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
Wild West Online denies that its alpha has been delayed
Hey, cowboys and cowgirls. When did you think alpha was going to begin for Wild West Online? You're wrong, apparently. 612 Games broke its recent...
Hearthstone’s Knights of the Frozen Throne arrives August 10th
It just wouldn't be a Hearthstone launch announcement without another goofy Lich King video, would it? And Blizzard's delivering both today as Knights of...
Video games on Kickstarter continue to struggle thanks to fading consumer confidence
Earlier this week, we got SuperData's mid-year report on the booming video game industry, the enormous multinational congloms rolling around in piles of cash-shop...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse format gets a shake-up ahead of the 3.0 alpha
Cloud Imperium's Chris Roberts has taken the opening segment of this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse episode to personally address the reasons behind...
Crunch mode caused a young Netmarble game developer’s death, Korean government says
South Korean MMO studio Netmarble is being criticized this week for contributing to the death of an overworked game developer in 2016.
The Korea Times...
Shroud of the Avatar: Equity crowdfunding passes $500K, studio plans monthly telethons
Shroud of the Avatar's equity crowdfunding venture has gone rather well: Portalarium declared last night that it has "exceeded SeedInvest target and  now...
The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of character-obscuring morphs and modes in MMOs?
When ArenaNet went through Guild Wars 2's upcoming Path of Fire specs on Tuesday, I was super bummed about the Ranger, the class I'd...
Massively Overthinking: Gathering our thoughts on Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire
This week, the dominant story has become Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire expansion, which is coming our way far sooner than a lot...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2017: Destiny 2 outperforms Destiny, WoW ‘time spent’ improves over 2016
We could practically copypasta last quarter's Activision-Blizzard report to this one and nobody would notice. That's because once again, it's the Blizzard segment of the...
SuperData’s mid-2017 report reflects a wildly expanding gaming industry
Gaming analysis firm SuperData is touting a new report for marketers today, shedding some light on the shape of the industry so far in...
Leaderboard: Did you go back to LOTRO for Mordor?
Before we begin, let's just get the trailer thing out of our systems. It was bad. Really bad. OK? Good. That's done.
Lord of the...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Ash Lion mount for PC from PWE and Massively OP
To celebrate the arrival of Tomb of Annihilation for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 50 Ash Lion mount keys to give away to our...
Today’s Dark and Light update nerfs resource respawn and friendly fire
Snail Games' early access MMO Dark and Light is patching up today. The studio says it's fixing the action sync issues, buffing crop fertilizer,...
Derek Smart’s Line of Defense brings on secondary team for console version
Derek Smart's MMO Line of Defense has a progress update this week covering the state of the game's build. A new patch is on...
GTAO profits are soaring, but we still don’t know whether Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC
It's still not a sure thing that Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC.
During its recent earnings call, Rockstar parent company Take Two heaped...
Dean Hall’s Stationeers don’t want no scrubs
DayZ's Dean Hall says his new sci-fi survivalbox Stationeers is launching early access in September, and he isn't sugarcoating the game's difficulty.
You might remember...
Mobile MMOs: Pokemon Go’s curfew, Logres’ launch, and spinoffs for Aion and TERA
By chance, we had a bunch of easily combinable mobile MMO news stories waiting to be written this morning, so let's get to them...
Today’s Citadel: Forged With Fire update adds new enemies, fixes telekinesis
Are you Harry Potter? Are you also a Dovahkiin? Then you're probably already deep into Citadel: Forged With Fire, early access be damned. The...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Mordor expansion is officially live with a launch trailer
After just a brief delay (but still probably way too soon), Lord of the Rings Online has officially launched its Mordor expansion. I'm sure...
Check out Villagers and Heroes’ Starfall revamp trailer
We've been keeping an eye on Villagers and Heroes all summer as it's been prepping its 4.0 update. Dubbed Starfall, the update is a...
