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
Happy Halloween from Massively OP! Check out all the MMO Halloweens we visited
If you've followed any of our Halloween 2017 MMO coverage or even just skimmed through our great big guide to Halloween events in the...
Life is Feudal’s Nightfall trailer is properly creepy for Halloween
We're down to the wire on new Halloween celebrations in MMOs; indeed, some of them are already over thanks to patch schedules! But that's...
Fortnite devs focus on performance issues following 811K weekend concurrency
If you struggled to play Fortnite this weekend, you're not alone, and Epic Games is on the case. "The Battle Bus had 811K concurrent...
MapleStory players have rolled 273 million characters since 2003
Can you believe MapleStory is 12 years old? I had to double-check it myself. In fact, it's older than 12, though it's 12 here...
Ship of Heroes reveals its Dark Magic Blast powerset just in time for Halloween
If you're missing the Halloween flair of City of Heroes today as I am, maybe point your eyeballs at Ship of Heroes instead. This...
The Daily Grind: Should video game developers unionize?
The New York Times ran an op-ed from Kotaku editor Jason Schreier last week outlining the perils of game industry "crunch": 80-to-100-hour weeks, often...
EA has put the kibosh on a player-run Battlefield emulator – are MMOs next?
We don't cover the Battlefield games much on Massively OP, but this particular story caught my attention anyway because of the company and subject...
Olympic e-sports are becoming inevitable as IOC says they ‘could be considered as a sporting activity’
The International Olympic Committee has formally stated that it may consider e-sports a sporting activity.
"Competitive e-sports could be considered as a sporting activity, and...
Dauntless has rolled out a fresh newbie experience and character customization
Closed beta MMOARPG Dauntless is rolling out what Phoenix Labs is calling its first major content update, dubbed Forge Your Legend and bejeweled with...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds faces potential censorship in China
GIbiz has picked up a Bloomberg piece that suggests China may be poised to crack down on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. China's Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association...
Here’s what you missed from last weekend’s Star Citizen’s CitizenCon 2017
While it surely won't comfort anyone angrily counting down the days until alpha 3.0's eventual release to all backers, Star Citizen's CitizenCon 2017Â delivered an...
Pantheon’s social systems aren’t ‘simply bringing back the past’
One of the most interesting things to cover when it comes to Pantheon's development has been its reconciliation of two superficially opposing ideas for...
The Daily Grind: How can individual MMO players combat toxicity?
MOP reader Tyler sent us a tip over the weekend that keeps bothering me. According to a post made on Facebook this weekend, a...
Halloween events across the MMORPG verse, 2017 edition
Hey, you. Yeah, you, dude leeching candy from the bucket you bought "for the neighborhood kids." And you, lady still trying to decide between...
MMO Week in Review: Destiny 2 has already won the year (October 29, 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!
Destiny...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s procedural cities, Camelot Unchained’s beta tester rewards (October 28, 2017)
Ever wanted to walk around on Coruscant? Star Citizen may be granting your wish, or at least a solid approximation. During this weekend's CitizenCon,...
War Thunder turns five, counts 20M players, and begins development for Xbox One
Gaijin announced this morning that War Thunder is rolling out to Xbox One and the X too, thanks to the constant deluge of requests...
Daybreak on H1Z1 and Just Survive: ‘It’s best to consider each game as a separate entity moving forward’
Gotta stop teasing Daybreak for a month: Just Survive, the actual zombie sandbox half of the H1Z1 salmagundi, is getting love. The latest patch...
Mobile MMO roundup: ArcheAge Begins, Paladins Strike, MU Origin, and Vendetta Online
Welcome back to another quick tour through the very latest in mobile MMORPG news. Let's begin at the beginning with...
ArcheAge Begins
Yep, the GAMEVIL-produced mobile spinoff...
Massively Overthinking: The state of early access, alpha, and beta ‘testing’ in the MMO genre
I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch...
