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
Leaderboard: Where do you stand on Marvel Heroes’ massive overhaul update?
Past the downtime and the lag and the inventory snafus, how are Marvel Heroes players reacting to the "biggest update ever?"
Not well. On Steam,...
These are the gods overseeing your fate in Conan Exiles
With just one week to go before its early access launch, Conan Exiles wants you to get spiritual. Specifically, Funcom's released a dev blog...
MMO Week in Review: A new race for LOTRO (January 22, 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!
The...
The Daily Grind: Is there any MMORPG slang that you just do not get?
A funny thread on the MMORPG subreddit last week reminded me that gaming slang is anything but obvious.
"I just now realized that OOM means...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s new shop, Crowfall’s investor tally (January 21, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon opened up a brand-new web store. "Currently, we are listing four crowdfunding packages from our prior...
A peek at Camelot Unchained’s trees, forests, and C.U.B.E.
"Today's update might be a little lighter on the tech side," Mark Jacobs tells Camelot Unchained backers in his latest update, "but we have...
Path of Exile teases new water simulation system
Can I get you a drink while you wait for Path of Exile to land on Xbox One as recently announced? Awesome. How about...
Quantic Foundry’s findings on WoW, SWTOR, and gender
Quantic Foundry, the gaming analytics consulting firm we've been following since late 2015 thanks to its Gamer Motivation Model, has a new blog post...
Marvel Heroes rolls out ‘biggest update ever’ successfully
Last night, MJ and I were nervous about scheduling her Marvel Heroes stream -- would the game really be back up and functional when...
Funcom announces $29.99 price for Conan Exiles, posts ‘domination’ trailer
Update down at the bottom -- Funcom just announced the game will run $29.99 in early access.
If giant squid, oversized snakes, or massive automatoi...
The Daily Grind: Is in-game advertising the MMO genre’s post-lockbox future?
Massively OP reader Sally Bowls pointed us to a fun piece on Frankengadget this week about Final Fantasy XV and its overt product placement....
Massively Overthinking: The future of a global MMORPG industry
Massively OP Patron Duane's done the math on what is becoming, more and more, a truly global MMORPG industry. His question for Overthinking this...
Marvel Heroes: ‘Biggest update ever’ is underway this afternoon
Right as this post is going live, Marvel Heroes is going dark... at least for the next four hours, that is. The game will be...
Revelation Online’s third closed beta has begun
As promised, the third round of Revelation Online's closed beta begins in the west today.
"The third phase of testing will last until February 2 and...
Mark Kern’s Em-8ER posts a new THMPR modeling video
Em-8ER, the Mark Kern-led "massive planetary wargame" shooter formerly known as (and still pronounced like) Ember, has a new video out today showing off...
Gigantic’s Exile in the North patch and Pakko are live today
Live in Gigantic today is a patch PWE is calling the MOBA's "first major update": Exile in the North. Open beta players will get...
Blizzard defeats Bossland bot-maker in German supreme court ruling
Score one for Blizzard: The gaming giant managed a win in its long struggle against German bot-maker and plague-on-honest-gaming Bossland GmbH.
The German Federal Court...
World of Warships gets guilds and new XP system, World of Tanks gets movie vehicles
World of Warships is rolling out its big 0.6.0 update today, complete with a ton of new commander skills, a new guild system called...
Path of Exile is coming to Xbox One this year
Path of Exile is coming to Xbox One in 2017, Grinding Gear Games just announced.
"The Xbox One version is also free-to-play and will contain...
Snap up a Revelation Online CBT3 key from My.com and MOP
The third round of Revelation Online's closed beta is almost upon us: It opens up tomorrow and runs through February 2nd, complete with a...
