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
Enter to win a MapleStory 2 Founder Pack Explorer code in honor of the Skybound expansion launch
As previewed, the first part of the Skybound expansion is live in MapleStory 2 today, complete with the brand-new Soul Binder class, the Sky...
Legends of Aria AMA covers sandbox endgame, difficulty, balancing, and future content
Yesterday, devs from Citadel Studios zipped over to Reddit for an AMA all about Legends of Aria, which MMO players will recall just recently hit early access off-steam. Studio boss Derek "Supreem" Brinkmann and lead game designer Jeffrey "Miphon" Edwards sat for questions from the MMORPG sub. While the AMA continues today, here are some of the notable answers posted yesterday:
Funcom will debut its next Conan game this Saturday
A month ago during its last investor call, Funcom clarified that it was working on at least six new games in addition to its...
Dual Universe releases lengthy alpha video demoing its current sandbox content
Dual Universe has been in alpha only a week, but the team is already celebrating with a new video designed to introduce future gamers...
Even Fallout 76’s ticket system is a buggy mess: A customer support loophole was leaking personal info
Did you think Bethsoft's Fallout 76 woes couldn't get anymore woeful? You lack imagination.
According to multiple Reddit and forum posts collected by Kotaku, those...
Bless Online opens up its Winter Festival and Rift of Space and Time stage 3
As promised, Neowiz has dropped its latest Bless Online update for Steam players today, focused primarily on the third stage of Rift of Space...
Star Stable is not horsing around with its Winter Village update
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I fielded a great question from a reader about non-combat MMOs. On our (depressingly short) list was...
You can customize your new Archer in Black Desert today
Nobody does a new class rollout like Black Desert, and Kakao is showing why today.
As promised, the Archer's pre-patch is out this morning. You...
Fortnite: Epic announces sandbox Creative mode, streamer donates $164,000 in tourney prize money
It looks as if you're getting some Fortnite Game Awards announcements early thanks to (what we'll assume is) an accidental upload from Fortnite...
Elder Scrolls Online is running another free-play promo this weekend
If you've somehow avoided buying The Elder Scrolls Online during one of its many "but seriously, the game is like 10 bucks" sales, then...
Rend unveils sweeping crafting revamp focused on streamlining the early game
Survival MMO Rend has big changes for crafting on the horizon, according to the dev blog Frostkeep put out earlier this evening, and it's...
Niantic agrees to settle the property trespass class action lawsuit over Pokemon Go
Way back in 2016, at the height of the new-news-every-day-on-Pokemon-Go, we covered a lawsuit lodged against Nintendo and Niantic by one Jeffrey Marder of...
Fallout 76 buffs the stash and nerfs endgame mob XP with today’s patch
Are you over the Fallout 76 canvas bag thing now that you're actually getting the canvas bag? Cool cool. So now let's get back...
Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday events arrive next week
Winter is coming! And so is Wintersday, at least in Guild Wars 2. ArenaNet anounced today that it'll deck out Divinity's Reach with the...
Epic will challenge Steam with the Epic Games Store’s pro-developer policies
Hey Valve, it's not just Discord coming for you: Epic Games wants a piece o' that action too.
The Fortnite-and-Unreal-Engine developer today announced the Epic...
Path of Exile’s manifesto update outlines nerfs for slows and stat sticks, rebalancing for uniques
When Betrayal lands for Path of Exile players at the end of the week, it's bringing with it a number of core changes that...
Red Dead Online devs say they’re addressing the economy mess too
During our podcast recording last night, Justin and I discussed Rockstar's weird strategy with the Red Dead Online beta - specifically how the devs kept...
Funcom’s tactical adventure game Mutant Year Zero has officially launched
One of the many games under Funcom's ever-widening umbrella is Mutant Year Zero, and in fact it's officially launched as of today as planned. Developer...
The Daily Grind: What’s the meanest thing you can say about an MMO you adore?
A couple of months ago, I did a Daily Grind asking folks to find something nice to say about MMOs they hate. It was...
Rumor: Daybreak might be building a new PlanetSide game
So who else had "the PlanetSide franchise gets a class-based battle royale" in the predictions pool? Welp, looks like it's happening. We've gotten several...
