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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World of Warcraft team swears it’s improved communication
Some World of Warcraft players are asking if Blizzard is going to make good on its promise to improve communication with fans, and in...
Here’s how you’ll advance in WildStar past level 50
If you haven't heard yet, in the next big content update for WildStar, the team is introducing a new system to allow players at...
Blizzard launcher beefs up Facebook integration
Blizzard really, really wants its game launcher to be best friends with your Facebook account.
The studio has introduced a new version of the beta launcher...
Conan Exiles is bringing official servers back online, releases dev kit for modders
Conan Exile's struggle to stay on top of the high demand for the survival sandbox and its troubles with shards continues, as Funcom announced...
Blade & Soul opens a pair of raids in its Wings of the Raven update
Coming at players like a massive one-two punch, Blade & Soul's newest update contains a pair of 24-player raids designed to take you to...
The Gold Arena opens its doors in Aion EU
Our friends in Europe have a new Aion patch with which to contend, as Update 5.3: The Gold Arena arrived on the servers Wednesday.
It's not...
Love is stalking you in Skyforge
"Thanks to Flavius' latest laboratory shenanigans, be prepared for love to find YOU during Skyforge's Valentine's Event!"
Even if you are feeling romantically lonely, you...
Chronicles of Elyria might fatten up your character
Chronicles of Elyria is nothing if not bursting with interesting little ideas that you don't often see in other MMOs. One of these, apparently,...
Asheron’s Call fan project saves as much info as it can
Now more than a week following the closure of Asheron's Call, the fight to save the game might only be heating up.
Over on The...
Perfect Ten: Ranking MMORPG combat pets, from best to worst
It's an objectively known fact that Warhammer Online's squigs were the peak of MMORPG pet design and functionality. Giant balls of attitude and appetite...
World of Warcraft’s pet battle dungeon takes your little buddies through a gauntlet of pain
World of Warcraft's pet battle system is one of those features that either you really love or you completely ignore. If you're of the...
Ashes of Creation demos new dungeon video, won’t ‘sacrifice aesthetics for performance’
Curious what Ashes of Creation looks like in action? The team released its first gameplay video last night, showing a mage exploring an icy...
Paladins brings out the street-smart Maeve
So apparently Paladins'Â thing is that it's going to be the online multiplayer title that fires patches and new characters at us from some sort...
AdventureQuest 3D previews the dragon-infested Firefields
AdventureQuest 3D's newest region should be arriving any day now, giving level 15 players a chance to test their mettle against dragons in their native...
Durango testers build 6.3 million buildings in beta
Mobile dino MMO Durango wrapped up its first closed beta test back on January 16th, and the game has many stories to tell from it....
Six new PvE queues are coming to Star Trek Online’s console editions
While Star Trek Online's console versions will probably always trail behind the PC edition in terms of the most up-to-date content, Cryptic is making...
Overwatch hypes its upcoming server browser
If you're an Overwatch player who enjoys creating and jumping into custom games, then you are probably salivating over the news that Blizzard is...
The Daily Grind: How do you envision your favorite dead MMO coming back?
In the many years that we have been running The Daily Grind, one of the most popular topics has been in daydreaming about the...
Summoners War MMO emerges from mobile game
We have seen our fair share of mobile game spin-offs from MMORPGs, particularly eastern titles. The reverse isn't as common, but today we do...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 103: Back to Morrowind
Justin and Bree discuss ESO Morrowind and Homestead, PWE, SolForge, Conan Exiles, DDO, Marvel Heroes, LOTRO, and SWTOR, with reader mail on WildStar and Hero's Song.
