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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Old school-style MMO Arcfall hits Steam early access
Craving some old school challenge in your MMORPG diet? You might want to try a helping of Arcfall, a game that's an intentional throwback...
Elder Scrolls Online reassures mainstream and solo gamers that MMOs aren’t scary
Do MMORPGs really have such an intimidating reputation in the gaming community these days that studios feel as though they need to mollycoddle prospects...
Global Chat: Is Ashes of Creation worth backing?
With all of the hullabaloo going on concerning Ashes of Creation and its Kickstarter campaign, a few bloggers are asking themselves whether or not...
Battle Bards Episode 98: Perfect World International
Perfect World — it’s not just a massive games publisher, it’s also an MMORPG! The team at Battle Bards timidly tiptoe into this unknown...
Echo of Soul celebrates its second anniversary with a pop quiz
Happy hemisphere birthday to Echo of Soul, which is marking the second anniversary of its NA and EU launch this month. And what better...
Valiance Online promises fans that it is ‘moving forward’
Fans that might look at Valiance Online's development chart and wonder when, oh when alpha will ever arrive are being treated to a pep...
Revelation Online promises German and French versions by this fall
Parlez-vous français? Du sprichst Deutsch? If so, a place is being made for you in Revelation Online.
The fantasy MMO announced today that French and...
Path of Exile doles out free Twitch cosmetics
If you're currently rocking a Twitch Prime membership, you're eligible for a passel of purple goodies in Path of Exile. Starting next week and running...
Exclusive Wild West Online interview on PvE servers, budget, and Red Dead Redemption 2
Here at Massively OP, there's nothing we like to hear more than word that new, bold, and big MMORPGs are in development. Over the...
Overwatch’s D.Va lands in Heroes of the Storm
D.Va fans now have a choice of two games to get their cute girl-in-a-mech fix. The Overwatch fan favorite made her way over to...
Black Desert Online’s Striker class is coming next week
With fists of fury and palms of power, the Striker is kick-punching his way into Black Desert Online next week.
The fantasy sandbox's newest class...
Ashes of Creation’s very good, totally tubular, quite excellent day
For Ashes of Creation, May 16th will go down as one of its best days. For starters, the title was featured on Kickstarter's front...
Crowfall fans create mix-and-match class survey
After the astonishing reveal yesterday that Crowfall is decoupling its races and classes to offer more build freedom, what will you make? This burning...
Guild Wars 2 drops extensive class balance patch
Players logging into Guild Wars 2 yesterday might have found that their classes were changed quite a lot, thanks to a rather extensive balance...
Marvel Heroes Omega soft launches on PS4 next week, Xbox One June 20
Comic book adventure is coming to consoles next week. The reworked, revamped, and renamed Marvel Heroes Omega is kicking off its console open beta...
Wild West Online cancels Kickstarter and early access plans, secures funding for a full launch
Remember all of those plans that Wild West Online had for a Kickstarter campaign this month and a Steam early access release? Well, plans...
The Daily Grind: What makes an MMO community toxic?
I sincerely do not envy the task of MMO studios and community managers when it comes to wrangling their crowd of diverse, fickle, and...
Osiris: New Dawn adds flares, talks weather patterns
So what about that weather we're having in Osiris: New Dawn? OK, it's unlikely that anyone will actually utter that as a conversation starter,...
Project Genom adds day/night cycle, says longest programming tasks are almost done
"The longest and the most difficult programming tasks are almost completed," crowed the team over at Project Genom. In this week's newsletter, the sandbox's...
Star Trek Online brings Season 13 to consoles next month, teases T6 light cruisers
Cryptic's console crowd must know by know that it takes a month, give or take, for a PC update to make its way over to...
