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
Gamigo formally announces the Trion Worlds buyout that manifested yesterday
Yesterday's surprise news that MMO company Trion Worlds had been sold to Gamigo was then all but confirmed by Trion's Linda "Brasse" Carlson, who announced...
Red Dead Redemption 2 launches at 7 a.m. Thursday – here’s the lowdown
I gotta say, I've ordered some extra popcorn for this week, just in anticipation of watching Fallout 76 and Red Dead Redemption 2 clobber...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you were wrong about your snap judgment of an MMO?
This weekend I finally got to dig into MapleStory 2 beyond the character creator, and I have to say my initial reaction was oh...
New World’s Brightwood sets the perfect creepy autumn scene
If you're in the alpha for New World, don't tell us about it. Just wink knowingly at your screen. Oh, it's all of you?...
Camelot Unchained teases its new crafting UI, Viking armor, and rubble technology
Crafting UI! That's the highlight of Camelot Unchained's latest weekly update, at least for me, as the Vox Magus slowly takes shape. "In previous...
Trion Worlds has been sold to Gamigo, and yes, there have been more layoffs
File this one under "huge things that rudely happened while we were all in the middle of recording the podcast": Trion Worlds has apparently...
Fortnite delays Save the World F2P, promises sweeping PvE revamp, and teases Halloween
We're actually surprised that Fortnite's PvE mode, Save the World, does so well. Relegated to the virtual backburner ever since the game's hastily constructed...
Guild Wars 2 dev explains the real cost of crunch to games and gamers, Rockstar Lincoln clarifies crunch policy
Rockstar's crunch problem and the ongoing industry discussion around games dev labor abuses don't appear to be dying down. Ahead of the weekend, Rockstar Lincoln...
Shroud of the Avatar’s R59 newbie experience, Travian Games, and Reddit’s pay-to-chat complaints
Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter homes in on the game's 59th release, due out at the end of the month and currently on...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst MMO zone transition of all time?
OK, stop me if you've heard this one: You're going along in a new MMORPG, happily zipping across verdant landscapes, doing quests in a...
MMO Week in Review: What happens in EVE Vegas… actually gets reported on right here
CCP Games had plenty to show at this year's EVE Vegas, hopefully enough to allay concerns over its recent acquisition by Black Desert's Pearl...
Ultima Online kicks off Halloween but postpones vet rewards to next spring
Halloween comes to most MMOs, even to the 21-year-old ones. One. Yes, it's pumpkin spice season in Ultima Online.
"With Publish 101 Britannia is in...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous’ exploration reveal, Star Citizen’s $1650 ship
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Frontier has been showing off what's coming in Elite Dangerous' Beyond - Chapter Four, specifically the exploration bits...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord’s new TOS, Steam China, EA vs Actiblizz, Dota 2’s transparent lockboxes, WASD
Welcome back to another roundup of businessy things of interest to MMO players this week!
Discord
If you're one of the bajillions of MMO players who...
EVE Vegas 2018: Our coverage of EVE Online, EVE Echoes, and Project Nova
Massively OP's complete coverage of EVE Vegas 2018.
EVE Vegas 2018: Watch CCP Games’ keynote right here at 4:30 p.m. EDT
MOP's Brendan Drain is on the ground at EVE Vegas this year, and we're expecting all the best coverage from him because he's Brendan...
Warframe’s Fortuna expansion widens the open world this November
We've finally got a launch window for the Fortuna update that Warframe's Digital Extremes first revealed at TennoCon this past summer: It's coming next...
Nexon is sunsetting Hyper Universe’s western PC version now too, but the XBox One version will continue
A week ago, Nexon announced that it was shutting down its MOBA Hyper Universe in Korea, citing poor player turnout. At the time, we...
Lord of the Rings Online had to disable more content for fixes – this time it’s Harvestmath Festival quests
It just has not been Standing Stone's week, at least where Lord of the Rings Online is concerned. First it had to fully disable the...
