The Rift Podcast

The Rift - a podcast all about Trion World's AAA MMO - RIFT. Discussions, debates and interviews with developers and community memebers about the game and the community.

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Episodes

RiftPodcast14

Simon 'Dead Simon' Ffinch, Trion's Sr. Design Director, talks to us all about the Questing system in Rift: Planes of Telara including: Dynamic Quests, Epic Quests, Daily Quests, Hidden quests, Endgame Content and Reputation Quests. Abi also drops by to say hi.

Oct 04, 2010•40 min

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This week we're joined by Morgan 'MissDoomCookie' Lockhart and Nick 'CaptainCursor' McDowell. They talk to us about all aspect of the Lore of Rift: Planes of Telara - and even have a few little surprises in store for us.

Sep 27, 2010•46 min

RiftPodcast12

Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens joins us to chat about the recent conventions, feedback received, the expanding community and up and coming dev interaction. Karen (winner of massiveonlinegamers contest) also joins us to talk about her experience in the Rift offices.

Sep 20, 2010•31 min

RiftPodcast11

AutomaticZen joins us to share his PAX experience and touches on Responsiveness of the controls, Character Customization and Individuality, the class system and Rift Invasions - the overall playability of Rift.

Sep 13, 2010•30 min

RiftPodcast10

Kalbuir and Ciovala join us today to go over their experience of Rift at Gamescom and what impressions (both good and bad) they got of the game during the experience.

Aug 30, 2010•41 min

RiftPodcast9

Gamescom week gives the community a heap of new information and fans the chance to experience gameplay at the Con. Abi and Kalbuir join us, and Kal talks about his experience playing the actual game.

Aug 23, 2010•30 min

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Eric Vignola joins us to talk about the behind the scenes process of 'rigging'. An enlightening view of what it takes to make our character thrust, jump and roll. Cindy pops by to say hi and remind us Gamescom is around the corner.

Aug 16, 2010•42 min

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Abigale joins Arithion to clarify questions about the upcoming beta. She goes into detail about the different selection processes and avenues beta chances will be available from.

Aug 05, 2010•24 min

RiftPodcast6

Joshua Kurtz, designer of the Paladin Class, joins Ari and Desi to discuss the newly released Paladin soul. Cindy 'Abigale' Bowens also stops by to chat briefly about the famous soon (tm)

Aug 02, 2010•23 min

RiftPodcast5

Cindy "Abigale" Bowens joins Arithion and Desikis to discuss the day to day schedule of a Community Manager and what the responsibilities entail. She also goes into some detail about playing the game, encountering rifts and wandering mobs - as well as touching on her gaming set up, potential Rift gatherings, and that mmo's are actually good for you.

Jul 26, 2010•33 min

RiftPodcast4

This week we have rift systems content designer Larry Boles clarify a few things about the rifts for us. We discuss some of the most recent articles and Rift news and chat to Cindy "Abigale" Bowens about the 'sacrifices' she makes to be able to play the game.

Jul 17, 2010•30 min

Riftpodcast3

Abigale, Jives and Ciovala join Arithion and Desikis to talk about the community as it was and as it is now. Abigale goes into detail about the Future Official FanSite program.

Jul 12, 2010•31 min

RiftPodcast2

The second episode of : The Rift Podcast Adam Gershowitz is this episode's guest of honor and talks about the class system, answering many curious questions asked about it. In this episode Ari and Desi also go over recent information gleaned from a newly released video interview.

Jul 05, 2010•32 min

RiftPodcastIntro

The introductory episode of: The Rift - a podcast all about Trion World's upcoming AAA MMO release - Rift: Planes of Telara. In this episode we introduce you to the hosts, briefly to the game and have Cindy Bowen aka Abigale (Sr Community Manager of Rift) take part in an interview all about her experiences in Rift, as a CM and what she has planned for the future of the game's community.

Jun 28, 2010•41 min

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