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
Elsword teases a new job path for the mysterious Ain
The folks behind sidescrolly action-MMO Elsword have been teasing a brand-new job path for playable character Ain, who's been live in the western edition...
SWTOR launches 5.1 Defend the Throne with new trailer
Landing in Star Wars: The Old Republic today is the 5.1 update, Defend the Throne, the headlining feature of which is a set of...
Overwatch’s Year of the Rooster update is expected today
The downside of Blizzard's Overwatch teases is that they tell dataminers right where to look and leakers right when to strike. So it goes...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever participated in a protest in an MMORPG?
Protests in the real world dominated this past weekend's news, and while I surfed around for an in-game equivalent to cover, I couldn't find...
Dogma: Eternal Night adds starting apartment, functional UI and chat
Vampire MMO themepark Dogma: Eternal Night has an update for alpha testers. "Until recently, players could only play around in the character editor," says...
Shroud of the Avatar: New outfits, new zones, and charity aid
Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter begins with a bang, at least if you're a fan of costumes. Portalarium is showing off both clockwork...
More people died from PvE than PvP in Skyforge during 2016
Did you play any Skyforge in 2016? If so, your antics and activities likely contributed to the stats on a new infographic My.com has...
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...
