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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Sea of Thieves conjures up ‘raw-looking’ skeletons
Sea of Thieves' team is still slowly working up to the big feature reveals, preferring to spend the meanwhile discussing the smaller details of...
Bless Online explains the reason for its delay
As we learned last month, Bless Online is being delayed into 2017 as the team continues to work on bringing the title over to the...
Lineage Eternal schedules Korean closed beta for November 30
It's happening, people. This is not a drill. Lineage Eternal is finally moving into closed beta testing, albeit in Korea. Of course, that won't...
SMITE’s Thoth comes home to roost
If you have ever had the fantasy of playing as a bird-god who went about judging the souls of others, well, have we got...
Star Trek Online brings the duty officer system to consoles
As we well know by now, a console edition of a PC MMORPG usually doesn't contain all of the same features and updates. There's...
A blizzard is sweeping over The Division
Just when you thought that the plague-ridden city of The Division couldn't get any worse, a blizzard is heading in with a vengeance.
Ubisoft has...
Revelation Online releases bug tracker to help with closed beta testing
Currently, players are getting to see if Revelation Online is living up to its own hype as they put the MMO through its paces...
Is the online pay-to-win situation improving?
MMO players looking for a hot-button topic often have to go no further than dredging up discussion concerning pay-to-win and its alleged affect on online...
The Daily Grind: When is an MMO not worth playing?
One common question that I see pop up across various MMORPG subreddits is a variation on, "Is this game still worth playing? Should I...
Bluehole Studio and ArenaNet are hiring multiple devs
It is always much more of a relief to report on MMO studios hiring on new help rather than going through layoffs. Right now,...
Path of Exile teases next month’s content release
Before the year is out, Path of Exile will put a person on the moon... or a content patch in everyone's launcher. Probably the...
Paladins touts a playerbase of 4 million
Hi-Rez is not above tooting its own horn, especially when it has a huge number to celebrate. Today the studio announced that Paladins has...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 90: BlizzConcerns
Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss BlizzCon 2016, WoW's new cadence, Diablo III's content plans, the Nostalrius legacy server standoff, Funcom's financials, and Revelation Online.
Dungeon Fighter Online debuts streamlined seasonal server
Sometimes it is simply refreshing when an MMO has fun with its server rulesets to experiment with a different approach. If you're on board...
Trove’s underwater dragon is a rare quarry worth hunting
Only in MMOs will killing a dragon net you a dragon. Such are the mysterious and physics-bending ways of the loot table.
For example, Trove...
Global Chat: How SWTOR could fix its expansion missteps
Debate and discussion continue in the MMO blogosphere over SWTOR's Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion, with many writers criticizing the expansion's format and...
Star Citizen pushes hard toward Alpha 2.6
Star Citizen is nothing if not extremely thorough in its monthly reports that cover the projects and focus of each of its studios and...
Get an early introduction to Lineage Eternal’s character lineup
There is just oh-so-much we don't know about Lineage Eternal, but the good news is that it appears that the information train is barreling...
Old-School RuneScape gets hardcore ironman mode
"One life. One goal. Survive."
If you fancy yourself a skilled -- and hardcore -- RuneScape player, then your ultimate test starts in just a...
Cyberpunk 2077 may be an MMORPG in disguise
Sniffing out promising upcoming MMOs is getting more difficult now that developers and studios are avoiding that label like the plague. Instead, we're looking...
