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
Skyforge’s The Revenant update introduces its 15th class in September
We're taking a break from our regularly scheduled coverage of the absurd number of MMOs and patches launching today to talk about an update...
World of Warcraft rockets to Argus in patch 7.3 today
At last year's BlizzCon, when Blizzard first announced World of Warcraft fans would someday be trekking to Argus, it seemed so distant to many...
ARK Survival Evolved launches today; get caught up here with the trailer and roundup!
Try to hold back your shock: Sci-fi-dino-themed survival sandbox ARK Survival Evolved is really, truly, launching today, so put all those delay gripes and...
Black Desert launches a tower defense mode dubbed Sealed Tower tomorrow
Tomorrow's Black Desert update will make the new biweekly cadence all worthwhile. Its headline feature? Savage Rift, a de facto co-op tower defense minigame...
The Daily Grind: What do you actually expect to get out of MMORPG lockboxes?
MMO blogger Bhagpuss has an intriguing multi-angle post out this week criticizing, rightly in my mind, Guild Wars 2's lockboxes, but not the way...
Ship of Heroes talks indie scope, community positivity, and designing the world
Ship of Heroes is gearing up for PAX with drop-ins with community vloggers, including The Positive Gamer, who has a flythrough video of Apotheosis...
Shroud of the Avatar’s R45 launches Thursday, Oktoberfest-themed fundraiser begins next week
Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for one of its like-clockwork monthly releases: 45 on Thursday. In preparation, this week's newsletter features a...
Absolver teases tomorrow’s launch with a sweet new trailer
Absolver's unique style of multiplayer online combat is set to go live on Steam and PS4 tomorrow, and Devolver Digital has a new trailer...
Raph Koster on roleplaying consent and emotes in Star Wars Galaxies and WoW
MMORPG designer Raph Koster has a fun piece out today, ostensibly about what he's dubbing "consent systems" in multiplayer games that include roleplaying --...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tops Steam concurrency, drawing from CS:GO’s playerbase
Remember a few weeks back when PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds took League of Legends to town on Twitch, beating Riot's giant for eyeball share on the...
Guild Wars 2 preps PAX West party, sound panel, and video teasers
If you're heading to PAX West in Seattle this weekend, you've got only two opportunities to gather with Guild Wars 2 fans. The first is...
The Daily Grind: How often do you play non-human MMORPG characters?
This weekend, I was toying around with my fancy Path of Fire-induced new character slot in Guild Wars 2. I have one of every...
MMO Week in Review: Turning heads in Star Citizen, literally (August 27, 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!
Star...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s Gamescom demo, Camelot Unchained’s beta progress (August 26, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen brought a playable (though tweaked) version of 3.0 to Cologne for Gamescom this week, a demo apparently endlessly...
Gamescom 2017: Star Citizen demos ‘real-time, player-driven facial animation’
If you skipped out on the Star Citizen Gamescom presentation, you missed out on some pretty good stuff. You also missed out on an...
Dark and Light’s animal taming mechanics are weirdly sadistic
Dark and Light's latest dev walkthrough video focuses on taming the wild, and Snail is talking specifically about animal taming. To start taming, the...
Bring your own popcorn to the Gamescom Star Citizen stream
The capstone to Star Citizen's Gamescom hoopla is slated for this afternoon at 3 p.m. EDT, when Cloud Imperium's Chris Roberts takes the stage...
Massively Overthinking: The survivalbox vs. the MMORPG
A few weeks ago in Massively Overthinking, the team discussed the resurgence in popularity of small-scale co-op games and whether that has impacted the...
Gamescom 2017: Destiny 2’s European dead zone and Rolling Stone interview
Destiny 2's European dead zone sure sounds festive, right? Well, it looks pretty, anyway. Bungie revealed the open world environ in a new video...
Lost Ark gets a new website, opens second CBT signups
Korean-born MMORPG Lost Ark has just gotten a huge website revamp that hints at a development ramp-up. If you run the site through Google...
