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.
Personal blog: BioBreakTwitter: @sypster
Dungeons and Dragons Online touts better performance and a European datacenter with its new servers
Ready or not, Dungeons and Dragons Online is heading into a new age -- an age of 64-bit servers. As Executive Producer Rob Ciccolini...
Diablo Immortal’s Prince of Freedom update arrives this week
If Diablo Immortal slipped off your radar a while back, you might be amazed to hear that this mobile MMORPG is cranking out its...
MapleStory hands out compensation after 35-hour ’emergency’ downtime
If you haven't been in MapleStory's orbit as of late, you might have missed the big downtime that struck this MMO last week. Nexon...
Lord of the Rings Online shows off new Midsummer Festival island, explains server closure decision
Last week's abrupt announcement that Lord of the Rings Online is closing down all of its 32-bit servers caught many players by surprise, especially...
The MOP Up: DDO’s Ravenloft expands its gothic horror to Frankenstein
MOP Reader Mick shared an interview in which Dungeons and Dragons Online's developers talked about how this summer's The Chill of Ravenloft is expanding...
One Shots: A perilous pool party
OK people, I expect to see a lot of sun, surf, and poolside festivities over the next couple months here at One Shots! Or...
LOTRO Legendarium: How music binds the LOTRO community together
Whenever I'm reading through JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth novels, one thing that absolutely pops out at me is the Professor's love of song. Music isn't...
The Daily Grind: How do you best like to contribute to an MMO group?
When I was in fifth grade, we had a huge "war" of freeze tag that went on every recess break for a couple months....
Dungeons and Dragons Online heralds a trio of new 64-bit servers this July – but is closing all old worlds
The game master has returned from furiously planning a new campaign, and now the full truth is revealed: Dungeons and Dragons Online is saying...
MMO Hype Train: What’s the ideal path to promoting and hyping an MMO?
As much as there's a great deal to master when creating an MMORPG, there's also quite the learning experience when it comes to promoting...
Lord of the Rings Online announces the full closure of its old 32-bit worlds at the end of August
When Standing Stone Games revealed its plans for Lord of the Rings Online's new 64-bit servers, it left a little bit of leeway in...
Project Ghost’s Greg Street defends building an MMO: ‘When they work, it’s magic’
It's slightly sad that in this day and age, a game studio feels that it needs to defend why it's pouring efforts into crafting...
World of Warcraft posts update notes for next week’s Legacy of Arathor
World of Warcraft players looking for a summer vacation from The War Within will soon get their wish thanks to next week's update. Patch...
Aion’s big 4.0 update arrives next week with Luminess class and level cap increase
It's kind of crazy to realize that it's taken until 2025 for Aion to produce an action mage class, but that's exactly what it's...
Throne and Liberty moves into the next phase of its Road to Raid gear-up event
Boy does Throne & Liberty want you to raid these days. In fact, it wants you to raid so much that it's created a...
The MMO Book Club re-emerges, starting off with a planned visit to Pax Dei
Readers with long and nerdy memories might recall that back in the late 2010s, there was a pretty nifty MMO Book Club Reddit that...
Perfect Ten: Awful things I don’t miss about 2000s-era MMO gaming
Nostalgia is a tricky beast to ride. It can unlock all sorts of blissful memories, bring us back to old favorites, and reclaim a...
Lord of the Rings Online players still report missing and delayed transfer escrow, sometimes weeks later
Lord of the Rings Online's studio might claim that the title is in the "home stretch" of its months-long server transfer effort, but for...
Monsters & Memories sounds the horn for another Saturday stress test
The silver lining to missing out on a Monsters & Memories stress test is that there's always another one right around the bend. And...
The Daily Grind: If you had only 15 minutes to play your MMO, what would you do?
Time is a precious commodity for all of us -- and there never seems to be enough for all we want to do. This...
