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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Elder Scrolls Online has a fast-paced Tales of Tribute deck in the works
While Elder Scrolls Online's nested card game, Tales of Tribute, hasn't exactly been the barnstormer that ZeniMax hoped it would become, it has its...
Wayfinder looks to 2024 for free-to-play launch and a new weapon type
Have you been waiting for Wayfinder to hit free-to-play before jumping on board? Then you might be waiting a bit longer than originally expected,...
Upcoming MMO The Quinfall reveals four of its classes plus character creator
While we wouldn't want you to get your hopes up that you'll be part of The Quinfall's vaunted player-testing team -- if, indeed, that...
LOTRO fine-tunes the Mariner while DDO makes stomach polyps a safe place to be
It's mid-week patch madness for both of Standing Stone Games' MMORPGs as one of them marches toward an expansion and another away from one.
Lord...
Perfect Ten: The interesting features EverQuest Next promised before it was canceled
After way, way too long, it looks like an EverQuest 3 may be in the works after all. It's been rumored for years, of...
The Daily Grind: Should global chat be restricted to discussion of just that MMO?
The megaphone that is the world chat or global chat channel is a huge responsibility that few people seem to respect. Any player can...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 440: It’s fall MMO content, y’all
Justin and Bree discuss New World's Rise of the Angry Earth, LOTRO's Corsairs of Umbar, expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, and Final Fantasy XIV's Growing Light, with a mailbag question on which studios could do justice to World of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft Classic Wrath finally brings about the downfall of the Lich King today
The big finale to Wrath of the Lich King's year-plus expansion cycle is finally here in WoW Classic. Blizzard released Patch 3.4.3 today with...
Ship of Heroes’ free demo is live on Steam through next Monday
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an upcoming superhero MMORPG that's opening its doors for a limited time only! OK, that slogan needs...
Embers Adrift goes free through November 5th for its first anniversary
The first anniversary for indie MMO Embers Adrift arrives this month, and Stormhaven Studios is capitalizing on the moment to entice players to its...
RuneScape walks back detested Hero Pass, calls it a ‘misstep’
After weeks of derision and divisiveness over the system, RuneScape's new Hero Pass is heading to an early grave.
Jagex announced that it would be...
RIFT runs a full round of October weekend events and gives away another gift
With invasions rampaging across the land and the angry planes trying to rend the sky asunder, every day in RIFT is a quilt of...
The MOP Up: It’s the great Albion, Charlie Brown!
Albion Online is getting into the spirit of Halloween with its Harvest Challenge: "Fall has come to the world of Albion... the shadows are...
LOTRO is ‘tackling something more difficult and interesting’ with Corsairs of Umbar’s story
With Corsairs of Umbar on the way next month in Lord of the Rings Online, players will be getting to go to this southern...
One Shots: Corpulent beauty
When you're looking to take a break from the nine-to-five killing grind, where do you go? Star Wars: The Old Republic's board of tourism...
Global Chat: So who’s ready for EverQuest 3?
Hibernating fans of the EverQuest franchise stirred from slumber this past month to hear that EG7 and Daybreak may actually be progressing with a...
Guild Wars 2 Discord drama sends community scrambling for a new server
An environment turned sour apparently spurred a number of Guild Wars 2 mods and admins to break off from the main unofficial Discord server...
The Daily Grind: Are you rocking an aging MMO gaming PC?
In looking back through my records the other day, I was shocked to realize that my main home and gaming PC was purchased back...
Ten-year-old Camelot Unchained gets all technical and mechanical with this month’s newsletter
For you patient and persistent fans of Camelot Unchained, City State Entertainment put out its 101st newsletter for the long-in-the-coming MMORPG. This time around,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Are we ready for LOTRO’s Corsairs of Umbar?
They say that as you get older, time seems to pass by much more quickly. Perhaps that explains why 2023 feels like it's been...
