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
The MOP Up: The future of skins in Paragon (May 29, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
No Man’s Sky confirms August delay rumors, fields death threats
Remember those rumors about No Man's Sky's delay? Yeah, they're true.
Hello Games' Sean Murray has posted about the delay on the PlayStation blog, admitting...
Mark Kern says Blizzard took his vanilla WoW petition meeting ‘very seriously’
Mark Kern, who this weekend went to Blizzard's campus armed with the printed vanilla World of Warcraft server petition, has returned from his meeting...
Darkfall has gone… dark
Darkfall -- the official version, not its up-and-coming player-run spinoffs -- has gone offline indefinitely, according to a new post on the official forums.
Dear friends,...
Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria has been Greenlit on Steam (May 28, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria's bid for Steam Greenlight status was successful (though the team won't commit to launching on...
Camelot Unchained’s testers have placed over a billion building blocks
The latest Camelot Unchained update is all about the C.U.B.E. -- that is, the Camelot Unchained Building Environment. The player building tool has just...
Snail Games announces Kingdom Warriors beta signups
Snail Games has kicked off pre-registration for pre-launch closed beta test events for upcoming MMO Kingdom Warriors. The studio is calling it a "mobile...
The Black Death’s latest patch introduces VOIP, player gold looting
The Black Death's latest patch is a biggun, complete with better guard AI, new NPCs and bosses, traveling merchants, new animals, player gold looting,...
SMITE debuts on the PlayStation 4 next week
It's official: SMITE arrives on the PlayStation 4 on May 31st.
Most recently, Hi-Rez has been touting its 20,000,000 registered players number, a figure sure...
Star Citizen explains 2.4 test pace, begins work on 2.5
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse with hosts Sandi Gardiner and Zane Bien is all about alpha 2.4, which is currently still undergoing testing...
Trinium Wars has gone free-to-play today
Trinium Wars has officially gone free-to-play today "due to many requests," says InselGames CEO Patrick Streppel.
"We have thought long and hard about this major...
Chronicles of Elyria AMA on alpha, middleware, griefing, and B2P
The Chronicles of Elyria team submitted itself to the wilds of an AMA on Reddit earlier this afternoon, allowing players to bombard the developers...
Black Desert delays planned June 1 Valencia launch
Daum has just announced that it's delaying Black Desert's Valencia update, which was originally scheduled for June 1st. Technical issues and security goals are...
Elder Scrolls Online’s ‘personalities’ are a roleplayer’s dream
Roleplayers, today's Elder Scrolls Online blog post is going to make you super happy. ZeniMax is teasing a new feature called Personalities, the first...
‘Online combat RPG’ Absolver plans 2017 launch
Absolver is... probably not an MMORPG. But it is an "online combat RPG," which sure sounds like an action combat MMORPG without the "massive"...
All the islands in the latest Worlds Adrift video were built by players
Worlds Adrift has released another video today featuring gamers exploring some of the impressive creations whipped up by players themselves thanks to the free...
Massively Overthinking: The stories inside MMORPGs
This week's topic comes to us from one of our dear Patrons, Roger.
"I love stories, and some games tell great stories. MMOs have trouble...
Path of Exile releases expansion ‘manifesto’
Path of Exile has a new "manifesto" out this week describing the full extent of the balance changes coming in the 2.3.0 patch. Of note,...
Survival sandbox Lifeless demos PvP, weapons, and grouping
Move over, H1Z1: Green Man Gaming, the company behind medieval survival sandbox The Black Death, is also working on Lifeless, a modern survival sandbox......
Life is Feudal’s MMO test is finally underway
Early in 2016, we spoke to Bitbox about Life is Feudal, an ambitious sandbox that was scaled-down midway through development to be a "pocket"...
