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

Unpacking the Star Trek mission crate (with Star Trek Online)

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When it arrived, my administrative assistant in my day job -- who just so happens to be a die-hard Star Trek fan -- brought...

Wizard101’s Doctor Who event is bigger on the inside

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Someone over at KingsIsle is obviously a big Doctor Who fan, because Wizard101's current event is a thinly veiled homage to that sci-fi series....

DCUO’s spring event is a venomous poison

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Ah spring is in the air! The flowers are blooming! Trees are budding! People are dying! That's what you get for tailoring an entire...

Perfect Ten: MMOs with different (camera) perspectives

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By the time that World of Warcraft came on the scene in 2004, the MMORPG industry had already gravitated toward standard when it came...

Hi-Rez MOBA shooter Paladins heralds a May 8 launch date – check out the brand-new trailer

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The time has come. After beta testing across multiple platforms in front of 20 million players and establishing itself as the most-played new game...
Clockwork it.

Elder Scrolls Online players are salty about cash-shop and lockbox mounts

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The Elder Scrolls Online has a good reputation for offering a fair deal for accessing the game. But if ZeniMax is losing money on...

Path of Exile turns the temperature up on its ignite skills

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Path of Exile is a great game to indulge your inner pyromaniac in a safe, controlled fashion, and it's only going to be a...
It's very much like a swoop.

Star Wars: The Old Republic has freebies for its fake holiday

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When aliens discover the cratered ruins of our planet in the distant future and study the records from our civilization, they will undoubtedly come...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 168: MMOs all higgledy-piggledy

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Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.

World of Warcraft needs you to babysit again

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Oh great, you're here. We'll be out late, at least until 11, so make sure that the kids are in bed by 7:30 with...
Fly away, fugu fish!

Riders of Icarus restarts development, but Icarus Mobile is likely doomed

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Hope you weren't holding out any great hope for Icarus Mobile, the portable spin-off of Nexon's Riders of Icarus. MMO Culture is reporting that...

Jukebox Heroes: LOTRO’s Northern Mirkwood soundtrack

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One of the most pleasant surprises I experienced in a while came a week or so ago when Standing Stone Games announced that it...

Rumor: Daybreak may be building PlanetSide 3 and EverQuest 3, sunsetting Just Survive

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While Daybreak producers are spelling out their games' future, a now-deleted post over at Reddit by an alleged former employee of Daybreak Games purports to...

Comet crashes into Fortnite and launches season four

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Hope you didn't have any plans for the next week, because depending on where you were standing in Fortnite, you either have been pulverized...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO developer or community manager do you love?

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I sometimes think about how difficult it would be to work as an MMO developer or community manager. While there would be a certain...
Obscure

Stardew Valley’s multiplayer edition is finally in beta testing

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With word that Stardew Valley's multiplayer update is almost upon us, we only have one question: Which of you peasants will toil the rich...

Guild Wars blows out 13 candles on its birthday cake – were you there for its first?

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Travel back with us to April 2005, when an unknown and unproven studio known as ArenaNet decided to make a play at its own...

RIFT opens a progression test server

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What's better and more useful than one test server? If you're Trion Worlds, it's two test servers! No, the studio hasn't gone loco just...

Lineage II celebrates its anniversary and the spring harvest

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Dual events are vying for players' attention in NCsoft's long-running Lineage II. Can you believe that the fantasy MMORPG is now 14 years old?...
Heritage.

World of Warcraft previews two expansion races, nixes Strand of the Ancients battleground

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Feeling a little primal and savage? You'll be able to tap into that nature by rolling up one of the new Mag'har Orcs or...

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