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
Star Citizen looks ahead to 3.2, unveils the new Hercules Starlifter concept ship for sale next week
CIG's Sandi Gardiner and Eric Kieron Davis are back with another installment of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, bookending a brief check-in with the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the silliest gaming terminology you’ve heard recently?
Silly gaming terminology is one of my favorite things to mock around here - I'm a huge fan of Eliot's ongoing series on gaming terms,...
Soulworker patches in new playable character Jin, new endgame raid
SoulWorker's getting a new toon today, marking the fifth playable character in the anime MMORPG. Who is he? Jin Seipatsu, a "courageous boy stricken...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2018: WoW is actually outperforming expectations – time for a fourth yacht or no?
Reporting on Activision-Blizzard's endless piles of money is about as much fun as reporting on how fifty-bajillion-zillion people are playing fork knife. No, I...
Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss has even more rebalancing plans for PvP, debuffs, and crowd control
Yesterday's Black Desert patch apparently caught some backlash from the community, particularly in regard to the crowd control changes, but that's just the tip...
Jagex says RuneScape is peaking as it builds a new ‘next-gen MMO’ and plans RuneFest
Jagex CEO Phil Mansell is making the press rounds this week, unloading interesting quotes on GIbiz, including the admission that Jagex felt it had neglected...
Conan Exiles outlines its day-one patch plans as players grumble over preorder bonuses
With less than a week to go before launch, the Conan Exiles team is putting out one last newsletter with the plan for the...
S.O.S. ditches survival mechanics to become a full-on battle royale game
What's that sound? It's the sound of a genre becoming even more saturated, that's what, as SOS is converting into a battle royale game...
Black Desert’s weekly patch adds new events, combat tweaks, and ent world boss as Kakao deletes guild forts to save them
Tree bosses are all the rage this spring in MMOs, and Black Desert's got one too. Oh, did I say tree boss? I meant...
Amazon is apparently having influencers playtest New World
MMO influencer, fan, and Massively OP reader-slash-heckler Lethality posted publicly to Twitter this morning that he's playtesting Amazon's New World.
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/991663064679419904
That's good news for everyone,...
Perfect World is sunsetting Swordsman Online and Jade Dynasty as teams move on to ‘bigger and better things’
Perfect World announced two sunsets yesterday: Four-year-old Swordsman Online and nine-year-old Jade Dynasty will close down in June. Here's the official announcement for Swordsman...
Red Dead Redemption 2 posts third trailer, sticks to October launch date
Red Dead Redemption 2's new trailer is finally here (after an absurd amount of teasing and handwringing over what could be in it). Spoiler...
Conan Exiles teases next week’s launch with three amusing live-action Conan trailers
Conan Exiles is officially launching next week on May 8th, but in the meantime, it's putting out all the videos. All of them.
"Thought experiment:...
The Daily Grind: Do you make an effort to be positive and friendly in MMORPGs?
Despite concerns about the pervasiveness of toxicity in gaming, most gamers are not toxic. Outside of extremely social MMOs, I suspect most people probably...
Grim Dawn begins formal testing of major engame revamp and new kraken boss
Grim Dawn players and tentacle fans should point their eyeballs at Crate's official forums today, as the studio says update 1.0.6.0 is now officially...
Sea of Thieves splits dev team into three live teams, each working on loads of future content
With Sea of Thieves' latest patch in and out of the way this morning, what's next for the game? Executive Producer Joe Neate is...
You can invite people into your house with Closers’ Renovation update next week
Renovation sounds like what I'm currently doing to my basement, but it's also the name of Closers' upcoming patch, due out next week, and...
Guild Wars 2’s balance update arrives next week – with ‘underwater combat’ revamp
Remember back before Guild Wars 2 launched and its underwater content was touted as the most innovative thing in years? And remember when it...
State of Decay 2 rejects the battle royale genre for being already mined out
Sick of battle royale? Yeah, it hit saturation levels in a hurry. Undead Labs is over the craze too, which might sound funny given...
Guild Wars 2 players sponsor $2000 PvP tournament, ban Chronomancer spec
If Guild Wars 2's abrupt pull-out of PvP e-sports and tournaments a year ago filled all your 20-slot bags with stacks of pure sadness,...
