In this episode, we discuss free-to-play games, games that are in trouble, and games that [...]]]> Ok, so not really, but it beats the constant references to deviant sexual practices in our previous SnarkCasts.  In fact, Hentai isn’t mentioned even ONCE! (I’m sorry.  I’ll mention it twice next time to keep up our ratio of “Hentai to Snarkcast”.)

In this episode, we discuss free-to-play games, games that are in trouble, and games that aren’t.  We give some props to the folks who are coming to Dragon*Con, and we HORRIBLY mangle the website for the D*C Digital Gaming track. (it is .ORG not .COM – I suck.)

Some highlights from this week’s (sic) podcast…

Not a huge amount of time for a long post this week, but the important thing is that the time and care was spent creating a brand new Dragon*Con MMO SnarkCast for you! Are you getting excited? We certainly are as plans are building here at the virtual D*C MMO HQ for this year’s convention.

Anyway, enough [...]]]>

Not a huge amount of time for a long post this week, but the important thing is that the time and care was spent creating a brand new Dragon*Con MMO SnarkCast for you! Are you getting excited? We certainly are as plans are building here at the virtual D*C MMO HQ for this year’s convention.

Anyway, enough of the blathering – here’s the cast for you.

• WRUP – What we’re playing!
• How not to promote your game (or, CSI D*C)
• WAR, uh-huh, good gawd y’all, what is it good for? Apparently lawyer fees.
• RTS MMO WTF gimme
• Gentlemen (and ladies), start your engines!
• Kissing babies in New Eden
• Zero-day MMO reviews by people who haven’t played the game since launch are A Bad Idea
• With Friends and Family like that, who needs (business) enemies?
• Who’s hot (this week) to Kevin?
• Kevin says something nice
• Georgia Ren faire reminder for local Dragon*Con fiends!
• And more Dragon*Con MMO silliness and guest news!
• Audience participation SnarkCast

Music used in this show:

• Opening song: Zerøspace (Q-Burns Abstract Message Mix) – Kidneythieves
• Bed music: Green Nebula – CCP: Jon Hallur (soundtrack from EVE Online)
• Closing music: none this week because we didn’t have time to toss in the normal disclaimers before mashing it together and uploading it.

As always, comments, offers of cookies, and hatemail should be directed to us in comments below, or by emailing us: podcast AT dc-mmo.org. We’ll see you next time!

This podcast is (c)2010, DC MMO. Released under a Creative Commons: Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license.

I am half tempted, as soon [...]]]> Ok, so I’m a noob. For some dumb reason, the rss feed which populates our podcast directory on iTunes has been borked for quite a while. After much tinkering, weeping, and gnashing of teeth, I think I finally have it fixed.  At least every Snarkcast shows up under iTunes now.

I am half tempted, as soon as I have a few weeks of free time, to go through a bunch of our outtakes and give you a “best of Snarkcast which never got published”.  As chaotic and “free form” as we are, sometimes Krys and I ramble a little bit too much.  Mixed in with all that chaos are occasional nuggets of hilarity that may be dated, but still funny.

Time will tell, but for now you have some new podcasts to check out.

-Grim

This version of the Snarkcast is a little more “free form” than usual.  Of course we make fun of the usual suspects (World of  Warcraft, Aion, and NCSoft in general) as well as give you some recent news from Dragon*Con and the games we happen to be playing at the moment. (Both [...]]]> Yeah, I know, we promised…

This version of the Snarkcast is a little more “free form” than usual.  Of course we make fun of the usual suspects (World of  Warcraft, Aion, and NCSoft in general) as well as give you some recent news from Dragon*Con and the games we happen to be playing at the moment. (Both Krystalle and I are kinda hooked on Fallen Earth right now)

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy.  Now that we’re a little closer to the holidays, we should start getting more Dragon*Con related information to throw your way as well as having a little more time to actually play all of the games we love to play.

(Opening music, courtesy of …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, “Isis Unveiled”)

It [...]]]> This week we start to settle back into a somewhat normal snarky schedule, covering both Dragon*Con MMO goodness and things going on in the MMO world. We also managed to catch a bit of news before everyone headed to AGDC this week (Austin Game Developer’s Conference) to discuss the state of the industry. Harrumph, harrumph, harrumph.

It also looks like the new engineering is working nicely in terms of flipping these casts over faster. We’re going to aim for once a week, but we’d love to hear from you in regards to show times. Would you prefer SnarkCast be around 30 minutes, or is the current hour-long chunk good for you? Be sure to let us know in the comments!

Note: If the above audio is choppy for you, please consider downloading it to your local machine before listening. We’ve made the file significantly smaller than before, so it should come down pretty quickly.

As always, full show notes are after the break!

Here’s what we’re talkin’ ’bout this week, Willis.

• D*C stuffs, as always!
• Is MAG an MMO?
  http://www.massively.com/2009/09/15/the-daily-grind-is-mag-an-mmo/
• Blogger sued by Evony for Defamation/Libel
  http://www.massively.com/2009/09/14/blogger-sued-by-evony-for-defamation-libel/
  Get the FULL details after you’ve caught up at: http://www.bruceongames.com/
• EVE Online council member steps down for insider trading
  http://www.massively.com/2009/09/08/eve-online-player-elected-council-rep-steps-down-in-wake-of-insi/
• DDO goes F2P
• Fallen Earth goes into pre-launch early start release
• Beatles Rock Band just came out

Music comes from the remix artists over at OverClocked Remix, with the exception of the brief snip of organ “hold” music.

The specific songs used are:

• Ghetto Lee Lewis – Ultima Online “Create your Fantasy” remix
• djpretzel, Vigilante – Short Skirts (Tifa’s Theme), Disc 2 “Dirge”, Voices of the Lifestream FFVII remix project
• Wurlitzer organ music blurb “Nola” from VirtualOrgan.com. (Get your minds out of the gutter, people.)

Comments, hate-mail, proposals, or offers for lewd and lascivious housecleaning can be sent to podcast [at] dc [dash] mmo [dot] org. That is, if you’re into that kind of thing.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy!

- Krys