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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The Daily Grind: Should all MMOs come with player music systems?
While developing player music systems might seem like a superfluous effort, in my opinion it is a feature that should come standard in most...
Indie Harry Potter MMO slapped with cease and desist
Let this be an important lesson to any would-be game designers: If you try to make a game based on a very well-known IP...
Nexon, Smilegate top eastern revenue charts
Last year was a very good year indeed for Nexon, which made $393M in revenue in 2014. However, Smilegate clambered up to second place...
NCsoft’s games are going free-to-play in Japan
NCsoft games are shedding their subscription requirements -- at least in Japan. MMO Culture is reporting that between March and April, NCsoft will be...
Project Morpheus signals Sony’s entrance into the VR arms race
The Oculus Rift won't be the only gaming headset that people will be talking about in the near future. Sony announced this week that...
Trials of Ascension cancels second Kickstarter campaign
What crowdfunding giveth, crowdfunding also withholdeth. This is the hard lesson that Trials of Ascension has had to learn, not once, but twice.
Less than...
Crowfall will be powered by Unity 5
The newly released Unity 5 cross-platform game engine will be responsible for driving at least one upcoming title: Crowfall.
The team said that it's been...
Guild Wars 2 begins testing a streaming client
Getting in to play Guild Wars 2 will happen faster than ever before, thanks to a new streaming client that is coming to the...
Former LOTRO employee dishes out behind-the-scenes secrets
There's always more to every story than is often told, which is why it's fascinating to come across accounts like this one by former...
Camelot Unchained launches alpha, standalone builder
After a short delay to track down some bugs, Camelot Unchained's alpha has begun for realsies.
"We are proud and happy to tell you that...
Jukebox Heroes: Glitch’s soundtrack
As we continue to discover in the years after Glitch's closure, this was one underappreciated, unusual, and quirky MMO that deserved a lot better...
Storybricks has closed down
It's been but a week and a half since we heard official word that Daybreak Game Company was cutting ties with Storybricks, and the...
EVE Online moves ahead with second phase of its nullsec revamp
EVE Online continues its concerted effort to improve nullsec space with the advent of phase two of the revamp. A pair of dev diaries...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 4
Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss Guild Wars 2's press event, Star Trek Online's Nimoy tribute, Crowfall, Skyforge beta, World of Warcraft 6.1, Ultima Online's inbound expansion, and Final Fantasy XIV, with mailbag questions on newbies in The Secret World and LEGO MMOs.
Crowfall explains what you can take out of a dying world
By now, most of you know that Crowfall's PvP campaigns will take place on time-limited worlds that will come to a definite end. But...
How Daybreak strives to avoid social media pitfalls
Tweeting or posting the wrong thing in the wrong tone can have serious consequences for a game studio, which is something that Daybreak Senior...
Jagex is working on a mystery MMO
A job posting for a lead programmer revealed that RuneScape developer Jagex is indeed working on a new MMO.
The secretive posting says that the...
Warhammer 40,000 livestream talks Eldar faction, stealth
Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade's third developer livestream spent a good amount of time talking about the Eldar and its sub-factions, although that's not all...
The Secret World is planning an ‘epic’ forum game
The next big thing coming for The Secret World won't be in the game itself -- it'll be in the forums.
Funcom, which has had...
RuneScape explains survey polling on buyable skill levels
When one eagle-eyed RuneScape player saw that the studio was polling players about potentially purchasing skill levels in a recent survey, it set off...
