City of Heroes Podcast

Attached is the full PDF of Mur Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps novel with the bonus story- PARASITE AWAKENS He likes Pallas. He likes who he is when he experiences her life out of her eyes. And now he looks through her eyes at his own sleeping brown face as she peers at him through the crystal porthole in his stasis chamber. After twenty years, Parasite will wake up. Don’t forget to purc...

This episode is a feedback extravaganza to get us caught up and ready for the next news and feature cast. It includes: Voicemail E-mail Website Comments

In this special episode we interview Mur Lafferty – author of the new novel from Swarm Press “ Playing for Keeps ” We discuss: Playing for Keeps Writing JC Hutchins and Matt Wallace are hacks City of Heroes compared to other MMOs A contest for a free signed copy of Playing for Keeps How awesome Cheyenne Wright is Pie !

This is another super sized episode that is getting split into two. So, this first chunk contains tons of news, and our special feature on the Shadow Shard. In a couple days will come show notes, linkage, and another episode dedicated to listener feedback. Promo: Playing For Keeps (Novel hitting Amazon on August 25th!)

Attached to this post is a full, non-DRM, PDF copy of Digital Magic . Give it a read, and if you like what you see, please consider buying your copy on 08-08-08 ! Two Authors Team Up to Make Trouble On August 8, 2008, the distance between the United States and New Zealand will lessen. Award-nominated author and podcaster Tee Morris (United States) had announced on his podcasts a promotion he dubbe...

Attached to this post is a full, non-DRM, PDF copy of  The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. Give it a read, and if you like what you see, please consider buying your copy on 08-08-08 ! Two Authors Team Up to Make Trouble On August 8, 2008, the distance between the United States and New Zealand will lessen. Award-nominated author and podcaster Tee Morris (United States) h...

Sorry for the delay.. XPXP Weekend got the best of us, and work unexpectedly had me hopping the whole week after so we never had time to record! This episode we discuss: T-shirt status Contest is almost over – get your submissions in by Jul 31, 2008!: Win a copy of the debut issue of comic book Twilight Guardian by Troy Hickman! The rules are as follows: Send an Email, starting immediately t...

Here is part 2 of Episode 29. No intros, no news, we jump right into the feedback! Voicemails E-mails Comments iTunes Review Much talk of knupples.. and knuckles.. and for that matter, nipples..

This episode we talk about; The t-shirts are in! They’ll be posted “real soon now ™” Contest: Win a copy of the debut issue of comic book Twilight Guardian by Troy Hickman! The rules are as follows: Send an Email, starting immediately to cohpodcast@gmail.com We will do 2 random drawings, and Troy will mail them to the winners. Make sure you include the subject: “Twilight Gu...

The late-isode has arrived Thanks for the patience everybody! This time we talk about: Our nephew’s recovery ( update : He’s home now and doing GREAT! You’re our hero RD!!) T-shirt status (tester shirts are in the mail and shirts will be available to buy soon! Prices are ranging from about $14 to $26 depending on one side vs. two side, colors, etc. Contest – Copies of Twili...

This is just a quick check-in that the episode will post later this week. Thanks to everybody who came out for the listener meet-up! It was a lot of fun and great to virtually meet so many of you!

Enhancements/IO Sets Part Two will be coming in the next episode. This time up we have some news, announcements, and your feedback! In this episode we discuss: Listener meet-up June 28th at 2pm, Guardian server . We are going to hit the new Hollows content, so you will need a level 5 toon to enter the zone. Meet at Wincott. Viv will be playing either Vico Viv or her new character, Sive the Shining...

Hot off the heals of our Balticon wrap-up comes an honest-to-goodness new episode! Why, its like Christmas in June! …or an extra Double XP weekend! …yeah, or just another episode This week we talk about: Announcements: Listener meet-up June 28th at 2pm, Guardian server. We are going to hit the new Hollows content, so you will need a level 5 toon to enter the zone. Meet at Wincott. T-sh...

