VirginWorlds MMORPG Podcast
VirginWorlds is a weekly news podcast covering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Guild Wars, City of Heroes, Eve Online, Vanguard, Lord of the Rings Online and many many more. The VirginWorlds MMORPG Podcast is the flagship podcast of the VirginWorlds MMO Podcast Collective found at http://www.virginworlds.com

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The News:
- Project Top Secret has a winner
- Blizzard tokenizes you
- Habbo Empire
- WTF. Don't tailgate me.
- SOE Fan Faire
- Silkroad slays 7+ million
- Top 10 Free to Play MMOs
- Guild Wars 2 FAQ

The Mail:
- Matt corrects me
- Nathaniel pleas for FFA PvP
- Gio makes me give Uwe Boll credit
- Jmo hits the nail on the head
- Fred gets more Mac info than he anticipated
- Kassandra wonders which game is the biggest
- Els hits me with a shotgun blast of topics
- Alvin's harddrive suffers
- Celebrity Mobhunter on the scene
- Blake reminds me, UO did that too.

Podcast 122's Song Selections

[0:04:40] Auto Assault - Azure Torment
[0:06:38] Helmet - Wilma's Rainbow
[0:07:56] Meshuggah - Obzen
[0:09:21] Extreme - Cupid's Dead
[0:10:36] Spineshank - Forgotton
[0:12:41] Slaughter - Fly to the Angels
[0:18:00] Filter - The Wake
[0:21:57] The Church - Louisiana
[0:23:00] Burn Season - Carry On
[0:29:11] Institute - Bullet Proof Skin
[0:34:46] Nas - My War (unreleased)
[0:38:34] Eminem - Mockingbird
[0:47:32] The Exies - Ugly
[0:52:08] Breaking Benjamin - Topless
[0:57:10] Zero Seven - In the Waiting Line
[0:59:28] Warrant - Where the Down Boys Go
[1:01:46] Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
[1:02:56] Limp Bizkit - Creamer
[1:03:58] Conjure One - Make A Wish

Plenty of people have asked me to do this sort of listing. I admit it is rather slick, but it's a ton of labor pulling this together which means it might not happen again. :)
Direct download: 122-VWPodcast-6-28-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:44 PM
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Random chatter about Age of Conan, The Agency, EverQuest II, Concerto Gate and Saga of Ryzom (gasp).
Direct download: 121-VWPodcast-6-23-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:41 AM
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Brent struggles through his Windows to Mac audio transition once again, but still delivers a short podcast packed with various tidbits from the MMORPG world.

- Harry Potter MMO in the works?
- Should MMORPGs and Virtual Worlds collide?
- What is a Concerto Gate?
- The Agency promises not to nickle-dime you.
- Fallen Earth continues talking
- Cryptic Studios is a big tease
Direct download: 120-VWPodcast-6-14-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:22 AM
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Topics:
    - Age of Conan (Breast reduction, box inflation)
    - EverQuest and EverQuest 2 (Living Legacy)
    - Tabula Rasa (Financial Flop)
    - Turbine (Financial Giants)
    - MMOs and Movies (Please, not Uwe)
    
    - Listener Mail
    - What I'm Playing
    - Wrap up.
Direct download: 119-VWPodcast-6-8-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:05 AM
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Topics for this week:
- Collective News
- Age of Conan - Sells fast, bans fast
- Private Server - Your ticket to license plate design school
- SOE - Smed pimps the future, Fan Faire registration opens
- Eve Online - Next expansion date set
- Neocron 2 - Needs new hard drives
- Austin GDC - Speakers announced
- Top 20 MMO Peeps - I didn't make the list
- Grimwell's Perfect Manifesto
- Vivox Interview with Monty Sharma
- Patrick analyzes WoW's expansion cycle
- Brent's news failure
Direct download: 118-VWPodcast-6-1-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:44 AM
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Show 117 discusses Age of Conan's nudity as well as its beta test, John Smedley's perspective on the MMO industry, Playboy's interest in virtual worlds, Spacetime's Blackstar, EVE Online's 5th year, Dofus's revamp and more.
Direct download: 117-VWPodcast-5-12-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:50 AM
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This special interview show features the team from Artix Entertainment.   Artix is excelling in the online gaming space with three RPG games that more than 12 million people visit each month.  While not Massive in the classic sense, they are truly massive online games nonetheless.  Tune in to learn about their games, their philosophies and their unique sense of humor that keeps people coming back for more.

 - Adventure Quest
 - Dragon Fable
 - Mech Quest
Direct download: 116-VWPodcast-5-10-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:48 AM
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Massively Multiplayer News Topics:

- Age of Conan preps for release
- APB changes plans / Webzen is AWOL
- The Agency has PvP too
- Dofus goes mobile
- Earthrise design notes
- EverQuest II - The Shadow of Odyssey
- KingsIsle arrived on the scene
- Lineage II expands yet again
- The MMO Blue Book (here)
- A Wii MMO?
- Brent rants
- Listener Mail: Timecards and Collector's Editions
Direct download: 115-VWPodcast-4-27-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:29 AM
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Massively Multiplayer Gaming News for this week includes:

- Salaries of US-based game developers
- Pirates of the Burning Sea reduces server count
- EVE Online client code is leaked and posted
- MMO games didn't make the top 100 list in past 12 months
- 4 MMOs that should have been great
- Vanguard update 5
- 5 Problems with WoW
- SOE Fan Faire 2008
Direct download: 114-VWPodcast-4-20-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:41 AM
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Soon you'll be able to fill a harddrive with mini-casts.  Here's another short blast of MMO news.

- CCP thinks virtual currency sellers are big meanies
- Crime doesn't pay, but damned if it ain't attractive
- CoHPodcast.com drops in a comment (visit them!)
- Random words strung together regarding Warhammer 40K
- MMOGChart data is sorta depressing
Direct download: 113-VWPodcast-4-9-08.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:17 AM
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