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Massively Speaking Episode 59

by Shawn Schuster Jul 1st 2009 at 12:00PM

Filed under: Betas, Podcasts, Culture, Expansions, Opinion, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 59 returns this week with regulars Colin Brennan and Kyle Horner as they join Shawn in discussing the current MMO events. There's talk of China's new anti-gold-farming legislation, SOE's community address at Fan Faire, Runes of Magic expansions, Mark Jacobs leaving Mythic and more!

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Tags: featured, massively-speaking, podcasting, podcasts

Massively Speaking Episode 58

by Shawn Schuster Jun 24th 2009 at 1:00PM

Filed under: Betas, Podcasts, Culture, Events, in-game, Opinion, Massively meta, Rumors, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 58 returns this week as Shawn is joined once again by Contributing Editor Colin Brennan and they discuss everything from LotRO Book 8 to Aion and Cities XL beta impressions, and more!

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Tags: aion, beta, cities-xl, featured, lotro-book-2.8, massively-speaking, podcasting, podcasts

Massively Speaking Episode 57: DDO with Jerry Snook

by Shawn Schuster Jun 17th 2009 at 12:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Podcasts, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Interviews, Opinion, Free-to-play, Massively meta, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 57 returns this week with an entire episode dedicated to Dungeons and Dragons Online and their recent announcement about going free-to-play. Shawn is joined by DDOCast host Jerry Snook as they discuss the ins and outs, good and bad of a 3-year-old game going F2P.

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Tags: ddo, ddocast, dungeons-and-dragons-online, featured, massively-speaking, podcasting, podcasts, turbine

Massively Speaking Episode 56: E3 impressions

by Shawn Schuster Jun 10th 2009 at 11:00AM

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Events, real-world, MMO industry, Opinion, Massively meta, Massively Interviews, Massively Hands-on, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 56 is back after a brief hiatus while we spent last week at E3. To compensate, Shawn is joined by WoW.com's Mike Schramm for a recap of the best and brightest from the convention. Which game did they like best? Why does it seem like every game will release in 2010? Check out the podcast to find out!

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Tags: e3-2009, featured, impressions, massively-speaking, mike-schramm, podcasting, podcasts

Massively Speaking Episode 55

by Shawn Schuster May 27th 2009 at 4:30PM

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, MMO industry, Opinion, Massively meta, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 55 is back this week as Shawn is joined by new(ish) blogger Lesley Smith. They discuss everything from WoW's newest patch 3.2 announcement to LotRO's Book 8 patch notes. There's also some great discussion on the sad state of mounts and inventory in MMOs these days. Ironically, we predict the delay of Jumpgate Evolution (along with everyone else) just before the news actually broke.

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Tags: featured, lotro-book-2.8, massively-speaking, podcasting, podcasts, wow-patch-3.2

Massively Speaking Episode 54: Happy Birthday, Age of Conan!

by Shawn Schuster May 20th 2009 at 12:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Podcasts, Age of Conan, Culture, Game mechanics, Interviews, MMO industry, Massively meta, Massively Interviews, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 54 is a very special episode where Shawn is once again joined by Funcom's Glen "Famine" Swan and Craig Morrison as they discuss the upcoming Patch 1.05 and first anniversary for Age of Conan.

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Tags: age-of-conan, craig-morrison, famine, featured, funcom, glen-swan, massively-speaking, one-year-anniversary, podcast, podcasts

Massively Speaking Episode 53: Baltimore Games Day

by Shawn Schuster May 13th 2009 at 1:00PM

Filed under: Culture, Events, real-world, MMO industry, Opinion, Massively Interviews, Massively Event Coverage, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 53 sees the return of Contributing Editor Colin Brennan as the news topics discussed include City of Heroes' latest expansion, SWTOR's Trooper class and Richard Garriott v. NCsoft. Plus, Colin gets to tell us his first-hand experiences he had at the Baltimore Games Day last weekend with Mythic. Look for tons more interviews and feature articles coming from Colin on what he saw.

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Tags: featured, lawsuit, massively-speaking, mythic, ncsoft, podcasting, podcasts, richard-garriott, stygian-abyss, swtor, the-old-republic, ultima-online

Massively Speaking Episode 52: Answering your Champions Online questions

by Shawn Schuster May 6th 2009 at 12:00PM

Filed under: Betas, Super-hero, Podcasts, Culture, Champions Online, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 52 returns this week with Shawn and Contributing Editor Kyle Horner to answer your questions about Champions Online's recent NDA lift for press. Kyle gathered questions from a recent The Daily Grind post and answers a handful on the podcast.

