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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Multiplayer RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 tops 814K concurrent players on Steam
If you get the sense that everyone in the known universe was playing Baldur's Gate 3 this past weekend, it's not merely your imagination....
The MOP Up: AdventureQuest 3D players spend five billion gold… in a weekend
A recent gold boost event led to a record-breaking level of transactions in AdventureQuest 3D as players splurged on augments.
"This was a new record...
One Shots: Yet not as messy as my teen son’s room
Some weeks we begin our One Shots tour with breathtaking vistas that leave you an emotional wreck as you silently cry at your computer...
LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s forests from maddening to awesome
J.R.R. Tolkien famously loved nature, and that passion seeps into his creation of Middle-earth. To him, the great outdoors was not something to be...
Cabal’s mobile spinoff, Cabal Return of Action, runs through a closed beta test this weekend
The 15-year-long Cabal Online series is about to get its newest member -- and you have a shot to participate in an early preview...
The Daily Grind: Do you turn MMO nameplates off during play?
I'm kind of low-key fascinated with how much we as people can visually filter out the often excessive UI elements in MMORPGs and see...
Marvel Snap’s development roadmap shows PC launch, new reward track, and guilds
The future of Marvel Snap is full of many developments indeed, if Second Dinner's latest roadmap is any indication. The studio divided projects between...
Victorian survival sim Nightingale adds third-person mode
While the upcoming Victorian survival sim Nightingale was designed around a first-person perspective, this didn't sit quite right with a number of potential fans....
EverQuest’s Living Legacy Raid event returns for a month of carnage
Debuting in 2008, Living Legacy was a promotional bundle designed to bring EverQuest players back into the fold before morphing into a raid-centered festival....
Global Chat: Is Wurm Online fatally imploding?
I doubt that anyone would've predicted that in 2023, Wurm Online of all MMOs would be embroiled in controversy, developer walkouts, and predictions of...
LOTRO and DDO return to service after a full day of productive downtime
While Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online players had to go touch grass instead of play their MMOs yesterday, it...
Hearthstone welcomes this summer’s Titans card set
It's expansion week for Blizzard's Hearthstone, as the digital card game welcomed its latest 145-card set: Titans. This xpack includes the new Forged and...
Singularity 6 interview: Palia is the cozy cottagecore sandbox to beat as it begins closed beta
The label "cozy" is in increasing danger of becoming a watered-down label thanks to how much it's being used in culture these days. Yet...
Perfect Ten: 10 memorable MMO marketing campaigns from the genre’s past
Believe it or not, MMOs get off easy when it comes to notorious marketing campaigns. Anything on the following list, good or bad, is...
LOTRO and DDO go offline for 23 hours to add new storefront, LOTRO adds River Hobbit starting instance
Here's hoping that all you Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online players have alternate sources of entertainment today because pretty...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite Cryptic MMO?
A little ways back, I made the claim that Cryptic Studios' MMORPGs are -- for me -- the epitome of "comfort gaming" in this...
Disney Dreamlight Valley edges toward multiplayer while players hope to see free-to-play soon
Cozy games fans will be happy to know that Disney Dreamlight Valley continues to truck along following its release last year. While the colorful...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 431: FFXIV Dawntrail and Path of Exile 2
Justin, Eliot, MJ, and Chris discuss Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail at Fanfest and Path of Exile and Path of Exile 2 at ExileCon, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, AdventureQuest 3D, Astroneer, and Craftopia.
New World’s technical wizards talk cross-server outpost rush, transmog, and more
What happens when you start with a survival game and have it gradually morph into a full-blown MMORPG? You'll find out in this latest...
Elder Scrolls Online team apologizes for abnormally high queue wait times
If you've found yourself stymied at the sudden long wait times to log into Elder Scrolls Online as of late, well, it's not completely...
