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
ArcheAge suffers continuing server issues, rolls out Winter Maiden festival
Another day, another update to the ArcheAge mess -- anyone with me in just feeling really sorry for Trion having to deal with this...
Pick up a key for Cloud Pirates’ third closed beta and jump in right now
Dirigibles! Explosions! Christmas! One of these things just doesn't fit in here! Yep, it's time for another round of Cloud Pirates closed beta right through the...
Four-year-old War Thunder launches out of open beta
I know what you're thinking -- didn't War Thunder launch, like, four years ago? I know we just sang happy birthday back in October. Welcome...
Multiplayer sci-fi sandbox Hellion demos survival gameplay ahead of January early access
Back in November, we reported on the rollout of Hellion, a PvP-centric multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox aiming for a Jaunary early access launch. Today,...
Valiance Online clarifies alpha and Steam launch plans
Back in October, Valiance Online announced that it was superjumping onward from pre-alpha to alpha and revealed that it'll use a free-to-play model, or...
Don’t miss The Game Archaeologist’s histories of Asheron’s Call
The impending loss of Asheron's Call -- and Asheron's Call 2 again -- hit the MMORPG community pretty hard when the sunsets were announced...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG PvP of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG PvP Experience in 2016, which is new to our awards series this year...
Black Desert’s Witch and Wizard awaken today
The Witch and Wizard awaken today in Black Desert this morning, and they'd like some coffee please. Not only will your spellslinger be more of a...
Neverwinter’s Sea of Moving Ice lands on console January 17
Are you a console player staring longingly at Neverwinter's Sea of Moving Ice update, which launched back in November for PC players? Sorry dudes...
Marvel Heroes has 14 days of Christmas presents waiting for you
It's a day that ends in y, which means Marvel Heroes has an excuse to party. And its latest round of revelry kicks off...
Elsword reveals new playable character Ain in exclusive trailer
KOG Games' Elsword is gearing up to add a brand-new character to the western roster: Ain. Even hardened MMORPG veterans are unlikely to have...
Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas arena design dev diary
Last week, we covered new info about El Somni Quas, an indie sandbox from Czech studio that actually cut its teeth on Ultima Online...
Happy birthday, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and thanks for the trailer
Star Wars: The Old Republic is celebrating its fifth birthday this week, and to celebrate, Producer Ben Irving has penned a new dev blog...
Asheron’s Call and its sequel will sunset as part of the Turbine/Standing Stone split
I'm sorry to report that Turbine announced today that it will be sunsetting Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call 2 as part of the transition...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Industry Blunder of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMORPG Industry Blunder of 2016. Last year, we called the Star Citizen melodrama the biggest...
The Daily Grind: Does Daybreak’s involvement with LOTRO and DDO worry you?
Yesterday, we were all pretty astonished to learn that Turbine has spun out Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online --...
Entropia Universe player returns $10,000 lost in accidental auction
If you've played an MMORPG long enough, you've probably misclicked and done something foolish, like deleted your mount, dropped your best sword on the...
RUST dev after three years of early access: ‘If you’re bored of the game then just stop playing it’
While RUST has amused us plenty this year, thanks to the character gender via Steam IDÂ thing and the hobo simulator (and don't forget penis...
Smed says Hero’s Song is ‘working through some things’
We've had several tips this week from players concerned about Hero's Song. One, for example, suggested that several employees had left Pixelmage Games and...
The new Nostalrius emulator suffered six DDOS attacks on launch day
Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...
