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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Darkfall: Rise of Agon adds magical teleporting billboards
Progress continues to march in Darkfall: Rise of Agon, with a smallish content patch added to the game last week that added a special...
Shroud of the Avatar’s newest mine borrows from Greek mythology
If you fall into the trap of thinking of every fantasy mine as a dark cavern full of Temple of Doom-style trolley tracks, then...
Star Trek Online celebrates Christmas with giant nerf guns
No matter what the stardate, it's Christmas season for Star Trek fans, and that means a few things. For starters, it's time to dig...
Guild Wars 2 announces weapon contest winners, adds new in-game book interface
Remember that design-a-weapon contest that Guild Wars 2 was running last month? Well, it is all over now, and ArenaNet tallied up all of...
The Division’s Patch 1.8 is coming this week with free game modes and map expansion
The Division's long post-apocalyptic winter isn't over, not by a long shot. This week, Update 1.8 arrives to bring a whole bunch of free...
Hawaii state representative calls on game industry to self-regulate on lockboxes
With the rhetoric and discussion around video game lockboxes at a fever pitch, it has drawn the attention of at least one US congressperson...
Dark and Light opens master builder servers
One neat thing about survival sandboxes is that they seem to embrace a wider variety of rulesets than we typically see in most MMORPGs....
The MOP Up: Pocket PUBG (December 3, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Elder Scrolls Legends joins the fun in Clockwork City
Just like any younger brother who is taken with an older sibling, Elder Scrolls Legends is copying Elder Scrolls Online in an adorable attempt...
One Shots: Elves have a weeding problem
You may hold Elves in high esteem, but the truth is that they are bonafide slackers. They live forever and can't even be bothered...
Identity answers player questions, gives game overview
A trio of Identity's developers sat down for an extended question-and-answer session about what's happening with the creation of this virtual life simulator. The...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Sony joins Microsoft in giving out Marvel Heroes refunds
Even if Gazillion and Disney can't or won't do the right thing by their customers following the termination of Marvel Heroes, at least the...
Black Desert welcomes new toon Ran to the roster
Is there room for another character class at the Black Desert table? Scooch over and make room no matter what you think on this,...
The Daily Grind: When is the last time that an MMO sucked you in?
Here is something weird that has been happening to me lately during my gaming time: I've been really getting into Dungeons and Dragons Online...
Conan Exiles deals with bed bugs while bringing the Xbox and PC into parity
After consuming the recent Conan Exiles newsletter, we are concerned that the Funcom team is succumbing to early winter madness over in Norway. At...
Survived By arrives on Steam as its closed alpha progresses
The love child of bullet hell shooters and permadeath MMORPGs is now on Steam, and it's taking no prisoners. That's just not how it...
Shadow’s Kiss devs interview vampires as their Kickstarter nears finish line
Even though it's looking more like Christmas than Halloween around these parts, Shadow's Kiss is taking its Kickstarter all the way to the bank....
Camelot Unchained hypes Saturday Night Sieges, promises big announcements next month
Settle in, folks, because it's Camelot Unchained monthly newsletter day -- and that means plenty of good reading for those excited about this RvR...
EA caught in lie over Star Wars Battlefront II customization, brings lootbox madness to UFC 3
Among the controversy of EA's pay-to-win lockboxes in Star Wars Battlefront II emerges a rather reasonable question: Why didn't the studio create and use...
