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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New World gets super-fashionable with transmog this week, and some players are already grumpy
It's a well-known historical fact that the last import to the real New World was a sense of high fashion. So let us stand...
Lord of the Rings Online to welcome River Hobbits on August 22nd
The latest pint-sized population to enter Middle-earth is almost here. On last Friday's livestream, Lord of the Rings Online announced that River Hobbits are...
One Shots: Bongo Gully 3
People, I am going to go stark broke this year. It's really not a good year for an RPG gamer on a budget, what...
LOTRO Legendarium: Six ways to spice up your next LOTRO alt
While Lord of the Rings Online features a questing journey that can take you months if not years to go through the entirety of...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most-wanted MMORPG in 2023?
It's awfully hard to look at all of the project delays we've had this year and not have our patience tested. MMORPG players always...
Fallout 76 gets oddly presidential with next week’s Season 14
For those who flee to video games to avoid real world political news, then you'll be glad to hear that the political scene is...
The Soapbox: How Vanguard’s diplomacy system could be revived and improved
Once upon a time there was an MMORPG called Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. It wasn't the most popular MMO, but it did cultivate a...
Warcraft Rumble soft launches in several more countries including Australia and Canada
Your next mobile obsession might be creeping its way across the globe right now. That's because Warcraft Rumble -- formerly Warcraft Arclight Rumble before...
World of Warcraft previews heritage armor for Night Elves and Forsaken
September 5th's Fury Incarnate update for World of Warcraft may be on the lower scale of this year's content offerings, but that's not to...
Warframe’s Digital Extremes joins other studios in raising funds for Hawaii wildfire relief
With the death toll from last week's devastating wildfires in Maui climbing well over a hundred people lost, and with an entire town displaced,...
Guild Wars 2 takes to the skies with Secrets of the Obscure’s flight masteries
Who's ready to take off and soar into Guild Wars 2's wild blue yonder? When the MMO's Secrets of the Obscure arrives next week,...
Riot Games exec says MMO is still in early phases, but the studio is ‘committed to the genre’
A conversation between a Chinese streamer and a Riot Games executive indicated that we're still in for quite the wait to see Riot's unnamed...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs whose worlds were built from scratch
Maybe I'm the only one to have stopped to think about it, but a great deal of the MMOs that we enjoy are based...
The Daily Grind: How can MMOs make necromancy more interesting?
With RuneScape finally -- ahem -- unearthing necromancy for its fans, playing with dead things has never seemed so relevant. Or messy. I mean,...
Hawaii-centered Fractured Veil pitches in with disaster relief following last week’s wildfires
The terrible wildfires that ravaged populated sections of Hawaii's Maui island and killed around a hundred people last week continues to draw global attention....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 433: Throne & Delay
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's delay, WoW's upcoming patch, DDO's mini-expansion, and financial reports for NCsoft, Pearl Abyss, and Square-Enix, with adventures in Palia, LOTRO, New World, and Star Trek Online, plus mailbag topics on rich economy-centric sandboxes and MMOs that need graphical refreshes.
RIFT appoints yet another community manager following previous departures
The revolving door for RIFT's community managers is a source of slight amusement and never-ending frustration for the MMO's beleaguered community. In 2022 alone,...
Mad World shares the rest of its 2023 roadmap with tribal wars and Halloween
Poor Mad World: This splatterpunk horror MMO was birthed into this world in about the most messy fashion possible while still surviving. And as...
Overwatch 2 is (still) getting absolutely pummeled on Steam
There's an old adage that goes, "All publicity is good publicity." It's not an infallible statement, though, because we can't imagine that any company...
The MOP Up: Aura Kingdom 2’s global pre-registration arrives with NFTs in tow
Aura Kingdom 2: Evolution, the mobile follow-up to the first Aura Kingdom, started taking global pre-registrations this past week. By signing up, players can...
