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
Cloud Pirates enters closed beta October 18, begins selling founder packs
My.com announced this week that its Allods Online-inspired sky-MOBA Cloud Pirates will enter closed beta next week on October 18th. The company has likewise put...
Black Desert: West and east see new awakenings this week
Black Desert has a big patch out for Korean players this week, complete with the Wizard's water-themed awakening weapon, the last of the classes still...
The Elder Scrolls Online will have a Halloween event this year
Long-time Elder Scrolls players know that the calendar, months, seasons, and holidays play an important role in the lore of the series, but The...
SuperData says MMO gamers still stick around in a single game for a long time
Gaming research firm SuperData released a nifty pair of graphics on MMO retention last night.
The firm argues that a slim majority of MMO gamers...
Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King Halloween events begin October 18
If candy corn elementals are your thing, get ready for the return of Guild Wars 2's annual Halloween festivities. ArenaNet posted the date this...
Grab a closed beta key for Webzen’s dark fantasy action MMO MU Legend
Webzen is kicking off the closed beta for the global version of MU Legend later this month -- on October 25th, to be exact,...
Star Citizen unlocks all ships for backers until October 17
In celebration of the anniversary of Star Citizen's original Kickstarter (and maybe as a wee apology for the delay of Squadron 42 announced at...
The Daily Grind: Does your MMO playstyle track with your age and gender?
Gaming research firm Quantic Foundry posted a new blog last week revealing the results of its surveys cross-referencing gender, age, and playstyle in video...
Vikki and Momo meet the tengu in Guild Wars 2’s latest lore piece
Still following the adventures of bespectackled Asuran gal Vikki and her not-really-a-pink-moa Momo? Guild Wars 2's writers have delivered another installment of her story...
The Elder Scrolls Online wants to send you to Skyrim or Elsweyr
It would have been all too easy for gamers to have missed it amidst the One Tamriel launch hubbub this week, but The Elder...
Pokemon Go blocks third-party apps again, buffs gym training
Just ahead of the weekend, Niantic announced some tweaks to Pokemon Go's gym training system. "In an upcoming version of Pokémon GO, when training...
Multiplayer Wasteland 3 has already hit its $2.75M Fig crowdfunding goal
Wasteland 3, the latest sequel for classic RPG Wasteland and the first multiplayer edition in the series, has successfully reached its baseline crowdfunding goal...
EVE Online’s free-to-play switch, engineering complexes arrive with Ascension on November 8
EVE Online's world-changing Ascension update has been formally dated: November 8th. That just a week after the company will close out the EVE Vegas convention...
Star Citizen: CitizenCon recap and Squadron 42 delay
Star Citizen's rolled out its massive CitizenCon finale last night in LA, with multiple Cloud Imperium reps hitting the stage during the presentation to talk...
The Daily Grind: What business model do you want to see for Amazon’s New World?
Following the announcement that Amazon Game Studios is working on multiple online games, one of them a massively multiplayer sandbox called New World, players...
MMO Week in Review: One Tamriel, CitizenCon, and KOTET (October 9, 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!
It...
Wurm Online co-creator steps back from development, says game is ‘doing well financially’
Following our report on Wurm Online's upcoming development plans earlier this week, reader Bionicall pointed us to a different recent post penned by the game's CEO...
Leaderboard: How many subs do you think WoW has right now?
This past week, Blizzard denied a quote from a Polish print magazine attributing a post-Legion 10.1 million subscription count for World of Warcraft to...
Marvel Heroes: Out with the omega system, in with the infinity system
Gazillion Lead Systems Designer TheArtofRawr is back with another Marvel Heroes design blog this weekend. Previously he's discussed hero powers and item updates, but...
Make My MMO: Dual Universe funds, Hero’s Song doesn’t, and CitizenCon begins (October 8, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Star Citizen has begun its pre-CitizenCon festivities with multi-hour streaming yesterday and today, culminating in a grand presentation by CIG's Chris...
