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/

Welcome to Show 67!

Bobby Kotick et al, easy going guys, slap a bear in the face. Blizzard tries to turn rotten lemons into lemonade and fails, but manages to keep spaceships out of World of Warcraft (sort of). The sisters step through the really, REALLY Dark Portal with some fantastic ideas from The Pink Pigtail Inn [http://www.pinkpigtailinn.com/] and realize that it’s the journey that counts and not the destination. Breakfast isn’t ready because Julie can’t fry an egg in her bra, but the sisters pass the roles anyway. And Fran puzzles out the first great game.

Julie and Fran

Welcome to route 66! This was a week of bad computers, Everquest 2 players getting slapped down and the great wall of SOE going up. Along the way we find out why you can start sending your hate mail to Mickey Rat, and why Senator Al Franken is concerned about two companies that have been stomping around yelling Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum (we agree). We fill out the rest of the show with talk of trailers and why Ed Norton is out and Karl Urban is in.

Julie and Fran

Welcome to show 65!

This week we continue our back to the future format with a discussion of the recent events in the videogame industry. We continue with talk about some important blocks (including the two below) as well as why the 800 pound Blizzard Gorilla took one in the gnads’ and what may happen as a result.

Two important links discussed in this show:

Welcome to Show 64!

Welcome to show 63. This week we start off with a pre-show with discussion of some of the news of the week, including Eve Online planetary expansion. In the second half of the show we welcome Ravious from Kill Ten Rats, Saylah from Mystic Worlds, and Tipa from West Karana in the second round of a team-tag grudge match: Ravious vs. Saylah and Tipa (O.K. so it was more of a polite, "miff match").

Welcome to Show 62! This time author Dedra Stevenson comes to us all the way from the United Arab Emirates to talk to us about The Hakima’s Tale Trilogy (now in print in the UAE and being released here). Come share the fun and laughter as we talk to Ms. Stevenson about her works, her life, what life is really like in the UAE and more.

Join us for the triumphant return of Good Nun, Bad Nun! By request we have brought back this feature. This week we are joined by Saylah from Mystic Worlds, and Tipa from West Karana as we debate Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online!

Where has Turbine succeeded?
Where have they failed?
How can it be improved?
Will Sister Julie ever recover  her voice?

This week our guest is Mr. Kedhrin Gonzalez, Lead Designer for Illfonic Studio. Join us for an hour of fun and laughter (ok 40 minutes - its like a psychiatrist’s hour only cheaper). Mr. Gonzalez will tell us all about the new game studio founded by grammy award winning R & B artist Raphael Saadiq, as well as their latest games.

Sr. Fran & Sr. Julie

What do you know about know about “The Poz”?  No, we are not talking
about the cousin of Arthur Fonzarelli from “Happy Days.”  We are
talking about the man who will be steering Champions Online in the
direction of happy days to come.  Yes none other than Mr. Shannon
“Poz” Posniewski, the new executive producer for Champions Online.

Share an hour of fun and laughter with Julie, Fran and Poz and find
out the answer to such burning issues as…

Who at Cryptic wear a size 13 shoe with flames down the side?
What other noted game developer did Poz go to school with and why did
that person dance for money at an early age?
What does Poz do in his spare time?
What is Bill Roper up to now? (Aside from 6 feet tall)
What does the new executive producer for Champions think about where
the game has been and where it is going?
Why is approach to Player Vs. Player different for Champions than it
is for other games? Where does it shine and when did it have its
“light under a bushel basket”?

Yes for all you adoring fans out there who can’t wait to get your
hands (or ears) on the next release of No Prisoners, No Mercy show 58
is live!

Join Sr. Fran (as Huckleberry Hound), and Sr. Julie (as Tom Waits) as
they talk to Tipa from West Karana and Saylah from Mystic Worlds about
net neutrality (that’s the internet not fishing in Switzerland),
Zynga, developers circling facebook, Eve Online, and a certain
socialogist who thinks that WoW will one day be the afterlife…and you
thought WE were crazy!!??? Join us for the fun!

You can read about the article involving WoW and the afterlife
here:http://noprisonersnomercy.com/2010/03/the-crystal-ball-may-have-gone-dark/

We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did producing it. Tune in
next time for an hour with Cryptic Studio's own Mr. Shannon Posniewski
- the new executive producer of Champions Online.

Fran and Julie

Welcome to Show 57!

This week we have a very special show for you.  Listen (that's an
order) to show 57 as Fran and Julie welcome Mr. Joe "Rekhan" Blancato,
Cryptic Studios Marketing Specialist for Star Trek Online and
Champions Online.  A great time was had by all as Joe shares inside
insights on Cryptic Studios and Star Trek Online.

Julie and Fran

Welcome to show 53.5

This week we have a special show, at the request of a listener - this
week Fran is driving the bus and Julie is sitting in the side seat.

Julie and Fran

Welcome to show 53!

This week Fran and I while away a couple of pleasent hours with Jim
"Tork" Younkin, community manager and "evangelist" and Hue Henry,
director of design, for the Quest Online studio. Actually Jim Younkin
isn't the first member of the game development industry that has been
a guest on the show that describes himself as an "evangelist" but he
is, perhaps, on of the most enthusiastic we have met.

Julie Whitefeather
Fran Kosac