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
Camelot Unchained is full speed ahead constructing its new skill ability builder
There was no player test for Camelot Unchained this past weekend, but that's because Friday's test focused so hard on the ongoing ability builder....
300,000 people took part in the Xbox One betas for Black Desert, Pearl Abyss previews roadmap
My guess is that most of our readers are already plenty familiar with Black Desert, being as it's still the newest of the large...
Ship of Heroes details the mechanics of its mission difficulty slider
Ship of Heroes is continuing to pump out new updates for eager future players on its game forums. Heroic Games' Casey McGeever most recently...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is soooo close to being perfect but just misses the mark?
Last week, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit that struck a chord with me. Author SaintNutella rattles off a list of some of...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2 navigates its own straits of devastation
If you thought ArenaNet and Guild Wars 2 were immune to NCsoft's recent corporate tinkering, you were in for a rude awakening this week,...
Ultima Online’s first big update of the year drops in March with new high seas content
Broadsword has been tinkering on Ultima Online's first big content drop of the year, Rising Tide, and after weeks of testing, it's now officially...
Make My MMO: Shroud of the Avatar is rolling out player-created dungeon encounters this week
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for its 63rd release. Portalarium is currently testing pronged weapons, pirate cosmetics,...
MMO Business Roundup: Overpaid gaming CEOs, FTC’s lootbox workshops, and why online launches are trainwrecks
Welcome back to another MMO Business Roundup, where we check in on all your favorite flaming dumpster fires in the gaming business world.
The 2019...
Star Citizen previews NPC collision detection, geysers, and shiny spaceship VFX
In this week's episode of Star Citizen Around the Verse, there's a Hammer Time joke. You have been warned. But seriously, the episode focuses...
Hey packrats, clean out your Elder Scrolls Online hoards… for the good of the database
Wrathstone and update 21 are launching in Elder Scrolls Online next week, at least for PC, so you're going to want to be prepared....
We have officially lost count of how many times Conan Exiles’ next patch has been delayed
Funcom has been talking up Conan Exiles' next update for what seems like months now, but when it finally hit the testlive server at...
SuperData January 2019: Digital gaming revenue is down across the board as Fortnite has ‘increasingly lumpy revenue profile’
Hey so can we just get a do-over on January and maybe February? No? Sigh. SuperData's released its January 2019 report, and surprising no...
Bethsoft says it’s ‘fully dedicated’ to Fallout 76 as it rolls out huge roadmap for 2019
Heck yeah let's keep the Friday good news train rolling. Fallout 76 just turned 100... days! And Bethsoft has plans, people. It's just posted...
Anthem is finally officially launched, to the tune of lukewarm reviews (plus the launch roadmap)
Anthem has finally, finally wound its way through all its early tests and early accesses and headstarts and other folderol to make it to...
LFM: Massively Overpowered is hiring columnists and freelancers
Massively OP has a crack news team and clever columnists, but our team has always been wee and can't possibly cover the whole genre given how big it's grown lately. Let's fix that! We're on the hunt for some MMO specialists to join our crew and pump out solid content for our readers, especially in areas where we're lacking. Here's exactly what we're looking for:
Fortnite touts $100M prize pool for World Cup and 2019 esports, new 7.6M player concurrency record
Howsabout a slice of $100,000,000? That's the total prize pool for Fortnite's 2019 esports lineup, with a significant portion of that going to the World...
The Daily Grind: So how worried are you about Guild Wars 2?
Last night's devastating news that NCsoft was forcing Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet to make major layoffs definitely shook me, even more than the...
Massively Overthinking: Contending with the MMO genre’s ‘wowfugee’ crisis
Last week on the MOP Podcast, we read a letter from a listener named Megan who pointed us to a blog post on the The...
MMO industry veteran Bill Roper has departed SpatialOS company Improbable
If you've been around in MMOs a while, you surely know Bill Roper and his pedigree. He's a former Blizzard developer who went on to helm...
Now confirmed: Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet is suffering heavy layoffs, but the game will continue
Update: The layoffs have now been confirmed, and ArenaNet has now issued a statement. We're continuing to update this article at the end.
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