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
BioWare’s Anthem’s fourth pillar is obviously corn
Move over, Hearthstone's Ice Cream Citadel: BioWare is currently promoting Anthem by way of a massive corn maze and I am not even making...
The Daily Grind: What’s your biggest pet peeve about early access MMOs?
Early access is kind of a garbage system for the vast majority of gamers. Yes, yes, I know, some games and game types just...
MMO Week in Review: Dark and Light is finally live (July 23, 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!
It...
Gigantic devs liken their graphics to candy and plastic toys
If you love to hate on brightly colored cartoony-stylized graphics of games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, and even Wildstar, know that...
Make My MMO: Albion Online joins the list of launched crowdfunded MMORPGs (July 22, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, indie sandbox Albion Online -- whose 250,000 founders reportedly crowdfunded the game for almost $10,000,000 -- formally launched. The...
Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago is pretty much a trainwreck
If you've ever been to a massive gathering of tech-savvy people -- like say, a gaming convention -- you know better than to rely...
EverQuest II’s Tinkerfest offers new quests, achievements, pets, and craftables
Tinkerfest is live in EverQuest II once again as it always is in summer -- "like clockwork," Daybreak dad-jokes.
"Take up your favorite wrench and...
Wild Terra is free to play all weekend
Who doesn't love free things? How about free isometric MMO sandboxes? Wild Terra is putting itself in the free bin for the weekend as...
Path of Exile’s microtransaction system is finally live
After multiple false starts over the summer, Path of Exile has finally patched in its new microtransaction system as of last night.
"In the new...
Diablo III’s 11th season is now live with new class gear for the Necro
Season 11 is now live in Diablo III, which means a brand-new opportunity to start a fresh grind for loot and expies. In its...
Let’s go space shopping in this week’s Star Citizen Around the Verse
We've been chatting about game economies this week here at Massively OP, so it's a happy coincidence than this week's episode of Around the...
The Daily Grind: What’s your ideal ‘retirement’ MMORPG?
Wednesday, my husband and I were chatting about the big stories of the day, including the Star Citizen piece that racked up a bajillion...
Massively Overthinking: Building a better MMORPG economy
We are on a roll with the epic questions for Overthinking lately! "The recent article about monetization got me thinking about just how much most...
Next Day Survival debuts, plus H1Z1, Hellion, Black Death, and Life is Feudal survivalbox news
ARK and Conan aren't the only survivalboxes in town -- in fact, several of the modern contenders in the subgenre have updates and videos this week demonstrating...
Anti-grind MMO Fractured introduces its playable races, including vampires and bear-kin
Last month, we introduced our readers to Fractured, yet another SpatialOS MMO currently under construction since this past January. Its chief claims to fame...
Dark and Light has officially launched into early access
Following multiple development delays, weird PR moves, gorgeous screenshot dumps, and a month of closed beta, decade-old MMORPG sandbox Dark and Light has finally...
SuperData’s new report suggests multiplayer console gamers are more susceptible to DLC and RMT than ever
Gamers talk a big talk about horse armor DLC and pay-to-win and the evils of cash shops, but y'all keep buying anyway.
That's according to...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Richard Garriott backs Neverdie’s ‘etherium blockchain gaming’ venture
I often joke with our readers that Massively OP is not an MMO uptime monitor, but darn if we don't feel like a Richard...
Citadel: Forged With Fire patches up, plans weekend beta excursion
Citadel: Forged With Fire has been a whirlwind of activity since its sudden early access announcement last week, and it's not letting up, as...
Guild Wars 2: One Path Ends speculation and the Black Lion Hunters Contract
Hear that buzz? It's Guild Wars 2 gearing up for its third season finale next week... and then, ultimately, pushing into uncharted territory with...
