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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See real life through the lens of an MMORPG
Have you ever heard of this YouTube channel called Casually Explained? It's been growing in popularity thanks to the creator's deadpan wit and his...
Dauntless recruits bold and beautiful warriors for its alpha program
Will you be among the first members of the public to pick up your oversized weapon and go monster hunting in Phoenix Labs' co-op...
Meet City of Titans’ six heroic archetypes
Thanks to some website spring cleaning, City of Titans made a previously hidden article visible to the masses. This particular page outlines the upcoming...
Marvel Heroes quietly dishes out compensation for December whoopsie
This one is going to take a little explaining. Apparently, last December someone made a mistake on Gazillion's side where Marvel Heroes players ended...
Skyforge sends you to the moon to fight in low-G
One of the advantages of creating a sci-fi MMORPG is that there's little stopping you if you want to send your players to other...
Neverwinter breaks out Steam trading cards
Did you have a trading card collection when you were a kid? I went along with the crowd buying baseball cards, even though I...
World of Warcraft’s Patch 7.2 is coming next week
The hour is nearly upon us and we, we are not prepared. But we are pretty eager! This afternoon, World of Warcraft announced that...
TERA sweetens its subscription package
Just because an MMORPG is free-to-play doesn't mean that the studio really wants you to, y'know, play for free. Over the past year or...
Crowfall reflects on its ‘unrelenting series of updates’
It's a little hard to believe, but we've now been watching Crowfall develop since late 2014, going from a teaser announcement through a successful...
LOTRO fights the lag monster of Update 20
It stands to reason that Lord of the Rings Online players are pretty thrilled this week to be exploring the outskirts of Mordor, but...
Riders of Icarus increases the level cap, adds rainforest zone in Corruption of Light, now live
Exciting things are afoot at Riders of Icarus, as the year-old MMO rolled out its Corruption of Light update with plenty of new content...
Perfect Ten: Memories of an Anarchy Online noob
My initial foray into MMORPGs was, to put it nicely, quite ungraceful. I wasn't even aware that they were a thing until about the...
The Secret World welcomes new community manager, should talk about relaunch plans soon
Ever since finding out in late February that Funcom has plans to relaunch The Secret World with a new business model and redesigned combat,...
EVE Online’s huge stations will soon mine entire moons
That's no moon, it's a space station... that's mining the innards out of that moon.
It is, of course, one of EVE Online's "upwell structures,"...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #18-13
Last week we were off to a great start as we listened to the first batch of player-voted favorite MMO themes. As I said...
Diablo III finally brings seasons to consoles
Remember how Blizzard told us that it just wasn't going to implement its Diablo III season campaigns for the game's console versions? A year...
Neverwinter proclaims the Day of the Dungeon Master
The dice are back, baby! A while ago, Cryptic paid homage to Neverwinter's tabletop roots by incorporating an Inception-like pen-and-paper experience into the MMORPG....
Perfect World sees mobile sales jump up in 2016
When it comes to financial reports, there's always one word that every investor wants to see: growth. And for those that read Perfect World's...
Eternal Crusade triples daily active users after free-to-play switch
Thanks to this past week's introduction of a free-to-play model, Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade saw a massive jump in its player population. The team reports...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO gave you the longest honeymoon period?
We all know how delightful that "new MMO smell" is, particularly when it's a particularly exciting title that you were anticipating for a long...
