No Prisoners, No Mercy

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 104!   The topics for this week are listed below.   You will   also find a list of the articles discussed as well as a discussion on this week’s musical education featuring early jazz musicians.   1.       Aliens in the past, Guild Wars 2 and Zorro in the future 2.       Print is Dead 3.       Slight Mad Studios show publishers the door; Doublefine and Kickst...

Welcome to Show 103! This time out we start with some news about Doom Sayers vs. Bioware, Ubisoft, tragedy in Taipei and more.   Then Zeke from Ironmanmode.com joins us to talk about how he is turning videogaming into dollars for Charity. We follow up with a discussion about the indie game that went viral called Minecrack…er…minecraft. See you online, Julie and Fran   Articles and web sites discus...

Welcome to Show 102! Its the end of January 2012 and the honeymoon with Bioware is over. Time to take a look around the internet to find out what people are saying.  Then we talk a bit about S.O.P.A., P.I.P.A. and B.Y.O.B.  Then we answer the question who is this Robert Johnson? 1. I told you the Sun would finally explode 2. Indie Game the Movie 3. One woman’s heaping pile of dingo dung 4. Star Wa...

Welcome to Show 101! This week we spend time contrasting Star Wars the Old Republic and World of Warcraft.  After that we discuss evil versus good in SWTOR.  This week we also revisit the subject started by Dr. Richard Bartle in Show 101 freedom to be yourself in virtual worlds.  We finish up the show with a brief discussion on yellow journalism. 1.      1. A day late and 26.95 shorter - Returning...

Welcome to show 100! Literally months in the making coordinating schedules with guests from all over the world.  The best of the best moments of the past 100 shows.  This show includes community guests, industry professionals and even Dr. Richard Bartle! See you online, Julie and Fran Part 1 Music: 1. Star Wars Theme, Paul Barnet 2. La Grange, ZZ Top – Scott Hartsman 3. Hang on St. Christopher, To...

Welcome to the Star Wars The Old Republic Show! This time we welcome the hardest working man in the  video game industry, Mr. R.W. Harper, back to the show to talk about the latest and greatest game in the mmo world - Star Wars The Old Republic.  If you wanted to know what it was that Princess Leia was smiling about, now is your chance! See you online, Julie and Fran

Welcome to show 98, This time we talk about zombies, and Teslacon.  Then we welcome industry guest, R.W. Harper to the show to talk about Lotro and more! See you online, Julie Whitefeather and Fran Kosac

This is a test of the emergency show note system.  If these we actual show notes you would be instructed to open your internet feed to www.noprisonersnomercy.com.  But these aren’t actual show notes - this is a test of the emergency show note system.  If these were actual show notes we would remember more than talking about World of Warcraft, anthropomorphic pandas, Terra Nova, Puss-N-Boots and Ri...

Much has happened with CCP of late – Tobold believes that CCP will be out of business in 2012.   If things remain as they are there is little doubt that he is right.   This time Julie, Fran and Tipa sit down to discuss what may have gone wrong with CCP and Eve Online and where it is going. Julie and Fran Articles Cited: Article from the Nosy Gamer about the financial viability of CCP: http://nosyg...

Welcome to Show 95: This time Julie, Fran and Tipa (of West Karana fame) sit down to talk about Star Wars the Old Republic.   Other tops of conversation include integration of social media and gaming, invasive software and more.   Stay tuned afterwards for a preview of show 100 which will include, Darren Love from Catholic Gamer, Brent from Virgin Worlds and Karen Bryan from Massively, R.W. Harper...

Welcome to Show 94! This week Julie is back in the driver’s seat and Fran is riding shotgun. The topics of discussion are as follows – See you online. Gamestop is caught with their hands in the virtual cookie jar as they pull Onlive codes out of Deus Ex Boxes. Electronic Arts tries to drop a virtual spy in our computers by way of Origin - but backs off on requiring an Origin account for SWTOR. Gab...

Welcome to show 93! This week Fran is in the drivers seat while Julie rides shot gun. We all sat down and talked with Mandy Kliniskis to talk about game (the best and the worst), ComicCon, superheroes, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, movies and zombies. See the our companion website, www.noprisonersnomercy.com for pictures of the artwork Mandy about during the show. See you online, Julie and Fran...

