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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World of Warcraft: Fury of Hellfire is now live
OK kids, summer vacation is over; it's time to get back to work in World of Warcraft! Patch 6.2: Fury of Hellfire went live...
Skyforge hits final closed beta test running
The twilight of Skyforge's closed beta program is upon us while the dawn of its open beta is just around the corner. The sci-fi...
Excessive duping leads to Ark: Survival Evolved wipe
Hundreds of dinosaurs were horrified to learn this week that human invaders in Ark: Survival Evolved weren't merely eking out an existence on their...
Albion Online video explains how it’s bringing back player freedom
Sick of being penned into certain roles and linear progression in MMOs? Albion Online invites you to experience a game where player freedom and...
Path of Exile: The Awakening eyes July 10 release
Path of Exile's next big content update, The Awakening, is coming soon... but how soon? The team said that it's getting close to nailing...
ArenaNet addresses Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase controversy
The Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns pre-purchase announcement sent the community into a state of agitation, to put it mildly. This was exacerbated...
City of Heroes is returning… as a chat client
The dream of seeing City of Heroes reborn is still just that -- a dream. But through the hard efforts of fans of the...
LEGO Minifigures Online goes buy-to-play on June 29 with limited availability now
While Funcom would like to market LEGO Minifigures Online's upcoming June 29th event as a launch of the game, in reality the move is...
Gloria Victis inviteth thee to dump burning oil on the heads of thine enemies
I can't imagine anything more disheartening than going over to a friend's house, knocking on his door, and being coated by burning pitch as...
Guild Wars 2 unloads a dump truck of expansion dev blogs
Beep... beep... beep. That's the sound of a gargantuan Guild Wars 2 info truck that's preparing to unload its sizable cargo into your cortex....
One Shots: Primitive GPS
There's no shame in being lost, especially if your MMO doesn't include an on-screen map. Anyone remember the olden days of using graph paper...
The Game Archaeologist: Seven MMOs operating on borrowed time
Most everyone who knows me well will acknowledge that I'm not generally a cynical, dark person. I'm not rooting for games to fail, for...
The Daily Grind: Are MOBAs destined for a Great Crash?
Make no mistake, even with the recent launch of Heroes of the Storm, MOBAs are crashing and burning all over the place these days....
Landmark devs: Respawning is working as designed
Addressing complaints that respawning mobs and resources are broken in Landmark, Daybreak came out today to say that, on the contrary, everything is working...
Anarchy Online’s long-awaited engine upgrade looks to be coming soon
"You've waited, it's coming. In this year of 29489 on Rubi-Ka, you will see it," Anarchy Online's Twitter feed trumpeted today.
We'll see what? You...
See a pair of high-octane Overwatch matches
Got a few minutes? Then we've got some action eye candy for you, straight from the land of Overwatch.
Blizzard recently released two videos of...
An exclusive Tokyo post-mortem with The Secret World’s Romain Amiel
Massively: We're on the horn with The Secret World Lead Designer Romain Amiel, who's taking time out of his schedule to answer some questions...
Star Citizen is handing backers the keys to all of its spaceships next week
If you're on a tight budget, Star Citizen's ships aren't always the most affordable pieces of virtual hardware in the gaming world. However, if...
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward starts early access, welcomes back players
Just a heads-up: If you have friends who play Final Fantasy XIV, you may not be seeing them at all today. That's because early...
Take a walk to the past with World of Warcraft’s Mana-Tombs
Set your alarm for June 23rd and remember to charge up your flux capacitor, because World of Warcraft is about to take you back...