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Tags: champions-online, cryptic, cryptic-studios, featured, massively-speaking, podcast, podcasts, q-and-a

The Daily Grind: Got Champions Online questions?

by Kyle Horner May 5th 2009 at 8:00AM

Filed under: Super-hero, New titles, News items, The Daily Grind, Champions Online

We've done three features packed to the brim with information about Champions Online's beta, but we'd like to answer some of your questions directly. So, if you were unable to find an answer to that niggling question of yours, this is the place to ask it! Today is recording day for the Massively Speaking podcast, and this particular blogger will be on the show answering as many of your questions as possible -- at least until Shawn Schuster kicks him off in a fit of rage.

In case you hadn't seen them yet, we covered character creation, combat intricacies and the first five levels of the game experience. Still, we're quite sure that many of you have burning questions yet to be answered. Just promise us you won't ask us to pick a favorite power framework, because that's just too hard a choice for anyone to make.

Tags: atari, beta, champions, champions-online, cryptic, cryptic-studios, kyle-horner, massively-speaking, the-daily-grind

Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 51

by Shawn Schuster Apr 29th 2009 at 1:30PM

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Opinion, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 51 is just full of Jo(h)ns this week as Contributing Editor Jon Shute and special guest John Nicholson from Limited Edition join Shawn to discuss all things MMO. Topics include Free Realms' launch, WoW on the iPhone, tons of MMO anniversaries and more!

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Tags: anniversaries, champions-online, city-of-heroes, featured, free-realms, guild-wars, limited-edition, massively-speaking, podcast, podcasting, podcasts, spellborn, vollee

Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 50

by Shawn Schuster Apr 22nd 2009 at 12:30PM

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Massively meta, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 50 returns this week with Michael Zenke taking on the esteemed co-hosting position. Michael returns just for this week to chat with Shawn about all of the week's MMO news including WAR's patch 1.21, CoH's vast player-created content, Shadowbane's closing, the Free Realms beta and more!

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Tags: city-of-heroes, featured, free-realms, joystiqfeatures, massively-speaking, michael-zenke, podcast, podcasting, podcasts, shadowbane, soe, the9, war, warhammer-online

Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 49

by Shawn Schuster Apr 15th 2009 at 3:00PM

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Massively meta, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 49 returns this week with more news of the wider MMO world. Shawn is joined by Kyle Horner once again as we discuss everything from Runes of Magic to the City of Heroes Mission Architect. Kyle also gives us a good dose of his impressions of DDO in his weekly column, The Digital Continuum.

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Tags: city-of-heroes, ddo, dungons-and-dragons-online, featured, issue-14, kyle-horner, massively-speaking, mission-architect, ncsoft, paragon-studios, podcast, shawn-schuster, the-digital-continuum, turbine, virginworlds

Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 48

by Shawn Schuster Apr 8th 2009 at 12:00PM

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Massively meta, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 48 returns this week with more news of the wider MMO world. Shawn is joined by contributing editors Krystalle Voecks and Colin Brennan as they talk about everything from WAR's first official city takeover to FusionFall's 4 million member milestone. It's sure to have something for everyone!

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Tags: age-of-conan, cheyenne-mountain-entertainment, fallout-mmo, funcom, fusionfall, massively-speaking, masthead-studios, podcasting, podcasts, stargate-worlds, the-secret-world, turbine, warhammer-online

Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 47: GDC 09 impressions

by Shawn Schuster Apr 1st 2009 at 1:00PM

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Massively meta, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 47 is our impressions of GDC 09 as Shawn returns this week with Elizabeth Harper, Editor-in-Chief for the site. Shawn and Elizabeth recap their favorite interviews and panels from the insanely busy week, and discuss the coverage on the site. Be sure to check out our brand new embedded podcast module on the sidebar for access to the podcast any time, straight from the main page.

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Tags: event-coverage, gdc, gdc-2009, massively-speaking, podcasting, podcasts

Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 46

by Shawn Schuster Mar 11th 2009 at 1:30PM

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Massively meta, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 46 brings a special guest as Shawn is joined by Jonathan of The Online Gamer's Anthology podcast. Shawn and Jonathan talk about everything from Darkfall to Free Realms to EVE Online's newest expansion.

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Tags: apocrypha, darkfall, eve-online, free-realms, massively-speaking, podcasting, podcasts

Massively Features

Featured Games

Events Calendar

Name	Date
Fallen Earth Launch	Q2 2009
Global Agenda Closed Beta	July 2009
CrimeCraft Launch	Aug 25 2009
Champions Online Launch	Sep 1 2009
Cities XL EU Launch	Sep 3 2009
Aion Launch	Sep 22 2009
Earth Eternal Open Beta	Q3 2009