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 MMO is the most hardcore and brutal?
A few months ago, there was a post on the MMORPG subreddit about the MMO that was the "most intense brutal hardcore" MMO -...
MMO Week in Review: Earnestly hoping for Fallout’s redemption
The global pandemic continues canceling gaming events, but MMOs keep on going - some of them better than ever. Fallout 76, Guild Wars 2,...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon is working on an epic animal husbandry system
This week in MMO crowdfunding, MOP reader Dalton tipped us off to some fun stuff brewing in the near future for Project Gorgon. "Animal...
NCsoft is already sunsetting its Aion: Legions of War mobile MMO
It's been a good half a year since we covered Aion: Legions of War, the mobile MMO spun-off from the Aion franchise, back for...
Roblox will stream the One World: Together At Home event tomorrow
Let's be real, the campaign slogans for the games studio efforts to fight COVID-19 have started getting a bit ridiculous. Play Apart Together. Stay...
DC Universe Online’s latest Birds of Prey episode is live with gobs of new content
Daybreak's DC Universe Online has been kicking ass and taking names lately, and it's doing it again now. Last night, the latest Birds of...
The Daily Grind: What dead MMOs are you missing while under quarantine?
MOP reader Tyler wrote us a few weeks ago, pining for lost games during this time when so many people are under pandemic lockdown.
"I...
Massively Overthinking: MMO business models in the face of recession
MOP reader Sray posed us an interesting question this past week focused on how MMO business models interface with the global economy. "The last major...
Realm of the Mad God’s remastered Unity edition, Exalt, is now in open beta
Realm of the Mad God is one of those MMOs that are hard to quantify, being part retro-pixel shooter and part permadeath MMO in...
Leaderboard: Are you giving Fallout 76 a second chance?
Fallout 76 has not had the best couple of years. As MOP's Justin said in his column rounding up Bethsoft's worst flubs - and...
OrbusVR’s Secrets of Mugwood DLC launches April 28 with new zones and story
Adorable virtual reality MMORPG OrbusVR has come such a long way since we first began covering it three years ago, with more content pumped...
COVID-19: Gamescom goes digital, Star Trek Online honors medics, Raph Koster tackles pandemic denialism
Welcome back to another roundup of how MMOs and the gaming industry are handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yesterday we reported on the news that Germany...
Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff just fully funded on Kickstarter for $79,000
Swords 'n Magic and Stuff just fully funded on Kickstarter, ensuring that I'm going to be looking up the exact spelling of this "casual,...
Terraria’s fourth and final update, Journey’s End, launches in May
I have a soft spot in my soul for Terraria, mostly thanks to the fact that several of my guildies ran multiplayer servers on...
Player-run Open Perpetuum celebrates second birthday with new content and freebies
Way back in 2017, Perpetuum Online developer Avatar Creations announced it was closing the game because it could no longer afford to develop the...
COVID-19 Roundup: EVE Online’s huge influx of newbies, live Gamescom is probably toast
Welcome back to another roundup of how MMOs and the gaming industry are faring and fronting during the COVID-19 pandemic.
First up: CCP's Hilmar Pétursson...
Elite Dangerous is seriously reducing the cost of fleet carriers following beta feedback
Elite Dangerous' fleet carriers beta has been up barely a week, but already Frontier is walking back some of the changes.
Last week, players venturing...
Former EverQuest boss Holly Longdale scooped up by Blizzard to work on WoW Classic
Daybreak's Holly Longdale raised a lot of eyebrows a month ago when she announced she was departing the Darkpaw Games sub-unit and leaving behind...
Overwatch’s Echo is officially live today – here’s the new trailer
We first caught site of Overwatch's Echo waaaaay back in 2018, when she appeared in the Ashe-and-McCree short and was said to be “one of the...
Book of Travels previews its paper- and card-inspired user interface
One of the selling points of Book of Travels that originally caught my eye way back before its successful Kickstarter last year was its...
