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
Albion Online characterizes layoffs as downsizing to ‘pre-release beta testing’ levels
Earlier this week, we got a tip claiming that the Albion Online team had been severely cut back before Christmas, perhaps as much as...
Darwin Project lets players and hosts explore their inner griefer
So you probably expected a bunch of battle royale games to pop up on Steam this year, given the remarkably popularity of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds...
EverQuest and EverQuest II tease plans for 2018
Daybreak has lavished the EverQuest and EverQuest II websites with community letters from producer Lauren "Mooncast" McLemore. Both MMOs just came off a pair...
Black Desert banned 647 cheaters over the last month, mostly fish botters, which is a thing
Thinking about cheating in Black Desert? Probably not; cheaters are hiding out in the bowels of the internet trading hacks with the other script...
Camelot Unchained lands $7.5M investment to hasten development: Our chat with Mark Jacobs on funding, VR, and beta one
If you know one thing about indie MMORPG Camelot Unchained, it's that CEO Mark Jacobs appears to dwell perpetually in internet comment sections amiably...
Grab a goodie bag for Mythic Glory as it launches into open beta
So here's a new one for us to cover: R2Games's Mythic Glory. It's a "browser MMORPG set in a persistent online world, populated by thousands of...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Dragon Bones’ Orc-themed Scalecaller Peak dungeon
If you haven't checked out the Dragon Bones DLC on Elder Scrolls Online's test server in person yet, you should at least take a...
Game Theory explores the psychological exploitation at work in lockboxes
"It's as easy as one, two, insert your credit card number here!" So begins the parody at the beginning of the first of two...
Destiny 2 players erupt over token throttling bugs
Another day, another Destiny 2 subreddit meltdown, and it's not over the Eververse cash shop, holiday items, or lockboxes this time.
Redditors report a multitude...
Black Desert adds sailboat quest, drop rate tweaks, and way more polar bears
Pull out your ancient "I'm on a boat" and "you are a pirate" memes because Black Desert is about to give you reason to...
Chronicles of Elyria confirms layoff rumors
Earlier today, we asked the Chronicles of Elyria team for a statement regarding a tip we'd received about layoffs and salary cutbacks at Soulbound,...
Ship of Heroes expands its dev team, updates gallery of new mission maps
Last week, Massively OP's MJ Guthrie and our community were treated to an early preview of Ship of Heroes - specifically, two mission maps,...
CCP addresses EVE Online botter problem, saying it’s at the ‘top of the list’
Last week, we reported on a situation brewing on the EVE Online subreddit, where player after player spoke out about the game's botting problem,...
Lost in Crowfall’s alpha? There’s a video for that – three videos, in fact
If you're a Crowfall backer currently logging into the game's current test phase for the first time because you are too impatient to wait...
Tencent helps Chinese law enforcement arrest 120 people linked to PUBG cheats
If you thought Epic Games was being too rough on cheaters in Fortnite by smacking kids with personal lawsuits, wait until you hear what...
Monster Hunter World demos Rotten Vale, Coral Highlands gameplay
Capcom is keeping the Monster Hunter World hype up this week with a series of videos on the title's gameplay. Spoilers: It's mostly about...
The Daily Grind: How much worse could MMO business models get?
During the roundtable podcast a few weeks ago, when we had the whole Massively OP staff on to chat, we tackled a question from Teviko...
Warframe discusses hijacking, damage 2.5, and drop changes
What's going on in Warframe, the game both you and we named the best not-so-massively game we covered in 2017? Quite a bit, it...
World of Warcraft e-sports: The return of the Mythic Dungeon Invitational and Arena World Championship
World of Warcraft and e-sports: two great tastes that taste great together, right? That's Blizzard's position, anyway. On Friday it laid out its plans...
Life is Feudal MMO has launched into early access on Steam
Builder-centric sandbox Life is Feudal has officially launched into early access with a buy-in of $29.99, and that's the MMO version, mind you, not...
