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
Albion Online just patched in a ton of hellgate buffs and combat balance tweaks
Happy patch day, Albion Online folks! You're getting the fourth chunk to the Call to Arms chapter today, which Sandbox Interactive is calling a...
Elyon’s western closed beta is off to a bumpy beginning, but here’s the trailer while you wait
It's been a rocky start to the western Elyon beta. MOP's own Carlo joked that it began promptly at 7 a.m. his time... and...
Elder Scrolls Online drops a new companions trailer ahead of next month’s Blackwood launch
We're less than a month away from the PC launch of Elder Scrolls Online's Blackwood chapter, and you know what that means: hype time....
3v3 arenas are live this week in Apex Legends’ Legacy update
Apex Legends is sparkling this week with a big update and 3v3 mode. The Legacy release adds the new mode, new legend Valkyrie, the...
Trove updates the Chloromancer as ArcheAge hands out free ArchePass XP boosters
If you blinked, you missed it: Trove rolled out a big update last week for the Chloromancer class on the PC. The patch changes...
Humble Bundle apologizes for infuriating charity changes, reverts everything
Humble Bundle caused quite a stink at the end of April by completing upending its entire charity model. The company had announced that it...
Gamescom 2021 will be an all-digital show thanks to COVID
And there it is: This summer's Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, will be an all-digital event rather than a hybrid one. The proposed hybrid solution...
Kakao Q1 2021 financials: ArcheAge 2 won’t be ready until at least 2024
As MOP's own Carlo has written at length, Kakao is a massive company with its fingers in many pies - most recently the delicious...
Epic v Apple: Emails are forever, leaks are inevitable
As we noted yesterday, the Epic v. Apple trial got underway this week and has already been offering up some choice nuggets, though less...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2021: Blizzard lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
Welcome back, my friends: It's time for another Activision-Blizzard investor report, and we're expecting this one to be a ride. Readers will recall that...
Happy Star Wars Day! SWG Legends has launched the Bespin expansion, SWG Restoration 3 will launch May 28
If you're on social media, it's impossible to miss right now that May the Fourth is happening for Star Wars fans everywhere - and...
The Epic v. Apple trial is already offering a look behind the scenes of Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and Sony
MOP's Lawful Neutral columnist Andy burst into the office yesterday, gleefully rubbing his hands together and asking whether we were ready for the trial...
Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries fully launches on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox X/S May 27
The Mechwarrior franchise has been back in MMO news a bunch lately, first with the revitalization of the MMO Mechwarrior Online and second with...
DC Universe Online offers roadmap for free episode initiative, PS5 client, and summer updates
DC Universe Online dropped a major dev blog this week detailing some pretty significant changes for the game coming this summer. The studio seems...
The Daily Grind: Can we please nuke the term ‘filthy casual’ into the sun
A while back, MOP reader Aldristavan tweeted a joke about being a "filthy casual" that leaped out at me so hard I had to...
Sony injects investment into Discord ahead of putting Discord on PlayStation
Well now, suddenly it's a lot more clear why Discord and Microsoft ended their buyout talks, isn't it?
Yes, Sony announced today that it's partnering...
World of Warcraft’s player-run Crash Cog cup crowned its first winner of season two this weekend
If Shadowlands has become a drag on your World of Warcraft play or you're just marking time until Burning Crusade hits the Classic realms,...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you were super hyped for an MMO expansion?
I have two different modes for getting MMO-expansion-hyped. The first, and more common, is when it's a big game for the genre, whether or...
MMO Week in Review: Casting judgment on Guild Wars 2’s Judgment
Guild Wars 2 stole the spotlight this week, and whether you thought it was a good thing or a bad thing probably depends on...
Ultima Online is planning some sort of do-over for player banking hubs
Oh, Ultima Online: the game that pretty much invented the term banksitting, that thing you do when you just hang out at a video...
