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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Das Tal readies an alpha pre-test for later this month
When is a test not a test? When it's a pre-test, of course! Oh, just ignore the silly terminology to accept the fact that...
Ultima Online players are called upon to repel an invasion
A Myrmidex invasion has struck the heart of the Valley of Eodon, and Ultima Online players are once again called to sally forth and...
Devilian revs up refer-a-friend program
When you're looking to bolster your game's population, there's nothing that makes a marketing department quite as happy as getting loyal players to work...
Crowfall’s visuals are ‘stylized… with a little more grit’
Some of the criminally unsung heroes of MMOs are the artists who strive to sculpt and design the look of a game to fit...
Check out the full arsenal of Skyforge’s Knight
Even in sci-fi realms, it's near impossible for video game designers to divorce themselves from fantasy tropes. That's why it's surprising, but not really,...
Trinium Wars releases on Steam early access
It's 200 years after World War III (the time just flies by, doesn't it?) and two factions are engaged in a ruthless struggle on...
The Daily Grind: What unpopular opinion do you hold about MMOs?
I saw this question posed to Reddit the other day and thought it sufficiently interesting enough to want to post it to MOP's community with...
Escape from Tarkov looks at the creation of a realistic game world
When players take on the role of a mercenary in Escape from Tarkov, they won't be sprinting around a stylistically exaggerated world. On the...
Mantle of Power expansion to take Trove to weird and wonderful places
Think you've seen everything that Trove has to offer? No matter how experienced a cubic adventurer you are, you've got another thing or two...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 53: The MMOs of winter 2016
Justin, Bree, and Matt discuss Blade & Soul, The Division, Black Desert, WildStar, Final Fantasy XIV, and a mailbag question on Destiny 2.
RIFT starts the countdown to its fifth anniversary patch
Things are about to get crazy fun up in RIFT. The game is looking forward to celebrating its fifth birthday soon, an occasion that will...
AdventureQuest 3D is launching cross-platform this October
What began as a cute RPG parody in flash back in 2002 will soon become a true cross-platform MMORPG. Artix Entertainment announced today that...
Star Citizen promises larger server capacity, talks about procedural tech
Seventy-seven episodes in, you'd think that Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen community would run out of questions about the game. But it looks...
Chronicles of Elyria eyes May for its Kickstarter campaign, posts new footage
While it once started as a very small and inexpensive indie project, Chronicles of Elyria has grown over the past two years to the...
The Culling runs through its closed alpha test
The Culling, that Hunger Games-inspired multiplayer deathmatch game, is currently in the thick of its closed alpha test. A "select number of participants" pulled...
Shroud of the Avatar brings in fast travel and new player towns
More and more these days Shroud of the Avatar is looking like a whole game. It probably helps that the game seems to update...
Marvel at The Division’s PC visual tech at work
One element that's attracted some to The Division is its level of attention to detail and its visual mastery that's making this post-apocalyptic New...
Eight tips for success in Epic’s MOBA Paragon
Nobody ever claimed that MOBAs were easy to comprehend in full. Sure, you can get in and start playing relatively quickly, but to truly...
Elite Dangerous contemplates allowing players to name star systems
It's one thing to make a great cosmic discovery that puts you in the history books. But wouldn't you like to name that star,...
The MOP Up: Top raiding guild quits World of Warcraft (February 28, 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...
