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
Snail Games to publish ARK: Survival Evolved VR experience called ARK Park
Ever thought that ARK: Survival Evolved looked like a neat world, but you're not into player-run servers? Maybe ARK Park is for you. Snail...
RuneScape offers new subscription packages with ‘Premier Club’
The folks at Guinness World Records may have once counted RuneScape as the world's most popular free MMORPG, but it's had an optional subscription,...
The Daily Grind: Is Twitch chat just MMO general chat writ large?
Last week, an Indiana University Bloomington team released its analysis of over a billion comments made on Twitch over a two-month period in 2014...
Academics assess Pokemon Go’s value to conservation and education
Let's cap off the evening with some feel-good, sciency stories about Pokemon Go, shall we?
Zoologists at Oxford University are studying Pokemon Go to determine...
Riders of Icarus unleashes new trailer for Ranger’s Fury update
Debuting on December 15th, Ranger's Fury is Riders of Icarus' next big thing, complete with a level bump to 50, a new desert zone...
Project Genom is back on Steam after DMCA meltdown [Updated]
"We are pleased to announce that Project Genom is now once again available on Steam." That's the news from a new press release this...
Mark Kern renames Ember to Em-8ER, picks up Nostalrius programmer
Earlier this month, Mark Kern's "massive planetary wargame" shooter Ember got a new name and logo: Em-8ER.
"While still pronounced 'Ember,' we changed the official...
Revelation Online’s Swordmage is beautifully badass
Swordmages are the subject of Revelation Online's newest class reveal video, out this morning for fans to drool over. Critically, the class maintains an...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most bothersome part of MMORPG monetization?
A recent GIbiz interview on Ubisoft's monetization reveals that studios, at least the type making online shooters, have come full circle again to the...
MMO Week in Review: Winter has come to Guild Wars 2 (November 27, 2016)
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!
Guild...
PWE is running big sales for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Livelock, and more
For those of you folks who you somehow have money still burning a whole in your pocket at noon on Black Friday, here comes one...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO internet spaceships fanatic
While some of us are toiling away on the ground in plate armor while fighting furry monstrosities, there's a whole world of internet spaceships...
The Daily Grind: Are you a consumables hoarder in MMORPGs?
This weekend of all weekends, it only seems right to ask you about hoarding, although I don't mean just getting stuff to have it...
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the people of the MMORPG genre
It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and we wish you all a happy one, whether you're celebrating locally or not. For this week's Massively Overthinking...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO peripherals junkie
As an MMO player, you presumably already own a computer. You're also reading this post on some sort of electronic device! But you might be...
Three-year-old Warframe broke its concurrency record after The War Within
GIbiz has an interview out with Digital Extremes VP of Publishing Meridith Braun today, who sheds light on how Warframe is doing. It turns...
Guild Wars 2’s Nightmare Fractals aim to mix accessibility with complexity
Fractals: Love 'em or hate 'em, they're here to stay in Guild Wars 2. The latest, dubbed The Nightmare Fractal, is a ground-up do-over...
The best Thanksgiving and Black Friday MMORPG deals
Getcher credit cards ready, folks. It's time.
(New additions are at the bottom!)
The Secret World is part of the Humble Bundle this week; you can...
Black Desert’s Musa and Maehwa awaken, base game on sale for 50% off
If the patch goes to plan, the Musa and Maehwa awaken with new polearms in today's Black Desert update.
"The Musa can now switch to the...
Project Genom drops from Steam under opposing blackmail and infringement allegations
Project Genom has been pulled from Steam, but the why of it is still a bit hazy.
Russian Developer NeuronHaze has laid the blame at...
