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
Leaderboard: Four months after the Blitzchung Hong Kong mess, are you still boycotting Blizzard?
MOP reader Pepperzine recently dropped us an email about Blizzard that we've put off until today very intentionally. Why? Because tomorrow, Activision-Blizzard releases its...
H1Z1 aka Z1 Battle Royale’s concurrency shot up 900% last month – here’s why
If you happen to be one of those weirdos who is constantly thumbing through SteamCharts to see how games are doing (i.e., me), you...
Overwatch’s new hero pools hit the PTS as Blizzard gift-wraps new goodies for workshop modders
I'm going to tentatively say here that this might be the best (or at least most smooth) thing Blizzard has done in a month...
New French lawsuits accuse EA’s FIFA franchise of promoting illegal gambling
None of the FIFA titles is a pure MMO, of course, but every MMO player interested in how monetization across the industry is being...
Black Desert: The Guardian awakens, Valentine’s Day begins, and players raise money for charity
If you happened to miss our Desert Oasis piece on Black Desert's Guardian awakening last week, today is the day to get caught up,...
Ultima Online pegs March for update 108, teases something big for the ‘largest audience ever’
Ultima Online's first newsletter of the new decade is a hodge-podge, but let's get to the big tease first. What is it? We don't...
Cyperpunk 2077 won’t be ‘mixing’ its singleplayer and multiplayer modes
Still grumpy about Cyberpunk 2077's delay from April to September? Even grumpier about the revelation that multiplayer - the thing we care about around...
Fallout 76’s Wastelanders update will finally launch on April 7 – here’s the new trailer
As it turns out, the Wastelanders delay from 2019 to 2020 wasn't just a brief one: Bethsoft announced this morning that Fallout 76's big...
Anthem’s weekly updates stay thin as the launch anniversary approaches
If you were hoping from something big from Anthem this week, with the anniversary of its launch rushing up on us soon, well, I'm...
The Daily Grind: Do you avoid MMORPG raiding – and why?
As part of the preview of upcoming Guild Wars 2 content for 2020 yesterday, ArenaNet's Andrew Gray made some comments on raiding I thought...
Guild Wars 2 just gave the most far-reaching core content preview we’ve seen in ages
ArenaNet heard you wanted more communication, and now, that's exactly what you're getting. Guild Wars 2's new-ish Content Design Lead, Andrew Gray, has chimed...
Temtem banned 900 cheaters, then changed its mind on granting appeals
Apparently, Temtem has borrowed a bit more from Pokemon than just its overall vibe: It's also borrowing the elder franchise's reputation for attracting the...
Book of Travels plans beta for late spring, early access in October
We had two games tie for our "most anticipated" award in 2019, but since of them was demoted to merely multiplayer with offline components...
Here’s how Fallout 76’s reputation tracks will work in Wastelanders
When the still-delayed Wastelanders expansion comes to Fallout 76, players will be mingling with NPCs - and that means NPC-related mechanics will be in...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever gotten a refund for an MMORPG?
As I type this, the discussion thread on the Camelot Unchained piece from Friday is nearing 400 comments, a hefty proportion of which center...
MMO Week in Review: When all you really want is some good MMORPGs
It wasn't the best week for MMORPG fans. PWE downgraded Torchlight Frontiers into the not-an-MMORPG Torchlight III, Astellia Online's Steam launch was hampered by...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s roadmap, Camelot Unchained’s baby Colossus
This week in MMO crowdfunding, the Star Citizen community got busy stewing over the newly released roadmaps for SC and Squadron 42, which show...
Diablo III’s live team discusses balance and nerfing animation cheesing classes ahead of 2.6.8 update
Gotta say, I was not expecting a Diablo III dev blog this week, or really ever, what with Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal waiting...
Interview: Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs just announced a new game called Colossus
Camelot Unchained studio City State Entertainment has been teasing something big for a while now. This morning, CSE's Mark Jacobs told backers to tune...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia, Coronavirus, E3, VR, EVE Fanfest, Discord, and WOTC’s BioWare devs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Stadia: Google has responded to the uproar over its poor communication with the Stadia...
