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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One Shots: The crackle and pop of a homestead hearth
No matter how long the road, how great the challenges, or how tempting the loot, at the end of the day we simply want...
Game of Thrones actor Kristian Nairn says World of Warcraft helped him kick a drug addiction
Actor and DJ Kristian Nairn is a lovable geek icon of the past decade or so, having made his mark as Hodor in the...
LOTRO Legendarium: Should all LOTRO expansions include ‘special systems?’
It's been an exciting week for Lord of the Rings Online as full details and testing for this fall's expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, arrived...
The Daily Grind: Do you have any completionist characters in MMOs?
When I play MMOs, it seems wrong to me to skip around in the game, bypass quests and zones, and leave areas littered with...
Legacy: Steel and Sorcery is an multiplayer co-op ARPG made by ex-WoW devs
If you, like us, make a hobby of following the various projects that former World of Warcraft devs are creating, then you might be...
Fallen Earth remake’s new Unity servers are ‘quite far along’ as devs target launch for Q4 2025
After a 10-month period of silence about Fallen Earth and its Unity remake, Little Orbit CEO Matt Scott sat down for an hour-long AMA...
MapleStory’s Midnight Carnival arrives for the Halloween season
Don't look now, but MapleStory might be crushing the competition with its Halloween update this year. The V.254 release arrived on Wednesday with the...
Medieval MMO Anvil Empires introduces cargo ships to cross the ocean blue
When medieval sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires greatly expanded its in-development world map into several landmasses this past August, it created a new problem for...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED is in ‘pre-release,’ plans October 24 test run
The abrupt and bizarre death of colony sandbox and "society simulator" SEED in 2022 was only topped by its abrupt resurrection and return of...
Lord of the Rings Online gets its Harvestmath fall festival underway
What's the best Lord of the Rings Online festival? That's a point of fierce debate among the Free Peoples of Middle-earth, but there's a...
Old School RuneScape reduces downtime and improves its winter boss fight
The great GM knows that all of us have gone through an endless parade of boss fights in MMOs. But most of those encounters...
TERA Console’s October patch opens a new dungeon and activates Halloween
The first update since August's new screenshot mode patch arrived for TERA Console this week, opening up a new dungeon and welcoming players to...
Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots
CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...
World of Warcraft’s 20th anniversary update goes live on October 22
World of Warcraft players now have a hard date for Update 11.0.5, which is coming in less than two weeks on October 22nd. The...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs perform a soft reboot on their storylines now and then?
Here's the thing when it comes to ongoing narratives, whether they're TV series, a string of novels, or online games: You can't keep escalating...
Battle royale shooter Supervive plunges into this month’s Steam Next Fest with a feature-rich demo
How many video game genres can you cram into a single title before it becomes a stew? Supervive is pushing that limit with elements...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 488: Amazon vs Amazon
Justin and Bree discuss Ultima Online New Legacy, New World Aeternum, Throne and Liberty, Lord of the Rings Online's Legacy of Morgoth, and fall expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on what we're willing to do for long-term MMO rewards.
Lord of the Rings Online begins testing its Legacy of Morgoth expansion
The very first public beta for Lord of the Rings Online's fall expansion is now up on the Bullroarer server. Legacy of Morgoth is...
Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival returns with multiplayer carving contests and hats
While there are many MMOs and other online games that feature Halloween events, one game is an entire event unto itself. We speak of...
Nigel Lambert, the voice of Wizard101’s Merle Ambrose, has passed away at 80
A moment of silence is rippling across Wizard101's Spiral as one of the most famous voices in the game recently passed away at the...
