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
Guild Wars 2’s Ember Bay is over-the-top metal
When Rising Flames launches on Tuesday, Guild Wars 2 players will be transported to the Ring of Fire island chain first introduced in Guild...
CCP Games: ‘We are going to run the company from London’
MCVUK reports this morning that CCP Games has opened a brand-new studio in London. In fact, as CEO Hilmar Pétursson puts it, "We are...
Atlas Reactor: Blur trailer, September 30 head-start, October 4 launch
Turn-based strategy MOBA Atlas Reactor is launching for real on October 4th on both Steam and Trion's Glyph platform, the studio announced in a press...
Dual Universe’s Kickstarter is now more than half funded
Dual Universe's Kickstarter has passed the halfway mark, with over $284,000 pledged of the $557,818 goal with a whopping 26 days to go.
In its latest newsletter, Novaquark...
This is how the world of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is built
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's September newsletter features an interview with Lead World Builder and Lead Environment Artist, John "Montreseur" Diasparra, who explains the...
The Black Death is working on new professions, skill trees, and the illness system
Indie survival sandbox The Black Death has a dev blog out today apologizing for the delay in its latest test patch, which is expected...
Elder Scrolls Online goes offline ‘to prevent further rollbacks’
The Elder Scrolls Online is apparently suffering a round of emergency maintenance following the return of servers after regular patch maintenance this morning. The...
Guild Wars 2’s Rising Flames episode will finally fix revive orbs
If you play Guild Wars 2, I bet you have a huge stack of pink revive orbs in your bank just like my stack,...
Neverwinter claims ’12 million players’ across all platforms
Update: PWE has confirmed to Massively OP by email that the 12 million players refers to registrations.
Neverwinter has dinged up to 12 million players,...
Today’s Black Desert patch awakens the Sorceress, beer festival
It's patch day in Black Desert! Kakao's sandbox has just returned from its morning maintenance, fully patched up with the Sorceress awakening, first revealed...
Shroud of the Avatar Q&A homes in on crafting and economy
Portalarium's Starr Long has hopped on Shroud of the Avatar's official forums for an extra round of player-submitted questions. Of note, Long says to...
League of Legends boasts 103 million monthly players
League of Legends has a lot to brag about today as its parent company, Riot Games, turns 10 years old: The studio just announced...
Check out Guild Wars 2’s Rising Flames trailer
The second episode of Guild Wars 2's third living story season is almost here, and now we know its name: Rising Flames.
The episode launches September...
Aeria says Bless ‘project is bigger than expected’, postpones test schedule
Aeria has put off plans to announce Bless Online's western launch schedule following the close of Gamescom earlier this month, according to a statement...
EVE Online studio CCP Games says VR will pick up a few years from now
CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson told DICE Europe attendees that the company is on track to "break even" in the VR field, according to a...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPG housing have login and maintenance rules?
A Massively OP reader named MrPoolaty recently wrote in to us to talk about the resumption of Final Fantasy XIV's housing demolition timers. See,...
Chris Metzen departs Blizzard, World of Warcraft for retirement
Chris Metzen announced this evening that he is leaving Blizzard and "retiring" -- and he says he means it.
Formally Blizzard's Senior Vice President of...
Worlds Adrift’s alpha playtest: Stealing boats and killing mynocks
Worlds Adrift's recent 48-hour alpha playtest has come and gone, and Bossa Studios would like to thank everyone who showed up and tried to wreck...
No need to upgrade your rig to play Smed’s Hero’s Song
Pixelmage Games boss John Smedley has issued another update for Hero's Song Indiegogo watchers, who've pushed the game to $55,000 in crowdfunding thus far....
Pokemon Go indiscriminately blocks access for rooted and jailbroken phones
Pokemon Go's latest update fixes several annoyances and introduces Pokemon Buddies, but it's also ticked off hardcore phone users: Android and iPhone players who...
