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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Order and Chaos asks gamer moms for their stories
Order and Chaos, everyone's default generic mobile MMO suggestion since 2011, became surprisingly vocal following this past Sunday's Mother's Day. Gameloft took the time to...
Shroud of the Avatar works on endgame storyline
Will Shroud of the Avatar finish fleshing out its main storyline in time for this summer's official release? It might be a photo finish,...
Skara stages a fight on a mountaintop
When you think of locales for epic showdowns, what do you picture? The Tonys? The prairie grasslands of Nebraska? Tenth street in the Bronx?...
The next era of Kickstarter may be starting
Is Kickstarter dead? With Ashes of Creation's incredible success this spring and several other MMO projects still attempting at drawing in that sweet crowdfunding...
Paragon enters a new ‘Phase’ with its latest update
If it's a fictional girl with purple hair, you just know you're in for some carefully supervised rebelliousness and attitude! Last week, Paragon introduced...
Ashes of Creation answers questions on progression, music, and (setting) forest fires
Remember kids, only devs can prevent virtual forest fires! And it's probably a good thing that they do because apparently there are some Ashes...
EVE Online players blow up a $6,000 spaceship
Ever have the dark desire to see $6,000 get obliterated right before your very eyes?
A coordinated team of EVE Online players baited a Vanquisher...
The MOP Up: Life is Feudal’s building sim (May 14, 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...
Identity announces SpatialOS integration, delays town square module
It's time to play catch-up on another interesting indie MMORPG, Identity. You may remember this as the contemporary life simulator sandbox that has raised...
One Shots: MMOs are serious business
As we all well know, MMORPGs are a Serious Business indeed. We must treat them reverently and with our utmost due diligence as we...
Ashes of Creation meets Underrealm stretch goal, eyes $2M in crowdfunding
With well over two weeks to go in its Kickstarter campaign, Ashes of Creation has already outpaced similar efforts from Chronicles of Elyria ($1.36M...
The Game Archaeologist: When Hellgate London got Flagshipped
It seems that it really wasn't too long ago that I was filling in the time between night classes by boning up on video...
The Daily Grind: Was The Sims Online a good idea done badly?
As a gamer, I have many regrets that certain projects never came to fruition or the ones that did ended up not being quite...
NetEase has a smashing good first quarter 2017 thanks to mobile sales and Hearthstone
Chinese operator, developer, and publisher NetEase posted its Q1 2017 financial report this week, and the news is quite good for the company. NetEase...
Dual Universe hits another stretch goal, shows seamless interplanetary travel
Thanks to pledges through its website, Dual Universe recently crossed the €650,000 line and hit another stretch goal. Now the game will include combat constructs,...
Shroud of the Avatar stops supporting DX9
Hope Shroud of the Avatar players weren't too attached to DX9, because the API collection is now being exorcised from the upcoming MMO. This...
Neverwinter to be part of D&D’s June story reveal event
Wizards of the Coast is putting out the call for streamers, movers, and shakers to assemble in Seattle, WA on June 2nd and 3rd...
Broke Protocol is Minecraft meets Grand Theft Auto
If you took Grand Theft Auto and molded it into the visual style of Minecraft, would it have crowd appeal? Cylinder Studios sure hopes...
Microsoft is working on a secret VR MMO
Microsoft and MMORPGs haven't had the best of relationship in history, with the company approving and then canceling several promising games over the past...
Virtual world creator Improbable receives $502M investment from SoftBank
Here's another reminder that we really shouldn't take our eyes off of Improbable Worlds, even for a second. The five-year-old software company, which is...
