Hello folks, welcome to episode 13 of season 4!
If your already confused by the obscure title, you really need to be following us on twitter! A listener kicked us off with an innuendo and we ran with it!
This week we round up some MMO and gaming news, the latest from WoW’s Beta, and talk subscriber numbers, new MMOs, including why we’re sceptical about the Elder Scrolls announcement, and touch on how Kickstarter and Steam are affecting the value of games.
We’d love to hear your thoughts as always when we have talking points, so let us know on the links after the show notes!
Talking Point
Damarai has been in TSW beta!
http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/how-valve-devalued-video-games-and-why-thats-good-news-for-developers-and-p
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=29682
Random topics
- Secret War has 200,000 players http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/03/the-secret-war-draws-over-200-000-players-to-its-facebook-battle/
- http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/10/the-secret-world-reaches-one-million-beta-signups/ – and a million beta testers
- Bethesda IS making an Elder Scrolls MMO http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/03/bethesda-confirms-elder-scrolls-mmo-three-faction-pvp/
- Swtor subscription numbers fall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17989756
- diablo cinematic
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26v%3DLEAPxgMCEA8
- WoW has nothing on Angry Birds numbers! http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/09/angry-birds-downloaded-a-billion-times/
- Wildstar has interesting quality of life ideas http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/10/wildstar-wednesday-discusses-quality-of-life/
- Storybricks Alpha now available http://www.storybricks.com/
- LoL Hack fixed – http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=29677
WoW News
- Pandas now have voices/Dances http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHNMTTUNCDI&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn43L7q5Nlk
- New dungeon armour sets http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2758-MoP-Dungeon-Armor-Sets-Upcoming-Beta-Build-End-of-D3-Beta-Curse-Weekly-Roundup
- Warcraft stabalises at 10million players http://news.mmosite.com/content/a/2012-05-10/world_of_warcraft_finally_stops_losing_players.shtml
- Creepy bug mounts defy physics! http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1115813-VIDEO-Mists-of-Pandaria-Mounts-(Pandaren-Mount-)?p=16416905
- http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/10/avengers-assemble-transmogrify-your-own-superhero-team/ – for those that’ve seen Avengers
Obscurebag:
reader recommendation http://www.destructoid.com/review-lone-survivor-224872.phtml
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