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
The Daily Grind: Which F2P MMO has the best community?
Some of our commenters -- and maybe other gamers who've been part of the MMO genre for a long time -- are convinced that free-to-play and...
Week in Review: Gamescom 2015 (August 9, 2015)
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!
Blizzard...
Shards Online: Proposing the ‘persistent online world’ game
Last week, our comments erupted over some game studios' haphazard use of the term "MMO" -- and how that overuse and misuse has possibly tainted the...
The Daily Grind: What would entice you back to WoW?
While a number of our writers and many of our readers are fans of World of Warcraft, it's no secret that a lot of...
Massively Overthinking: The first VR MMO
In this edition of Massively Overthinking, Kickstarter backer Yinta wants to talk about virtual reality.
"When will we see the first VR MMO?"
So let's tackle...
Gamescom 2015: Trove’s fall Shadow Tower update offers endgame content, new class
Trion did something this year that a lot of MMO studios don't bother to do: brought existing MMOs to Gamescom. The studio unleashed information on...
We would totally play World of Warcraft: The Beach Party expansion
This video "leaked" by YouTuber Scott Leyes is seriously the World of Warcraft expansion cinematic trailer. Seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGPFmrxRwpk
Man, PvP dance-offs would be awesome.
Hat tip to...
Gamescom 2015: SWTOR’s Knights of the Fallen Empire gallery
Did you miss the big Star Wars: The Old Republic news from Gamescom at the crack of (US) dawn this morning? Massively OP's Larry...
Gamescom 2015: Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns gallery
Guild Wars 2 heard you liked screenshots, so it made sure to bring a ton to Gamescom, all flavored with Heart of Thorns goodness.
Massively OP's...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever run an event in an MMO?
Long ago, I used to live for player-run MMO events. In old-school MMORPGs, people judged a guild's quality as much on what it did for...
World of Warcraft’s Bashiok has defected to NCsoft [Updated]
Former World of Warcraft Community Manager Micah "Bashiok" Whipple announced he was leaving Blizzard last week to take up a new job this week, leading...
MMO Week in Review: Blizzard likes your money after all (August 2, 2015)
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!
I...
How to get Ultima Online’s Time of Legends expansion for a song
Ultima Online's Time of Legends expansion is on the way, just in time for the venerable MMO's 18th birthday in September. And if you're...
Win two weeks of Skyforge premium time and more in Massively OP’s gift bundle giveaway
If you haven't tried Skyforge yet, today is the day. The steamfantasy hybrid-F2P MMORPG soft-launched earlier this month and already has its first megapatch planned,...
NCsoft Q2 2015: Guild Wars 2 is up, WildStar is down
NCsoft has published its second quarter 2015 financial report, and it's basically a repeat of quarter one.
The company attributes its quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year boosts primarily...
Win a Warframe Echoes of the Sentient promo key from Massively OP (All gone now!)
Warframe's massive Echoes of the Sentient patch is about to go live, so let's have a celebration with free stuff! We've got 1000 promo keys to...
The Daily Grind: Has multiguilding hurt MMO communities?
Earlier this week, several Massively OP staffers were debating the best way to set up MOP guilds in games where we were already in...
Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns’ first public beta weekend begins August 7th
How about some Guild Wars 2 news to justify the fact that you're awake at the crack of dawn for this Gamescom embargo lift? Yeah! ArenaNet...
Massively Overthinking: Whither went the classic PvE MMORPG?
Today's Massively Overthinking question was sent via e-pigeon from Kickstarter donor Apollymi. No e-pigeons were hurt in the writing of this article.
"Have you heard...
