In this episode Chris Harry and I gush over the Mists of Pandaria cinematic, cheer the big hiring done by Red 5 Studios, salivate over all the Guild Wars 2 news we can get and more!

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What we did this week

Bill
LOTRO
Rift
Firefall
Bioshock

Harry
Dead Space
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil Revelations

Chris
LOTRO – Great River Questing and Skirmishes
Rift – Gearing up my Rogue
TOR – Almost 50 on my Jedi Knight. Not really enjoying the new event.
Age of Empire Online
World of Warcraft

News

Mists of Pandaria cinematic
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/videos/index.html?v=mists:cinematic
http://mmoreporter.com/2012/08/16/world-of-warcraft-mists-of-pandaria-opening-cinematic/

Bioware & 38 Studios layoffs converted to not-layoffs
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/17/firefall-scoops-up-dozens-of-former-bioware-and-38-studios-devs/

SOE offloads EU game management to ProSiebenSat.1
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/17/soe-alters-prosiebensat-1-deal-to-include-eq-vanguard-and-wiza/
original announcement (didn’t include EQ, Vanguard or Wizardry online
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/21/soe-opens-up-about-multi-year-european-partnership/

Rift Storm Legion walkthrough
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/16/gamescom-2012-rift-storm-legion-walkthrough/

Guild Wars 2 aiming at e-sports and spectatorship
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/08/21/guild-wars-2-pvp-designer-talks-e-sports-spectator-mode-and-streaming/

GW2 worlds defined, planned
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-world-of-choice-the-regions-of-guild-wars-2/

Paragon levelling system added to Diablo III
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6968517/

WoW 75% off till Aug 27
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/21/world-of-warcraft-series-75-off-until-august-27th/

3 new classes in aion 4.0
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/17/gamescom-2012-aion-will-offer-three-new-classes-in-4-0/

Star Trek forumite outed as nude-patch user
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-21-star-trek-online-nude-patch-accidentally-outed-by-virtual-peeping-tom

MMO Reporter Guild Wars 2 Launch Plans

  • Livestreaming Guild Wars 1 from 8:00PM until server open
  • Livestream Guild Wars 2 once the server goes live

http://mmoreporter.com/2012/08/21/guild-wars-2-headstart-plans/

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