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
Eternal Crusade considers battle royale mode, can’t comment on status of lead designer
Even Warhammer 40K Eternal Crusade might be jumping on the battle royale bandwagon. That's according to Behaviour Interactive's latest pair of player-directed Q&A posts.
"We...
Riot’s new promo video argues e-sports are indeed sports
No one will be surprised by Riot Games' latest e-sports video. Riot Games really likes e-sports. Indeed, Riot Games believes e-sports are real sports.
"Not...
Monster Hunter World’s first console beta event is slated for this weekend
You have nothing to do but play video games this weekend, right? No crushing holiday shopping you should be getting a jump on? Great...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever fallen for an in-game MMO prank?
Stop me if you've heard this one: If you fly to the remote Hutton orbital space station in Elite Dangerous, there's a free Anaconda in...
MMO Week in Review: Mourning Marvel Heroes (December 3, 2017)
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!
Where...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained inches closer to beta one (December 2, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained's weekly progress report is on the shorter side (for CSE) given that the game's monthly newsletter just went...
Citadel Forged With Fire’s free Forsaken Crypts expansion is live
Should games that are still in early access release expansions? What if those expansions are free for those who own the base game? That's...
Star Citizen’s monthly studio report covers alpha 3.0 work, eyes Squadron 42
What's Cloud Imperium been up to the last month? Oh nothing much, just frantically trying to prepare Star Citizen's alpha 3.0 to debut ahead...
Milwaukee settles lawsuit over Pokemon Go-inspired park ordinance
The Milwaukee lawsuit sparked by Pokemon Go is finally over.
Back in February, Milwaukee County in Wisconsin issued an ordinance requiring video game developers like...
DayZ finally makes hard plans to leave early access and launch (beta) next year
Remember like 50 million years ago when DayZ was young, Dean Hall was at the top of everybody's interview list, and nobody realized the...
Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs
Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...
The Daily Grind: Did Marvel Heroes just get the worst-managed MMORPG sunset of all time?
If you happened to catch the Massively OP Podcast this week, you heard my positively livid rant about the whole Marvel Heroes situation. Now,...
Leaderboard: Is Destiny 2’s marketing brilliant or just plain nuts?
So this morning I'm dishing out cheese crackers for my kid, who was up all night barfing. (If my posts have typos today, it's...
Fortnite’s latest patch adds Xbox One X support, preps custom matchmaking
This week's Fortnite update spreads love around for both the freebie battle royale mode and the paid PvE mode and now supports Xbox One...
Maplestory’s Nova: Liberation of Cadena update adds new job skills, achievements, and Cadena herself
Maplestory ought to be on your radar as one of those cutesy veteran sandbox MMOs with more content than you can finish in a...
Blade & Soul’s Dawn of the Lost Continent revamps the wardrobe, adds personal damage meters
Arrrrr you ready for Blade & Soul's "largest update" ever? NCsoft's been teasing next week's Dawn of the Lost Continent since the beginning of...
Bluehole’s CEO on how Ascent: Infinite Realm (A:IR) will breathe life into a stagnating MMORPG genre
Ready for some harsh truths, MMO players? Bluehole CEO Hyo-Seob Kim recently told GIbiz that he wasn't expecting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to do so well globally,...
Superdata’s October 2017 revenue report: Destiny 2’s and PUBG’s dominance
Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies.
That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...
Are rank-and-file devs benefiting from MMO publisher ‘money-grabs’? Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs weighs in
Last week, Massively OP's Eliot Lefebvre wrote a (fantastic) Soapbox editorial arguing that Star Wars Battlefront II (and its concomitant monetization dust-up) is merely...
The Repopulation considers closing its EU server, adding hardcore server as 10.2 patch rolls out to testers
Idea Fabrik has a new forum post up on the state of sandbox MMO The Repopulation heralding the testing of update 10.2. There's downside,...
