Welcome to Show 102!

Its the end of January 2012 and the honeymoon with Bioware is over. Time to take a look around the internet to find out what people are saying.  Then we talk a bit about S.O.P.A., P.I.P.A. and B.Y.O.B.  Then we answer the question who is this Robert Johnson?

1. I told you the Sun would finally explode
2. Indie Game the Movie
3. One woman’s heaping pile of dingo dung
4. Star Wars is not a 57 Chevy
5. The Single Player Game Viewpoint
6. Illum – who is at fault?
7. Winning an MMO
8. Who is this Robert Johnson guy?

Articles Cited:

http://ardwulfslair.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/wow-killer-my-ass/
http://ardwulfslair.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/wow-killer-my-ass/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/11/activision-ceo-star-wars-the-old-republic-may-not-make-ea-any-money.ars
http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2012/01/doomcasting-swtor.html
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/01/an-indie-game-movie-will-make-you-cry.ars
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2012/01/star-wars-the-dead-republic.html
http://noprisonersnomercy.com/2010/04/zen-and-the-art-of-asteriod-mining/
http://www.gamebynight.com/?p=3298
http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/swtor-in-which-bioware-finally-nail-single-player-gameplay/
http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2012/QBlog090112A.html

Welcome to Show 101!

This week we spend time contrasting Star Wars the Old Republic and World of Warcraft.  After that we discuss evil versus good in SWTOR.  This week we also revisit the subject started by Dr. Richard Bartle in Show 101 freedom to be yourself in virtual worlds.  We finish up the show with a brief discussion on yellow journalism.

1.     1. A day late and 26.95 shorter - Returning to World of Warcraft

2.     2. Cut Scenes in WoW and SWTOR

3.     3. Story in SWTOR and WoW

4.     4.  Linear Questing In WoW and Star Wars the Old Republic

5.     5. A very Grinch Christmas in Azeroth

6.     6. It’s my party and I’ll leave when I want to

7.     7.  Evil is as evil does -  Evil versus good in SWTOR  (The return of Good Nun/Bad Nun)

8.     8. The freedom to be yourself in virtual worlds (revisited)

9.     9. What is a “Sith” anyway?

10.  10. Yellow Journalism

Articles Cited:

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/13/raph-koster-immersion-is-not-a-core-game-virtue/

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-30-lucasarts-to-take-around-35-percent-of-old-republic-revenue-report

http://pc.ign.com/articles/114/1147536p1.html

http://n4g.com/news/907301/physical-copies-of-star-wars-the-old-republic-sold-out-on-origin
via Forbes.com

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/setView/news/gameId/367/showArticle/23086

http://www.mmocrunch.com/2012/01/03/swtor-uk-sales-plummet-after-one-week/

http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2012/01/swtor-sold-out.html

http://torwars.com/2012/01/10/lies-damn-lies-and-statistics-swtor-sales-in-the-uk/