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
Massively Overthinking: Let’s take the classic Bartle test
Here's something you probably didn't know: Online worlds researcher Dr. Richard Bartle didn't actually write the Bartle test.
His original research explored, analyzed, and defined the...
CCP has sold White Wolf and World of Darkness to Paradox
CCP Games has apparently sold White Wolf and all of its properties -- including World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade -- to Paradox,...
Blade & Soul’s western closed beta kicks off tomorrow
NCsoft has announced that Blade & Soul's first western closed beta weekend kicks off tomorrow (October 29th at 1 p.m. EDT). All you've got...
New DMCA exemptions will preserve some abandoned online games, but not MMOs
Late last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a petition with the U.S. Copyright Office seeking specific exemptions to the DMCA essentially on account of absurdity (because...
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer soloing or grouping in MMORPGs?
As we belatedly covered yesterday, the developers of upcoming indie MMO Saga of Lucimia believe that group-centric play is the solution to a problem supposedly created by the...
MMO Week in Review: 2015’s MMORPG zenith is now (October 25, 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!
Welcome,...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite obscure MMORPG?
Even at a site like Massively OP, we still run across MMOs we've never, ever heard of, obscure little gems (or trainwrecks, depending) that...
Massively Overthinking: WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and MMO raiding in 2015
Here we are in October, sandwiched between WildStar's F2P conversion and Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns launch, and it seems as if we're...
Guild Wars 2 rebounds dramatically in Raptr’s September rankings
MMORPGs are looking up in Raptr's latest most-played report. World of Warcraft held onto the #3 spot (in spite of a 20+% play-time drop), with...
Chronicles of Elyria dev blog: Immersion, heroism, and realism
Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even...
Ascent’s lead dev offers insight on the Star Citizen controversy
Last week, the Massively OP podcast hosted guest James Hicks, the developer behind impressive indie space sandbox MMO Ascent: The Space Game. You won't...
Sword Coast Legends has officially launched today
After a couple of delays over the past few months, Sword Coast Legends is now live on Steam and officially celebrating launch with a lengthy...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been scammed in an MMO?
One quirk of some early MMORPGs was that character names weren't always unique. It was possible to roll multiple characters with precisely the same name and...
EA denies Origin account database breach
Hackers may have illegally accessed Origin's user databases, which may mean those of you with Star Wars: The Old Republic accounts or any other...
MMO Week in Review: Star Citizen’s one million (October 18, 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!
The...
The Daily Grind: How would you mix MMO features to create the best one ever?
Today's Daily Grind question -- more like command! -- from Massively OP Kickstarter donor Tim is short and sweet:
Mix features to create your perfect MMO.
It...
Grab a Stronghold Kingdoms: Global Conflict gift pack from Massively OP (All gone now!)
Stronghold Kingdoms is a rich castle-themed MMORTS with over six years of operation under its belt, and this week, it's patching in a new expansion. The...
