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: What real-world critter do you wish were in more MMOs?
The other day, my family was having a discussion about why more of the animals they've seen on TV zoo shows are never represented...
MMO Week in Review: A Heist, a security breach, and a whole New World
The week before Labor Day is always a weird one between conventions and bonus events, and this week was no different in spite of...
New World promises gobs of new content ahead of its next test in November
As Amazon's New World winds down its late-summer preview event, the studio has a new dev blog up, admitting it's been "humbled" by the...
The Daily Grind: Are you tempering your Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons expectations?
Back in March, when Guild Wars 2 first let slip that it was working on something Cantha-ish, we all wrote quite a bit about...
Massively Overthinking: How we deal with burning out of MMOs
Back in August, MOP's own Justin wrote a piece on his Bio Break blog about moderation in gaming that resonated with me. He described...
Pokemon Go renews plan to discontinue support for a ton of Android and iOS devices
Back in June, Niantic announced that it was discontinuing support for 32-bit Android mobile devices, mostly devices released prior to 2015, to "streamline" its...
Funcom is teasing a big announcement for Conan Exiles next week
Funcom apparently got up this morning and said, you know what, let's tease a thing. There's a ticker counting down on Conan Exiles' official...
World of Warcraft drops another Afterlives video, this one on Draka and Maldraxxus
Last week, Blizzard posted the first of its Afterlives videos for its World of Warcraft Shadowlands hype ramp-up - that one covered Uther and...
Crowfall is blowing up in the best way since hitting beta, with guild alliances and new zones on the horizon
Yesterday, Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman and Thomas Blair sat for their latest ACE Q&A, with happy news for fans of the crowdfunded game that...
Champions Online celebrates 11th birthday with costume gender-swapping
With multiple in-development superhero MMOs offering up their character and costume creation tools for players this summer, it's the perfect time for Champions Online...
Kids MMO developer Age of Learning must pay the FTC $10M to settle ‘dark patterns’ complaint
The US Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on the purveyor of kids game ABCMouse this week, having alleged that the company "made misrepresentations...
War Thunder’s Raining Fire update adds the Tuskegee Airmen’s historical planes
The Tuskegee Airmen should need no introduction, especially to Americans: They were the first Black pilots to serve in what eventually became the US...
Black Desert rolls out Hashashin to PC and mobile, teases O’dyllita for October 7
It's Hashashin day across much of the Black Desert universe, as the new toon is out and playable on both PC and mobile today.
"Hashashin...
Grab a promo pack key for RTS Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming from Massively OP
R2 Games has this week released Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming globally across its platform. It's a browser-based multiplayer RTS, and though it's...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases Bespin, previews new Days of the Aned-Kla festival
It's a weird year when rogue servers are getting more love than some live MMOs, but we're not sorry to see it. One of...
Japanese survivalbox Craftopia is set to launch early access on Friday
All summer, we've been keeping watch over Craftopia, a Japanese multiplayer "open world survival crafting game," and I think it would be fair to...
Corepunk plans December closed beta, talks questing and character customization
We've had our eye on upcoming Unity-based MMORPG Corepunk since its original announcement by Dutch studio Artificial Core back in December, and in spite...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst minigame in an MMO?
I'm not a minigame person in general - for example, I have long made known my rage for Polymock. (Curse you, Polymock!) But I...
Dual Universe studio Novaquark issues password resets following registration ‘security issue’
If you've signed up for a Dual Universe website account, you probably received a worrisome email this afternoon informing you of a password reset...
Enter to win a month of Supremacy 1 premium gametime courtesy of Bytro Labs and MOP!
Last week, we covered the summer launch of Supremacy 1 in-browser and on mobile (both iOS and Android). German studio Bytro Labs bills the...
