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
Log into EVE Online for 14th birthday presents and prep for tomorrow’s spring release
2003 was a fantastic year for MMORPGs, as anyone around for it can probably attest. In the span of two months that year, we...
Crowfall’s teaser week begins with the Frostweaver archetype
Last week, Crowfall studio ArtCraft posted a teaser that it would be posting more teasers this week on the road to a something "massive" -- a...
Planet Nomads patches up ahead of new May 25 early access launch date
One of the many, many, many multiplayer survival sandboxes under the purview of our The Survivalist column is Planet Nomads, a title that Kickstarted...
Shroud of the Avatar is free-to-play for most of May
Shroud of the Avatar is running another free trial -- quite a long one! It'll run from May 10th to the end of the...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG you find too daunting to return to?
Last week, Blizzard Watch published a post discussing the problem with grinding -- but maybe not the problem you're thinking. Matt Rossi explained that he...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2’s expansion leak, Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter (May 7, 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...
Massively Overthinking: Competitive PvE in MMORPGs
During last week's podcast, Justin and I bumped into a tangential topic about competitive PvE and how relatively rare it is in MMORPGs, which...
PSA: Last day to log in for a free Baby Groot in Marvel Heroes
If you're reading this on Sunday, and you care at all about Marvel Heroes, make sure you log in today to grab your freebie...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s Kickstarter, ROKH’s early access, Valiance’s map (May 6, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation made the leap to Kickstarter, raising (so far as I type this) 1.35M, far more than its...
Pokemon Go’s first Knight Foundation event is this weekend in North Carolina
Pokemon Go really wants to get you outside and moving. That's the gist of its new partnership with the Knight Foundation, through which Niantic hope...
Marvel Heroes’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 promo video is live
What's cuter than baby Groot?
Nothing. So why try, yeah?
Marvel Heroes's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2Â promo is now live, with the screens and video...
Darkfall Rise of Agon is live today
Hardcore sandbox Darkfall: Rise of Agon officially launches this afternoon. The story of the game is a victorious one, as it's one of two...
Overwatch: Hero leaks, lockbox probabilities, and Korean political humor
As Asian countries are cracking down on online games with lockbox gambling, gaming companies are complying with transparency. To wit: Blizzard's Chinese Overwatch website...
Conan Exiles moves to biweekly patch cadence, reshuffles development priorities
You might have noticed there was no Conan Exiles patch this week. That was intentional. Funcom says it hasn't been happy with the quality of its...
Mark Hamill caps off Star Citizen’s latest Around the Verse
This week's episode of Around the Verse sees Star Citizen's Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner bookending the Austin studio update and tech check-in. The Austin...
TERA’s fifth birthday celebration is finally underway, counts 6.6M registered players
Did you think TERAÂ had forgotten its birthday? We did too for a minute there, but nope! It's a few days belated, but En Masse...
The Daily Grind: Do you seek out MMORPG leaks?
Over the past couple of months, the MMORPG community has worked its way through massive leaks of top-secret info: first for Elder Scrolls Online's...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Morrowind’s dwemer ruins
Remember Naryu Virian? She's the snarky assassin fronting Elder Scrolls Online's Morrowind tour videos, and she's back again today with a disdainful travelogue on...
Path of Exile on the ripple effect of DOT changes
Moar dots! Grinding Gear Games has so much to say about Path of Exile's changes to damage-over-time skills, you guys. Reams. Whole manifestos. It's...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2017: Blizzard’s online games drove Activision-Blizzard profits last quarter
Activision-Blizzard can't claim "biggest quarter ever" for the quarter ending March 2017, but it continues to rake in huge sums of money, enough to at...
