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
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...
RuneScape deleted its RTS minigame-within-a-game with today’s patch
RuneScape dev Jagex is clearly feeling the Christmas madness already with today's update. "Remember when they used to count down to Christmas with shopping...
Fallout 76 collectors edition buyers will get the canvas bags they were promised after all
Last week, Fallout 76 fans lit the world on fire over the revelation that the "West tek canvas carrying bag" promised to $200 collector...
SWTOR: Subber companion freebie, Jedi Under Siege lore, and Life Day on the way
With Jedi Under Siege launching December 11th, BioWare is ramping up its hype machine for Star Wars: The Old Republic. To wit:
There's a...
Legends of Aria pushes off Steam early access launch into 2019
So for Legends of Aria this afternoon, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that general early access is still happening: It's...
Leaderboard: What do you think about Steam’s new revenue sharing plan?
At the tail end of last week, Valve announced a new revenue sharing plan for publishers on Steam that simmered all weekend. In a...
Legends of Aria resets karma system ahead of tomorrow’s early access launch
With its early access launch happening on Steam tomorrowday, Legends of Aria has been shoring up its headstart. A "high volume of traffic" made logins...
Saga of Lucimia’s pre-alpha 11 is live December 8 with SWG-style wounds and battle fatigue
If you've been following Saga of Lucimia, you probably know how the game's build tests work in pre-alpha: Stormhaven opens the servers periodically with...
Camelot Unchained talks 64-bit client, animations, and class building in beta
Camelot Unchained's 64-bit client officially a go, folks. "As of now, the client is full 64-bit, and should be the default client launched," CSE's...
Elite Dangerous’ Beyond Chapter Four launches December 11
Elite Dangerous commanders haven't got long to wait for their next big thing: Frontier announced this morning that December 11th will be the day...
Black Desert outlines plans for the Archer, battle royale mode, and the O’dyllita expansion
As promised Pearl Abyss splashed out for its Festa event in South Korea this weekend, with big announcements for local and global fans of...
The Daily Grind: Do you ever worry that an MMO you’re watching will be shuttered before it’s done?
It's possible I've been doing this too long and have just seen a whole lot of casually delivered bad news on Twitter from gaming...
MMO Week in Review: The Fallout fallout and WildStar’s end
MMORPG fans said goodbye to WildStar this week as NCsoft sunsetted it for good after a four-and-a-half-year run.
But out on the periphery of MMOs,...
Toontown Rewritten’s latest player update buffs options and character movement
Massively OP's own Justin "The Game Archaeologist" Olivetti deep-dived the history of Toontown Online in his column just about a year ago, but truth...
Make My MMO: Former Dogma Eternal Night CM blasts studio over stymied White Wolf partnership
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, DDOCentral pointed us to a thread on the Dogma Eternal Night website that sheds light on what's gone awry...
Tame dinos in ARK Survival Evolved on the Switch starting… today
It's launch day for ARK Survival Evolved... on the Switch, that is. Do note that it includes the original base game and hasn't been...
Bless Online brings back the Rift of Time and Space and kicks off the Winter Festival next week
It's beginning to look a lot like... actually, I don't know any version of Christmas with this creepy snowman, and that lady's legs look...
Leaderboard: How much does an MMO’s IP influence your interest in it?
Here's a fun thought exercise: What if standard assumptions about IPs and games is wrong? To hear some people tell it, games like Star...
