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
Leaderboard: Is Steam Direct’s developer fee too high?
Back in February, Valve announced that it would be sunsetting Steam Greenlight and replacing it with a new platform called Steam Direct, which would...
ESRB leaks new Diablo III console ‘Eternal Collection’
Diablo III players on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will apparently be able to avail themselves of an all-new bundle option.
The ESRB has posted...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Richard Garriott on launch and philosophy following equity crowdfunding announcement
Last week during its seasonal telethon, Shroud of the Avatar's lead developers surprised watchers by announcing an equity crowdfunding campaign that allows players and...
Conan Exiles on city life, hardcore servers, and Xbox One dev
Funcom doesn't want players to think of their Conan Exiles towns as nothing more than a "protective box for their assets." That's according to...
Rumor: Aeria Games no longer publishing Bless Online for western audiences
Rumors are flying this morning that Aeria Games has been dismissed as the western Bless Online publisher. MMORPG.com reports that it received "fairly substantial...
The Daily Grind: Who’s the best villain ever in an MMORPG?
The past few weeks while I've been sick, I've been doing a rewatch of a couple of old favorite shows and fell into a TV...
MMO Week in Review: Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood’s everything (June 4, 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!
This...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter, Shroud of the Avatar’s equity crowdfund (June 3, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter came to a close with $3.2M and nearly 20,000 backers, making it the biggest MMORPG Kickstarter...
Camelot Unchained’s backer-modders are tricking out its test interface
"No one said making an MMO was simple," City State Entertainment's Tyler Rockwell quips in this weekend's Camelot Unchained newsletter. He writes that the...
Cross-platform social sandbox MMO Pixel Worlds comes to PC next week
Tired of cutthroat guild politics, giant epaulets, and lens flare in big budget MMOs? Point your eyeballs instead at Pixel Worlds, a game Finnish...
Kickstarter to take no action on Ashes of Creation’s campaign following referral program confusion
Last weekend, we ran an article covering PC Gamer's detailed investigation into Ashes of Creation's pledge system. At the time, PC Gamer's Steven Messner wrote...
Old School RuneScape adds solo Inferno dungeon and lava fishing
Old School RuneScape has gotten a fresh update this week, and it's going to do its best to kick your ass: with a lava-drenched...
Neverwinter announces Tomb of Annihilation expansion for July 25
If you're a Dungeons and Dragons fan, you may have already been watching the "Stream of Annihilation" on Twitch this afternoon. But if you're...
Play Kritika Online’s closed beta today with one of our keys!
En Masse's action MMO Kritika Online is deep in the midst of its closed beta as gamers test its four class types, progression systems, and...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse on the new website and colossal ship migration
Big changes are coming to Star Citizen -- well, to its website. This week's episode of Around the Verse explains that the game's website...
Marvel Heroes got you a cake plus half-price heroes for its 4th birthday
Marvel Heroes is turning four years old this weekend - can you believe that? That's four years of freebie heroes, blowing stuff up, baby...
Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist
This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...
Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter has successfully funded at $3.27M
Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter has successfully funded this morning, bringing in a grand total of $3,271,809Â US out of its $750,000 goal with almost 20,000...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG studio is the most generous to players?
Longtime MOP community contributor deekay posed us an interesting question in the context of Marvel Heroes this week: Is it a good thing when developers...
Camelot Unchained updates progress on crafting, combat, and character creation
Camelot Unchained's latest monthly newsletter has arrived, and the highlight -- aside from the fact that City State hired Andrew Jackson to work on...
