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
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...
EG7 addresses the Daybreak buyout, says EG7 is ‘evaluating’ H1Z1 and Just Survive
As promised, Enad Global 7 has released a community update specifically to address the future of games under Daybreak - something lots of folks...
Book of Travels discusses how art and story unite in narrative design
"Tiny MMORPG" Book of Travels is one of many games in our purview that suffered from the pandemic, having seen its early access date...
The Daily Grind: Are you concerned about Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons?
The Guild Wars 2 community has been a jumble this week. While half of the discussion has centered on the brewing hype machine for...
Massively Overthinking: The terrible hot-mess MMOs we have fun in anyway
Every time we cover Hellgate London - and let's be honest, it's a lot since the game comes back from the dead at least...
10-year-old World of Tanks has finally landed on Steam
Hey, did you know World of Tanks wasn't on Steam? I always assumed it was, but nope - until Wargaming's move today.
"Wargaming is pleased...
Gameforge officially sunsets the western version of SoulWorker tomorrow
Back in February, we covered the frustrating announcement that Gameforge was planning to sunset the Western version of SoulWorker. The only good news to...
MMO Business Roundup: Nexon’s bitcoins, Fortnite’s tiny iOS playerbase, and GDC’s State of the Industry
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
GDC's State of the Industry: GDC's annual survey of game developers offers an array...
Player apartments won’t make SWG Legends’ Cloud City expansion launch next week
With SWG Legends' City in the Clouds expansion just a week away, the player devs have dropped a dev blog (yes, really). And it's...
