Welcome to Show 235,

This time out we talk about Star Trek and Star Trek Online.

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Welcome to Show 234 of the No Prisoners, No Mercy Show. This time out the team talks about the following subjects:

1. Professional players protest - what is it all about
2. Blizzards history with the gaming market in china
3. Publisher Profit vs. The gamer - paying for content
4. Metal Guild Solid 5
5. Space Engineers

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Welcome to a very special edition of the No Prisoners, No Mercy Show! Join us as we welcome back to the show one of the people who started it all...Dr. Richard Bartle.

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Welcome to show 232!

If you are like us you are always on the lookout for a new game. Sometimes its something you have overlooked. Join us as we talk with game developer Rod Harper about a return to Final Fantasy.

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Welcome to Show 231,

This time out we talk about 2k games, Apex Legends, and more

Sites Cited:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcGZQDOOU6Y

https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/18/20811014/apex-legends-iron-crown-skins-developers-rant-ass-hats-freeloaders-pc-ps4-xbox-one

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-blames-video-games-el-paso-dayton-mass-shootings-1229106

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 230,

This time out we discuss the following subjects:

1. Hoverboards are real
2. Simulator games. Cooking, truck, train
3. Roleplaying in videogames
4. Mickey the rat owns your childhood
5. Strategy games...one more turn
6. Retirement home for older gamers

Sites Cited:
https://www.gameskinny.com/qrfc6/9-strangest-simulator-games-you-need-to-know-about
https://screenrant.com/rogue-one-princess-leia-actress-cgi-carrie-fisher/
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/disney-fox-layoffs-2-1203288499/
http://psychochild.org/?p=1532

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/4/20753648/jet-powered-hoverboard-english-channel-crossing-franky-zapata-success

https://youtu.be/nLqW7G879

Welcome to show 229 of the No Prisoners, No Mercy Show

This time out we talk about writing for video-games - what makes it good? What makes it bad? Along the way we talk about some of our favorite games.

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Welcome to Show 228!

This time out the No Prisones, No Mercy Team talks about the following subjects:

1. strategy games
2. Strategy Games: I have been trying my had at strategy games and see some people on the internet that claim they are a thing of the past. Is this true?
3. Is Facebook on its way out?
4. Is EA as bad as everyone claims? What can they do about it if they are?

Sites Cited:
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-history-of-the-strategy-game/
https://www.geek.com/news/what-happened-to-the-real-time-strategy-genre-1649869/
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-ftc-fine-five-billion/
https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/is-rts-a-dead-genre-1816313/
https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/07/09/sean-murray-talks-about-how-companies-like-ea-and-bethesda-should-handle-rocky-game
https://screenrant.com/ea-bad-guy-originals-loot-box-microtransaction/
https://www.slashgear.com/ea-doesnt-know-why-theyre-the-bad-guy-well-heres-why-13583797

The real cost of facebook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pFX2P7JLwA

Welcome to Show 227,

This time out we talk about the following subjects:

1. Electronic Arts, Parliment, and Surprise Mechancis
2. Leage of Legends and Bans
3. Netflix cancels Good Omens...sort of...
4. Disney beats us over the head with a major deciduous forest.
5. A warning about a dangerous hack
6. Main Topic: Will Classic WoW Kill Wow?

The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team.

Welcome to Show 226

Subject this time out:

1. The "straight skinny" on Star Citizen. Has it been mismanaged? Have reports of what is going on at Star Citizen been exaggerated? What really goes into making a triple-A game?

2. Where did Anthem go wrong? Have we seen changes in the industry that has caused this?

3. Have business models that depend on microtransactions and loot boxes reached the point where the government is finally going to regulate the industry? Has the game industry reached the point where it is on government radar? Is it a moral conundrum? What will happen when the government finally steps in to police the games industry?

4. Is the walk-off at riot games a change in the way the industry works?

5. What have we been playing - a game bricks Fran's phone

Articles:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-05-03-star-citizen-development-reportedly-troubled-by-mishandled-money-micromanagement

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/342217/Riot_Games_walkout_sees_150_developers_protest_forced_arbitration.php

https://kotaku.com/u-s-senator-introduces-bill-to-ban-loot-boxes-and-pay-1834612226

Welcome to Show 225:

This time out the No Prisoners, No Mercy Team talks about the following subjects:

1. Steam anything goes - until the U.K. Government steps in
(https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-03-07-rape-day-prompts-call-for-uk-government-review)
2. Elder Scrolls Blades
(https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/blades)
3. Battlestar Galactica: The Souls of the Cylons, Star Trek, and The Expanse
4. Update on Star Citizen

interview about Battlestar Galactica
Souls of the Cylons:
https://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/movies/2005/05/the-souls-of-cylons.aspx

Welcome to Show 224,

Topics for the show are as follows:

1. Steam and the anything goes mentality - now they have competition in the form of epic, discord and gog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUHl9ZThXU0
https://tagn.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/steam-policy-plays-out-as-expected/

2. With Epic Games, Good Old Games, Discord and Origin now competing against steam is this a case similar to what we see with streaming services with everyone trying to grab a "piece of the pie" when there is only so much pie to go around? Will We see the same thing as is happening with "Battle Royale" mode with every game offering them to the point we are sick of it?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/disney-to-close-vault-for-good-as-it-moves-film-library-to-streaming-service/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-_xOhBaf8w

3. Mobile gaming vs. PC Gaming - have corporations begun to step away from rampant corporate greed such as we saw with EA's Dungeon Keeper and other "Pay or Wait" games?
https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/nintendo-mobile-microtransactions-1203156557/

4. Gopher - just make good games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-_xOhBaf8w

Welcome to Show 223:

This week we take about tales of Warcraft, Portals, and whether or not you really can go back to the good old days - and were they all that good to being with?

Artices:

https://www.mmorpg.com/world-of-warcraft/news/world-of-warcraft-portal-removal-in-815-sparks-a-firestorm-of-controversy-1000051725#GaDkz4wYgObpeqrq.99

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/338327/209_were_laid_off_from_Blizzard_as_part_of_earlier_Activision_Blizzard_cuts.php

https://biobreak.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/world-of-warcraft-how-could-you-get-me-back/

https://www.mmorpg.com/news/activision-blizzard-teams-up-with-newzoo-for-mobile-games-report-betting-on-billions-1000051702

Welcome to show 222. This time out the No Prisoners, No Mercy gang talks about the following subjects:

1. Esports and farming simulators:
https://unrealitymag.com/guy-trained-on-video-games-beats-formula-1-driver-on-a-real-track/

https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/23/farming-simulator-is-getting-its-own-esports-league/

2. Player Retention and live services
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaphKoster/20190131/335683/What_Drives_Retention.php

 Welcome to Show 221.

This time out the No Prisoners, No Mercy team discuss the following subjects.

1. When games like Tell Tale Games and Wildstar close do we have the right to complain if we haven't played it in some time? Why did the games close?

2. If we could turn back the clock and bring back any of the games we have played in the past, what would it be and why?

3. What is good writing? Getting involved in writing.

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