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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Dungeons and Dragons Online starts its 10th anniversary celebration
All hail Dungeons and Dragons Online, which is now being inducted into the MMO 10 Years Club! To celebrate a decade of the game's...
Black Death pushes back its early release
Hope you weren't expecting to contract the virtual bubonic plague any time soon. The grim medieval survival game The Black Death announced yesterday that...
Neverwinter enhances its mount system with stables and insignias
You can always tell when a Neverwinter content release is nigh, as Cryptic will unleash a flurry of dev blogs. The latest? A look...
League of Legends introduces mobile friend app, standardizes penalties
Why else do you play League of Legends if not to make friends? And when you attain such friends, isn't it important to be...
Battle Bards Episode 69: FFXIV Heavensward
The Battle Bards are taking an airship back to Eorzea to cover the soundtrack to the first expansion to Final Fantasy XIV, Heavensward. How...
Allods Online’s New Order will be broken up into four seasons
Does anyone else find it slightly ominous that the Russian-created Allods Online has an update coming out called "New Order?" Will all MMOs soon...
Trinium Wars bringing three classes out for its early access next week
Trinium Wars is preparing to kick off its early access program next week on March 2nd. When prospective players take their first steps into...
Daybreak walks a fine line with EverQuest II’s TLE server
A developer update on the status and future of EverQuest II's time-locked expansion server illuminates some of the difficulties that the team is facing...
ArcheAge’s February update brings costume sythesis and a tougher Mistsong Summit
It might not be the largest content update that's ever graced ArcheAge, but the game's February update does have a few items of note...
Perfect Ten: Ten weapons that should be in more MMOs
Swords, spears, axes, maces, and bows for fighters. Wands and fancy-looking staves for mages. Wolverine-style claws and double daggers for thieves. Some useless trinket...
WildStar devs on the Arcterra map, dynamic events, and stew
So what do you think about WildStar's new upcoming zone, Arcterra, after yesterday's big dev blog about it? Carbine figured that players would have...
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite memory from the EverQuest franchise?
It's interesting to note that the EverQuest video game franchise, as a whole, is quite large -- perhaps bigger than you realized. There's the...
Global Chat: What is Daybreak thinking with H1Z1?
Daybreak's announcement earlier this month that it will be splitting H1Z1 into two games triggered a flood of responses from the MMO blogging community,...
Traverse lets you mold and shape your own planet
A tiny dev team is scurrying away on a new title called Traverse that will let players not only think big but create on...
Worlds Adrift includes US players in next playtest
Worlds Adrift said that the wait is "almost over" for the game's third playtest, although the team did not give a definitive timeline for...
Albion Online publishes its first novel, Landfall
Does your MMO have an official novel? Well, Albion Online isn't even out yet and it is breaking literary barriers with its first published...
Order and Chaos Online player distributes GM powers, havoc ensues
Imagine this scenario: An MMO player somehow gains access to a "DevBox," a special set of tools that GMs and devs can use to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 52: Horror sloth!
Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert 's cash shop, H1Z1, Guild Wars 2, ArcheAge's laundry, Devilian, Grim Dawn, FFXIV, and TSW, with mailbag questions on voiceover localization.
Grim Dawn’s story trailer is appropriately macabre
Not every game goes to the lengths of giving your character a backstory that starts before you log in, but then again, not every...
Hostility and bounty systems arrive in Star Citizen
Are you a law-abiding space citizen who's not above partaking in some mob vigilante justice? Or are you a sneaky ne'er-do-well who wants to...
