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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Ashes of Creation sets its sights on crowdfunding stretch goals
After smashing expectations by completely funding its $750,000 Kickstarter campaign in the first 12 hours, Ashes of Creation wants to keep this crowdfunding momentum going...
SWTOR sweetens the rewards for Iokath dailies, preps double XP event
Today's patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic aims to improve the quality of the new Iokath daily mission hub in both performance and...
Hearthstone gives away free packs to celebrate 70M players
It's a momentous week for Hearthstone, which announced that it has now seen 70 million players log into the game across all of its...
LOTRO confirms a multi-boss raid for its Mordor expansion
When it comes to Mordor, is there any zone better suited to large, epic endgame fights? Yet when Lord of the Rings Online players...
Tale of Toast’s cute aesthetics hide old-school challenge
Don't judge a book by its cover, they say, and certainly don't go making assumptions about the difficulty levels of MMORPGs by how gritty...
The Sims Online emulator might be launching soon
In just two weeks, a long-forgotten social MMORPG might be making a comeback. The team behind FreeSO, a Sims Online emulator, announced on Twitter yesterday...
How Shroud of the Avatar’s night sky impacts gameplay
Other than for providing an atmospheric backdrop to night questing, starry skyboxes in MMOs don't really mean or do much. This is not the...
Massively OP Interview: Ashes of Creation on a new way to MMO
Today, Ashes of Creation takes a big plunge into an all-or-nothing Kickstarter campaign. Over the past few months, the MMO seemed to come out...
City of Heroes fans party hard for the game’s 13th birthday
Last Friday evening, the torch was raised once again for City of Heroes. Despite the game being offline for a half-decade now, fans from...
Chronicles of Elyria gives extra goodies to its Kickstarter backers
Did you help to fund Chronicles of Elyria when it ran its Kickstarter campaign almost a year ago? The team at Soulbound Studios would...
Superdata report shows Overwatch slipping, Hearthstone rebounding
Looking back at March's digital sales, the industry was up 15% year-over-year from 2016, Superdata Research reports. Mobile was the largest area of growth,...
The MOP Up: Warface meets Crysis (April 30, 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: Through the portal?
The other day, Bree was complaining about how so many screenshots from modern MMORPGs suffer from a bland and monochrome palette. Coming to the...
LOTRO Legendarium: 10th anniversary interview with Standing Stone’s Rob Ciccolini
As Lord of the Rings Online players revel in the varied activities of this year's 10th anniversary celebration, the crew at the newly formed...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most fun you ever had in an MMO tavern?
Ah, the RPG tavern! To me, it's the cornerstone of what role-playing games are about: The chance meetings, the preparation for adventure, the gallery...
Hover sparks a cel-shaded parkour revolution
That meanie oppressive future government! Always keeping the people under its foot and draining every penny from the masses for its insatiable neon budget!...
World of Tanks overhauls its matchmaking system
Calling Patch 9.18 "one of the most significant ever" for World of Tanks, Wargaming overhauled the game's matchmaking system this week as part of...
PSA: The Culling is free to try this weekend
Brutal deathmatch arena game The Culling has temporarily reduced the financial barrier to entry, allowing anyone to try it out for free this weekend.
From...
Overwatch hits 30M players, makes Chinese free-to-play test plans
Blizzard has just announced that Overwatch has just counted 30 million players. That's buyers, mind you, as the game is buy-to-play.
However, a limited free-to-play Overwatch is...
See the Sea of Thieves devs become tourists in their own game
Just because you make a game doesn't mean that you are an automatic expert in it. In the latest Sea of Thieves developer gameplay...
