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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Stardew Valley finally rolls out its multiplayer mode
After a long, long build up to this moment, it is finally here: Stardew Valley has multiplayer, it's live, and you can enjoy it...
MMO Business Roundup: Steam activity in decline, Sea of Thieves hits 5M players, MapleStory M downloaded 3M times
Time for a quick-and-dirty roundup of some industry news that appeals to the numerologists among our reading audience!
We'll start with a look at Steam,...
Riot Games continues to tease the possibility of an MMORPG
What is Riot Games up to these days? The League of Legends studio is intentionally stirring up community interest over its future plans, first...
Ex-World of Warcraft Lead Chris Metzen urges fans ‘don’t panic’ over the current storyline
It's been a fun week watching the World of Warcraft community freak, rage, and despair over the latest chapter of the Battle for Azeroth...
Secret World Legends adds super-challenging faction missions
It's not quite a full-fledged content update, but no Secret World fan has ever complained at the addition of new missions to the game....
Global Chat: The ‘We Don’t Play World of Warcraft’ Club
What do you do when you don't play World of Warcraft but everyone else all around you does and won't stop talking about it...
The Daily Grind: Is Fallout 76 an MMO?
We all know that the definition of "MMORPG" and "MMO" have been stretched, twisted, and interpreted in vastly different ways over the years based...
Seed gives its first development update since January
Hot on the heels of its pre-alpha teaser, the sandbox space colony MMO Seed is celebrating the progress that it has made in 2018...
Crowfall demonstrates the glory of its seasons
It might not be a nice round number (or decimal point), but Crowfall's Update 5.7 promises to be one of the most significant the...
LOTRO’s new Christmas quest is now live
Looking to keep out of trouble in Middle-earth? Lord of the Rings Online is field-testing a brand-new Christmas quest for the next week --...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 180: Superstoked for heroic MMOs
Justin and Bree discuss the influence of City of Heroes (Paragon Chat, SEGS, Valiance Online, Ship of Heroes, and City of Titans), plus WoW, No Man's Sky, SWGemu, Camelot Unchained, STO, CCP's new MMO, and Rend, with a mailbag entry on comments negativity.
EA adds new Origin Access premier membership that includes Anthem head start
Do you trust EA with your money? Want to do so on a regular basis? Then you are set up and primed for the...
NCsoft is working on an Aion-related ‘next-generation’ MMORPG
No matter what your feelings may be toward NCsoft, it is great to see that the developer and publisher continues to greenlight MMORPGs instead...
World of Warcraft hotfixes leveling to make it easier
No, Blizzard hasn't figured out just yet how it broke leveling with Patch 8.0, but at least the studio is taking steps to institute...
Shroud of the Avatar works on global visual improvements, throws Shooter Jennings album release party
No, your eyesight hasn't just gotten way better than last week; it is just that Shroud of the Avatar is starting to look a...
Allods Online’s Ascension trailer promises a content-packed future
There's a huge Allods Online on the horizon, so you're going to need to get your body and mind ready for it lest you...
TERA decides on mass console server merges for August
The console boom for TERA looks like it is over. After cruising to an impressive two million players on Xbox One and PlayStation 4...
Paragon Chat now features City of Heroes supergroup base building, complete with import
If you're wondering what that sound is echoing over the horizon, it's just every City of Heroes fan freaking out about the return of...
London Spitfire topped this weekend’s Overwatch League world championship as second season franchise buy-ins climb
The Overwatch League's first season grand finals have wrapped up, and the London Spitfire has emerged as the world victor. The Spitfire shut out...
H1Z1 officially launches on PlayStation 4 next month
The hopes, dreams, and (most importantly) finances of Daybreak go with H1Z1 as it officially launches on PlayStation 4 this August 7th. The original...