I’m dropping in an episode from our other podcast Into The Blender rather than record separate Balticon wrap-ups. Normally on Into The Blender we talk about family life bringing together our kids from previous marriages and all of the chaos that ensues. This one doesn’t have any of that mushy stuff, so don’t worry In the episode we mention meeting and interacting with the followi...

Its too late for clever.. here are the patch notes It clearly WAS too late for clever last night, as I attached episode 24 again!! So sorry for those who jumped right in and downloaded the new episode, only to find a repeat. This post has the correct attachment – Episode 25! This week we discuss Mids Joins Titan Network ! Issue 12 Version Soon! Positron Broadcasts Live on MMORPG.com ! There...

It’s the Issue 12 Patch-a-Palooza! Yes, it’s another long one. No, we aren’t trying to bore you to death. We’d like to get all the i12 info out to you, so we can get back to our regular episode schedule. Also, our throats are sore from chatting and getting loud at Balticon , so please bear with us. We sound pretty rough. This time we discuss: Issue 12: Midnight Hour is Live...

During the regularly schedule maintenance on the morning of Friday, May 30th (starting at 6 AM Pacific and lasting for 2 hours) NCSoft will be running the following grants on the live servers: Free Respec This will grant a respec to characters that does not stack with any previous free respecs a character may have. Given this non-stacking nature, if you have a free respec currently, you may want t...

( yes, that’s 4 minutes , not 4 hours ) We just received news that NCSoft will be offering a special “Reactivation Weekend” in a few days! This means that all accounts that were a prior retail account (as in they were a subscriber not a free trial) will be reactivated during the following window: Start: Thursday, May 22nd 10am PST / Noon CST End: Sunday, May 25th 8:59pm PST / 10:...

Get comfy, heroes. It’s a long one… We ended up with a show chock full of news and comments, but didn’t want to postpone the Intro to Bases further, so you gets the whole jumbo sized episode in one shot! This time we discuss: News NCSoft and Vivox Announce Collaboration Exclusive Video Look at the Midnight Squad! Discussion of SI radio interview which leads to a mini-Paladin spot...

Today we bring you a mish-mash episode of news recorded the Sunday before we did the interview and news recorded this weekend. In addition we had comments from both weeks as well. We had planned on this being a featurecast, but there was just so much other content that we’re going to save the feature until next week! In this episode we discuss: City of Heroes 4 Year Anniversary address from...

Last post about the interview, I promise We’ve noticed that some people with spotty Internet connections are having a difficult time downloading the episode. To try and alleviate this, I just exported the show at a lower bitrate. This means that the sound quality won’t be as good, but the file will be much smaller. Also, I’ve split the file into two parts to further shrink the si...

As you can tell from our previous comments, we were quite excited to get on the phone with Joe! So I’m hastily posting the episode, and will take the time to write proper show notes over the next few days Of course we talk about some i11 stuff, i12, lots about NCSoft and writing. I know we mention Playing For Keeps and Paragon Wiki , but can’t remember beyond that. Oh and don’t f...

We have two very special announcements to make: We will be interviewing Joe “Hero 1” Morrissey , Lead Writer of the CoH Development Team!! Read Joe’s Developer Diary at mmorpg.com Post your questions in the Official Forums for the interview There is an excellent review of our show at Massively.com

Chooch and Viv are both back this week! Short on the notes as we are finishing preparations for RavenCon this weekend. In this episode we talk about: Issue 12 Villain Epic Archetype Video Official discussion Acrobatics Power Weakening Faction Spotlight: Knives of Artemis Accolade Spotlight: Watchman/Watchwoman Warcry Positron and Castle Interview Promo: Buffy Between The Lines Feedback

The plague settles upon our SG Base this week so Viv flies solo while Chooch is incapacitated. Viv brings to you: Additional Character Slots Announcement by Positron Rikti Return Vanguard info on rikti assault patterns Posi’s response in the WARNING: Spoilers to the VEAT storyline follow! Hero Dawn Bash Party — April 19 Loads of listener comments, reviews, and a voicemail Promo: Christ...