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 MOP Up: Fae Farm launches on PlayStation, Xbox, and Windows Store
The magical co-op realm of Fae Farm expanded to even more platforms this past week: "Phoenix Labs today celebrated the release of Fae Farm...
One Shots: The destiny of dragons
World of Warcraft may not be in the Dragonflight era any longer, but The War Within's first big content update had a lot of love for...
Lord of the Rings Online is still working on closed server transfers, believe it or not
Oh look at that: Hell is freezing over. That must mean that Lord of the Rings Online's team is actually making progress on allowing...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s new server is running smoothly, but some items are missing
It was an inauspicious start for Dungeons and Dragons Online's new premier 64-bit server, as the Cormyr shard experienced some of the worst slideshow...
The Daily Grind: If you were made into an MMO class, what would you be?
I hate to break it to you, but I am not a ninja. I tried to learn when I was a kid in the...
Conan Exiles disables its brand-new living settlements following disappearing thrall bug
The great Conan's muscles giveth, and the great Conan's muscles taketh away... at least until the thralls at Funcom can get their act together...
Neverwinter reassures fans after layoffs: ‘We are still fully committed to the ongoing development’
No matter how you look at it, this is a devastating time for Cryptic fans as mass layoffs are effectively dissolving the once-prominent MMO...
MMO Hype Train: Is Corepunk really ready for prime time?
Whenever I'm looking at a new MMORPG, there are two important hurdles it must cross to be of interest to me. The first is...
DC Universe Online finally launches a native Xbox Series X|S client
Are there any more worlds (or galaxies) for DC Universe Online to conquer? There must be because Daybreak's superhero MMO rolled out a new...
Blizzard’s BlizzCon-substitute ‘what’s next’ stream for the Warcraft franchise airs next month
As World of Warcraft is throwing a 20th anniversary rager to end all ragers this week, it's totally not confusing at all for Blizzard...
APB Reloaded brings back its Halloween Epidemic event after a five-year absence
It's weird to think that the last time that APB Reloaded ran its Epidemic event was before the real-world pandemic, but it's true. And...
Diablo IV lets you send a ‘real toxic bouquet’ to a friend (or enemy) for Halloween
Leave it to a game that once figured out how to combine 11 herbs and spices of KFC with the 11 torments of hell...
Perfect Ten: 2024’s MMO soundtrack themes ranked from worst to best
Try not to whip your head around all suspicious-like to check out the past 10 months, but 2024 has been a bonanza for MMO...
Fallout 76 embraces Halloween with spooky Scorched and a haunted CAMP contest
Is it possible for a nuked-out world full of mutated horrors and carnivorous cryptids to be scarier at Halloween than any other day of...
The Daily Grind: Which upcoming MMOs do you hope will be released next year?
The other day, for some random reason, I was reminded that Hello Games announced Light No Fire late last year, got us all hot...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 490: What’s old is new again
Justin and Bree discuss New World, Wayfinder, Pax Dei, Tarisland, DDO, and Ultima Online, with adventures in Guild Wars 2, New World, WoW, and LOTRO, with a mailbag topic on solo vs. group MMO play.
V Rising conjures up some more Castlevania DLC goodies for the Halloween season
If there was ever a perfect collab, it would be the vampire games V Rising and Castlevania coming together to make some children of...
Rumor: Nintendo is running a 10K player test for its secret Switch MMO
A huge test for a not-so-secret Nintendo Switch playtest is underway by the company itself -- and this could have significant implications for the...
Game show shooter The Finals gets super-green in Patch 4.3
Forget orange and purple: Green is the color of the month when it comes to game show shooter The Finals and its Patch 4.3.
Currently,...
Lord of the Rings Online says Legacy of Morgoth is on track for early November launch
"Everything seems to be cooking along just fine." That's the word from Lord of the Rings Online's team regarding the upcoming early November release...
