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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MMO Hype Train: My growing obsession with Stars Reach
As much as I respect Raph Koster for all of his passion and pioneering of MMORPGs, I've rarely crossed paths with his games, notably...
Warframe’s Tennobaum gifting event this year benefits Toys for Tots
As it has for the last many years, Warframe studio Digital Extremes has kicked off its Tennobaum event, prompting gift-giving for the benefit of...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025
One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...
Path of Exile 2 shares all 12 of its early access ascendancy classes
With Path of Exile 2's pre-download starting tomorrow and the early access launch coming on the 6th, fans of this online ARPG franchise have...
Lord of the Rings Online opens up Mines of Moria on the 64-bit progression servers
For Lord of the Rings Online players on the Mordor and Angmar servers, it's 2008 all over again. That's because SSG is unlocking the...
The Daily Grind: How would you have gamed differently in 2024?
Our MOP interns brought me my morning coffee and the dire news that this is, indeed, the last month of the year. For lo!...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 496: Go ahead Corepunk, make our day
Justin and Bree discuss Corepunk's early access, Ubisoft's cozy MMO, and Throne and Liberty's spear, with adventures in WoW Retail and Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on MMOs we bounce off of and the allure of lifetime subs.
World of Tanks holds movie star Jason Statham at cannon-point for a new collaboration
I can't wait until I'm a famous B-list action movie star and can sell out to all sorts of weird companies. But for now,...
Terraria delays its next content update until the new year to avoid crunch
Some slightly disappointing but not unforeseen news from Terraria's quarters this past week, as the studio announced that it's going to be delaying its...
PvP shooter Marvel Rivals gears up for this week’s launch with a new trailer
Can NetEase and Marvel Games break into the coveted Overwatch 2 team shooter market? We're about to find out, as Marvel Rivals is heading...
Pantheon lists its 22 early access launch servers opening on December 13
With launch day for Pantheon's early access coming in just a couple weeks on December 13th, potential players are running out of time to...
RuneScape’s Christmas Village returns for 2024
It turns out that a large swath of RuneScape players have indeed been nice this year, because Papa Jagex is giving them the keys...
The MOP Up: New World’s deadly laser turkey
"What started as an office joke about a giant turkey with laser eyes turned into an actual world boss when one of our AI...
One Shots: The billiards of the universe
The irony of going on lengthy adventures to exotic settings in MMOs is that your character usually doesn't bring a smartphone to take pictures...
LOTRO Legendarium: 10 additional helpful tips for your LOTRO journey
Every so often in this space, I like to share helpful tips and tricks to make your Lord of the Rings Online experience more...
Project Gorgon’s latest update makes it easier and better to toot your own horn
Sing a song of a Project Gorgon update, as any patch for this quirky MMO is music to our ears. A small patch arrived...
The Daily Grind: What MMO meme should be retired in 2024?
Jumping back into WoW Classic with the new fresh start servers has been quite the amazing (and nostalgic!) experience. But I was taken aback...
No Man’s Sky is running a relaxed ‘redux’ expedition set for the holiday season
Feeling a bit stressed and frazzled about the upcoming craziness of December as you fall further behind on gaming projects for the year? No...
World of Warships sails to the North Pole with this year’s holiday patch
How do you transform the drab steel gray of a battleship into something festive enough to gain the approval of Fleet Admiral Santa Claus?...
Once Human cooks up a Thanksgiving mobile closed beta test
Just in time for Thanksgiving is a delicious addition to Once Human, as the horror shooter commenced the closed beta test for the game's mobile...
