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
We all fly up here.

Neverwinter and Star Trek Online distract you with events

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Need a diversion to keep you from getting too productive in your work or school life? Perfect World Entertainment is here for you, because...

Pantheon’s visionary perception system explained

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You might have heard that Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is being developed to reflect an older era of MMORPG design and to rethink...
Liches do it with nothing.

Heroes of the Storm goes overboard with Kel’Thuzad video docs

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Watch out if you are wandering into Heroes of the Storm territory this month, as a super-nerdcano is erupting thanks to the debut of...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that changed their names

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Names and titles fascinate me. While sometimes they have no deeper meaning than to sound pleasant and be memorable, a label can indicate purpose,...
Close enough.

Hearthstone nerfs staple cards to save them

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Sometimes you have to hurt the cards you love in order to save them from a premature death. This is the logic behind the nerf...
I'm so disappointed in what we've done with robots.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds passes 10M sold

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This year's online juggernaut is not, surprisingly enough, anything made by Valve, Blizzard, or Riot, but instead one stemmed from the mind of a...
Gothier than thou.

Underage Overwatch player lands six-figure e-sports contract

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He may not be old enough to vote, but 17-year-old Jay Won is already making more money than you. Probably. Won, an Overwatch player who...
We're here. We're queer. And it is all right.

WildStar doubles-down on housing with today’s Homecoming update

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Don't change that channel, kiddos: It's time for the WildStar patch show! On today's episode, "Homecoming," the planet of Nexus gets overtaken by redecoration...

The Daily Grind: What do you think of World of Warcraft’s Shadows of Argus so far?

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It's been a little over a week since World of Warcrafteers (that's a term, right?) jettisoned the world of Azeroth for that of Argus,...

Dragon Nest NA operator takes over SEA branch

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If you've followed its history over the past half-decade or so, you might have noticed that the action-MMO Dragon Nest hasn't had the easiest...
All right, boring is technically an answer.

World of Warcraft opens the 7.3 faucet once more

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Those already done with everything that the initial flood of World of Warcraft's Patch 7.3 had to offer can stop grousing about being bored...

War Thunder adds Emperor’s Garden map, postpones War Diaries storyline

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With a rousing game of Wingball wrapping up over the holiday weekend, War Thunder turns its attention to the next big addition to the...

A mechanical wonderland awaits in Elder Scrolls Online’s next DLC

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If cogs, gears, and gadgets get your motor running, then you are going to be revving loudly when Elder Scrolls Online's next DLC arrives. Update...
We could have planned better.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 134: You are my… Destiny

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, DDO, Guild Wars 2, Wander, ARK, Funcom, Destiny 2, Cloud Pirates, Perpetuum, EVE Lifeblood, Villagers & Heroes, and helping out with Harvey, with mailbag questions on favorite MMO moments and finding a good guild.

TERA M brings some (but not all) of your classes and races to mobile

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In case it slipped your attention when we reported on it last month, TERA is indeed receiving a full-fledged mobile spin-off. The game, called...

Worlds Adrift responds to player PvP feedback

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Tuning PvP during a game's testing process has to be a thankless task, but the team at Worlds Adrift are up to the challenge....

How one MMO flash game racked up 75 million players

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The Bard once famously wrote, "There are more MMOs in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." And we are...

PAX West 2017: Watch the full Ashes of Creation panel

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This past weekend at PAX West, Ashes of Creation made sure to drop a few announcement bombs on its community that showed up to...
Animals! I don'

Wurm Online works on becoming better-looking and better-performing

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This past Saturday, Wurm Online pumped out a small 4.0.6 client release. With improved performance and better lighting, the patch serves as a prelude...

The Black Death looks back at history while Osiris: New Dawn releases the Architect update

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At this point, we are really starting to wonder if The Black Death is a history thesis that ran away from the student and...

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