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: Are you angry about the collapse of Chronicles of Elyria?
Last week, Soulbound Studios announced that in spite of just reaching a semblance of pre-alpha for Chronicles of Elyria, it was out of money...
MMO Week in Review: Elyria’s suspended storm, Guild Wars 2’s lie of omission
Even in the middle of a pandemic, the MMO industry manages to keep ramping up the news. Not only did Chronicles of Elyria give...
Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria becomes the highest-profile MMORPG Kickstarter to crash and burn
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Soulbound Studios, the team behind MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria, announced that the game was on indefinite hold and all...
Check out Rogue Company, Hi-Rez’s upcoming cross-platform team shooter
Rogue Company: It's definitely not Rogue Squadron on a Bad Company binge. It's Hi-Rez Studios' next big thing under the First Watch Games label:...
Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box is coming mid-April, not next week, and there’s no new World
I've joked a few times this week about how badly my kids want to play Super Adventure Box in Guild Wars 2, and I...
World of Warships’ exercises and recipes, World of Tanks’ overhaul, and War Thunder’s movie set
Welp, here's something I've never seen before: An online game is offering up workouts and recipes that players can do from home while under...
Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny left for Amazon Games Studios – in November
Two weeks ago, we reported that Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny had quietly departed ArenaNet last fall. Originally leaked by a troll...
Villagers and Heroes has announced its next expansion, called Eclipse
Villagers & Heroes is a staff favorite here on MOP - it took our indie of the year award in 2019, after all. And...
Here’s what you can do in Ship of Heroes’ surprise beta right now
Last week, Ship of Heroes' Heroic Games announced a "surprise" beta test round - open to the public - during the COVID-19 outbreak. Now,...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever paid for MMO-related services like coaching?
A few weeks back, MMO veteran dev John Smedley posted a tweet about paying for, of all things, coaching in a video game, and...
Massively Overthinking: What do you hoard in MMORPGs?
Last week, online gamers made headlines for hoarding toilet paper. No, not in real life - in Fallout 76. Way to embrace the apocalypse,...
Twitch Aid 2020 brings together gamers, musicians, and celebs for COVID-19 charity
The lineup isn't quite as wild as the bands that raised $127M to fight African famines at Live Aid in the '80s, but the...
ArcheAge Unchained kicks off Rock’n’Scroll event through April 23
ArcheAge Unchained is ramping up for yet another event that ought to consume players' time during the global pandemic, and this one's called Rock'n'Scroll....
Woodpunk survival MMO Last Oasis has officially launched on Steam early access
Woodpunk survival MMO Last Oasis is officially live in early access on Steam today - because we don't have enough apocalypse in our lives...
Former Blizzard, Twitch, and Riot bosses pour money into Rally Cry esports
Following the exit of Mike Morhaime from Blizzard Entertainment last year - in a year when Blizzard found multiple ways to light itself on...
Bethsoft has delayed Fallout 76’s Wastelanders expansion again – but only by a week
Fallout 76 players have been waiting for the Wastelanders expansion for a long time, it's safe to say. It was originally meant to come...
COVID-19 drives up WoW Classic queues, threatens UK’s only videogame museum
Many MMOs and online games - at least those that can be operated more or less from a distance - are seeing surges of...
Torchlight III shows off the Sharpshooter class in new alpha video
Multiplayer not-an-MMO-anymore Torchlight III has a new dev blog and video out today on the Sharpshooter, its very last new class before launch. MMO...
Guild Wars 2 explores player variety and choices in Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire
Not gonna lie, my kids have been begging me for Super Adventure Box all week, and everytime ArenaNet tweets something on the Guild Wars...
Ultima Online’s 108th update is live with housing decay overhaul and Treasures of Tokuno
Ultima Online may be a million years old, but it's still getting updates, and in fact, its 108th publish has officially dropped on the...
