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
Visionary Realms: Pantheon is a ‘brave new world,’ not a ‘wormhole back to simpler times’
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen says it's reorienting its newsletter to be more community focused and has put its money where its mouth is...
Kakao to Black Desert players: Chargebacks have consequences
Kakao is putting its foot down when it comes to Black Desert players' chargebacks -- that is, attempting to reverse payment for a product...
MMO roguelike Lazarus swoops into beta this weekend
If you grew up in the midwest as I did, the word "Lazarus" probably evokes the image of a department store, but the Lazarus...
Black Desert’s controversial cash shop patch is live today
With Black Desert's patch this morning, cash-shop items are officially popping up on the auction house -- that includes pets, outfits, value packages, and...
No Man’s Sky, the non-multiplayer multiplayer game
If you were confused about just how multiplayer No Man's Sky was going to be, welcome to the club. Inconsistent (or consistently contradictory) statements...
Guild Wars 2 plots its fourth birthday bash
ArenaNet has begun teasing its plans for Guild Wars 2's fourth birthday. Four years! The month of August will see a tag promo across...
Pokemon Go: Sightings, Hiroshima, and the five domains of play
Happy Pokemon Go patch! Yes, Niantic released a patch last night with some new visuals, a warning about not playing while you drive, and an...
Dungeon Fighter Online arrives on Steam today
Neople's Dungeon Fighter Online lands on Steam today, complete with Steam-exclusive features including achievements, badges, and trading cards, plus DLC bundles. While the free-to-play,...
Superdata’s June report shows Overwatch, WoW still on top
Superdata's latest report on the worldwide digital games market is out, and Overwatch owned the month of June on PC, to no one's surprise,...
You can play a Demon Hunter in World of Warcraft today
Demon Hunters go live in today's pre-Legion World of Warcraft patch, at least if you've already pre-ordered the expansion. The concomitant demon invasions begin...
The Daily Grind: What was the biggest F2P ‘save’ in MMORPG history?
Jess Conditt had a piece on Engadget last week that caught my eye because it's a story you don't hear much anymore: Free-to-play saved...
Fragmented’s latest live build should make crafters happy
Fragmented's latest patch is a big one for player crafters as it adds batch crafting to the crafting stations in the game. The better...
Daybreak is cracking down on cheating, bad connections in H1Z1
In a letter to H1Z1: King of the Kill players Friday, Daybreak reminded players that third-party apps and programs that impact the game code to...
Eternal Crusade promises news on its MMO mechanics
Behaviour Interactive has a new Eternal Crusade Q&A up with a question that addresses the MMO component of the game and how it relates...
Kakao denies mass-banning on Black Desert forums
Black Desert players have been up in arms over several recently announced changes to the formerly buy-to-play game, including a de facto subscription and plan...
Pokemon Go: The San Francisco murder, the Iranian ban, and Twitch’s cheater crackdown
Pokemon Go has now been out for a whole month. Here's a look at the app's news from the weekend:
The Guardian reports that...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see more true mysteries in MMORPGs?
Last week, we wrote about Kharsek, the Tibia player who was pushing level 999... and almost able to enter a special door marked for...
MMO Week in Review: WoW Legion creeps closer (August 7, 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!
We've...
Make My MMO: The Star Citizen SOTA cross-promo (August 6, 2016)
Just off its big not-a-launch last month, Shroud of the Avatar has teamed up with Star Citizen for a wild cross-promotion that'll grant players...
Leaderboard: Will Pokemon Go and the ARG genre stand the test of time?
GamesIndustry.biz has an interesting piece out this week examining the bandwagon effect of a game like Pokemon Go, as investors and venture capitalists begin...
