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 servers suffer rollback, downtime
ArenaNet announced this afternoon that it must roll back Guild Wars 2's servers. Mike O'Brien broke the bad news on the forums:
"This is an...
Pokemon Go: Appraisal patch, stampedes, and fixing that UI
Pokemon Go's latest patch finally makes the team leaders do something.
"Implemented Pokémon Appraisal: Trainers will now be able to learn about a Pokémon’s attack...
Worlds Adrift kicks off alpha signups with new trailer
Worlds Adrift has just announced that it's opening alpha signups.
"We’re really pleased to announce that we’re now recruiting LOTS of people for the next...
Star Citizen has surpassed $120M in crowdfunding
The last free-fly weekend and a stellar presentation at Gamescom have seemingly propelled Star Citizen to new fundraising heights: It's now officially raised over...
Shroud of the Avatar has crowdfunded over 10 million dollars
Shroud of the Avatar's telethon yesterday helped push Portalarium to another fundraising milestone: It's crowdfunded $10 million over its lifetime.
https://twitter.com/ShroudofAvatar/status/767954424857845760
Stretch goals unlocked last night...
ZeniMax amends Oculus lawsuit to accuse Carmack of stealing documents and tech
Back in 2014, ZeniMax Media filed a lawsuit accusing Palmer Luckey's Oculus of essentially stealing trade secrets, code, and intellectual property in the development of...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG whose charms you’ve managed to escape?
Traditionally, Blizzard has but to crook a finger and my whole guild, including me, will flock back to play World of Warcraft's new thing. But this...
Austin Pokemon Go player temp-banned during charity stream
A Pokemon Go player who legitimately racked up more experience than anyone thought possible was apparently soft banned thanks to Niantic's anti-cheat algorithms.
Austin, Texas,...
Post-Endor Darklight SWG emulator seeks to be Star Wars Galaxies 2.0
If the core SWG emulator and its many spinoffs aren't to your liking, Darklight SWG might be.
Lead developer Jameson "Levarris" Connors explained to us...
Shroud of the Avatar summer telethon, lot selection continue today
Shroud of the Avatar is in the midst of another summer telethon celebrating the expiration of pledges and offering funding stretch goals to backers...
Star Citizen demos gameplay in its in-development persistent universe
If you were holding onto your hype waiting for Star Citizen's persistent universe, keep on holding because it's not out yet. But at Gamescom...
The Daily Grind: Do you seek out empty MMORPG servers?
Empty MMORPG servers freak me out.
It isn't as though I don't play plenty of singleplayer games and sims and RPGs and can't stand to...
MMO Week in Review: Gamescom, Legion, and Elder Scrolls lockboxes (August 21, 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!
Gamescom...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous drenches Gamescom with gameplay videos (August 20, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Elite: Dangerous released an absolute space-ton of new videos out at Gamescom: one on crew, one on ship transfers, one on...
Gamescom: Elder Scrolls Online on lockboxes, the gold edition, and One Tamriel
A Redditor who attended The Elder Scrolls Online's tavern event at this year's Gamescom snagged over half an hour of shaky-cam footage and a...
Leaderboard: What’s next for the Diablo franchise?
Back in July, Blizzard Watch ran a piece wondering whether Diablo III has been abandoned. Matthew Rossi suggested that Diablo's recent seasons have been...
Heroes Quest claims to be a ‘roguelike mobile MMORPG’
Here's a game we didn't know existed until now:Â Heroes Quest. Developer Viper Game is calling the free-to-play game a "redefining mobile MMORPG" and "roguelike...
Neverwinter’s Storm King’s Thunder proves it is also sick of summer with Cold Run zone
PWE has a quick Neverwinter dev blog out today covering the frigid wasteland of Cold Run, whose name aptly describes what you should probably...
Eternal Crusade is launching on September 23 for PC
Eternal Crusade's launch date nears. Behaviour Interactive announced in a press release this evening that it is "launching in the Americas for PCs on...
Gamescom 2016: Star Citizen’s annual presentation
Gamescom will once again play host to Star Citizen's annual presentation today. Kicking off at 3 p.m. EDT (when this post first goes live!), the event...
