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
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2018?
It's tradition around here to take stock of Daybreak's MMO offerings every year, thanks to the fact that one of the first big stories...
Elite Dangerous denies player allegation that it’s not addressing combat logging exploits
Most online games have rules governing running from a fight, abandoning a team, or exiting the game to avoid gameplay, be they MMORPGs or...
Guild Wars 2 overhauls its lockbox mechanics and adds gardening plots
We don't often cover cash shop updates for MMOs, and lockboxes are not our favorite thing, but Guild Wars 2's cash shop and lockbox...
Fortnite addresses Meltdown vulnerability, settles another cheater lawsuit
Were you thinking you'd escaped all impact from the Meltdown vulnerability afflicting Intel systems? Fortnite players should think again, even consolers, as Epic Games...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Dragon Bones DLC hits the PTS, free sub trial begins today
It's almost time to get your Skyrim nostalgia on! ZeniMax announced last night that the Dragon Bones DLC and accompanying freebie update 17 have...
Bless Online teases its solo, story, and raid dungeons ahead of 2018 rollout
Neowiz has a new dev blog up on Steam today featuring none other than Bless Online's dungeons, which include episodes relating to the main...
Lockbox roundup: MMO studios on ‘elegant’ lockboxes, legal issues, and the ‘cosmetics only’ angle
You know the lockbox thing is reaching saturation when there are so many things to cover we have to resort to a roundup. Nevertheless,...
Korean prosecutors target former NCsoft VP for insider trading
Former NCsoft Vice President and Blade & Soul lead producer Bae Jae Hyu has landed in legal hot water thanks to an ongoing insider...
HEVGA argues WHO’s proposed ‘gaming disorder’ classification scapegoats and stigmatizes games
Is gaming addiction a thing worthy of its own classification? The World Health Organization is thinking about saying yes in its update of the...
Michele Morrow calls out BlizzCon gender pay inequality
Michele Morrow, one of the most recognizable faces in gaming thanks to her long career as a show host and actress and World of Warcraft...
Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium files motion to dismiss Crytek copyright lawsuit
The bombshell of December 2017 was the news that Crytek was suing Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, the companies behind the sprawling and...
The Daily Grind: Which game made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2017?
Last year, Massively OP commenter deekay_zero proposed this topic as a joke award, but when we ran it as a Daily Grind, it prompted...
MMO Week in Review: The latest studio to enter the battle royale (January 7, 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!
While...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO to roleplay in as of 2018?
Half an eternity ago, my merry band of MMO PvPers and raiders ran headlong into a gang of roleplayers, and it changed my guild...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s new website and private concierge event (January 6, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen devs gave a first look at game's brand-new website, which is due to launch later in January. It's...
Camelot Unchained is in the middle of a big hiring push ahead of beta one
Camelot Unchained has been teasing a slew of big announcements coming over the next few weeks, and finally one of them is here. No,...
Raph Koster on MMO ecosystems, the balance of power, and tennis
Most MMORPGs have the core sandbox problem: Whoever gets there first, controls all the toys and has the power to drive everyone else away....
Leaderboard: What was the best new NSM game in 2017?
A few weeks ago, we posted our pick for best not-so-Massively game of 2017. Warframe narrowly won our award, firmly validated by the reader...
League of Legends unbans ‘reformed’ toxic player called a ‘humunculus’ by fired employee
Among last year's toxicity-in-gaming stories was the one that taught the internet an important lesson: how to spell homunculus. No, that wasn't it. It...
Massively OP’s 2017 awards debrief and annual recap
As we did in 2014, 2015, and 2016, today I'm going to recap our annual awards and other meta articles from the end of 2017....
