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
The Daily Grind: Are blacklists, quizzes, and threats effective at reducing text toxicity in MMOs?
Toxicity in online gaming just keeps popping up - specifically as it pertains to chat and commenting.
MOP reader Tanek pointed us to a thread about...
Albion Online finally makes plans to launch on Steam
Crowdfunded indie PvP sandbox Albion Online technically launched last summer, finding so much initial success that its servers were hammered and it even suffered...
Trove’s Heroes expansion is live today with superheroes and a new biome
Trion's blocky sandpark Trove is patching up any minute now with Heroes, a brand-new superhero-themed expansion - all live today for PC, PS4, and...
Grab a freebie Survarium co-op mission key from Vostok and Massively OP!
Early access post-apoc online shooter Survarium is having a good year: Not only is it working on its 0.52 update, which is set to...
Over 2,000,000 people have now registered accounts for Star Citizen
Star Citizen hit another milestone this week: It's reached 2,000,000 citizens. Accounts, specifically.
The game has been in production since before its Kickstarter launched almost...
Guild Wars 2 preps Super Adventure Box, patches in direct-buy mounts and CHAIRS
If you try to zoom into Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box today, you're... going to be wholly disappointed. That's because while the patch...
Elder Scrolls Online’s April Fools’ Day event begins Thursday, involves pie
Fair warning: It's almost April Fools' Day, which means lots of game studios are going to start pranks and silly-themed events, and they're going...
SWTOR course corrects for patch 5.8a, overhauls the cash shop with direct-purchase items
Star Wars The Old Republic's 5.8a patch is live today with a bunch of tweaks to last week's far bigger update. In fact, many...
RuneScape learns Spring Fayre microtransaction lessons while Old School RuneScape tweaks mobile
It's springtime in regular flavor RuneScape, and that means the Spring Fayre has returned. You might remember the event from last year, when the...
Pokemon Go is finally adding quests in the form of endless ‘research tasks’
Fight over whether it's an MMO or not if you like, but this week, Pokemon Go is adding full-fledged questing to player activities. The...
Bless says its excessive attention to environmental detail is in the service of immersion
With Bless Online due out on western shores this coming May, players who've never paid much attention to this Korean-born MMO may be wondering...
Analysts predict that major publishers will pivot to counter (and catch up with) Fortnite
Epic's not even remotely a nobody in gaming, but it's still a surprise to find out that its runaway battle royale hit Fortnite actually...
H1Z1 adds duos to auto royale, sees playerbase surge since free-to-play
It may be way down in players since last summer's peak, but Daybreak isn't giving up on H1Z1. The newly rebranded, newly launched, and...
Overwatch is finally letting you block toxic jerks from your matches
There's very little more infuriating about reporting someone for being toxic, putting him on your mute list, and then finding that same jerk in...
TERA’s console edition launches April 3, with headstart beginning tomorrow
Action-combat MMORPG TERA's on the way to console following its weekend beta rounds, and as of today, it has a shiny new date for...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most creative way MMOs thwart toxicity?
Forget group-kicks: If you're a tool in Sea of Thieves, your own shipmates might just opt to stuff you in the brig - "a...
MMO Week in Review: Expansions for Elder Scrolls Online, Star Trek Online, and Skyforge (March 25, 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!
Sea...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous players expose ‘wanker function’ hacker (March 24, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite Dangerous players scoped out the dirty doings of the paid HCS voice pack plugin, which was apparently intentionally and...
Star Citizen brings back old ships for sale, asks backers to vote on alpha 3.2’s priority projects
Do you have too much money? Awesome. Star Citizen has some ideas for where you can spend it - say, on some new ships?...
The Black Death has spawned an actual popularity contest
If you thought your days of losing popularity contests were over when you left school, think again! Indie survival sandbox The Black Death is...
