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
The Daily Grind: Have you ever felt the need to cut back on your MMORPG playtime?
A couple of months ago, Lifehacker ran an article that might just save somebody: It's titled How to Cut Back on Playing Video Games,...
Johnny Depp will produce a TV show based on The Secret World
Your eyes aren't deceiving you, though I did a double-take too: Deadline is reporting that The Secret World aka Secret World Legends is getting a...
Blizzard has decided to keep Battlenet around after all
Remember last September when Blizzard said it would be "transitioning away from using the Battle.net name" for the "central nervous system for Blizzard games"?...
The PAX West City of Heroes and Ashes of Creation panels are a go
A few weeks back, we reported on the City of Heroes-themed panel coming to PAX West in Seattle at the beginning of September. With the...
Korea’s FTC to investigate Blizzard’s StarCraft: Remastered hourly fees
The Korean StarCraft community is up in arms this week over Blizzard's rerelease of the game -- more specifically, its plan to effectively double-dip...
Leaderboard: Did Guild Wars 2’s preview weekend convince you to buy Path of Fire?
This past weekend, the gaming segment of my Twitter feed was positively dominated by chatter about Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion free preview weekend. I...
Almost nobody is happy with Pokemon Go’s irritating ‘exclusive raid battles’ plan
Pokemon Go players are buzzing today over the release of legendary Pokemon Mewtwo at the Yokohama, Japan, event, which according to Niantic allowed "thousands"...
Ubisoft on Skull and Bones’ business model, ‘treasure chest’ lootboxes, and live events
If you thought that Ubisoft's Skull and Bones pirate MMO wasn't going to have lootboxes, seriously, what rock are you living under? (And is...
The Elder Scrolls Online’s Horns of the Reach DLC is live
Horns of the Reach is live in The Elder Scrolls Online today as ZeniMax's first major update since the Morrowind campaign/expansion rolled out in...
VR is still on the table for Star Citizen
VR-centric website Road to VR has a brief quote from Cloud Imperium Games that might be good news to those of you still hoping...
A Dota 2 pro was beaten by Elon Musk’s OpenAI bot during this year’s International
Dota 2's The International 7 tournament is over, having concluded this weekend by crowning EU group Team Liquid -- which arrived to the finals...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of Guild Wars 2’s non-traditional mounts?
Mounts are the big new thing in Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion, and as I've previously mentioned, I was initially concerned about...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire begins with actual in-game fire (August 13, 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!
If...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen scrubs release windows from 3.0 schedule, Fig investors turn a profit (August 12, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen surprised backers by removing all "aim dates" from its weekly production schedule, which is intended to provide a roadmap...
PSA: Guild Wars 2’s mounts may be causing motion sickness issues
Longtime readers will know that we take motion sickness from games pretty darn seriously around here, given that we have a writer who's been...
H1Z1: King of the Kill is due for a major combat upgrade
Did you forget H1Z1 is still in early access? We did not! The King of the Kill half in particular is still getting heavy...
Lost Ark’s Korean beta features boats, storms, and treasure hunting
When Lost Ark was first announced back in 2014 as basically the next generation of Diablo-clone in an MMO, I remember being straight-up grabby-hands...
Investors pour $3.7M into MMO sandbox Dual Universe
Dual Universe just snagged a positively massive cash injection. According to a press release posted today, private investors have poured $3.7 million in funding...
Massively Overthinking: Is the popularity of small-scale co-op games hurting MMORPGs?
Gamasutra has an unusual piece from an Ubisoft developer this week arguing that co-op gameplay is the industry's rising midcore trend, one that he...
Guild Wars 2’s free-play Path of Fire preview weekend is live
Update: It's up, go go go!
Ahead of its September 22nd launch, Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion will be on public display this...
