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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Osiris: New Dawn has launched on Steam early access
Enough slacking and lollygagging about in your humdrum life -- there's an alien planet that needs some serious colonizing, and you look just like...
Sea of Thieves shares insights into its visual effects
Sea of Thieves continues its theme of looking at the game's graphics in its Short Haul video series. This week's topic? Visual effects and...
Destiny 2 might be coming to the PC
PC players who have felt slighted over the past two years due to Destiny's exclusive home on consoles could have a reason to break...
The Daily Grind: Are you a bad MMO hero?
By now it's an old hat that all MMORPGs keep casting us in the role of local hero and world savior. No matter where...
Battleheart 2 announced, will come with four-player co-op
Mika Mobile is returning to the series that made it a star in the mobile games industry, as it announced yesterday that it has...
Lineage 2 Classic adds sieges, fishing, and achievements
It's heady times for fans of Lineage 2 Classic, as the European server has patched in its Saviors update.
This large content patch contains many...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 84: Rise of Irony
Justin, Eliot, and MJ discuss World of Fishing, WoW, RIFT, ARK, TSW, SWTOR, H&G, FFXIV, Destiny, TERA, DDO, LOTRO, Icarus, and GW2, with mailbag letters on MMO swag and art styles.
Age of Conan’s complete collection launches with a steep discount
How's this for a savage one-two punch of happiness? Funcom has bundled every scrap of Age of Conan content into a complete collection and...
Revelation Online delivers the skinny on gear
If it's an MMO, it's going to have gear. And if there's gear, then it's going to have stats. And if there are stats,...
Jukebox Heroes: Great music tracks from MOBAs
If you were ever to go to Vegas and place a bet that I would one day become a dedicated, passionate MOBA player, any bookie...
MU Legend starts accepting closed beta sign-ups
MU Legend, the hack-and-slash sequel to the long-running MU Online, is finally in the position to start taking applications for its closed beta test....
Chronicles of Elyria seeks $3M more in funding
With the opening of Chronicles of Elyria's web store next week, its team is working on the next phase of the game's fundraising campaign....
Grim Dawn delivers a sneak peek of its first expansion
A bonafide expansion is in the works for the multiplayer ARPG Grim Dawn, although a name and time frame have yet to be revealed....
Meridian 59 continues to influence online games 20 years later
Twenty years ago this week, Meridian 59 shed its beta trappings and officially released as one of the very first graphical MMORPGs on the...
Hear the stirring tunes of Guild Wars 2’s Living World Season 3
Still swooning over Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorn's soundtrack? That's so 2015, my friends. It's time to live in the now, and that...
Take a tour of LOTRO’s new zone and premium housing
Great and momentous things are afoot in the realm of Lord of the Rings Online, as Turbine has started testing Update 19: March of the...
Why Undead Labs abandoned the State of Decay MMO
For a good while, the MMO community was following Undead Labs in the hopes of seeing its Class4 project come to fruition in the...
Here’s what’s going on with Glitch’s successors
We are fast approaching the late, lamented Glitch's birthday on September 27th, and to mark the occasion, we thought we would check in with...
The MOP Up: The Division opens its public test server (September 25, 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...
One Shots: Pining for the icy fjords
Isn't it really disturbing when you're playing one game and it completely reminds you of another title? Our brains make so many bizarre connections that...
