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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Sea of Thieves’ technical alpha is up to 39k testers, but PC crowd is still waiting to be invited
As Sea of Thieves sails across the choppy waters of its technical alpha tests, the team makes a point to occasionally descending the rigging...
Eternal Crusade unleashes an Ork waaagh! campaign
If there's one thing that has always been associated with the Warhammer franchise, it's the terrible and overwhelming crusades that its greenskins occasionally unleash....
Elite Dangerous rolls back background sim data due to errors
Keeping with the tradition that politics doesn't tend to make one's life better, Elite Dangerous has had to rollback its background sim data to...
SWTOR changes up producers, teases 2017 road map
Over at BioWare, the frisky employees have tagged in a new producer to handle the title. The result is that Ben Irving is out...
RIFT, Trove, and ArcheAge start accepting Razer zGold
There's a new way to pay in Trion Worlds' games, and that way is Razer zGold.
Trion announced this week that all of its games,...
Dark Horse teams up with CCP for EVE Online frigate schematic book
Are you 1337 enough for EVE Online?
The internet spaceships game is accepting pre-orders for a new book featuring the schematics of its vessels. CCP...
Valiance Online is developing stunning special effects
When Valiance Online puts out its next playable alpha build, it may just be the visual effects that will send players jumping up and...
Retro-themed Kingdom of Loot goes into early access
Are you a sucker for pixel art and retro JRPGs? Then here's a nice little treat for you: Kingdom of Loot will launch tomorrow in early...
Revelation Online’s Faerie Funland amusement park is open for business in Stardust
After a long day of annihilating species and running FedEx quests for ungrateful NPCs, one needs a stress-relieving break. For this, Revelation Online invites...
Battle Bards Episode 96: SWTOR expansions
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”
With those words, you know you’re in for a rollicking good adventure — and some...
Dauntless will feature controller support, explains free-to-play business model
How rock and roll is the upcoming co-op monster hunting game Dauntless? You don't even have to use a keyboard and mouse if you...
Albion Online infographic reveals a massacre of rabbits
Just in time for the Easter weekend is news of a horrific and widespread slaughter of innocent little bunny rabbits in Albion Online.
This comes...
WildStar’s double XP event returns this weekend
Saddle up, cupcake, because you're about to experience the fast lane in WildStar!
Carbine announced yesterday that is has another Double XP X-Plosion event coming...
Crowfall shows off gender-alternative variants of the Assassin and Druid
Now that the Crowfall team has revealed most of the core archetypes that will come in the launch game, the devs are turning their...
World of Warcraft Patch 7.2.5 includes a time-travel quest, transmog competition, and Black Temple timewalking
Players who have already wrung out every drop of entertainment that World of Warcraft's Patch 7.2 had to offer might be wondering "what's next?"...
Star Trek Online announces the end of STO Gateway
One of Star Trek Online's lesser-used features is about to be chucked into a black hole, never to be seen again.
On the official forums,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the meaning behind your MMO name?
Here's a light and fluffy question to kick off our morning just right: What is the meaning behind your character name or names in...
Project Gorgon literally brews up something special
BEER!
Now that we've got your attention, let us point you to Project Gorgon and the latest development to come out of this ambitious and...
Amazon Game Studios changes Breakaway following alpha feedback, adds shadow huntress Jarra
Cast your mind back to Christmas carols and unfortunate egg nog binges of late 2016, and you might recall that Amazon Games Studios was...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 112: Heroic measures
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, Black Desert, EVE Fanfest, LOTRO, WoW, and GW2, with reader mail on MMO dress-up and City of Heroes successors.
