No Prisoners, No Mercy

Welcome to The Rift Show! This week Julie, Fran and Saylah talk all about the new Trion game. This show is offered in memory of Tyrone Hampton.

Welcome to show 77 - this week we talk about steampunk, wikileaks, net neutrality (or lack thereof) hits the British Isles and Eve Online.   This week Stuart, a listener from the British Isles, joins us in the second half of the show. See you Online, Julie and Fran

What would we talk about on December 7 th , 2010 but Cataclysm? Well perhaps (and more importantly) Pearl Harbor Day, had we planned for it ahead of time.   But before Blizzard even discussed having goblins as a character option our own Julie said she would come back to the game if they were playable – which means Rob Pardo listens to our show. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.   After th...

Welcome to Show 75! This week we talk about elementals, Lore, worgens and more in the first half of the show. In the second half of the show we have an interview with the executive producer of Champions Online, Mr. Shannon Posniewski.  Julie and Fran EXPLICIT LANGUAGE IN THIS EPISODE SPOILER WARNING – Cataclysm: Time mark  40:15 to 54:24 The Amazing Karnak lives again Being prepared and reading te...

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy show 74! From what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues comes …THE NO PRISONERS, NO MERCY SHOW 74!  This week Julie tries to dub her own dialogue and makes a mistake (either that or she is having an identity crisis). Molly makes a return visit by way of a classic clip from show 18 to give us all SPOILER WARNING (yes that smell is spoiled dog).  Julie...

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 73! This week we start out with a discussion with our own big news of the week - having breakfast with Martog and Gowron.  Next up is about the big news coming out of Cryptic: Champions Online going free 2 play and Star Trek Online launching player created content!  This week the Pirate Bay made plans to shoot their servers into orbit - But only after failing...

The sisters call out Chris Columbus for being 500 years late. Sister Julie gives in to that new beta smell. Once again the NPNM team gets MAD AS HELL, and this time takes aim at WoW patch 4.01 - Learning along the way that there IS somewhere to go from bottom. The NPNM team has their own special interpretation of WoW’s massive subscriber base. It turns out that numbers may fib a bit, but never out...

Who’s bad is it? We talk about our Brewfest experience. The sisters get mad as hell about a game that not only scrapes the bottom of the barrel, but is made out of what is underneath the barrel.   We discuss a thorn in our sides that we share with Blizzard’s own lead systems designer Ghostcrawler. Next Mr. Shannon Posniewski, executive producer for Champions Online joins us.   (During the discussi...

This week Julie and Fran welcome Senior Designer for Fallen Earth Marie Croall, from Icarus Studios in their second half hour. In the first half the fabulous sisters will share news and commentary on the mmo news of the week. Along the way Google, Verizon and AT&T end up the subject of this weeks Mad As Hell.

                                      Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy show 69. This week the fabulous sisters (if we do say so ourself) talk about pink caddilacs, ogres In Nagrand wearing Manziers, sister Fran's schoool of leveling (ding!), getting frelled by Blizzard as well as... - Rep mounts in Wow and Lotro where Julie puts her nose to the grindstone and grinds it back to the medula oblongat...

Welcome to Show Number 68! Fallout: New Vegas is discussed, including the talents of Wayne “Mr. Las Vegas” Newton. Fran and Julie see the handwriting on the wall (it spells net neutrality). Also discussed - World of Warcraft, The Transformers mmo, Bill Roper, Medal of Honor, Star Wars, Blue Ray and laser disks the size of a tire on a buick. The topics of the week are Guild Wars 2, including the dy...

Welcome to Show 67! Bobby Kotick et al, easy going guys, slap a bear in the face. Blizzard tries to turn rotten lemons into lemonade and fails, but manages to keep spaceships out of World of Warcraft (sort of). The sisters step through the really, REALLY Dark Portal with some fantastic ideas from The Pink Pigtail Inn [http://www.pinkpigtailinn.com/] and realize that it’s the journey that counts an...

Welcome to route 66! This was a week of bad computers, Everquest 2 players getting slapped down and the great wall of SOE going up. Along the way we find out why you can start sending your hate mail to Mickey Rat, and why Senator Al Franken is concerned about two companies that have been stomping around yelling Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum (we agree). We fill out the rest of the show with talk of trailers and...

