Justin Olivetti

Justin Olivetti
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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.

Personal blog: BioBreak
Twitter: @sypster

The MOP Up: Dark Age of Camelot allows name, gender, and race changes

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Dark Age of Camelot is testing its next major patch, and it has a major surprise in store for its playerbase. "Patch 1.125 is chock...

One Shots: Filtered to perfection

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I don't usually spend a lot of time running pictures through filters, but it's pretty cool when I see someone doing this that knows...
Sometimes it's... pretty clear.

Jukebox Heroes: Entropia Universe’s soundtrack

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Admittedly, not a lot of us think about Entropia Universe. Like, at all. Probably a lot of us don't even consider it an MMO...
We got it back, after all.

The Game Archaeologist: The Death of City of Heroes

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August 31st, 2012, was a Friday like any other. City of Heroes players were psyched for the upcoming Issue 24, which Paragon Studios had...

The Daily Grind: Do action-RPGs make for good MMO material?

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The second it was announced, Torchlight Frontiers skyrocketed to the top of my interest. I really wasn't expecting an MMO out of this franchise...

Federation 2, a text-based intergalactic trading game from the 1980s, has sunsetted

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While the common assumption about text-based MMOs is that they can and will last forever, the truth is that many of these are subject...

Battle Bards Episode 130: Oddballs 2

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While every Battle Bards episode is a cavalcade of strangeness, this week the team is ratcheting it up with the return of “Oddball” MMORPG...
Oh, please be all right.

Fallen Earth, APB, and Descent get a slick new GamersFirst site

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Little Orbit's acquisition of GamersFirst a while back is starting to pay dividends to its fans. The company pushed out a revamped GamersFirst website...

Stardew Valley’s iOS version is coming soon – but without multiplayer

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October 24th. That's pretty much all you need to know if you're (a) an owner of an Apple device, (b) have a fondness for this...
Online, offline, who cares?

Richard Garriott-signed copy of Shroud of the Avatar goes on sale

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Have you ever wanted to get your hands on a piece of video game memorabilia that was signed by not only a designer but...

The Daily Grind: How do you set up your MMO user interface?

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The other day I logged into Star Wars: The Old Republic for the first time in a while, and I once again felt jarred...
Have a free sword! Wait.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 190: SWTOR Unite!

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Justin and Bree discuss Mike Morhaime's exit from Blizzard, the launches of Lineage 2 Classic and MapleStory 2, Legends of Aria's early access, and Bless Online's F2P plans, plus MMO guilds, how WoW might someday end, what the #SWTORunite community effort is all about.

The MOP Up: Sony’s PlayStation 3 sunset apocalypse

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Sony's decision to shut down several online servers for some past PlayStation 3 games on October 25th is shaping up to be a sunset...

One Shots: Mercury sunrise

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"Like many, when Destiny 2 launched late last year, I played it for a few weeks, then put it away," said Rees Racer. "I...

1999’s Infantry Online has been revived and restored by its community

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Hands up: Did any of you play a game called Infantry Online back in the day? And by "back in the day," we mean...

Global Chat: Does Guild Wars 2’s newest episode reach for the stars?

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Guild Wars 2's newest living world episode seems to be grabbing the MMO community's attention in a way that the season so far hasn't....

The Daily Grind: What MMO plans do you have for the fall?

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With the snap of fall and change of the leaves, the season has taken a change as we go into the last four months...

Albion Online changes up the rules for guild warfare

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The drums of war in Albion Online beat for October 10th, when the Season 4 PvP patch arrives and everything you never knew about...

MassivelyOP’s first impressions of MapleStory 2, Nexon’s latest MMORPG

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It's fair to say that MapleStory always did appeal to an audience that was into a very specific look and feel. If chibi anime...

World of Warcraft outlines big azerite armor improvements

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It's the given truth that just about nobody -- including World of Warcraft's development team -- is happy with the state of Battle for...

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