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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LOTRO Legendarium: Heading into the Wastes as update 20 advances
If all goes well, within a few days the Lord of the Rings Online community will be getting its first glimpse of Mordor with...
The Daily Grind: What do you do when an MMO dungeon run goes bad?
While I am generally for quick and fun group dungeon runs in MMORPGs, what I dread are those runs that end up going sour...
WildStar’s Jen Ortiz leaves Carbine
WildStar is down another high-profile member of its development team this week with the loss of Carbine Senior Product Manager Jen Ortiz.
On Twitter Friday,...
AdventureQuest 3D will launch this October after a mega-patch
Following a year of open beta testing, the cross-platform AdventureQuest 3D will launch on October 13th, 2017. Just prior to that launch, however, the...
Life is Feudal is shaping up to be a fine-looking MMO
Now that Life is Feudal has turned on the power to its closed beta program, more players than ever before are getting to see...
Dauntless wants you to express yourself through fashion and flares
Even hulking, skilled, or savvy beast hunters have a weak spot, and that weak spot is the inner need to preen and show off...
You’ll need to put in about 20 hours in Albion Online to become competitive in PvP
As Albion Online barrels toward a summer release, the crew took to Reddit yesterday for a marathon AMA session to tackle any pressing community...
Sea of Thieves discuss playtest experiences – but still no release date in sight
What's going on right now with the piratey Sea of Thieves? The game is currently in its technical alpha (the best kind of alpha...
Revelation Online players accuse the game of pay-to-win tactics
Don't look now, but the ugly form of pay-to-win might be slouching its way into Revelation Online.
On the forums, players have accused My.com of...
Fan creates an Asheron’s Call D&D sourcebook
Asheron's Call is dead; long live Asheron's Call!
While the long-running fantasy MMO went offline at the end of January, one fan is looking to...
EverQuest turns 18 years old, throws birthday bash with free heroic characters for everyone
One of the most famous and longest-lived MMORPGs is celebrating its 18th birthday today. Back on this date in 1999, EverQuest released to a...
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases the Dragonborn race as Update 35 goes live
For some people, it's not enough to just exist in a virtual world with dragons and occasionally fight against them; they want to become...
Aion’s cities come under assault with this week’s 5.3 patch
Fleets of enemy dredgion ships are fast approaching Aion's capitol cities, and players are being called to rally in defense of their homeland. As...
Pantheon attempts to woo the Kickstarter community with its progress
It's no secret that Pantheon and Kickstarter haven't had the best of relationships, what with the game's crowdfunding campaign failing to fund back in the...
Blizzard seeks $8.5M from cheat software company Bossland
It's all fun and games... until you start selling software to help players cheat, then it's all lawsuits and court dates.
Blizzard is asking the...
Global Chat: Fare thee well, Landmark
Believe it or not, there were actually people who played and enjoyed Landmark -- and were saddened to see it taken offline. To kick...
Battle Bards Episode 94: Drakensang Online
Do you find the German language to be inherently terrifying? Then you’re going to love the soundtrack to this German MMORPG! Actually, it’s quite lovely...
Hearthstone debuts Un’Goro web series starring Community’s Danny Pudi
Hearthstone's next big expansion is coming in April, but Blizzard doesn't want to wait to get the festivities going. The studio released the first...
Crowfall’s community tries its hand at building for the first time
Crowfall's campaign worlds won't exist merely to be shot, burned, and sliced to ribbons. There's going to be a healthy building component as well,...
Sony is going to let you access PlayStation 4 games through your PC
Don't let the lack of a PlayStation 4 in your house stop you from, y'know, playing the console's games. On Monday, Sony announced that...
