Justin Olivetti
Jukebox Heroes: Music from Destiny 2, LOTRO, Absolver, Black Desert, and Champions Online
Apologies for being extensively absent from this column over the last few months! Every day the Massively OP offices are deluged with fan mail...
Combat and character progression comes to Dogma: Eternal Night
The night unfurls before you and reveals itself once more. The small dev team behind the vampire MMO Dogma: Eternal Night put out a...
Overwatch escorts players to the dusty and dangerous Junkertown
From the moon to Mad Max, Overwatch is keeping its playerbase on its toes as to the next destination for its endless battles. This...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 136: Westward ho!
Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, Star Citizen, EVE Online, Black Desert, Phantasy Star Online 2, FFXIV, DDO, Neverwinter, Ultima Online, and of course Guild Wars 2, with mailbag entries on Star Citizen's monetization and solid free-to-play side MMOs.
Chronicles of Elyria wraps up its PAX jousting jaunt
It might not have involved fluttering about on the back of a well-trained ostrich, but Chronicles of Elyria's jousting minigame did well enough for...
AdventureQuest 3D survives Hurricane Irma, embraces Talk Like a Pirate Day
You're probably well aware that today is that holiest of geek holidays, Talk Like a Pirate Day. AdventureQuest 3D is certainly not ignoring it;...
LOTRO’s Ugrukhor isn’t too happy with the state of affairs in Mordor
The power vacuum created after the fall of Sauron in Middle-earth has wide-spread ramifications for Mordor (the country) and Mordor (the expansion). In its...
Shroud of the Avatar stuffs in more dragons, preps for Halloween
Shroud of the Avatar's Release 46 is right around the corner, and when it arrives, so do the dragons. For the patch, the team...
Hearthstone classic card nerf patch arrives
Get ready to adjust the meta once more, as today's Hearthstone patch pronounces several basic and classic cards guilty of being too useful and...
Fortnite accidentally adds then removes crossplatform Xbox One/PS4 play
Update: Aww, nuts. Epic has already disabled it, calling it a "configuration issue" and bug.
Bet you've never actually ridden a physical lockbox from an...
Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas server goes into early access
Every voyage has a beginning, and for Puzzle Pirates' newest server, the maiden voyage began this past week.
It's called Dark Seas, and it's a...
Dark and Light vows to squash early access bugs
Early access or no, players expect their games to work right when they're shelling out money for them. The developers of the reworked Dark...
Asheron’s Call emulator lead explains what went down with the cease-and-desist
What are lawyers good for? Pouring lemon juice on the open wounds of an MMO community desperately trying to hold on to the remnant...
Take a tour of Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City, arriving on the PTS this week
Excited about Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming foray into the Clockwork City? This mechanical metropolis is coming "a little later this year," offering a new...
The Hive Leader looks at Absolver and Legends of Equestria
Have 10 minutes or so and want some serious, hard-hitting analysis of a pair of online RPGs? You best go elsewhere, because we are...
The MOP Up: PlayerUnknown’s Battleground and the fog of war (September 17, 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...
One Shots: A bridge too far
One more bridge. That's what she kept telling me, even though I cautioned her that sooner or later our luck would run out. She...
Dauntless delays open beta to early 2018, shares development roadmap
Let's cut to the chase: There's a new roadmap out for Dauntless' future development, and that roadmap includes an announcement concerning the transition from...
Whatever happened to Black Gold, Order and Chaos Online, and Eden Eternal?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, "Whatever happened to that game?" With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...
The Daily Grind: Do you like MMO quests with fail conditions?
In my recent forays into Dungeons and Dragons Online, I was forcibly reminded just how different this game in comparison of your standard MMORPG....