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
Asheron’s Call and its sequel will sunset as part of the Turbine/Standing Stone split
I'm sorry to report that Turbine announced today that it will be sunsetting Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call 2 as part of the transition...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Industry Blunder of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMORPG Industry Blunder of 2016. Last year, we called the Star Citizen melodrama the biggest...
The Daily Grind: Does Daybreak’s involvement with LOTRO and DDO worry you?
Yesterday, we were all pretty astonished to learn that Turbine has spun out Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online --...
Entropia Universe player returns $10,000 lost in accidental auction
If you've played an MMORPG long enough, you've probably misclicked and done something foolish, like deleted your mount, dropped your best sword on the...
RUST dev after three years of early access: ‘If you’re bored of the game then just stop playing it’
While RUST has amused us plenty this year, thanks to the character gender via Steam IDÂ thing and the hobo simulator (and don't forget penis...
Smed says Hero’s Song is ‘working through some things’
We've had several tips this week from players concerned about Hero's Song. One, for example, suggested that several employees had left Pixelmage Games and...
The new Nostalrius emulator suffered six DDOS attacks on launch day
Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...
Turbine spins LOTRO and DDO teams out to new studio, using Daybreak as publisher
Welp, didn't see this one coming.
Turbine has just announced that it's spinning off the Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online...
Dark and Light’s early access has been delayed into 2017
Since it's already December 19th, you probably already figured that the Dark and Light resurrection wasn't going to make that original "late 2016" target...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016, which is a new award for MOP and one proposed...
Cold Iron’s Craig Zinkievich on funding, the genre, and the MMO nature of the game
Earlier this month, we got a curious press release from a new gaming studio called Cold Iron. I might have skipped over it but...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG had the best community in 2016?
A loss of a sense of community is something many MMORPG players lament as our genre approaches two decades, whether they think communities slip away...
MMO Week in Review: ArcheAge’s tumult (December 18, 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!
ArcheAge...
Grab a Heavy Gear Assault early access key from Stompy Bot and MOP
Stompy Bot's mecha shooter Heavy Gear Assault was meant to hit early access on Steam this week, but Valve has yet to usher it...
Leaderboard: What’s the most overrated MMORPG in 2016?
This year -- like every year -- players in the comments of our award post for Most Underrated MMORPG of 2016 asked for the mean girl...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond, which was awarded to Blade & Soul last...
Make My MMO: Elyria concedes coiffure complaints (December 17, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria brought up that most critical of MMORPG features: hairstyles. I'm not even kidding; not 10 days...
Camelot Unchained is working on its bot drowning problem
Camelot Unchained's weekly update has arrived, and in it, the team outlines its latest projects: networking stability, particle effects performance, banes and boons, and...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: The Pseudo-MMO of the Year
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best Pseudo-MMO of 2016, which was awarded to ARK: Survival Evolved last year. As you might surmise,...
Pro e-sports team opens retail shop in London
So file this one under "that happened": A pro-gaming team has opened a pop-up e-sports retail store in London.
The team is Fnatic, and really...
