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’s Holly Longdale on WoW’s missteps: ‘We should have listened more’
While Dragonflight proved to be a turning point for World of Warcraft after two expansions of downward trajectory, Blizzard Vice President Holly Longdale says...
Lord of the Rings Online says its free Dragon and Storm dungeon arrives this week
Update 41.2 is scheduled to arrive in Lord of the Rings Online this coming Wednesday, bringing with it a new free dungeon for all...
The MOP Up: Fractured Veil eases you into its tropical apocalypse
Survival sim Fractured Veil's devs made lore a priority with its August update, saying, "We’ve been hard at work on another round of bug...
Global Chat: Recapping World of Warcraft’s Pandaria Remix
With Pandaria Remix now officially over and done in World of Warcraft, it's time to move on... right after some post-mortem analysis, of course....
One Shots: Cue techno chocobo theme
When I drive around and look at the sea of boring cars with mostly the same shapes in the same four colors, I can...
Corepunk wipes its Alpha 4 a second time, says it’ll keep this build online through the end of October
Following a second full wipe of its fourth alpha to address a character bug, Corepunk's Artificial Core said that it hopes to continually run...
LOTRO Legendarium: The quiet failure of LOTRO’s birding hobby
The past month of Lord of the Rings Online's operation has been one of the busier summer months in this game's history. Update 41...
The Daily Grind: Are you MMO friends with people in other countries?
One of the truly neat social side effects of MMOs is that you get to connect with people all around the world and learn...
PSA: Gigantic Rampage Edition is now free to grab and enjoy on EGS this week
One of our favorite underdog shooters is now more accessible than ever before, thanks to Gigantic Rampage Edition becoming free on the Epic Games...
Amazon boss: ‘We’re still trying to find the hook’ for the new Lord of the Rings MMO
With 10 titles currently in development, Amazon Games Studio is clearly hoping to diversify into success before sinking into unprofitability. One of the bigger...
World of Warcraft’s The War Within headstart is live – prepare for a long spoiler-dodging weekend
Depending on how much you shelled out for World of Warcraft's newest expansion, this is either the best or longest weekend of the year...
Lord of the Rings Online continues testing on its Dragon and Storm instance
A second round of testing is underway for Lord of the Rings Online's "The Dragon and the Storm" special dungeon. If you're interested in...
Funcom-published co-op sandbox Aloft targets a fall 2024 release
The well of creativity for survival sandboxes hasn't dried up yet, for better or for worse, and Funcom is determined to get in on...
SWTOR brings more date night missions and Galactic Seasons 7 with this week’s Update 7.5.1
While it can't compete with all of the huge MMO expansion releases this week, Star Wars: The Old Republic does have a decent late-summer...
The Daily Grind: What are New World’s chances of recovering from this year?
Something that we in journalism (or in general fandom!) always have to be aware of is the danger of unfairly or inaccurately crafting ongoing...
RuneScape-inspired Brighter Shores says it won’t officially be complete until PvP arrives
With the early access launch of Brighter Shores planned for this fall, one big question's on the table for this RuneScape-inspired MMO: Will it...
World of Warcraft yeets Pandaria Remix characters to main servers, talks ‘new era’ of storytelling
It's the last Tuesday reset for World of Warcraft before The War Within arrives, and in many ways, the game is already off to...
Battle Bards Episode 233: Epic fight music
For Battle Bards’ penultimate episode, Syp and Syl explore some EPIC battle music across many MMOs. After all, if we’re going to go out...
Lord of the Rings Online’s new server might banish you from its Nazgul world boss fights
What would it be like if an MMORPG created a huge world boss fight... and then kicked you out for daring to show up?...
The MOP Up: Spellfarers lets you dabble in moon magic
The recently launched magic life sim Spellfarers Update 0.511 arrived with "lots of fixes, including to cooking, a new stove for Ilo's kitchen, minor...
