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
Linkrealms launches Steam early access today
Linkrealms is launching into Steam early access today. If you're thinking, "Hasn't that game been around for a long time?" know that you're not...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Matt Firor on game population, not going F2P, and defining MMOs
ZeniMax Online’s Matt Firor told players back in April that the console versions of The Elder Scrolls Online had "opened the game up to...
CCP announces Gunjack Next for Google Daydream
EVE Gunjack is getting a sequel, and it's an exclusive for Google's Android-based Daydream VR platform, which itself was announced just today. Gunjack Next --...
RIFT launches a sentient 10-man raid; here’s the trailer
Live in RIFT's patch today is a brand-new 10-man raid called The Comet of Ahnket. A lore piece last week revealed that the eponymous...
Blizzard and Twitch address harassment defiling game event streams
In case you had forgotten since yesterday's news that RuneScape had to ban players for running around in-game wearing KKK costumes and shrieking racial...
HEX has purged inactive accounts, but don’t despair yet
If you woke up this morning to an email in your inbox telling you your HEX account has been permanently deleted, you're not alone,...
Sword Coast Legends launches Rage of Demons DLC, delays console ports
Sword Coast Legends is launching new free DLC for its players today. Called Rage of Demons, the update includes a new Drizzt-themed campaign, the...
Black Desert expands world and PvP with Valencia, refuses costume alteration refunds
Black Desert is getting a massive update on June 1st when the first chunk of the Valencia update is launched. According to Daum, Valencia...
Square-Enix sunsets Lord of Vermilion MOBA in June
We're sorry to report today that Square-Enix is sunsetting Lord of Vermilion Arena. We first covered the MOBA, which was based on the Lord...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Dark Brotherhood DLC buffs up the group finder
Are you into grouping in The Elder Scrolls Online? Good news for you: ZeniMax says today in a new dev blog that it's focused...
Guild Wars 2’s 64-bit client launches along with PvP Season 3
Guild Wars 2's 64-bit client is out of beta as of today, according to the patch notes released this morning. "The 32-bit client will...
Grab a TERA Secrets & Shadows flying mount key from En Masse and MOP
In celebration of the launch of TERA's Secrets & Shadows patch today, En Masse has granted Massively OP 20,000 keys for a seven-day flying mount called...
Old School RuneScape bans players for racism, harassment
Old School RuneScape has had a brush with the banhammer. Jagex told players on Reddit today that an unspecified number of players have been banned...
Blade & Soul announces Vengeance Breaks update for June 1
It's a day that ends in Y, so that means it's time for another massive Blade & Soul announcement. NCsoft has revealed today the June 1st...
Mark Kern to deliver Nostalrius petition to Blizzard next week
The Nostalrius team isn't the only one heading to Irvine to meet with Blizzard: The ex-WoW, ex-Firefall developer Mark Kern says he's locked in...
Rumor: TERA destined for Xbox One, PS4 console ports
We've updated the end of this post with En Masse's statement to Massively OP.
Is TERA one of the MMORPGs announcing a leap to the...
WildStar’s lead writer is gone too
Over the weekend, former WildStar Product Director Mike Donatelli and Design Director Chris Behrens announced on Twitter that their last day working for Carbine...
The Daily Grind: Why do you buy from MMO cash shops?
If you still aren't convinced that a great deal of MMORPG monetization is just gambling in disguise, consider that an acclaimed academic on the...
The story of Overwatch’s Hanzo and Genji plays out in ‘Dragons’ short
The archer-assassin Hanzo stars in the latest Overwatch animated short, which tells the tale of two brothers locked in eternal struggle.
"Dragons explores the history...
Players have already built nearly 1000 islands in Worlds Adrift’s creator tool
Surprising no one who's ever spent 30 seconds in a video game modding community, players have been busy little bees in Worlds Adrift's Island...
