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
NCsoft Q4 2019: It was a rough quarter for MMORPGs, especially Guild Wars 2
NCsoft corporate had a solid financial quarter for the last three months of 2019, with increases in revenue quarter over quarter and year over...
TERA’s Crescent Sea is live on PC with Elin Valkyries and the new treasure ship dungeon
It's patch day for TERA's PC crowd today, as Crescent Sea officially goes live, bringing the playable Elin Valkyrie to the game world along...
Grab a Hunter’s Arena: Legends Steam closed beta key from Massively OP
What do you get when you cross a MOBA with a battle royale and infuse it with gorgeous graphics from South Korea? Hunter's Arena:...
Albion Online now counts 350K monthly active players, plans major alliance changes
We just got some fun numbers on Albion Online, buried in a forum post: Sandbox Interactive says that its massive Queen update in January...
MMO Business Roundup: Kakao’s controlling stake in XLGAMES, Steam’s new record, Xbox’s games-as-a-service
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Kakao Games: Kakao has snapped up a controlling stake in XLGAMES, having acquired 53%...
Guild Wars 2 just put an end to cheese mechanics in the Drakkar encounter
It's patch day for Guild Wars 2, and that usually means one of two things: a tiny one-line bug tweak, or a major release....
Enter to win a Star Trek Online LE anniversary badge, T6 battlecruisers, fleet packs, and more!
This might just be the coolest Star Trek Online giveaway we've ever done, and we've done a lot of 'em! In celebration of the...
Massively Overthinking: MassivelyOP, five years in
Five years ago, we flipped a switch, let the site go live, and published our first article as Massively OP. It was from Justin,...
Leaks pinpoint The Division’s next DLC as Warlords of New York, launching in March
It should go without saying that if you don't want real spoilers, you probably should just close this tab or move on to the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG endgame for people who like to PUG?
A few months ago on Reddit, a player popped up with a neat question about MMO endgames. Essentially, Redditor TooEarlyForMe wanted to participate in...
World of Warcraft Shadowlands is getting a prequel novel called Shadows Rising
If for some reason you're still really hoping that Blizzard will pull some good storytelling in World of Warcraft, maybe point your eyeballs to...
Anthem abandons seasonal content as BioWare confirms major redesign and reinvention
So, apparently all the stories last week about how Anthem still hadn't taken down its Christmas decorations struck a nerve, and we've got an...
Allods Online adds new story content, overhauls strongholds and crafting in Soul of Darkness expansion
Dang, it's been a really, really long time since we talked about Allods Online here on MOP - almost a year, in fact, when...
Guild Wars 2 has lost a couple more devs in the last few months
Another developer has exited the Guild Wars 2 franchise: This time it's Hugh Norfolk, whose final title with ArenaNet was Lead Systems Designer. Norfolk...
The Daily Grind: Is there a thing you secretly love in an MMO you hate?
Let's give credit where credit is due: Just because we dislike a game doesn't mean we dislike every last thing in it. Most of...
MMO Week in Review: Next let’s do Blizzard Reforged
Well, that sure was a week. We got our first public look at the real state of Camelot Unchained's tech, CliffyB resurfaced with all-new...
Make My MMO: Saga of Lucimia’s challenge, Camelot Unchained’s siege demo
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Saga of Lucimia, which spent most of last year with its head down working and popped up last month...
Here are the highlights from Camelot Unchained’s siege warfare demo and roadmap reveal
Note: We liveblogged the stream; scroll down to the end of the post for the latest.
The past week has been a whirlwhind for MMO...
Grapecard’s pirate MMO Atlas just dropped its level cap, still cannot hold 40K players
At the tail end of January, we noted that Atlas had once again reared its head as "Grapecard" announced the early access pirate MMO's...
Grab a Defiance 2050 Urban Commando outfit from MOP and Gamigo
It's been a hot minute since we last talked about Defiance 2050, the MMO Trion Worlds spun off from the original Defiance back in...
