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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Scale walls and cliffs with Conan Exiles’ climbing system
That tall wall or cliff face that in other video games would represent an impassable barrier is nothing more than an adult-sized playground in...
E3 2017: State of Decay 2 targets spring 2018 launch
Call it State of Delay 2.
Players are going to have to wait a little bit longer to get their next hit of Undead Labs'...
E3 2017: Sea of Thieves delays release to early 2018
While it should come as no shock that Sea of Thieves was going to fail to make its projected spring 2017 release window, especially...
Trion Worlds brings Joe Brogno on as ArcheAge’s new community manager
There's a new sheriff on ArcheAge's forums, and his fearsome name is Muzzy.
Trion Worlds announced Joe Brogno, otherwise known as "Muzzy" to the studio's...
E3 2017: EA BioWare reveals Anthem, a shared-world Destiny clone
Move over Destiny; BioWare is about to take a shot at your market share with its newly revealed Anthem.
Anthem is a "shared-world action-RPG" in...
The MOP Up: EVE Valkyrie lowers its price point (June 11, 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...
CD Projekt Red claims Cyberpunk 2077 design docs are being held hostage by thieves
CD Projekt Red, the maker of the acclaimed Witcher RPG series, claimed that cyber thieves have made off with "internal files" and "early designs"...
Global Chat: Getting a hit of that EverQuest nostalgia
Ahh... smell that? Smells like a new batch of EverQuest nostalgia, served up to us as a fresh progression server. For some of the...
Fairy Tail brings the popular anime series online this summer
Is there nothing quite as thrilling and daunting as when your favorite IP is made into a video game? Fans of both the Japanese...
One Shots: Walk of shame
From Zulika Mi-Nam's Adventures in Tale of Toast:
Log into a game to do some play testing.
"Hey, look at these cutsie graphics and...
The Game Archaeologist: Phantasy Star Online
The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...
Project Gorgon improves storage and guild systems
One complaints that Project Gorgon testers have expressed during the alpha is that inventory and storage is both limiting and cluttered. The small dev...
The Daily Grind: Do we deserve better damage models in MMOs?
For all of the changes, iterations, and evolutions that MMORPGs have undergone over the years, it still feels like we're back in the 1990s...
RIFT doubles all advancement this weekend
It's hard to decide whether double XP weekends in MMOs are a blessing or a cruel prank. On one hand, hey, faster advancement and...
H1Z1 tweaks armor in latest update, shows off new stronghold system
Sometimes you have to ask yourself why developers fix bugs that are clearly awesome. And so it is with H1Z1: King of the Kill's...
Defiance heats up summer with a new high-powered event
We may be past the days of the almighty transmedia synergy, but Defiance is not ready to give up its penchant for world-changing events....
Secret World Legends offers up ‘deep dive’ on weapons
After a week or so of teasing the different weapon specialties on Twitter for Secret World Legends, the crew at Funcom has finally released...
EVE Online players own over a quadrillion ISK
EVE Online is often joked about as being "spreadsheets in space," but that doesn't exclude bar charts and other types of graphs in participating...
World of Warcraft Patch 7.2.5 is coming on Tuesday; here’s Blizzard’s survival guide
You only have one more weekend to wait before experiencing the next chapter of World of Warcraft's saga: Blizzard has announced that Patch 7.2.5 will release...
Rumor: Is Blizzard working on another shooter game – or an Overwatch expansion?
Strange as it is be to consider, but Blizzard might not be solely satisfied with the rampant success of Overwatch in the shooter market.
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