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
No Man’s Sky delays PC launch to Friday
Hope you weren't taking off Tuesday: No Man's Sky's PC release has been delayed yet again, this time to August 12th:
https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/761694858562207744
Hello Games' Sean Murray...
Star Citizen deep-dives catastrophic capital ship damage
On this week's Star Citizen:Â Around the Verse, you can safely skip to about 19:30 and peel your eyes wide open. Not that the rest...
Black Desert: Community uproar and analysts on Kakao
Black Desert forumgoers dug up an article in the Korea Herald from a few weeks ago that suggests publisher Kakao is using its games...
Here’s why Niantic shut off Pokemon Go’s third-party apps
Niantic has a fresh blog post out (communication! yay!) that takes a stab at explaining just why it put the kibosh on third-party Pokemon...
The Daily Grind: How much does your MMORPG character’s appearance matter to your gameplay?
I like to think of myself as the kind of person who doesn't care all that much about aesthetics as long as a game...
Massively Overthinking: One more chance for WoW Legion?
The World of Warcraft subreddit went nuts this week over a response to a player who told Blizzard that it had "one more chance... again"...
EverQuest is consolidating almost 200 alt advancement abilities
Daybreak has a note out to classic EverQuest players this week tempering their expectations for the August patch. "As we get closer to the...
Riders of Icarus outlines its new PvP map, guild alliances, Manastone mode
Hot on the heels of the launch of Riders of Icarus' Blight of Frost Keep update, Nexon and WeMade made another big announcement for...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2016: Overwatch at 15M users, WoW sees growth
Activision-Blizzard has released its Q2 results for 2016. No, you won't be getting hard World of Warcraft numbers -- that all came to an...
Bloodline Champions to be revived as ‘team arena brawler’ Battlerite
Stunlock Studios has big plans for the charred remains of Funcom-backed Bloodline Champions, which shut down in January of last year and transferred back to Stunlock....
Broadsword’s Ultima Online TOU briefly befuddles players with Sony mention
Broadsword, the EA spinoff company that runs classic sub MMORPGs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot, gave UO players a scare yesterday with a...
Black Desert players explode over plan to allow cash shop items on the in-game market
Did you hear that noise? It's the sound of Black Desert players flipping tables. "Game went from FFXIV to ArcheAge in span of 2...
TERA is assessing interest in that rumored console port
Back in May, TERA's South Korean publisher confirmed that the MMORPG was destined for console ports to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 -- at...
Pokemon Go: New scanning rates, South America, and $160M revenue
This roundup is dedicated to all the people who are learning about video game "grind" for the first time thanks to Pokemon Go. Welcome!
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Giveaway: Lawbreakers alpha keys from Nexon and MOP [All gone!]
Nexon's kicking off an alpha weekend for LawBreakers this coming Saturday. Wanna jump in and try it yourself? The studio has granted Massively OP 1000 keys for the...
Here’s how TERA’s European server merges will go down
Players of the European version of TERA, it's time to prepare for a big wave of server merges planned for the end of August.
Gameforge...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon closed beta opens up on Friday
If you're still sad about Darkfall: Unholy Wars' abrupt maintenance mode or Darkfall: New Dawn's public indev soft-launch didn't do it for you, Darkfall: Rise of...
Guild Wars 2’s Mike O’Brien on the Gaile Gray hack
Earlier today, Redditors began circulating a forum thread filled with pictures of a character named Gaile Gray running around classic Guild Wars spouting nonsense (and worse)....
Path of Exile is plotting huge engine performance upgrades
One of the chief gripes among Path of Exile players since even before its launch centered on its optimization and performance. If you were...
RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy is on sale before it’s been officially announced
If all the rumors from the last month about RIFT's Starfall Prophecy expansion didn't convince you it's happening, how about the fact that it's...
