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
World of Warcraft DDOSer sentenced to a year in prison, Blizzard chats about Battle for Azeroth’s latest round of faction wars
Blizzard is not messing around with DDOS attacks. The BBC has a piece out on a World of Warcraft player from Romania, Calin Mateias, who...
Destiny 2’s Warmind expansion is live today – here’s the launch trailer
Will Warmind be enough to help Destiny 2 recapture the hearts and minds of Bungie fans? We don't know the answer to that yet....
Guild Wars 2’s underwater combat update and class balance pass are live today
Some MMOs pump out an endless stream of previews for their big patches, especially the type that overhaul major game systems or balance combat,...
Fortnite’s Avengers Infinity War promo event is live today
Yesterday, Epic teased a Marvel Avengers Infinity War promo in Fortnite, and it wasn't super clear who was getting the better end of that...
Conan Exiles has officially launched with 1M copies sold to date and a huge day-one patch
Funcom's survivalbox Conan Exiles has officially shed early access and entered final launch as of today - that's on PC, PS4, and Xbox One...
The Daily Grind: Have you backed any MMO Kickstarters that you deeply regret?
Yesterday, as our writers were shaking their heads over Star Citizen's latest shenanigans, Eliot cracked a joke about how having backed the game had...
Next Day survival MMO devs apologize for badly received updates, plan launch for May 21
May 21st is a big day for self-described survival MMORPG Next Day: It's formally launching out of early access, where it's been since last...
Niantic stages a second attempt at a summer Chicago Pokemon Go Fest after settling class-action lawsuit
It's no exaggeration to say that last year's Pokemon Go Fest was a complete and total disaster. It made a ton of money -...
Artsy MMO Occupy White Walls patches in new assets, including a bar
Back in April, we first covered in-development MMORPGÂ Occupy White Walls, a "PC sandbox-building, AI-driven MMO where people play with Art" rather than wander around...
Lord of the Rings Online wants to know what you want from your VIP sub
Never say the devs aren't listening: Standing Stone Games apparently is.
Lord of the Rings Online forumgoers learned this lesson today when in a player-started...
Shroud of the Avatar has swapped all store credits for gold crowns as of today
Update 52 is old news - Shroud of the Avatar is already looking ahead to release 53 and beyond. So sayeth the game's latest newsletter,...
Star Citizen players grumble over warbonds, insurance, and the latest concept ship promotion
Last week, Cloud Imperium began teasing a brand-new concept ship for Star Citizen, the Hercules Starlifter and its variants. While most gamers will roll...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about ‘twinking’ in MMORPGs?
Last month, I took a few hours to put together a care package in Ultima Online for Eliot - a bag of gear, potions,...
MMO Week in Review: Star Trek Online is going free-to-play, again (May 6, 2018)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
There...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s Physician, Pantropy’s second Kickstarter’s a charm (May 5, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Pantropy may happen this time! Its second attempt at a Kickstarter has raised over three times its ask so far...
E-sports roundup: Riot and UC Berkeley, Hi-Rez’s varsity league, UK collegiate e-sports, cash for Averett e-sports
Still don't think we should take e-sports seriously? Doesn't even matter because it's happening anyway. To wit:
Riot Games has partnered with UC Berkeley to...
Bless Online shows off the Paladin’s healing abilities in new video
Bless Online's YouTube channel may have inexplicably deleted itself last week, but that doesn't mean the team has stopped putting out videos.
"In addition to...
EVE Online prepares major conversion of player outposts and conquerable stations
As Brendan detailed in his EVE Fanfest coverage last month, EVE Online's structures are due for a huge overhaul, be they NPC fortification or...
Activision-Blizzard talks battle royale and saving Destiny 2 as stock slowly recovers after Dow Jones snafu
Yesterday we teased ActiBlizz for putting out another boring quarterly financial report about its ever-growing piles of money, but even with World of Warcraft...
Massively Overthinking: The state of modern MMORPG raiding
Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while.
"I have noticed raiding tends to...
