see a weak start to 2019: EA also saw a drop off in revenue for Q1 2019, with...
Age of Empires Online lives on in the Project Celeste player-run emulator
'Tis the season for player-run servers, right? And we've got another for you to take a peek at: It's for Age of Empires Online,...
Academics argue WHO’s ‘gaming disorder’ classification could cost South Korea billions
Over the last couple of years, we've been covering the science behind gaming addiction and more specifically the World Health Organization's attempt to insert...
New World is taking its 24-7 alpha offline for implementation of ‘major new features’
It sounds as if New World is entering a new phase of development, as Amazon Game Studios announced the current version of the alpha,...
Guild Wars 2 defends World Boss Rush event drops as the final Requiem story goes live
Yesterday, Guild Wars 2 kicked off a rather unusual event for the game: its World Boss Beatdown, which promised a "Bonus Box of Goods"...
Meta: A heartfelt farewell to MMO Fallout
Anybody who's been watching MMOs long enough knows MMO Fallout: It's been a staple MMO website for the last decade, perhaps known best for...
City of Heroes: New servers, Discord drama, and Homecoming gets $6900 in donations in 20 minutes
Just in case you didn't think City of Heroes had enough community rogue servers, here comes another one.
The Homecoming team - that's the team...
Riot Games developers did indeed walk out in protest last night over the ongoing labor and lawsuit fiasco
On Friday, we reported that Riot Games' latest efforts to stave off a walkout at the popular League of Legends company were likely to...
The Daily Grind: Do you actually feel as if you’re part of your fave MMO’s community?
Last month, when news of the City of Heroes mess hit, the Massively OP writers and readers had multiple discussions about community - you...
Star Citizens, check your hangars – the recent $0 CCU purge wiped out some valuable chassis
Heads-up if you're a Star Citizen backer: Last week's update to the Cross Chassis Upgrade system has apparently gone awry. That's the system that...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers will offer character transfers after all
The business of saving City of Heroes has now stretched on three weeks since our first article, but it hasn't slowed down a bit. Over...
The Daily Grind: Does your significant other influence your MMO play?
MOP's Carlo suggested today's Daily Grind after a chat he saw inside an MMO. "A fun convo came up in Black Desert," he said....
