Welcome to show 77 - this week we talk about steampunk, wikileaks, net neutrality (or lack thereof) hits the British Isles and Eve Online.  This week Stuart, a listener from the British Isles, joins us in the second half of the show.

See you Online,

Julie and Fran

What would we talk about on December 7^th, 2010 but Cataclysm? Well perhaps (and more importantly) Pearl Harbor Day, had we planned for it ahead of time.  But before Blizzard even discussed having goblins as a character option our own Julie said she would come back to the game if they were playable – which means Rob Pardo listens to our show. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.  After the show stay tuned for news of the comings and goings in Everquest II,

See you online (on the Proudmoore Server)

Julie and Fran

Welcome to Show 75!

This week we talk about elementals, Lore, worgens and more in the first half of the show. In the second half of the show we have an interview with the executive producer of Champions Online, Mr. Shannon Posniewski. 

Julie and Fran

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE IN THIS EPISODE
SPOILER WARNING – Cataclysm: Time mark  40:15 to 54:24

The Amazing Karnak lives again
Being prepared and reading tea leaves
The reverse Doctor Dolittle and her pets
Lip smacking bad and other pet peeves
Elemental Busters
 Warring Worgen: you and me, all along
The secret life of grandmother Wahl
An interview with Shannon Posniewski, Cryptic Studios

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy show 74!

From what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues comes …THE NO PRISONERS, NO MERCY SHOW 74!  This week Julie tries to dub her own dialogue and makes a mistake (either that or she is having an identity crisis). Molly makes a return visit by way of a classic clip from show 18 to give us all SPOILER WARNING (yes that smell is spoiled dog).  Julie has so much fun in the Lost Isles in Cataclysm she has to censor herself. Fran and Julie spend “Thirty Seconds Over the Lost Isles”.  Julie “Illinois Jones” discusses the archeology profession with Fran. Blizzard takes the rubber tip off hunter’s arrows. The NPNM team realizes some games aren’t even worth playing for free.  The NPNM team puts a positive spin on Jack Emmert.  The “Red Shirt Guy” confounds Chris Metzen and ends up a World of Warcraft character (Yay!!). The U.S. Air force turns out to be fans of the Transformers.  The artists formerly known as Mythic take Warhammer “pay to not play”.  To skip the cataclysm spoilers fast forward to time 29:45

Julie and Fran

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 73!

This week we start out with a discussion with our own big news of the week - having breakfast with Martog and Gowron.  Next up is about the big news coming out of Cryptic: Champions Online going free 2 play and Star Trek Online launching player created content!  This week the Pirate Bay made plans to shoot their servers into orbit - But only after failing to purchase the Micronation of Sealand.  This is always something to be Mad-as-hell about and this week it's over Fallout: New Vegas.  In the second half of the show Mr.  Vlad Loscutoff, founder of MobRule Studios, spends some time talking to us about independant game development. For full shownotes go to www.noprisonersnomercy.com

See you online,

Julie and Fran

The sisters call out Chris Columbus for being 500 years late. Sister Julie gives in to that new beta smell. Once again the NPNM team gets MAD AS HELL, and this time takes aim at WoW patch 4.01 - Learning along the way that there IS somewhere to go from bottom. The NPNM team has their own special interpretation of WoW’s massive subscriber base. It turns out that numbers may fib a bit, but never outright lie. The smell you THINK you smell is NOT spoiled dog – it’s a Cataclysm spoiler warning. (To skip Cataclysm Spoilers jump to time 45:48 in the show). On the after show we chat about EQ2 extended changes. For links to news and articles discussed on the show go to www.noprisonersnomercy.com

Who’s bad is it? We talk about our Brewfest experience. The sisters get mad as hell about a game that not only scrapes the bottom of the barrel, but is made out of what is underneath the barrel.  We discuss a thorn in our sides that we share with Blizzard’s own lead systems designer Ghostcrawler. Next Mr. Shannon Posniewski, executive producer for Champions Online joins us.  (During the discussion with the Poz we had to call him back and we reached a pizza parlor…or so we thought).  After the show we will have a short chat session about EQ2.

This week Julie and Fran welcome Senior Designer for Fallen Earth Marie Croall, from Icarus Studios in their second half hour. In the first half the fabulous sisters will share news and commentary on the mmo news of the week. Along the way Google, Verizon and AT&T end up the subject of this weeks Mad As Hell.

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy show 69.

This week the fabulous sisters (if we do say so ourself) talk about pink caddilacs, ogres In Nagrand wearing Manziers, sister Fran's schoool of leveling (ding!), getting frelled by Blizzard as well as...

- Rep mounts in Wow and Lotro where Julie puts her nose to the grindstone and grinds it back to the medula oblongata

- Mafia II

- Zynga finds out a rose by any other name does not smell as sweet

- Final Fantasy XIV

- The Schwarzenegger double standard

- "Banned in Boston" - Medal of Honor

- EA finds also finds out that a rose by any other name does smell as sweet as long as it isn't spelled E-D-G-E. The sisters realize this is Deja Vu all over again with Groucho Marx.

- NC Soft gets hit with a suit that claims the Devil didn't make the plaintiff do it even though he hasn't bathed in 20,000 hours.

- EA and APB on the PDQ and the "real" story

- The sisters take a brief look at a bunker somewhere in Stockholm, Sweden

- Love is in the virtual air and uses augmented reality

- Our good friend and author J.T. Hamption stops by briefly at the end of the show to share Sister Julie's birthday and chat about the Chicago Comic Con.

Bonus Content after the show:

Net Neutrality by Senator Al Franken

Web sites:

www.lorewriter.com    

featuring fiction by R.W. Harper and Yours truly Sister Julie

www.biobreak.com    

(one of our must read sites)

http://www.pinkpigtailinn.com/    

(Larisa's marvelous site)

www.noprisonersnomercy.com    

www.gamepolitics.com    

Additional Notes:

Unamused, Warner Bros. requested that the Marx Brothers at least outline the premise of their film. Groucho responded with an utterly ridiculous storyline, and, sure enough, received another stern letter requesting clarification. He obliged and went on to describe a plot even more preposterous than the first, claiming that he, Groucho, would be playing “Bordello, the sweetheart of Humphrey Bogart.” No doubt exasperated, Warner Bros. did not respond. A Night in Casablanca was released in 1946.

Welcome to Show Number 68!

Fallout: New Vegas is discussed, including the talents of Wayne “Mr.
Las Vegas” Newton. Fran and Julie see the handwriting on the wall (it
spells net neutrality). Also discussed - World of Warcraft, The
Transformers mmo, Bill Roper, Medal of Honor, Star Wars, Blue Ray and
laser disks the size of a tire on a buick.

The topics of the week are Guild Wars 2, including the dynamic events
system, and Julie decides that it really could be the future of mmos.
Next we talk about World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion.  We save
the best for last and spend a few minutes with Dr. Richard Bartle and
chat about his upcoming award as a legend of gaming.

Julie and Fran

Sites we discuss on the show:
blog.weflyspitfires.com/
biobreak.wordpress.com/
usuallyfine.blogspot.com/
www.tgdaily.com/