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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Skyforge nerfs squad adventures and steels itself for a Reaper invasion
Love it, hate it, or ambivalent toward it, it's hard to deny that Skyforge is pretty on the ball with its production of updates....
The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 2
We're back with our second part of an interview retrospective of Mythic Entertainment's early online games with CSE's Mark Jacobs. Last week, we talked...
Dogma: Eternal Night playable builds are coming in December
Thanks to some additional crowdfunding, Dogma: Eternal Night will be able to start rolling out playable builds starting at the end of December. These...
Overwatch frags its First Strike comic
Overwatch's "expanded media universe" just shrunk a bit this week as the team announced that it has canceled development of the First Strike graphic...
The Daily Grind: Do you hope that MMOs based on popular franchises return?
Probably what is most upsetting about the current trend of MMORPG development is that most studios seem to have completely abandoned molding online roleplaying...
Champions Online heralds the return of Nighthawk
Legendary superhero Nighthawk has gone rogue -- or has he? Players will have to investigate a series of appearances of Nighthawk and his vigilante...
Nexon teases us with a glimpse at Project Meta
Among the small army of titles that Nexon brought to G-Star this week is Project Meta. The studio didn't actually bring the game itself,...
Ghostcrawler reveals the design origins of World of Warcraft’s Death Knights
Just because Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street is over with the League of Legends team these days doesn't mean that he has stopped talking about World...
Jukebox Heroes: Six pretty great MMO tunes from games you’ve never played
In my years of coverage of MMO soundtrack music in this column and on Battle Bards, I've clearly observed that there are games that...
Peria Chronicles shows off its gameplay at G-Star
Excitement around the Massively OP office has spiked concerning a certain Peria Chronicles. It might be easy to dismiss it on first glance as...
How Project Titan and Overwatch prompted Chris Metzen to leave Blizzard
Months later, the World of Warcraft community is still coming to grips with the absence of Chris Metzen, who decided to retire from Blizzard...
Moonlight Blade will let you play as a tween girl
Perhaps you were on the fence with Moonlight Blade, thinking to yourself, "Well, this upcoming eastern MMORPG looks nice and all, but it's forcing...
EVE Online’s latest tool lets you simulate ship builds
One of the new tools that EVE Online has handed to new and experienced players with this week's Ascension expansion is simply called the...
Dark Age of Camelot introduces the new and improved Necromancer
Old things can be made new again, particularly with a little work and attention from caring MMO developers. Take for instance Dark Age of Camelot's...
Another Gigantic beta weekend begins, Uncle Sven is spotlighted
Have you tried Gigantic yet? It shouldn't be too hard to get into the closed beta, particularly as we have been giving out keys...
Path of Exile offers experimental 64-bit DirectX 11 client
Watch out: Path of Exile has split in twain! What has happened is that with this week's 2.4.2 patch, the MMOARPG has rolled out...
Santa Truck and the PlayStation 4 are coming to APB Reloaded
You'd better not honk, you'd better not drive, you'd better not rage-quit, I'm telling you why: Santa Truck is coming to town. Well, to...
ELOA gets a do-over under new ownership
Elite Lord of Alliance might have been down, but it's not out -- not yet, at least.
Following the decision by Webzen to close down...
Perfect Ten: Messed-up aspects of MMORPGs we mindlessly accept
When we engage in the collective fantasy of playing MMORPGs, we accept certain structures and tropes that have been in place since the early...
MapleStory preps its ‘largest update in nearly a decade’ for December
MapleStory has been around for a long, long time, so when the game's designers say that they're preparing to unleash the "largest update in nearly...
