Welcome to Show 136

It's starting to look alot like Christmas- time for a Christmas show. Subjects this week include Everquest Next, Star Citizen, exploding pigs and more; the full list is below including links to arts and videos discussed.

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Julie and Fran

Topics for the Show

- BBC America/Victorian London

- Everquest Next/Everquest Landmark/Everquest 1

- Warlords of Draenor - player housing

- Would you pay to be a beta tester?

- Chris Roberts/Star Citizen

- Baby its space outside - Portal 2

- Exploding Pigs

- Amazon/UPS and Drones

- Skyrim/Minecraft Mashup

- What main stream media thinks about the videogame industry.

Videos Discussed:

Charlie Brooker and Jon Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FLVjfFKy58

Conan O'Brien at Blizcon 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdzE4ks3lHo

X-box One His and Hers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn5u_RJO7YY

Articles Discussed:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/128885-Dark-Matter-Publisher-Claims-Its-An-Episodic-Series?utm_source=feedly

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/11/sony-online-entertainment-is-charging-60-to-alpha-test-a-free-to-play-mmo/

http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/3/5171250/watch-mandy-patinkin-help-jimmy-fallon-succeed-at-candy-crush

http://kotaku.com/to-be-fair-1475812825

http://www.bethblog.com/2013/12/03/see-skyrims-minecraft-mash-up-today-on-twitch/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/01/amazon-is-experimenting-with-autonomous-flying-delivery-drones/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/03/ups-also-said-to-be-testing-drone-delivery-constant-robot-background-hum-increasingly-inevitable/

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/205961/Video_Heres_what_the_mainstream_media_thinks_of_video_games.php

Welcome to Show 135!

This week we welcome to Saylah to the show to talk about Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft, gaming news and more.

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Julie and Fran

Welcome to the Government Shut Down Special!

This time out we sit down with Slunker from 2Lazy2beOtaku to discuss Neverwinter Online vs. Dungeons and Dragons Online, World of Warcraft, Decline of Free to play, hirlings vs. grouping, Star Citizen and More.

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Julie and Fran

Welcome at last to Show 133!

After a long bout with the plauge (or at least what seemed like it) Fran and I have both returned to the airwaves.  At long last welcome to the show. This time out we share alot of laughs and stories about Julie's adventures in that cubist's dreamworld, Minecraft.

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Julie and Fran

Welcome to show 132!

In the first half of the show Fran gives us her best zombie imitation as we discuss this year's Chicago Comic Con. In the second part of the show we are joined by Steve Griffing from 2Lazy2bOtaku for a round of discussion about Microsoft Versus Soney and more.

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Fran and Julie

First Part of the Show with Fran and Julie

1. The Chicago Comic Con 2013　

Second part of the show with Steve Griffing

1. If you can’t take the heat get out of the desert

2. Microsoft versus Sony – NSA connection optional

3. Console versus PCs

4. Do games need an online community to be successful?

5. Playing around: Dungeons and Dragons, Never Winter Nights 2, Cyberpunk 2020

6. Games gone by: SWOTR, WoW and STO

7. Imperfect world – operator error

8. LOTR and the Riders of Lohan

9. It feels so good when you stop

Sites/Emails:

Steve Griffing: Slugerino@gmail.com

Steve Griffing can also be heard on 2lazy2botaku.com

Welcome to Show 131

This time out Julie, Fran and Chris spend time talking aabout the, Star Trek Online, Xbox, the videogame industry in America and Japan and more.

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Julie and Fran

Subjects:

1. STO, Z Axis, and Outer Space Spreadsheets
2. Who killed anime? Tank Girls Gone Wild (un panzer)
3. Microsoft XBOX – let them eat Xbox
        a. Red Ring of Death
        b. Same old, same old games
        c. Death of a (videogame) salesman
        d. DLC keeping it going
        e. The Price is right – All Steamed up
        f. The vocal minority, the squeakiest wheel, and Microsoft
4. The reports of the death Triple A Development are not greatly exaggerated
5. Gaming, Comics and anime in Japan
6. Video Gaming: Future Imperfect
7. The Media is the Massage (Marshal McLuhan was right)
8. Bringing gaming home again

welcome to show 130!

This time out we talk about the NSA, the dark side of achievements, xbox-one, Assassins Creed and more!

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Julie and Fran

Welcome to show 129!

This week the show is co-hosted by Tom Waits....ok sort of...kind of....oh heck you will hear what we mean.

Some of the topics for this week:

1. Never Sleep with your sister

2. Brother can you spare 6 Billion Dollars

3. Dust 514, Guildwars.

4. Defiance and Trion Worlds

5. Agents of Shield/Phil Coulson

6. Et Tu Amazon?

7. Oculus Rift

8. The bottom of the gaming barrel...how low can you go?

9. EA learns a lesson - Sims 4

10 Kill Bill - He's Dead Jim

Welcome to Show 128!

This time out we spend the first half of the show talking about all the news of the day (subjects listed below)…all the news that tickles our fancy and we have pretty ticklish fancies. In the second half of the show we welcome guest Mord Fiddle from Fiddler’s Edge. See our website at www.noprisonersnomercy.com for full show notes including articles discussed. 

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Julie and Fran

Welcome to the Show 127!

This is the Eve Online CSM8  (counsel of stellar management) election special.  The elections are taking place right now! Time for you who play Eve Online to get out there and vote! If you are a high sec industrialist tell those nul sec thugs what they can do with it! If you are a nul sec player get out there and tell CCP you want to  drag the high sec industrialists out to low sec space kicking and screaming!  If you don't play Eve Online give a listen to the show so you can have a few laughs and find out a bit about the game.

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Julie and Fran

Welcome to Show 126

Fran and I welcome Steve and Chris in the second half of the show, but first the news...

Julie and Fran

Lord British, Kickstarter and Shroud of the Avagar

Sim City - A tale of one city

Mass Effect 3 - Happily Ever After

Paul Barnet, Zynga and cow clickers

Endgame, teabags and EQ1 with Chris, Steve, Fran and Julie

Eve Online - and the one player war

                       You have got to be kidding

Welcome to Show 125!

This time out Chris Dodson from 2 Lazy 2 be Otaku introduces Julie and Fran to the joys of futuristic PvP. We finally managed to pry JUlie away from Borderlands 2 so she can join us as we explore Planetside 2.

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Julie Whitefeather and Fran Kosac

Welcome to Show 124!

This time out Slunker from 2 Lazy 2 be Otaku, Fran and I talk about the following subjects:

1. Imitation is the sincerest of form of flattery – Japanese artists, American artists,  fans and fair use.
2. The Hobbit, Tolkien, Peter Jackson, and Hollywood
3. Steambox vs. consoles
4. Elderscrolls on and offline, diversity of classes, and why we keep playing  mmos

See you online!

Julie and Fran

Welcome to Show 123,

This time out we spend time with the gents from MMO Radio: Chris Coke and Adam "Ferrel" Trzonkkowski. The subject this time is something which has been in the news a great deal lately - violence in videogames. Do they cause violence? Is there any evidence that says that they do?

A long the way we have some fun and some laughs.

Julie Whitefeather and Fran Kosac

Welcome to Show 122!

It has been far too long between shows this time. Our New Years resolution is to cut that garbage out. This time out we talk about EA vs. Valve, Gabe Newell building up a head of steam, WII U and DRM, Capcom and the community, The Hobbit and EA vs. The World.

See you online,

Julie and Fran