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
Pearl Abyss Q1 2020 financials: Black Desert, EVE Online revenues hold steady
We've got Pearl Abyss' financial report for the first quarter of 2020, and in common with so many gaming companies right now it was...
Working as Intended: The big list of City of Heroes rogue servers, 2020 edition
It's been a weird and wonderful year for City of Heroes fans. In April of 2019, the expose of a secret City of Heroes...
The Culling returns, again, with an eyebrow-raising new business model
You all remember The Culling and The Culling 2, right? Xaviant Games tried to launch game-show-themed battle royale The Culling 2 back in 2018,...
ArcheAge’s Garden of the Gods expansion launches June 11 – here’s the trailer
With Gamigo clearly culling its herd of MMOs, you might be wondering who's next. Good news: It's not ArcheAge. In fact, ArcheAge is due...
Gamigo is sunsetting more MMOs, this time Dragon’s Prophet EU and its sequel, Savage Hunt
Dragon's Prophet has not had the best run the last few years. In 2015, Daybreak sunsetted the US version of the game, though the...
MMO Business Roundup: Guerilla Collective, PlayStation Studios, XLGAMES’ new MMO, ChinaJoy, and NCsoft’s baseball team
Welcome back to another roundup of business stories relating to MMOs - or adjacent to them. Adjacentness!
Funcom: The Norwegian MMO company will be participating...
Guild Wars 2 has restored the EU servers to Monday morning after multiday rollback
Yesterday, we covered the Guild Wars 2 community's many reports across Reddit and the official forums that the game had suffered a major rollback...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO paradigm shift you didn’t see coming a decade ago?
One thing I'm particularly proud of is that the MOP staff and MMO community - then on old Massively - were waaaaay out in...
Former Diablo and Marvel Heroes boss David Brevik announces Skystone, a new game publishing house
David Brevik has been a fan-favorite in the online gaming world for years. Though probably best known for his founding role on the Diablo...
Guild Wars 2’s EU server cluster suffered a multiday rollback this weekend
Back when I first started in MMOs, rollbacks were a daily occurrence, quite literally. Not only was the server likely to crash at least...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite empty, neglected zone in an MMORPG?
Since dipping my toe back into classic Guild Wars last month for the anniversary fun, I took myself on a wee tour of some...
MMO Week in Review: Population Zero hits early access; early access hits back
Survival MMO Population Zero rolled into Steam early access this week, but it was a bumpy ride, followed by apologies and patches and an...
Make My MMO: Kickstarted social MMO Book of Travels has journeyed into closed beta
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Book of Travels, named MOP's Most Anticipated MMO at the tail end of last year, rolled into its closed beta...
War Thunder’s Victory in Europe Day parade is starting right now
You likely can't see a parade in person right now, but nobody's raining on virtual parades, and boy this week we have our pick...
Funcom is celebrating Conan Exiles’ second anniversary since launch
With all the hoopla surrounding Conan Exiles' latest patch and new builder-centric DLC, Architect of Argos, this week, it'd be easy to forget the...
COVID-19 gaming impact roundup: Studios working from home, War Thunder as an Army training tool
The global novel coronavirus pandemic continues to impact the gaming industry - here's the latest.
Warhammer Online fans will remember well the name Carrie Gouskos,...
Population Zero is back on track with May roadmap, promising optimization, balancing, and character visual tweaks
Yesterday, we covered the shaky launch of Population Zero and the apologies of the devs at Enplex Games, who admitted there were technical problems...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios be more transparent about population stats?
Some of our staff were idly chatting about Wargaming's playerbase this week when MOP's Ben chimed in with a link to the official World...
Massively Overthinking: The oldest MMORPGs we still play
When I was still a teenager in my earliest MMOs, the trend in the communities I ran in was to play MMOs sequentially, due...
Elite Dangerous outlines more changes to fleet carriers coming in next week’s test
Elite Dangerous' second round of Fleet Carriers beta is raring to go next week. You know this because you read MassivelyOP. But what does...
