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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Whatever happened to Allods Online? Let’s check in at the top of 2024
Once a highly favorable free alternative to World of Warcraft, Allods Online isn't the kind of MMO that's mentioned too often these days, especially...
Villagers and Heroes teases Crux, its biggest zone yet, launching this spring
Villagers & Heroes is starting the new year with the revival of its newsletter, which began by recapping all of the MMO's progress in...
Monsters & Memories hires another team member and hints at giant forest biome
As Monsters & Memories' dev team stirs from its eggnog-induced holiday slumber, memories of what this fledgling MMO project did in the past couple...
Tarisland makes major PvE and PvP changes to its beta build
Back from the winter break, Tarisland's dev team is cranking out a slew of changes to the beta build. In a recent Discord discussion,...
The MOP Up: Wakfu’s server headache
Wakfu said that its Ogrest server stopped working properly for a day, causing all sorts of data management headaches and a two-hour rollback.
"At 0:39...
One Shots: A beacon for a new year
Welcome to 2024 everyone! Please put your carry-ons safely underneath your seats, secure your kobold companions, and don't hesitate to light a big ball...
Global Chat: What’s the best Wrath of the Lich King zone?
With Wrath Classic starting to wrap up, The Ancient Gaming Noob figured that this was the perfect time to rank the famous expansion's zones....
The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Bustin’ Out, the online Sims game nobody remembers
Many gamers who complete that Venn diagram of being fans of both MMOs and The Sims no doubt will be familiar with the tragically...
Lord of the Rings Online readies Ill Omens event, Update 39, and 2024 roadmap
After the holiday break, Lord of the Rings Online's team is revving up for another year in Middle-earth. In this past Friday's studio livestream,...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been an ambassador in your MMO?
One of my 2024 resolutions is to push myself out of my comfort zone and enjoy some more diverse MMO gaming. To this, I...
Marvel Snap’s 2024 roadmap covers guilds, events, and character mastery
With a little over a year of live operation under its belt and a whole lot of acclaim, Marvel Snap continues to be one...
Mad World begins Steam pre-registrations for this month’s re-launch
After shooting for and achieving some obscure record of "Longest Period of Time Between Promising a Steam Release and Delivering It," Jandisoft's Mad World...
Chrono Odyssey continues to be in a holding pattern of teases and secrecy
One of the most intriguing cross-platform MMORPGs heading our way is Chrono Odyssey, an Unreal Engine 5 game from South Korea that vows to...
Casually Classic: Analyzing WoW Classic’s 2024 roadmap
With another year debuting this week, Blizzard was more on the ball than some MMO studios by already publishing its roadmap for 2024. Two...
VR MMO Zenith’s next patch is a literal do-or-die moment: ‘We’ve been operating at a loss’
Kickstarted virtual reality MMO Zenith has a major update on the horizon. How big is it? It's so big that it's getting a "2.0"...
Mortal Online II starts polling players on this year’s development roadmap
While most MMO studios set a vision internally and lay that vision out through a year-long roadmap, Mortal Online 2 is doing things a...
ARK: Survival Ascended rolls back official servers over a new duping exploit
Just like how there was always that kid who ruined the neighborhood swimming pool by peeing in it, online games suffer when exploiters do...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond
We've said it before, but this time we really mean it: The future of MMORPGs looks amazing. Contrary to years when we've seen only...
ArcheAge’s 2024 roadmap includes new systems and the Fairy race
ArcheAge is cursed to live in interesting times, it seems. With game version merges in its recent past, the 11th anniversary in its present,...
The Daily Grind: How many hours do you play MMOs every week?
Today's question shouldn't be too difficult, unless you flunked out of basic maths a long time ago. How many hours do you play MMOs...
