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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Black Desert to debut its demo at Paris Games Week
The western world is about to get its first hands-on experience with the gorgeous Black Desert.
The fantasy MMO will be debuting its public demo...
The Daily Grind: Does Defiance’s TV cancellation impact your interest in the game?
Defiance (the TV series) is no more, but Defiance (the MMO) lives on for now. The question on the table here is what does this...
Global Chat: Why your MMO pushed me away
Hey MMO developers, have you ever wondered why players are driven away from your games? Two bloggers took a stab at a list of features...
Battle Bards podcast explores the music of Firefall
Battle Bards, the world’s first and only MMO music podcast, is back for another spirited episode, this time covering the soundtrack to Firefall. There are...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 34: Rollbacks and breakups
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, WildStar, GW2, RuneScape, Marvel Heroes, Black Desert, Nexon/NCsoft, WoW, and Wakfu, with mailbag questions on expansion pricing and horizontal gameplay.
World of Warships pits players against ghost ships
How do you celebrate Halloween in World of Warships? By battling it out with actual ghost ships, of course!
From now through November 2nd, players in...
Linkin Park to perform at BlizzCon
BlizzCon 2015 has its big closing act: Linkin Park.
The rock group has signed on to perform a concert for Blizzard's community on Saturday night, November...
All NPCs are lootable now in Gloria Victis
NPCs, your day of reckoning has come. You thought that your meager possessions were safe from the rampaging player army in Gloria Victis, but...
Here are 10 compelling reasons to get excited about Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
There are always some of us who aren't quite on board with the latest and shiniest games and expansions and instead wait to be...
Project Gorgon tests power and monster changes
Indie MMO Project Gorgon is currently trying out a couple of prototype ideas on the test server to see if they might be useful in...
Path of Exile buffs its poison mechanic
Poison is poised to be deadlier than ever in Path of Exile, as Grinding Gear Games is shoring up the system with its next...
Get your first look at Wizard101’s Polaris
Polaris has been officially confirmed to be the next world that Wizard101 players will visit, and eager fans were able to get a sneak...
Guild Wars 2 runs down last-minute expansion launch details
ArenaNet Game Director Colin Johanson had a few words to share today to prepare the Guild Wars 2 community for this week's Heart of...
Classic Darkfall project continues license negotiations, plans alpha test
A volunteer-led effort to restore the original version of Darkfall is moving forward as unspecified negotiations with Aventurine continue.
The Darkfall: Rise of Agon team announced...
Here’s how to increase your chances of getting into Black Desert’s alpha
With Black Desert coming to both North America and Europe next year, getting into the test just became one of the hottest -- and most...
Camelot Unchained reveals its heavy fighters
Next up on Camelot Unchained's class reveal docket is the upcoming MMO's heavy fighters, a brutal group of muscled pain that will be sure...
Wakfu rolls back EU server to June
Call it the mother of all rollbacks.
A series of technical issues has resulted in massive amounts of lost data on Wakfu's EU Elbor server, requiring...
The MOP Up: Heart of Thorns countdown (October 18, 2015)
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...
Elder Scrolls Online patches in fixes, introduces Forge-Mother Alga
Elder Scrolls Online has been busy patching all three versions of its game this past week. A small PC and Mac patch fixed a...
One Shots: C.R.E.E.P.S.
Whatever happened to bad acronyms as titles for movies and TV shows? Where are our C.H.U.D.s? Our C.H.i.P.s? I guess we have Agents of...
