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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The struggles and successes of SWTOR
There's a new op-ed piece over at Gamasutra in which the author -- an occasional MMO player -- takes a critical look at Star...
Guild Wars 2 player assembles massive season one movie
While Guild Wars 2 is right now in the middle of its third season of the living world campaign, there's always a chance that...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon is now four months away from launch
"We are roughly four months away from the official launch of the game."
Darkfall: Rise of Agon laid out its 2017 roadmap this past weekend...
Global Chat Extra: In remembrance of Landmark
Obviously, the reverberations of the news of Landmark's closure continue to be seen across the MMO community, including in our own comments sections. The...
Star Citizen players capture the game’s beauty in new dev video
Thanks to the new camera controls that came in Alpha Update 2.6.0, Star Citizen players have been capturing all sorts of striking vistas from...
Atlas Reactor is going ‘fully free-to-play’ next week
Good things are on the horizon for Trion Worlds' plucky Atlas Reactor, which is getting ready to go into its second season next week.
According...
2001’s Battleground Europe plans Steam debut this summer
One of the MMORPG genre's oldest running 3-D games is planning to join its comrades on Steam by this summer.
Battleground Europe's team announced in...
The MOP Up: A marriage forged in hell (January 8, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
ArcheAge Q&A covers fresh start servers and its future roadmap
ArcheAge players have no shortage of questions about the game these days, particularly post-Revelation. To answer some of these, Trion Worlds took to the...
One Shots: The Reaper comes for all MMOs
In light of this past week's sad Landmark news, it's perhaps too on-the-nose that I asked for players to send in pictures of defunct...
Camelot Unchained starts the year with a pair of weekend tests
Camelot Unchained is back to business as usual following the holiday break. Mark Jacobs reports that two tests are being performed this weekend with...
The Game Archaeologist: Hero’s Journey
Fiction writers know well of Joseph Campbell's identification and outline of the monomyth, or "hero's journey," in many stories. The 12-step process starts with...
Dave Georgeson offers players encouragement on Landmark shutdown
Former Landmark lead Dave Georgeson took to Twitter on Friday with a note of encouragement for fans of the soon-to-be shuttered MMO: "To those...
The Daily Grind: How do you keep occupied while playing mindlessly in MMOs?
I'd say that about half of the time I'm playing MMOs, I'm deeply engaged in the story, puzzles, unknown territory, and tricky combat. This...
Overwatch targets Mei cheaters
Overwatch players who have been tearing their hair out at a widespread exploit in matches will be happy to know that Blizzard has taken...
It’s complete Pandemonium at Dungeon Fighter Online
Pandemonium is about to hit Dungeon Fighter Online -- and that's a good thing.
This is the name of its first major update of the...
Champions Online fights off giant monsters while offering lifetime sub discount
When massive monsters attack town, who you gonna call? No, not them, their specialty is in a completely different field. You're best off dialing...
Wizard101 works on Arabian Nights theme, ‘most cinematic world yet’
Wizard101 has grand, sweeping plans for 2017, starting with the upcoming release of Mirage, its Arabian Nights-themed world.
According to the team, Mirage will be...
World of Warcraft’s Zul’jin joins Heroes of the Storm
One of World of Warcraft's iconic warlords is now moonlighting in Blizzard's MOBA. This week, Heroes of the Storm released its first patch of...
World of Warcraft heralds the coming of Patch 7.1.5
It looks likely that World of Warcraft's Patch 7.1.5 -- a surprisingly packed "in-between" update -- will be coming very soon now. It's always...
