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 Blackwood chapter will headline Elder Scrolls Online’s Gates of Oblivion year, launching in June
Here we go, folks: Tonight we're finally getting some hard details on what The Elder Scrolls Online is up to in 2021, courtesy of...
EVE Online player’s ashes take last voyage into space as CCP Games adopts ‘gaming genius’ label
Members of the EVE Online community were saddened back in 2019 as they lost one of their own: Bruce R. "Spike" MacPhee aka Paradox...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish were more transparent about its metrics?
Numbers numbers numbers: I wish we could have more. No, let me amend that. I wish we had fewer numerical representations inside MMOs. I'd much...
RuneScape studio Jagex has been sold for the third time in six years against the backdrop of a… RICO lawsuit?
We're going to play a fun new game today. It's called Who Owns Jagex Now!
As we chronicled last summer, RuneScape studio Jagex's ownership became...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of votekicking in MMOs?
Not long after Shadowlands released, there was a heavily upvoted thread on the World of Warcraft subreddit in which a player related a story...
MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2’s Power, KingsIsle’s acquisition
This week in MMOs, Guild Wars 2 showed its true Power with... its Power episode. Chapter. Thing. Plus, KingsIsle got bought by Gamigo's parent...
Make My MMO: Temtem turns one, Elyria marches onward, and Pantheon scores fresh investment
We're off to a good 2021 for MMO crowdfunding:Â Pantheon got a nice infusion of investment, Chronicles of Elyria posted a second video on its...
Shadow Arena offers compensation, flips hero Venslar from offense to support
Shadow Arena isn't letting its low population counts stop it: Pearl Abyss is plunging on with updates anyway.
Earlier this month, we covered a major...
Following Gamigo buyout, Wizard101 keeps monetization and Pirate101 might resume development
Earlier this week, we covered the surprising news that Media and Games Invest, whose chief subsidiary is Gamigo and which is run by Gamigo's...
World of Warships was reprimanded by advertising regulators over misleading lockbox promo
We're 22 days into 2021 and we haven't had a gaming lootbox mess yet, but that ends today.
As MMO Fallout first reported, the Cyprus...
Path of Exile broke its own player concurrency records with Echoes of the Atlas
So it looks as though Grinding Gear Games' decision to delay Path of Exile's Echoes of the Atlas from December to January was a...
The Daily Grind: Do you reroll the same MMO classes over and over?
There's a whole group of MMO players who have always fascinated me: the type who keep rerolling the same characters over and over. For...
Massively Overthinking: Retaking Quantic’s survey to determine our ‘gamer type’
Five years ago - yes, it's been that long! - we did an Overthinking in which our staff all took Quantic's survey to see...
World of Warcraft gamers move 21B gold through the player economy every day
IT-centric Splunk's .conf is not generally an event we cover here on MOP, but the .conf20 edition held back in October had a presentation of...
Atlas Rogues tweaks visuals, stability, gear, and interface in today’s patch
One of the surprises of 2020 was the revelation that Gamigo was bringing back one of the Trion games it had previously sunsetted, sort...
TERA’s PC version rolls out The Catalepticon dungeon today as Gameforge promises monthly updates
It's patch day over in Gameforge's version of TERA, which as of last fall encompasses all of the western PC players, not just the...
EU fines Valve, ZeniMax, and other gaming companies almost $10M for antitrust geoblocking
The EU is cracking down on multiple games companies this week, finding them in violation of market regulations. The European Commission announced today that companies...
Black Desert’s PC, console, and mobile editions get a raft of Nova changes and winter events
It's Wednesday, so you know what that means! I mean, yes, it's New President day in the US. But it's also Black Desert blitz...
New World’s latest alpha update touches on rapiers, food, and crafting
New World alpha testers are in for some fun this month as Amazon Games Studio is rolling out its test patch for January, and...
Road Not Taken developer Spry Fox is hiring for a new ‘non-violent’ MMO
A while back on Twitter I mentioned that my family is big into Alphabear, which is not an MMO, of course, but instead is...
