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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The Daily Grind: What type of armor do you like to wear in MMOs?
In real life, I'm having a good day when my socks match and I don't make people visibly wince when I appear in public...
Paladins welcomes Sha Lin the archer for Open Beta 37
Open Beta 37 is imminent for Paladins, introducing a brand-new champion to the roster of playable characters. This would be Sha Lin, an "old-style...
BlizzCon 2016: Hearthstone announces Gadgetzan expansion pack
If you've ever been to Gadgetzan in World of Warcraft, you might not have walked away with an impression that you had just visited...
EverQuest II has a 12th anniversary mount waiting for you
The Heroes' Festival has returned to the lands of Norrath, and for this year's celebration, the EverQuest II team has something truly special in...
BlizzCon 2016: You’ll never see Overwatch’s Sombra coming
It's time to get past the faux-surprise over Sombra's official announcement at BlizzCon to start getting prepped for her arrival. The newest Overwatch hero will take...
Warframe reprises popular quest in time for this month’s big update
Did you miss out on playing Warframe's popular Second Dream quest series back in the day? Either way, you have a chance to experience an...
The Endless Forest devs seek funds for a remake
Back in 2006, one of the strangest MMORPG-slash-screensavers ever made was released and then promptly ignored by the mainstream. The Endless Forest, "a whimsical multiplayer...
See Crowfall’s Guinecean Duelist in action
Can an overgrown guinea pig truly be a threat on a battlefield that includes minotaurs and hulking warriors? Crowfall wants to make the case for...
Wasteland 3 concludes wildly successful crowdfunding campaign
It is a very good week for InXile Entertainment indeed: The indie studio raked in $3.12 million toward Wasteland 3, concluding a very successful...
Chronicles of Elyria reaches gambling stretch goal, eyes pet and mount customization
Good news for the shifty bluffers out there: Chronicles of Elyria has reached its $1.5 million stretch goal, which means that the team is...
SMITE brings Thoth to the PC, more skins to the console
With two versions of SMITE operating, keeping track of what is going on in each will be a tricky prospect. Fortunately for you, you...
Heroes of the Storm teases next week’s collegiate e-sports documentary
This past April, a team of college students from Arizona State University won full tuition from Heroes of the Storm's Heroes of the Dorm...
Grimm: Dark Legacy releases the game of the TV show
Back in February we announced that an online prequel to the NBC series Grimm: Dark Legacy was coming to computers at some point this...
Cross-platform space MMO Nebula Online has launched today
EVE Online has a little bit of competition in the hardcore kitchen this month, as indie title Nebula Online launched today on iOS, Android,...
Pokemon Go’s creator wants players to look up more often
Pokémon Go's success in 2016 has been a source of delight to one of the game's creators, Niantic's Dennis Hwang, who said that the...
Overwatch ARG keeps teasing the game’s worst-kept secret
Unless you're a deep conspiracy theorist who has a hunch that Blizzard is preparing to spring the biggest mind-screw of all time, then it's...
Crowfall shows off the ins and outs of crafting
Like peanut butter and chocolate, PvP and crafting seem to be two flavors that go very well together. Crowfall thinks so, at least, which...
Guild Wars 2 allows one more week of Halloween fun
As Guild Wars 2 players have been enjoying the Shadow of the Mad King festivities, they have also been wondering when, exactly, the game's...
How Sea of Thieves is hand-crafting a believable world
Don't call it a "living world" -- that's taken -- but Sea of Thieves has its own design vision for what it's calling a...
You can pre-download Revelation Online for tomorrow’s closed beta
Tomorrow is a day that Revelation Online fans have been panting for: the start of the game's first closed beta test in the west....
