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: How much power should ‘vocal minorities’ have over MMO development?
Back at the beginning of the year, I saw a great thread on Twitter from a game dev who illustrated why listening to vocal...
PWE is tweaking Neverwinter and Star Trek Online’s fraud-detection mechanics
Even if you're not particularly disturbed by the idea of spending real money on in-game currency - especially given that so many MMOs have...
MapleStory’s Arcade Adventures, MapleStory 2’s end to Fairfight, and MapleStory M’s Monster Carnival
There's so much stuff going on in the MapleStory franchise right now. For starters, in MapleStory 2, Nexon is prepping the Fairwell Fairfight update (say that...
Fortnite launches season 8, new battle pass, Save the World AMA – and contends with Apex Legends
Fortnite's season 8 is live today with a new battle pass to buy and a very Apex Legends-style feature: a ping system. I'm trying...
Blizzard Roundup: NetEase on Diablo Immortal’s launch, plus news on HOTS, Hearthstone, and Overwatch
MMO Culture has an interesting translated bit from the NetEase conference call last week that homes in on Diablo Immortal, the game that was...
Fallout 76’s new brewing and distilling skills will let you host the ultimate video game kegger
Bethsoft's first big post about Fallout 76's journey down its 2019 roadmap begins where all posts should begin: with beer. Not kidding. It's about brewing...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Hades’ Star, Cabal Mobile, Redstone, and Curse of Aros
Welcome back to another roundup of weirdo little MMOs and online games you've never heard of but probably should hear of! That's why we're...
Warframe just launched episode one of The Wolf of Saturn Six – on ALL the platforms
You know that annoying thing where MMOs get a content update on PC, but then the console launch is like a month later, but...
Grab an Aura Kingdom gift bundle in honor of the game’s 50th update
Gamigo is has dropped a big update for anime MMORPG Aura Kingdom this week, complete with new dungeons and quests. If you're thinking, hey didn't...
Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Z promises ArenaNet is ‘still committed’ to Guild Wars 2 with ‘long-term plans’
In the wake of the massive ArenaNet layoffs that we've been covering since last week, Guild Wars 2 players have been - let's be...
Jagex picks up EVE Online vet Nathan Richardsson, is still working on multiple secret MMOs
If you've been reading Massively OP for a while, you're not going to be surprised whatsoever to once again hear the news that Jagex...
Black Desert turns three years old in the west as its battle royale mode leaves early access
Can you believe Black Desert is creeping up on three years since its launch here in the west? It's true! Naturally Kakao is pulling...
The Repopulation previews new tutorial island, lore timeline, and upgraded development servers
The Repopulation's latest dev update is giving me some serious Star Wars Galaxies player city vibes, but then I guess that was always part...
Funcom saw record high 2018 revenue, inks deal for DUNE games including open-world multiplayer title
Would you like a bit of good news for MMOs? Because we've got some. It's from Funcom. Funcom killed it in 2018.
"2018 is our...
Unionization group Game Workers Unite withdraws call for firing ArenaNet’s Mike O’Brien
Update: GWU has now withdrawn its call; we've updated at the end of this piece. The original article follows.
If yesterday was the day for supportive...
Indie cyberespionage sandbox MMO Spycursion sneaks into Kickstarter tonight
Back at the beginning of February, we covered an unusual indie PC MMORPG called Spycursion. It's basically a cyberespionage sandbox MMO rich in "edutainment,"...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Wrathstone DLC and Update 21 are officially live
Hey, dragon fans: The Season of the Dragon in Elder Scrolls Online has officially begun today with the formal release of the Wrathstone DLC...
The Daily Grind: How do you and your guild handle political discussions inside MMOs?
I'm genuinely curious about this one, so indulge me. From my vantage, it's seemed to me that casual discussion of politics inside MMOs has...
The Battle of Polytopia is getting crossplatform multiplayer, finally giving us a proper excuse to cover it
The Battle of Polytopia is one of my absolute favorite games period, not just on mobile, and apparently it's rather well-loved around our office,...
143 ArenaNet and Guild Wars 2 devs have been laid off as fans express #LoveForArenaNet
Last week's horrific news that NCsoft and ArenaNet would be laying off a large part of the Guild Wars 2 studio and canceling multiple...
