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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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....
EA’s earnings go up but fail to reach the black
Electronic Arts' most recent quarterly earnings report is a mix of bad news and good news for shareholders. The bad news is that the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best fishing system?
OK, I'll freely admit that I am not one for fishing in MMORPGs. I know that many games have it and that there's a...
Day of the Dead visits World of Warcraft for a short time
Hot on the heels of Hallow's End comes World of Warcraft's Day of the Dead mini-holiday. This event, which runs from today through November 3rd,...
Gigantic makes a big deal out of its upcoming closed beta weekend
Gigantic is keeping up the pressure with its testing cycle, as it has its second closed beta weekend starting on Thursday, November 3rd. While we...
Sea of Thieves team talks alpha tests and game audio
The pirates at Rare have taken to the lower galley to sit around and record another hour-long podcast covering all sorts of topics for...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 89: The book of Revelation
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Trove, RIFT, The Secret World, WoW, ArcheAge, Star Trek Online, EVE, and EverQuest, with mailbag questions on Hellgate London, WoW, and what players spend on MMOs.
Perfect Ten: The craziest things The Secret World has asked me to do
As I am fond of saying, there is no MMO that I've ever played that has the capability of being so frustrating and downright...
Camelot Unchained wants to ‘find the fun’ in all aspects of its design
School is in session, and the Camelot Unchained team is here to teach you a few things about MMORPG design. In the game's most...
Rumor: Diablo III’s Necromancer, Overwatch’s Sombra
As we barrel toward BlizzCon this week, speculation is running high over what reveals Blizzard might make at the show. Two of these are...
Jukebox Heroes: MMORPG music for a haunted Halloween
You simply can't have a good and proper Halloween without a perfect soundtrack to back you up. Sure, you could just pop in one...
PSA: Today is the last day to get a free month of Dark Age of Camelot
If you are a former Dark Age of Camelot player and have been away from the game for more than two months, then you...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon cuts the grind, makes weapon and racial improvements
Is Rise of Agon the Darkfall you've been dreaming of?
If you were turned off by excessive grind and the pace of leveling of the...
Project Gorgon makes major combat and gear changes, buffs Halloween event
Over this past weekend, Project Gorgon dropped a patch bomb into its community, forever changing how the game will function from here on out....
City of Titans puts on costumes for Halloween
Just in time for the most costume-friendly holiday of the year, Missing Worlds Media has a new video and post to show off some...
League of Legends crowns 2016 world champions
This past weekend, the battle went down in League of Legends' biggest tournament of the year. When the dust settled, Team SK Telecom T1...
Japanese top card battler Shadowverse launches on Steam
Shadowverse might not have the street recognition in the west that, say, Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone does, but over in Japan the digital...
The MOP Up: FFXI revs up appreciation campaigns (October 30, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
