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: Would you wear MMO clothes that look like armor in real life?
Last week, ArenaNet dropped a bizarre tweet: It's collaborating with an apparel company on Guild Wars 2-themed clothes. And I don't mean t-shirts with...
Mordhau says it’s now ‘taking toxicity and racism seriously’ plus adding more maps and modes
"Multiplayer medieval slasher" Mordhau worked its way through the news cycle this spring and summer, first for its dazzling Steam launch and then for...
For Science: Exploitative monetization, pathological gaming, and the Proteus effect
Our newsroom is overflowing with interesting academic papers relevant to gaming - let's round a few up, shall we?
First, we've got Unfair play? Video...
Neverwinter’s Uprising loot includes the most horrifying MMO cloak of all time
I'm glad I didn't see this dev blog until today because I might have had nightmares all weekend. Perfect World posted a preview of...
The Daily Grind: Has a free trial ever convinced you to buy an MMO?
Many years ago when my guild was between home games, we decided to conduct a little experiment to entertain ourselves while we waited for...
MMO Week in Review: SWTOR’s latest monetization tweaks
Star Wars The Old Republic dropped a patch this week, a quality-of-life update that makes the free-to-play experience a bit less paintful in the...
RuneScape’s RuneFest 2019 picks dinosaur theme, promises ‘huge game-changing announcements’
We knew when this year's RuneScape convention is taking place: October 4th to 5th. We knew where, too: the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference...
Make My MMO: Kickstarter’s RAW deal, Star Citizen’s alpha 3.6 is live
This week in MMO crowdfunding was not a good week for MMO crowdfunding, thanks to RAW, whose Kickstarter campaign was actually canceled by Kickstarter...
Path of Titans is a new survival sandbox on Indiegogo, slated for early access this year
At this point, when a new online game crops up with no PR outreach asking for money, I think a lot of us hesitate,...
TERA’s Antiquities update next week comes with a solo scavenger hunt
The next episode of TERA's Skywatch rollout is launching next week on July 23rd, and it's called Antiquities, so you can probably already guess...
Lost Ark is launching the Assassin class for Korean players on July 31
Still watching Lost Ark develop across the pond with hunger in your heart, hoping it'll come this way? Yeah, we are too, especially as...
GTAO takes pretend gambling to the next level with its Diamond casino launch next week
Accidents. Incontinence. Turbulence. Maintenance. Irrelevance. Flatulence. Tumescence. Interpretive dance. GTA Online's latest update is out next week, and it promises all this and more,...
Gloria Victis previews mounted combat, freebuilding, and guild improvements
Gloria Victis developer Black Eye Games popped on the MMORPG subreddit this morning with some interesting news about the game's development, specifically a "huge...
Life is Feudal: MMO is officially going free-to-play with bonuses for existing players
It's been a while since we checked in on the MMO version of Life is Feudal, which hit early access over a year and...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever forgotten about an MMO character you played?
MOP's Tyler dropped an amusing remark in our work chat a while back about forgetting stuff in MMOs - in his case, an MMO...
Massively Overthinking: Revisiting sheep and wolves in MMOs
One of the meta discussions we've been having here on MOP this week has centered on PvP sandbox titles like Albion Online, specifically how...
RIFT’s Summerfest 2019 drops surfboards, weapons skins, and masks
RIFT has not had the best run of things since Trion handed over the keys to Gamigo last year, from the premature end of...
Daybreak filed for yet another studio trademark just a week ago
Last week, we covered some odd happenings over at the MMORPG company formerly known as SOE and now known as Daybreak, and today we've...
Neverwinter’s Summer Festival launches tomorrow – bring your swimsuit and get ready to ride a snail
Black Desert isn't the only MMORPG bringing the summer fun with a themed event this month: Neverwinter is launching its own Summer Festival tomorrowday...
Meadow developer Might & Delight announces a new unnamed online RPG
Last year, I hopped on our podcast to talk about an obscure but long-running and adorable MMO: Meadow. It's one of those games that...