Welcome to Show 92! This week we took some time to delve into the world of anime…and our guide is Chris “Roundpeg” Dodson from 2 Lazy 2 be Otaku.   Join as we explore the good, the bad and the ugly sides of anime and their connection to gaming.   Chris also has an extensive list of anime suggestions he provided us with, which we will be sharing on our companion website www.noprisonersnomercy.com S...

Subjects of Discussion this week in the first half of the show are Fallout New Vegas, the monetizing of Diablo 3 and digital rights management.  Next we touch on Rage by ID Games. We end up the first half of the show with a discussion on Cowboys and Aliens  and Captain America. In the second half of the show we are joined by Marie Croall, and Joseph Wilmon of Gamers First to talk about the upcomin...

This week we welcome Brent from Virgin Worlds back to the air waves.   This subjects of discussion for this week are as follows – see you online. Julie and Fran 1. “monocle-geddon”, CCP takes a beating, Walking in a room in a station 2. Sony Online Entertainment, The Agency, and Star Wars Galaxies 3. Bioware and Star Wars knights of the Old Republic 4. Google guns for Zuckerberg, the apple takes a...

We’re having a heat wave…and Fran and Julie are caught smack dab in the middle of it. This week Fran and Julie run the gamut - the main topics being 60 dollar monocles. In the second half of the show we talk about the new content released by Bethesda for Fallout New Vegas, entitled “Old World Blues.” See you online, Julie and Fran

Welcome to Show 88! This week we welcome the J.K. Rowling of the United Arab Emeriates, Dedra Stevenson.  In the second half of the show Darren Love returns to the air to talk about his new website, upcoming show, and gaming. See you online, Julie and Fran

This week we sat down with Evelyn Hampton (mother of the late author J.T. Hampton) and discussed our road trip and steampunk culture.

Welcome to show 85 - a No Prisoners, No Mercy Sepecial Report on the war on Sony.  Make no mistake friends at this point it has indeed been a war.  For an list of articles discussed refer to our companion website www.noprisonersnomercy.com 1. Activision/Blizzard buys Switzerland’ 2. Sony “offline” entertainment - the war on Sony 3. Time to ‘fess up. 4. Adding insult to grievous injury 5. Identity...

Show Notes: Welcome to Show 84! This time we start with a tale of divine intervention and the unlucky thief. Sister Julie gets her kicks somewhere besides Route 66 (and along with way get’s rapped but not on the knuckles). Next the first shoe drops for Trion Worlds in Kabniel’s last hurrah. Along the way we discuss why, after three shots at it by triple-A developers, the public quest game mechanic...

Welcome to show 83! This week we welcome Mechanoid Kryten, founder of Griefer Geddon, and Geoffwice, vice-division captain from The Older Gamers (we are not sure what vice he is in charge of I guess you will have to listen to the show to find out), This week we talk about what Griefer Geddon has planned for the future. Who did Julie taunt into hurling burning nun dolls over the convent wall and wh...

Welcome to show 82! This time we welcome R.W. Harper - game producer, writer at LoreWriter.com and also known as Kabniel from Rift Herald.  Join us for an hour of laughter and discussion as we found out whether Rift's bite is as big as it's bark now that the mmo has gone live. Websites for this week's show" www.lorewriter.com www.rift-herald.com

Welcome to show 81! This week the main topic of discussion is World of Tanks, with guest Stuart Beresford returning to the show. We also discuss "Terminal World" by Alastair Reynolds. Links for this week's show: http://www.worldoftanks.com/ http://www.walkerofworlds.com/2010/02/news-alastari-reynolds-new-blog-and.html

Welcome to the Eve Online Show! This week Julie meets a challenge by talking calmly (for the most part) about Eve Online. If the music sounds familiar this week the segues are taken   from parodies by Curzon Dax prior to one of the biggest swindles in Eve Online history – for more information see the extended show notes at www.noprisonersnomercy.com     Notes:   1.        Intro –welcome LeTrange/R...

Welcome to Show 79: Rift podcast part 2 – dinnertime aboard the Airship Embracement   Topics include:   Flank speed – how many elves does it take to balance a dwarf? Massively develops time warp technology. Throwing the ship in reverse – how good does your mmo do Wow? Full Speed Ahead - What’s new under the (Telaran) Sun? Paths to leveling in Rift other than questing. Will Rift grab players by the...