It is summer now and the VirginWorlds podcast is bringing you the ultimate in "day at the beach" immersion.  Tune in to hear birds, bikini girls, a gentle summer breeze, a couple jet engines and a small dose of Massively Multiplayer gaming news.  Brent talks about Eve Online's new additions, the next Guild Wars expansion, Saga - an upcoming MMORTS, and the summer's massive fan conventions.
 
Eve TV
Saga
SOE Fan Faire
BlizzCon
 

Brenden of anotherhere.com joins Brent for another week of Massively Multiplayer Gaming News.  Topics this week include:

EverQuest 2
-GU 36

Free Realms
-What can we say?

SecondLife
-Playboy, the tamest thing on the grid, probably.

Vanguard
-Dave Gilbertson isn't very talkative
-Server merge is a reality

WoW
-On the decline - already?
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/15/world-of-warcraft-player-activity-in-decline/

Listener Submission
Alvin's review of Sword of the New World

Profile of the Week
Mark Kern of Red 5 Studios
 
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

In the 72nd VirginWorlds Podcast you'll find some brief MMORPG news followed by a wonderful interview with the CEO of Icarus Studios, Jim Hettinger. He answers a slew of questions related to Icarus's newly announced virtual world toolset which can be used to build MMOGs, simulators and collaborative and educational products. Following the interview you'll hear why Brent thinks MMORPG designers could learn a few tricks from that lovely spelunker Lara Croft.

Thanks for listening!

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Yes, I know that I say this is #72 in the podcast, but that is wishful thinking, this is #71. Here are the topics in this week's MMORPG news podcast. Enjoy.

Topics:

The Agency

Entropia Universe

Dungeon Runners

Icarus Studios

Knight Online

Second Life

Ultima Online

Warhammer Online

World of Warcraft

Profile of the week: John Donham

Innovation or Evolution analysis by Urban Mongral

Thanks for listening!

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, and many many more. The main site can be found at http://www.VirginWorlds.com