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
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.
Kotaku is...
Bless Unleashed previews the archer class, re-confirms 2019 Xbox One launch
Hey, so Bless Unleashed is still happening. Bandai Namco sent 'round a brand-new trailer for the game today, introducing the Ranger class, which it...
Leaderboard: How worried are you for PlanetSide Arena and Daybreak right now?
Daybreak's Friday-night revelation that it is delaying PlanetSide Arena to summer made me worried. Actually, the revelation that the company would be refunding everyone...
Black Desert’s PC version rolls out the new Central Market as Xbox One edition mops up beta bugs
Economy fiends, it's your week to shine in Black Desert. That's because the game's trading system has received a major new implementation in the...
Darkfall Rise of Agon has officially soft-launched its hybrid free-to-play ‘freemium’ model
Remember back when free-to-play was still a pretty rare thing, and we used to run polls on which MMOs would go free-to-play next? And...
Epic Games yanks Fortnite ads from YouTube over super gross child exploitation expose
Welp, if there's anything that might finally convince Google to overhaul its horrible, awful, no-good YouTube video algorithms that somehow start you with puppy...
Red Dead Online’s next update includes multiple new PvP events and… fishing challenges
Don't you forget about me, Red Dead Redemption 2 belts out into the void where Anthem, Division 2, Apex Legends, and Fortnite are currently...
Grab a global closed beta key for KOG Games’ anime action MMO KurtzPel and play tonight!
KOG Games' newest MMO in the spirit of GrandChase, KurtzPel, is headed to closed beta today. Readers will recall that the studio ran alpha...
Project Gorgon drops big patch with solo dungeon and tons of balance adjustments
Yesterday, we covered Project Gorgon's development cadence and Elder Game developer Eric Heimburg's explanation for why he hadn't just hired on more devs to...
Kotaku exposes the creeps of game streaming, plus the update on Elvine you didn’t want
At the beginning of the month, we were all horrified to cover the news that a Twitch streamer and (now former) Hi-Rez employee, Thomas...
Elder Scrolls Online teases the challenges and rewards of Wrathstone’s Frostvault dungeon, coming next week
We're barreling on toward the PC launch of Elder Scrolls Online's Wrathstone DLC next week, and if indeed you'll be picking up the DLC,...
Brad McQuaid’s Pantheon elaborates on its alpha timeline modifications
If you've been watching Visionary Realms' MMORPGÂ Pantheon closely, you might be wondering about its development cadence, especially given its timeline shifts. Back at PAX...
Guild Wars 2 is releasing a new cat mount – but only through world vs. world PvP
Guild Wars 2 WvWvW players, today is finally your day to crow. Or growl. It's more like a growl, yeah. That's because the game's...
ArenaNet has revivified classic Guild Wars’ support website, vows support for ‘years to come’
So here's an interesting tidbit we missed in the hubbub of last week: ArenaNet has resurrected its support site for classic Guild Wars.
"In an...
Project Gorgon dev on hiring and content cadence: ‘I can confidently say we are not gonna fail’
Are you grumpy about how long some indie games take to develop? Yeah, join the club - the indie devs are too.
That's the takeaway...
