No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 87
This week we sat down with Evelyn Hampton (mother of the late author J.T. Hampton) and discussed our road trip and steampunk culture.
Jun 21, 2011•36 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy
There comes a time, friends, when your favorite MMO ceases to sparkle, when even new videogames lose their luster, and the computer room becomes a prison; and all that is left are two gamers (who happen to be nuns) with a very large axe to grind. Come join Julie Whitefeather and Frances Kosac as they discuss the events in the videogame industry.
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No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 85
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 Sony3. Time to ‘fess up.4. Adding insult to grievous injury5. Identity theft protection after the barn has burnt down6. Take one for the team…on the chin7. Incoming8. My heart b...
May 15, 2011•34 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 84
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 still has not been properly executed. In the second half of the show we talk about Sony Computer En...
Apr 28, 2011•55 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 83
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 why? Who is the real Mechanoid Kryten when she is not taunting Helicity Boson? (no, she is not Helicit...
Apr 07, 2011•1 hr 2 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 82
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
Mar 20, 2011•1 hr
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 81
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
Mar 06, 2011•58 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - show 80
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/Robert Rolland 2. The nine month war – Julie takes up the challenge 3. Phat Hoe, Town Ho, and fighting words. 4. New...
Feb 19, 2011•55 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - show 79
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 subscription rate? Rift throws a “come as you are” party. Karen and Saylah pitch Rift – dynamic content...
Feb 04, 2011•1 hr 14 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy -Show 78
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.
Jan 14, 2011•1 hr 11 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 77
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
Dec 21, 2010•57 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 76
What would we talk about on December 7th, 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 the show stay tuned for news of the comings and goings in Everquest II, See you online (on the Proudmoore Se...
Dec 07, 2010•1 hr 6 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 75
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 EPISODESPOILER WARNING – Cataclysm: Time mark 40:15 to 54:24 The Amazing Karnak lives againBeing prepared and reading tea leavesThe reverse Doctor Dolittle and her petsLip smacking bad and other pet peevesElemental Busters W...
Nov 23, 2010•1 hr 22 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 74
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 has so much fun in the Lost Isles in Cataclysm she has to censor herself. Fran and Julie spend “Thirty...
Nov 11, 2010•1 hr 10 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 73
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 to purchase the Micronation of Sealand. This is always something to be Mad-as-hell about and this wee...
Oct 31, 2010•1 hr 1 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - show 72
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 outright lie. The smell you THINK you smell is NOT spoiled dog – it’s a Cataclysm spoiler warning. (To ...
Oct 21, 2010•1 hr 5 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 71
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 discussion with the Poz we had to call him back and we reached a pizza parlor…or so we thought). After the show ...
Oct 09, 2010•52 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 70
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.
Sep 21, 2010•1 hr
No Prisoners, No Mercy - show 69
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 oblongata - Mafia II - Zynga finds out a rose by any other name does not smell as sweet - Final Fantasy XIV - The Schwarzenegger double standard -...
Sep 07, 2010•1 hr 10 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 68
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 (itspells net neutrality). Also discussed - World of Warcraft, TheTransformers mmo, Bill Roper, Medal of Honor, Star Wars, Blue Ray andlaser disks the size of a tire on a buick. The topics of the week are Guild Wars 2, including the dynamic eventssystem, and Julie decides that it really could be the future of mmos.Next we talk about Worl...
Aug 22, 2010•52 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - show 67
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 and not the destination. Breakfast isn’t ready because Julie can’t fry an egg in her bra, but the sist...
Aug 13, 2010•1 hr
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 66
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 why Ed Norton is out and Karl Urban is in. Julie and Fran
Aug 05, 2010•48 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 65
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/2010/07/07/world-of-warshaft/ http://tagn.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/we-learn-about-account-security-with-club-pe...
Jul 25, 2010•1 hr 5 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 64
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 defendants in rows A through F please rise?” And a discussion prompted by the new All Points Bulletin game: What...
Jul 11, 2010•1 hr 10 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 63
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").
Jun 26, 2010•1 hr 42 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 62
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.
Jun 10, 2010•1 hr 20 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 61
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?
May 27, 2010•1 hr 23 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy show 60
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
May 15, 2010•49 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 59
What do you know about know about “The Poz”? No, we are not talkingabout the cousin of Arthur Fonzarelli from “Happy Days.” We aretalking about the man who will be steering Champions Online in thedirection 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 findout the answer to such burning issues as…Who at Cryptic wear a size 13 shoe with flames down the side?What ...
May 15, 2010•58 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 58
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, and a certain socialogist who thinks that WoW will one day be the afterlife…and you thought WE were ...
Apr 17, 2010•1 hr 28 min
No Prisoners, No Mercy - Show 57
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
Apr 16, 2010•51 min
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