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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Pax Dei plans to scale up to 1M building ‘pieces’ while explaining the system’s fiendish complexity
Pax Dei isn't merely an MMO sandbox looking to copy the crowd; it wants to excel in its building program. Mainframe Studios claims that...
LOTRO Legendarium: Five ways to fully fix LOTRO’s virtue system
Newer players to Lord of the Rings Online may not be aware that the game's virtue system used to be very difficult, requiring certain...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a cozy (pumpkin spice) autumn MMO?
Autumn is upon us in the northern hemisphere, and that means comfy clothes, crisp smells, trips to the cider mill, and supermarkets stocked with...
Co-op sci-fi farming sim Lightyear Frontier adds neighbors and animals next week
Co-op sci-fi farming sim Lightyear Frontier is looking to expand its early access borders with the title's "biggest content update yet." That expansion arrives...
Eternal Tombs ramps up interest for its October pre-alpha test
After a few weeks off, Eternal Tombs' pre-alpha testing is preparing for another run in mid-October. The hardcore MMO with specialized GM-activated events announced...
Ship of Heroes says it’s focusing on polish and better VFX for an ‘eventual launch’
Let's get the bad-but-obvious news out of the way first: Despite Ship of Heroes saying at the top of the year that it was...
Fallout 76 surprises fans with the news of CAMP pets for 2024
It may seem like a strangely late addition to a game whose franchise often featured a pet German Shepherd called "Dogmeat," but Fallout 76...
Blizzard injects gamers with a double dose of Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 lore
Where do you sit on the spectrum of interest in video game lore? Your answer will determine whether or not you're going to engage...
Perfect Ten: The MMO races that nobody ever seems to choose
Just because an MMORPG offers a wide array of character options doesn't mean that player interest will be equally divided among them. We've long...
EverQuest II announces its fall expansion, Scars of Destruction, launching in November
The final stretch of the "Year of Darkpaw" is underway for EverQuest II, and Head of Studio Jenn Chan is here to talk all...
WoW Classic puts up the patch notes for Season of Discovery Phase 5’s trio of raids
When Thursday arrives, nothing in WoW Classic will ever be the same... again. Well, that's if you're on the Season of Discovery server, which...
The Daily Grind: Would you love to return to your MMO’s glory days?
Nostalgia is a heckuva drug, and while it's fun in small doses, it can be painful if you mainline it. So maybe it's only...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 486: Amazon’s daring October gambits
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's early access, World of Warcraft's data loss fiasco, SWTOR's Mac client, Guild Wars 2's new PvP mode, Pantheon's December early access, and New World's Aeternum and season, with adventures in GW2, WoW, and LOTRO.
Lord of the Rings Online talks about ‘boat pants’ and the lost Drearspire dungeon
This week on the forums, the chatty developers over at Lord of the Rings Online shared a couple interesting behind-the-scenes tales of content that...
Albion Online invites players to ‘make an impact’ on the game with an ‘ultimate’ survey
Got five minutes and a desire to mold the direction of Albion Online's development? There's an ultimate survey for that!
"It’s time, your voice matters,"...
World of Warcraft data loss fiasco deletes items out of guild banks – and Blizzard can’t fully restore them
What can be worse than a bank being plundered by thieves? It's when that vault is robbed by the very game code that's supposed...
The MOP Up: Path of Exile arrives on the PlayStation 5
It's a great week for PlayStation 5 users, as Grinding Gears' acclaimed Path of Exiles finally got its own launch on the console.
"The native...
One Shots: And suddenly, the bushes rustled
What weird and wild adventures is Utakata up to in Blade and Soul this week? Apparently it involves staying up way past a little one's...
Pixel art MMO Necesse boasts over one million players in early access. And chickens.
It's been quite the summer for Necesse, a retro-themed survival and crafting MMO that's been tearing up the charts in early access. Thanks to...
Former Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven will reveal two more titles in the coming months
When you've been the Big Cheese at a studio like Blizzard, you're going to get some serious attention to whatever follow-up project you pursue....
