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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One Shots: A purrrfect sunset
What makes a good sunset even better? When you get to curl up with your favorite pet and share a Hallmark moment together.
UpayaCrow kicks...
Camelot Unchained is putting its new animation system through its paces
One of the key foundations for Camelot Unchained was laid this past week, as the team introduced its brand-new animation system. Mark Jacobs writes...
Dual Universe turns on test server and shows off its progress
Like a small child thrusting her coloring page at you in hopes of approval, Dual Universe is eager to for you to check out...
Guild Wars 2 creates a minimum games threshold for its PvP league leaderboard
PvP slackers, your time is up: Guild Wars 2 is going to make you work to stay on its leaderboard from here on out!
ArenaNet...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever used MMOs to live out fantasies from other IPs?
One of my absolute favorite parts of City of Heroes was seeing the crazy mish-mash of intellectual properties that players brought to the game....
One-eyed Yeti menaces Gigantic, children get snow day
You've encountered the abominable snowman, probably more than once, in video games. We assume that you've also seen your fair share of cyclopes (cyclopsi?)...
Ultima Online gets all doom and gloomy with its patch (and that’s a good thing)
Doom! Doom everywhere!
That's the message of Ultima Online as it pushed out Publish 96 this week. Much of the patch was focused on adjusting...
Lord of the Rings Online lays out its 2017 roadmap
Get ready to assail the foundations of Mordor, Lord of the Rings Online players, because it's going to happen this year.
Standing Stone Games published...
Here’s what the whole Counter-Strike gambling thing is about
If you are outside of the Counter-Strike Global Offensive community, you might not know what a big deal the whole "skin gambling" thing is...
Chronicles of Elyria hires SWTOR programmer, works on PAX East demo
The small but scrappy Chronicles of Elyria continues to pick up experienced MMO devs for its ambitious sandbox project. Earlier this month we reported...
SWTOR brings out a new operation, story with Update 5.2
With the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic's latest update, the community finds itself very content with the latest offerings and wants no...
Star Citizen cracks the code of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence isn't merely being thrown into Star Citizen because of its futuristic theme but because the tech is essential to how the game...
World of Warcraft helps you get your pilot’s license for Legion
Remember how a while back Blizzard told fans that it was looking at eliminating flying from all World of Warcraft expansions going forward? Yeah, so...
Overwatch celebrates 25 million players to date
Blizzard is popping the bubbly this week, as the studio is celebrating Overwatch reaching the impressive milestone of 25 million players. The team shooter...
Paladins enlists a runic sage for battlefield buffs
Paladins, a mere 42 patches young and still not yet launched, is bringing on board a frontline fighter named Torvald. As a runic sage, Torvald...
PAX South 2017: Hyper Universe is coming to the west in 2017
Great news for those following the cross-genre MOBA Hyper Universe:Â Nexon officially announced this week that the game will be coming to North America, Europe,...
Marvel Heroes unveils new variant costumes, adjusts hero stats and abilities
The fallout from the massive and controversial Marvel Heroes Update 2.0 continues on, as players are struggling to adjust to the new game paradigm while Gazillion is faced...
Ashes of Creation might end up paying you to play it
One of the interesting aspects of Ashes of Creation's business model is how the game will let you subsidize your subscription by earning money...
LOTRO preps the bleak Wastes for Update 20
In an interview with MMORPG.com, Standing Stone opened up some more about the pre-expansion update that's coming to Lord of the Rings Online in...
Shroud of the Avatar unloads one of its largest releases to date
Thanks to the confluence of holiday time off and the culmination of several projects, Shroud of the Avatar's Release 38 is turning out to...
