Justin Olivetti
Senior Reporter
A casual gamer and long-time MMO fan, Justin is often heard yelling, "Player housing for all!" in the Massively Overpowered offices. In addition to news, he tackles LOTRO Legendarium for LOTRO, The Perfect Ten, Jukebox Heroes, the retrospective Game Archaeologist series, One Shots, and the Massively OP podcast.
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Dual Universe fan trailer: ‘This is true massive multiplayer’
Have you ever noticed that sometimes fans can put together trailers that put the originals to shame? I mean, look at this "modern" Empire...
Hearthstone is about ready to go on a Journey to Un’Goro
Get out your dino detectors, because Hearthstone's latest expansion is just about ready to go live. Yesterday, Blizzard patched in an update that made...
Black Desert gooses its players in this week’s patch
MMO got your goose? Now you can get it back with this week's Flondor Goose Egg event in Black Desert.
Courtesy of the new 1.37...
PSA: Get FFXIV and Heavensward for $20 from Humble Bundle
Here's your solid deal for the day: Humble Bundle is selling both the core Final Fantasy XIV game and its first expansion, Heavensward, for...
Good luck getting your BlizzCon tickets today
Just a heads up if you were going to try your hand at snagging a ticket to this November's BlizzCon, as your first of...
World of Warcraft suffers demonic assaults, welcomes marching tadpoles
When the skies go black and start raining down fel fire, you best know that there's some bad hoodoo going down. In the case...
Dark and Light’s trees are mad as hell and are not going to take it any more
Are you still a little bummed at the recently announced beta delay for Dark and Light? It might be worth the wait, if the...
The Pantheon team is ‘very satisfied’ with the game’s progress
In an interview with Pantheon Senior Game Designer Corey LeFever on MMO Play, LeFever said that the dev team is "very satisfied" with the...
Perfect Ten: 10 little things that I love about LOTRO
I'm a details man. I like to stop and check out the small things, to drink in my environments, and to notice how all...
LOTRO posts April event schedule, makes temporary store change
As Lord of the Rings Online players wrap up the spring festival this week, they won't have much time to breathe before the next...
Revelation Online sells new collector packs, preps Stardust patch for April 12
Can you believe that Revelation Online has been out for a full month now? It's probably as good a time as any for the...
The Daily Grind: Do you check out other characters in MMORPGs?
The other week on the podcast, Bree and I were arguing over the importance of cosmetic looks -- not just in how you present...
Global Chat: The fallout over Secret World Legends
The fallout over The Secret World's reboot into Secret World Legends has spread far and wide over the MMO blogging community, with many expressing...
Tree of Savior runs dual promotional events
If you have nothing better to do this week, why not check out Tree of Savior? The action-RPG MMO is looking to recruit brand-new...
Escape from Tarkov invites you to fight ‘without rules’ as a third-party scavenger
While Escape from Tarkov is ostensibly a two-faction game, it turns out that there's a third option available to those who don't want to...
AdventureQuest 3D adds party system, cosmetic items, and dungeon options
Patch 1.4 landed in AdventureQuest 3D yesterday, bringing with it several important and welcome features to the game. And yeah, the patch even included...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 111: Secret World’s Destiny
Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World, City of Heroes vs. MxM, Paragon Chat, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2 SAB, April Fools' Day, WoW 7.2, Destiny 2, and Club Penguin, with reader mail on Funcom and MMO guilds.
PSA: Reserve your Secret World Legends names
While Secret World Legends isn't going to allow you to import your character from The Secret World, you will have the opportunity to keep...
Post-apocalyptic Edengrad launches into early access today
Starting today, the Kickstarted post-apocalyptic sandbox MMOÂ Edengrad is leaving its pre-alpha cocoon to clamber into a bigger cocoon called "early access." With Patch 0.2.1,...
Is Phantasy Star Online 2 worth playing?
First things first: No, there is no announcement about any sort of release for Phantasy Star Online 2 in the west. For now, the...
