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’s Battle for Azeroth preorders are live, launching by September 21
It's official: World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth preorders are live on the official store. You're looking at $49.99 for the base package and $69.99 for the...
CCP says it recently poured $3M into EVE Online’s server cluster upgrades to improve big battles
If you believe the prolific propaganda, EVE Online's so-called "million-dollar battle" last week was derailed in part because of the game's underlying tech.
CCP Falcon...
PUBG: PC’s anti-cheat measures, Xbox One damage tweaks, and Microsoft acquisition rumors
Patchy patch patch! It's patch day for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' test server. On PC, Bluehole says it's still working on the ongoing anti-cheat measures it's...
Rumor: Datamining hints that World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth preorders are close
Reddit and Twitter are buzzing today with another round of World of Warcraft datamining - this one from WoWhead, which has dug up new...
Guild Wars 2 makes SuperData’s top 10 list of ‘premium PC games by revenue for 2017’
If you want SuperData's complete 2017 Digital Games & Interactive Media market brief, you're... not going to have to pay for it. It's free,...
Hi-Rez apologizes for SMITE recruitment video that cracked Paragon jokes
Hi-Rez has apologized for a brief video that invites soon-to-be-homeless Paragon players and everyone else to come play SMITE that was apparently taken as an...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for a trio?
I've been considering this question ever since my husband and I upgraded our six-year-old's Guild Wars 2 account with Path of Fire and we...
Affidavit names two more gamers involved in fatal Call of Duty swatting incident
More details about the fatal Call of Duty swatting incident that took place in Kansas at the tail end of 2017 are coming to...
Hearthstone is planning a huge overhaul for ranked play plus balance nerfs
Have you been annoyed with Hearthstone's ranked play for a reaaaallly long time? Good news: A big change-up is on the way. Over the...
Ship of Heroes deep-dives villains and new ‘body-conscious’ female hero costumes
If you cared about the lore in City of Heroes, you were probably pretty attached to certain villain groups, right? Who doesn't remember Circle...
Best not be toxic on YouTube, Overwatch players, because Blizzard is watching you
Back in 2013, when Linda "Brasse" Carlson still fronted SOE's community branch, she made headlines for making SOE's anti-toxicity policies very clear. "If we...
Alganon has been offline for two months, is now owned by Derek Smart’s 3000AD
Nine years ago on Massively-that-was, we began covering the MMORPG known as Alganon - you'll recall it as a bit of a World of...
Monster Hunter World offers $70K for proof of real-world monsters
Not too shabby there, Capcom: Monster Hunter World has already sold five million copies of the console edition of the game. (The PC version,...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO daily login rewards work on you?
I've always wondered about this because the last few years, I've seemed impervious to the charms of daily login rewards. Even for the MMOs...
MMO Week in Review: The fate of SWTOR (January 28, 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!
Is...
Mobile MMO roundup: Lineage 2 Revolution, Bless Mobile, Fellow Eternal Clash, and Rise of Ragnarok
Welcome back to another mobile MMO roundup, those MMOs that obviously don't count because they are played on a small screen instead of a...
Make My MMO: Camelot’s new producer, Star Citizen’s alpha 3 features, & SOTA’s R50 (January 27, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained devs say they're getting really close to finalizing the date for beta one. This week, in addition...
Massively Overthinking: Considering pay-to-win MMO peripherals
MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls recently sent along a link to an insanely awesome 34" monitor that costs more than a lot of...
Epic shutters Paragon over playerbase size woes, declaring it ‘unsustainable’
When Epic Games admitted last week that Paragon's playerbase just couldn't seem to push past its core, many fans all but expected this announcement,...
Washington state senator proposes lockbox gambling investigation in new bill
Hawaiian politicians are getting some company on the lockbox front from a compatriot in Washington state.
State Senator Kevin Ranker has introduced legislation there that...
