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
Twitter teasers suggest Amazon’s Breakaway probably isn’t what we’re hoping it is
If you're still hungering for savory facts about Breakaway, Amazon Game Studios' soon-to-be-revealed game that's scooped up so many MMORPG developers in Seattle, welp, that dinner...
Chris Roberts interviews shed light on Star Citizen launch, ambition, and CitizenCon
Gamers Nexus has a lengthy set of video interviews out covering Star Citizen this week. CIG's Chris Roberts touches on alpha 3.0, which he...
The Daily Grind: Is there an old MMO trend that’s never coming back?
Massively OP commenter BalsBigBrother made a joke the other day about wanting me to stream Ultima Online, and I replied that the game is...
Contract Wars successor Hired Ops plans Q4 early access launch
Last week, Russian games developer AbsolutSoft unveiled Hired Ops, or maybe I should say unveiled again, as it was previously known Contract Wars Standalone...
Bloodline Champions spinoff Battlerite hits Steam early access
Earlier this year, Bloodline Champions' original developer, Stunlock Studios, announced a spiritual successor: Battlerite. That MOBA has now gone live on Steam's early access...
Wild Terra adds cooking skill, Steam keys for early backers
What use is a sandbox without cooking and food? Jutvy Worlds apparently agrees, as it's adding a cooking skill to indie sandbox Wild Terra...
Paladins expands e-sport tourney after early access ‘Steam success’
Hi-Rez is touting Paladins' successful early access open beta launch in a press release out earlier this morning.
The studio says that "within the first...
MMO publisher gPotato suffered a major account data breach in 2007
Think back to 2007: Statistically, you were probably playing World of Warcraft's The Burning Crusade, or maybe even Lord of the Rings, Vanguard, or...
Harry Potter lookalike Maguss Wand plans Indiegogo for AR MMO
Augmented reality MMOs aren't new, but we're about to see a bunch of new ones, propelled by the unexpected success of Pokemon Go. Case in...
ArcheAge celebrates its second birthday with free cash shop loot
Thinking about poking your head back into ArcheAge for the game's second birthday? Trion Worlds would like to make it worth your while. Veterans who...
The Daily Grind: How do you solve the MMORPG ‘Jedi Problem’?
MOP reader Witches noted in the comments of last week's Perfect Ten that Firefly seems to be better-suited for the kind of world that...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2’s Rising Flames was actually early (September 25, 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...
Leaderboard: Where did all the City of Heroes players go?
Based on the comments under Justin's Perfect Ten on City of Heroes memories this past week, a lot of folks out there in our audience really...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s faces, SOTA’s memorial, Hero’s Song’s AMA (September 24, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Star Citizen stole the show, first with a video showcasing its extraordinarily detailed character face tech, then rather...
LOTRO discusses March of the King update, premium housing
Dungeons and Dragons Online got a hope-filled producer's letter earlier this week -- now it's Lord of the Rings Online's turn.
"We are currently hard...
The Exiled is thoroughly revamping its user interface
Indie PvP sandbox The Exiled, formerly known as Dal Tal, is in the middle of a massive upgrade to its user interface. Fairytale Distillery's Alexander...
Perpetuum adds two new mech-class robots in today’s patch
Robots! Yes, an article about robots that is not written by Eliot! We're talking about Perpetuum Online's robots, of course. Back in August, Avatar...
Ultima Online turns 19 years old this weekend, grants cash shop currency to veteran players
Nineteen years ago this weekend, Ultima Online launched into the world, a creaky sandbox that even its own developers did not fully realize would...
Star Citizen as the ‘unwieldy, ever-changing dream project’
Kotaku has a long piece on Star Citizen out today, cobbled together over months of discussions with Star Citizen developers, anonymous and not. Julian...
MMOFPS Heroes & Generals has officially launched today
World War II-themed persistent MMOFPS Heroes & Generals has formally launched as of this morning. During its early access period, it had counted over...