    Welcome to show 65! This week we continue our back to the future format with a discussion of the recent events in the videogame industry. We continue with talk about some important blocks (including the two below) as well as why the 800 pound Blizzard Gorilla took one in the gnads’ and what may happen as a result. Two important links discussed in this show:   http://quinnae.wordpress.com/2010/...

Welcome to Show 64!   This week it’s back to the future.   No, not some movie about time travel. We mean back to the old format - Just two nuns, Fran’s delightful sense of humor and the news of the week.     Grabbing for the brass ring or the nose ring? Fad   or Fame? Day late and Dollar Short? The Department of Homeland IN-security  What do you call a football stadium full of lawyers? “Will the d...

Welcome to show 63. This week we start off with a pre-show with discussion of some of the news of the week, including Eve Online planetary expansion. In the second half of the show we welcome Ravious from Kill Ten Rats, Saylah from Mystic Worlds, and Tipa from West Karana in the second round of a team-tag grudge match: Ravious vs. Saylah and Tipa (O.K. so it was more of a polite, "miff match").

Welcome to Show 62! This time author Dedra Stevenson comes to us all the way from the United Arab Emirates to talk to us about The Hakima’s Tale Trilogy (now in print in the UAE and being released here). Come share the fun and laughter as we talk to Ms. Stevenson about her works, her life, what life is really like in the UAE and more.

Join us for the triumphant return of Good Nun, Bad Nun! By request we have brought back this feature. This week we are joined by Saylah from Mystic Worlds, and Tipa from West Karana as we debate Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online! Where has Turbine succeeded? Where have they failed? How can it be improved? Will Sister Julie ever recover  her voice?

This week our guest is Mr. Kedhrin Gonzalez, Lead Designer for Illfonic Studio. Join us for an hour of fun and laughter (ok 40 minutes - its like a psychiatrist’s hour only cheaper). Mr. Gonzalez will tell us all about the new game studio founded by grammy award winning R & B artist Raphael Saadiq, as well as their latest games. Sr. Fran & Sr. Julie

What do you know about know about “The Poz”?  No, we are not talking about the cousin of Arthur Fonzarelli from “Happy Days.”  We are talking about the man who will be steering Champions Online in the direction of happy days to come.  Yes none other than Mr. Shannon “Poz” Posniewski, the new executive producer for Champions Online. Share an hour of fun and laughter with Julie, Fran and Poz and fin...

Yes for all you adoring fans out there who can’t wait to get your hands (or ears) on the next release of No Prisoners, No Mercy show 58 is live! Join Sr. Fran (as Huckleberry Hound), and Sr. Julie (as Tom Waits) as they talk to Tipa from West Karana and Saylah from Mystic Worlds about net neutrality (that’s the internet not fishing in Switzerland), Zynga, developers circling facebook, Eve Online,...

Welcome to Show 57 ! This week we have a very special show for you.  Listen (that's an order) to show 57 as Fran and Julie welcome Mr. Joe "Rekhan" Blancato, Cryptic Studios Marketing Specialist for Star Trek Online and Champions Online.  A great time was had by all as Joe shares inside insights on Cryptic Studios and Star Trek Online. Julie and Fran

Fran and Julie Welcome Saylah and Tipa for a hen party! Topics discussed include: free to play games, draconic rights management, gods and heroes, and more! Best show yet! Julie and Fran

Welcome to show number 55 !   This week Fran and I welcome Glen "Famine" Swan and Oliver Kunz from Funcom.  The discussion covers the new expansion for Age of Conan, their latests mmos (including a discussion about "The Secret World" mmo.  Join us as we discuss that and more on the latest No Prisoners, No Mercy show.   Julie and Fran

Welcome to show 54!   This week the game development community meets the blogging community in a round table discussion.   Fran and Julie welcome R.W. Harper from Lorewriter.com, Saylah from Mystic Worlds, Tipa from West Karana and Syp from Bio Break for a discussion on immersion in video games.  We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did producing it~   Julie Whitefeather and Fran Kosac