Alec! Kieron! An oddly alien-robot Quinns! We gathered on the Internet last week. Mr Hockel had a prod at it to improve its quality over the weekend. AND NOW WE PRESENT THE RESULTS! You can download it directly from here, subscribe to it by RSS with this, or get it on iTunes from here. Contents include! DRM, Bioshock 2 and other stuff! And a full list of everything follows. Hurrah! (more…)

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Welcome to the 22nd episode of the Working As Intended podcast!

In this week’s show we’re joined by Gordon Farrell of Reverie World Studios to discuss Dawn of Fantasy, the company’s inaugural MMORTS.

Gordon is Lead Writer on the project, and as story quality (or lack thereof) in the genre is a favorite topic of discussion here at The MMO Gamer, you can bet that we had a lively conversation.

For those wondering about his credentials to pontificate on such topics, when he’s ..read the full article

Image is courtesy of Brian Hough.

Kind of a fun title, no?  I’m ready to let the “fail” jokes ensue!  Mwa-ha-ha-ha!

In all seriousness, the folks over at Raid Warning (xSeven and Epiphanize) have assembled this special podcast (scheduled to be released March 1st) – a roundtable of some of the community’s most prominent priests.

Raid Warning’s last roundtable, Wild Shots, was a huge hit.  It was a roundtable of some very well-known hunters in the community.  You can follow links on their site ..read the full article

Welcome to the 21st episode of the Working As Intended podcast!

In this week’s show, we largely focus on the declining difficulty of the modern MMO genre (or as many people call it, the ‘dumbing down’) in order to appeal to a wider audience than its original base.

Using STO as a jumping off point for the discussion (sorry, Cryptic, we’re going to stop ranting about your games eventually, we swear), the conversation weaves its way from the Sunwell in World of Warcraft, ..read the full article

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Karen and Adam (who you guys may already know from Journeys with Jaye and Epic Slant) caught me off guard and asked if I’d be willing to guest on a podcast of theirs, View from the Top. Having never done a single podcast in my entire life (although I have lots of experience talking to myself, and the cat) I decided to face my fears of public speaking, and give it a ..read the full article

Welcome to the 20th episode of the Working As Intended podcast!

In this week’s show we’re joined by Sara Kaplan of Sony Online Entertainment to discuss their Gamers in Real Life (G.I.R.L.) scholarship, currently entering its third year, which aims to get more women working in the gaming industry.

For additional information about the G.I.R.L. scholarship, including deadlines, rules, and application requirements, be sure to pay a visit to the official website: http://www.station.sony.com/girl

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Welcome to Episode 19 of Working as Intended!

What are you still reading this for?

Go listen, already!

Chop chop!

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Power Level, a podcast-within-a-podcast response to people complaining we talk too much What we’ve been playing: The MMO Conspiracy Star Trek Online has gone live; but is it ready? FunCom Reveals Northern Grasslands for Rise of the Godslayer The Secret World Teases with Kingsmouth Website Major Layoffs at Red 5 Studios

Hosts

Jeffrey Philipp Steven Crews Siam has been living in a hobo shack  in a peat bog somewhere in Ireland for ..read the full article

Jim and John gathered together aboard the RPS yacht to put right all that is wrong with everything that’s ever happened in the universe. Eschewing tweets in episode 38, instead we spoke about the contents of our head, from Mass Effect 2 and dreams of a different BioShock, to DRM and the peculiarities of mining in MMOs.

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Let it not be said that we do not listen to our critics and take their suggestions seriously.

A number of people have pointed out since we began our Working as Intended podcast last year that we tend to sometimes talk… a bit much.

Fifteen minutes, they said, would be much more reasonable to listen to than 45.

But to our thinking, a fifteen minute podcast would meet, at best, Web 2.5 standards. We here at The MMO Gamer have always prided ourselves on being ..read the full article

Jeffrey and Steve have been playing Star Trek Online, and they do not mince words in their assessment of it.

Will the game be ready for release? Will it appease the most Klingon-fluent Trek fans? Will Lassie be able to get help for Timmy who has fallen down the old well?

You’ll have to listen to this week’s show to find out!

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Jeffrey: The once-jilted Cryptic fan, eager to bring a fresh set of eyes to Star Trek Online. Steve: The ..read the full article

Jim and John had stretched the elastic that joins them as far as it would reach, causing them to be flung back together, landing in front of a microphone. So a podcast was recorded. It’s another Twitter-driven special, after last time’s monster-stomach-set Twitter isolation. Discussed are matters of Neptune’s Pride, procedural worlds, game pricing and gamepads.

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Welcome to the 17th episode of the Working As Intended podcast!

There wasn’t much news to report this week.

As such, the bulk of the podcast is comprised of our conversation with Matt Mihaly, CEO of Sparkplay Media, regarding his current project Earth Eternal as well as his history with real-money trading, text-based games, and the current state of the industry at large.

As a personal aside, I strongly encourage everyone to head over to Earth Eternal’s official website and give it a ..read the full article

Welcome to the 16th episode of the Working As Intended podcast! This week focuses on the latest news. This episode is also the first episode of the year!

Tune in to listen and catch up on the latest news and discussions with host Jeffrey Phillip and co-hosts Steven Crews and Siam Choudhury.

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EVE Online Breaks Another PCU Record LEGO Universe Playable at CES in Las Vegas Meridian 59 and Near Death Studios Close Down Star Trek Online Releases New Trailer Blizzard Helps Catch Fugitive with Help ..read the full article

Hullo. So I burped, and there was this podcast. It appears John and Jim were lucky enough to have been holding onto their recording equipment when I ate them. Kieron and Alec were off on some expedition through my duodenum at the time, so I understand. With the new year here they seem to have focused on reflecting on 2009, and looking forward to 2010. As well as their meandering.

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Welcome to this years last episode of the Working As Intended podcast! We will look back the year that has gone by and what is to come in the next year in the MMOG industry.

We hope you have enjoyed this year and look forward to everything we will bring you in 2010!

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Top 10 Most Read Features of the Year

Star Wars: The Old Republic – A New Hope for MMOs? Bridging the Culture Divide: NCsoft’s Brian Knox on Aion’s Plans to Bring ..read the full article

There is yabber in the world again. A week or so back, Quinns and I got together and did a podcast. It’s now available. We did over Skype, however, so while Kieron’s new mic was being in oddly good form, Quinns’ was a bit off. We decided to take up the offer of one of the people who’ve said they’d do some processing for us. Mr Hockel had a tweak, and we praise him with choirs of Ursine-Angels. It sounds ..read the full article

Welcome to another episode of the Working As Intended podcast! This week we found the news to be in something of a holiday lull, so, in the absence of anything substantial to discuss, we just talked about… pretty much whatever we felt like.

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Steve, Jeffrey, and Mobin start ranting. They don’t stop for 50 minutes. Oh, and I think they also managed to work in some news, at the end.

Hosts & Guests

Jeffrey Philipp Steven Crews Mobin Koohestani

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Welcome to another episode of the Working As Intended podcast! This week’s guest is Kelvin Plomer, Player Support Community Manager for RuneScape.

Tune in to listen to our conversation with him, as well as catch up on the latest news and discussions with host Jeffrey Phillip and co-hosts Steven Crews and Siam Choudhury, and Mobin Koohestani.

Topics

Guest: Kelvin Plomer What we’ve been playing Funcom Establishes SweetRobot, Casual MMO Publisher and announces Pets Vs. Monsters Sony Online Entertainment Launches Social Media Event, “ConnecDING” WoW 3.3 goes live: ..read the full article