Dragon*Con MMO» star-wars-the-old-republic http://www.dc-mmo.org Home of the SnarkCast Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:05:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2009,2010,2011,2012 grimthorn@dc-mmo.org (Grim and Netgoth) grimthorn@dc-mmo.org (Grim and Netgoth) 1440 http://www.dc-mmo.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Dragon*Con MMO http://www.dc-mmo.org 144 144 http://www.dc-mmo.org/category/podcast/feed/ SnarkCast - The Next Episode Catch up with Grimthorn and Netgoth as they snark on about all things MMO. Also including Dragon*Con MMO track news. DragonCon, mmo, mmorpg, informational, Dragon*Con, gamer, geek, snarky Grim and Netgoth Grim and Netgoth grimthorn@dc-mmo.org no yes Oh, and another sign that we’re getting close… http://www.dc-mmo.org/2009/08/oh-and-another-sign-that-were-getting-close/ http://www.dc-mmo.org/2009/08/oh-and-another-sign-that-were-getting-close/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:42:51 +0000 Grim http://www.dc-mmo.org/?p=1009 You may see this plastered somewhere around the convention.  When I tell you that we can always use creative talent, this is why.   I actually had to do this bit of photoshoppery myself.

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]]> http://www.dc-mmo.org/2009/08/oh-and-another-sign-that-were-getting-close/feed/ 3 SnarkCast #3: Return of the Snarkcast! http://www.dc-mmo.org/2009/07/return-of-the-snarkcast/ http://www.dc-mmo.org/2009/07/return-of-the-snarkcast/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:24:36 +0000 Grim http://www.dc-mmo.org/?p=954 [...]]]> After a month off to tend to various injuries (Krys hurt her wrist, and Grim busted up his knee), Krys and Grim are back with another .  Everyone and everything is fair game for our snarktastic duo this time around.  If you, or the game you love, find yourselves in our cross-hairs, take solace in the fact that you aren’t alone.  We because we love. (Except Gold Farmers, nobody likes those little idiots.)

In this week’s show, we snarkify (otherwise known as “show notes”):

(Opening music, courtesy of …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, “Isis Unveiled”)
]]> http://www.dc-mmo.org/2009/07/return-of-the-snarkcast/feed/ 1 0:33:26 After a month off to tend to various injuries (Krys hurt her wrist, and Grim busted up his knee), Krys and Grim are back with another SnarkCast.  Everyone and everything is fair game for our snarktastic duo this time around.  If you, or the game you[...] After a month off to tend to various injuries (Krys hurt her wrist, and Grim busted up his knee), Krys and Grim are back with another SnarkCast.  Everyone and everything is fair game for our snarktastic duo this time around.  If you, or the game you love, find yourselves in our cross-hairs, take solace in the fact that you aren’t alone.  We snark because we love. (Except Gold Farmers, nobody likes those little idiots.) In this week’s show, we snarkify (otherwise known as “show notes”): E3 Booth Babes Underwear as Swag A “Stripper Game” News from Sony Online Entertainment Free Realms The Agency Hong Kong Shuffle Star Wars: The Old Republic Global Agenda Bogus “Awards” given at E3 DC*MMO takes a studio tour “Open All Night” demo at Dragon*Con Sony Fan Faire Star Wars Galaxies Zombies User-created content The Gungan Gun SOE’s big party at Dragon*Con Blizzard No LAN play for Starcraft II What’s Wrong With WoW? Special Interview w/Dr. Tran WoW Faction changes WoW may be an MMO with training wheels, but it serves an important purpose. EVE Online Yet another bank scam BoB is dead Age of Conan Huge upcoming patch “Fixing” stats and itemization Problems with questing in AoC Warhammer Online How to “Kill 10 rats” correctly Public quests Mark Jacobs leaving Mythic Mythic is now part of Bioware How will Bioware change WAR? City of Heroes Issue 15 is coming The 5th Column is back! New costumes and facial options Is it better to look good? or have uber stats on gear? Dragon*Con stuff Schedule is done! 50 panels and events scheduled on MMO track WoW trivia event being combined into Hardcore MMO Trivia contest 5 different parties planned on the MMO track this year. Closing Music and gag reel. (Opening music, courtesy of …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, “Isis Unveiled”) Podcast Grim and Netgoth no no Not another Felicia Day post http://www.dc-mmo.org/2009/06/not-another-felicia-day-post/ http://www.dc-mmo.org/2009/06/not-another-felicia-day-post/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:18:19 +0000 Grim http://www.dc-mmo.org/?p=912 [...]]]> Felicia DayDon’t get me wrong, we’re thrilled to have Felicia Day as a guest on our track this year, but surely you didn’t think that we had stopped there, did you?

I am certainly not shameless enough to encourage people to visit this site by posting gratuitous pictures of Ms. Day all over the front page… Why are you looking at me that way?

Ok, maybe I am that shameless.

Or maybe, just maybe, we hear a rumor that Felicia will be participating in our panels in addition to participating in our Q&A panels on “The Guild” this year.  And yes, before you away, we had Machinima panels last year, but made the rather foolish mistake of scheduling them late at night.  As a general rule,  folks don’t seem to be interested in panels late at night, they want to party.  Lesson learned.

But this is “Not another Felicia Day post“, right?

And so it is…

If you’ve been paying attention, you may have noticed a while back that we were working on getting a couple of authors to sit down for a “Lore of Warcraft” panel with us.

We are pleased to announce that Richard Knaak and Keith R.A. DeCandido are both confirmed as guests for this year and that they are scheduled to talk with us about the “Lore of Warcraft”

Mr. DeCandido is the author of Cycle of Hatred of which he summarizes

At the end of Warcraft 3 and Warcraft 3X, humans and orcs were allies on the continent of Kalimdor. But in World of Warcraft, the two sides are enemies again. My task with the novel Cycle of Hatred, was to help explain that change. It takes place during the four-year gap between the two games, and involves the humans on Kalimdor lead by Lady Jaina Proudmoore and the orcs on the same continent lead by Thrall. Of all the characters in the Warcraft universe, I found Jaina and Thrall to be two of the three most compelling characters. Jaina is a powerful female wizard, who is put in a position of leading a small group of humans in a hostile land in the wake of a brutal war against a demon horde. Thrall is an orc raised by humans as a slave, who leads a rebellion of orcs against human bondage, and inspires the orcs to return to their old ways before they were cursed by demons. Both leaders are trying to forge a new future, moving past the old hatreds. Unfortunately, the old hatreds don’t die easily. If you’re wondering who the third character is, you’ll have to read the book to find out — the character is also in the book, but who it is is a surprise.

Mr. Knaak has written several novels set in the World of Warcraft universe including

We have yet another best selling author who will be joining us for an -related Q&A session.  Rather than give you a list of Timothy Zahn‘s bonafides (because there are too many), I’ll just leave you with a visual image that should explain everything, unless, of course, you live under a rock.

Grand Admiral Thrawn

(If you do not know who this is, turn in your geek card and sell your Dragon*Con ticket on EBay or something.)

But wait!  There’s more!

Aaron de Orive is joining us at Dragon*Con this year.  His writing credits include

And while this may sound like a macro at this point… We’re not done yet.  We’ll bring you the latest additions to our track this year as soon as we get them scheduled.

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You’re welcome.

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