We cover some wider ground this week although there’s a very healthy slice of SWTOR in there as always.

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- Game Update 2.1
- Customisation
- 2.1 communication via ‘fansites’
- breezing through Flash Points
- the grinding debate

Other
- Camelot Unchained
- the evergreen ‘Is WoW declining’ argument
- Neverwinter
- Kristy revisits Rift
- Shroud of the Avatar
- Marvel Heroes
- World of Tanks 8.5 Patch
- Dr Who has jumped the shark
- Iron Man 3
- next Star Trek movie

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- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon’s Twitter account and Kristy’s Twitter account.

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Back on schedule and faced with a huge bunch of talking points, we plough through as many as possible!

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- Server merges
- Rise of the Hutt Cartel
- 2.0 planet commendations and the great currency converter telling you what you’ll get

Other
- LucasArts downsizing
- Initial Defiance impressions
- Marvel Heroes
- Assorted movie and game chatter

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- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon’s Twitter account and Kristy’s Twitter account.

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After a 3-week hiatus we cover a lot of territory from SWTOR through to Tomb Raider and Defiance. We also invite you to submit your questions for answering on the show.

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- State of the Game Update from Jeff Hickman
- ROTHC
- Double XP weekends

TSW
- ARG Final Prize

Other
- Marvel Heroes launch date
- Hearthstone announcement by Blizzard
- Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm breaks 1 million sales
- SimCity also breaks 1 million sales in spite of server nightmares
- Defiance game/TV extravaganza
- Kristy’s Tomb Raider experience
- Postponements and cancellations: 1313 Star Wars, Clone Wars
- Please send us a question for discussion on the next episode!

- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon’s Twitter account and Kristy’s Twitter account.

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We revert back to a more standard format podcast, with Simon, Kristy and David making up for a fairly quite MMO news period with some distinctly non-punchy conjecture on a range of issues.

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- Game Update 1.7
- Star Wars spin-off movies

TSW
- DLC content changes
- Veterans reward system
- Why David is sucking slightly less in TSW

Other
- Marvel Heroes
- Iron Man 3 trailer
- Spamful plug for our sister site – The Comics Herald
- Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm (Melbourne launch details here)
- Defiance MMO

- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon’s Twitter account and Kristy’s Twitter account.

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We’re back after a Xmas / New Year break with lots to talk about and some laughs along the way.

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- Patch 1.6.2
- Rise of the Hutt Cartel
- State of the Game Update

TSW
- End of Days event
- ARG event
- Issue #5
- Leaving Kingsmouth!

Other
- WoW pet battles
- Marvel Heroes closed beta
- Australia’s first R18+ game
- Steam Sale
- Tera goes F2P
- Walking Dead game
- Shout out to Sean Robinson for his comics coverage
- Shout out to Jemima again for her excellent WoW Achievement guides.
- Simon’s love for Comixology
- Episode 50 ‘preview’

- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon’s Twitter account and Kristy’s Blog.

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Simon, Kristy and myself are back to take a bit of a look back at the first year of SWTOR plus a closer look at The Secret World’s F2P move.

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- 1.6 live
- Grade 7 spaceship upgrades
- Review of the first year of SWTOR

TSW
- sudden move to F2P
- one of our most dedicated listeners views on TSW
- ARG game: ‘End of Days‘

Other
- Simon’s love for Firefall
- Kristy’s love for A Walk In The Dark indie game

- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon’s Twitter account and Kristy’s Blog.

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We get through a large number of topics this episode, which features Matthjew “Scope” Pearce as guest co-host to talk about WOrld of Tanks in addition to his encyclopaedic SWTOR knowledge.

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- Post F2p impressions
- more quickbar slots and character slots for preferred players
- cartel market discussion
- 1.6 on PTS, including PTS gripes and heroic space combat missions
- PvP / Battlemaster gear

TSW
- Issue #4 impressions
- Issue #5 hints
- toilet seat talk
- Albion Theatre fun (official forum link)
- brief cricket disagreement

WoW
- 5.1 Landfall impressions (nice overview here)
- WoW ain’t dead yet
- Project Blackstone
- ZAGGARAT – amazing zone by zone achievement guide by our own Jemima.

Other
- GW2 customer service
- City of Heroes closing
- World of Tanks overview and discussion, Patch 8.1 and 8.2
- Firefall beta
- Comics coverage
- assorted brief snippets on Borderlands 2, Sim City, PS3 Home Tycoon, Weird Al Yankovic’s Albuquerque (must watch vid link)

- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon’s Twitter account and Kristy’s Blog.

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We’re really pleased to welcome back Kristy, who’ll be joining the regular co-host team. Lots to talk about this episode as well!

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- 1.5 / F2P in-depth
- Cathar as first species on Cartel Market
- impact on subscriber numbers

GW2
- Seeking feedback on continuing GW2 discussion on podcast otherwise will cease covering it
- Lost Shores update
- Refer a friend

TSW
- Episode #4 overview and initial impressions (link for preview video)
- Discussion on Albion Theatre

WoW
- Monking around
- Project Titan

Other
- Marvel Heroes Developer Update (where I repeatedly say the story writer is Mark Millar when in fact it’s Brian Michael Bendis – sorry!)

- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon’s Twitter account and Kristy’s Blog.

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This week we have special co-host Kristy jumping on to the road to nowhere!

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- Unexpected downtime last week
- 1.5 update on the PTS and where are the pre-mades for testing??

GW2
- Kristy’s Halloween stalker
- Halloween event
- General impressions on GW2
- Ask for feedback from listeners on whether we should continue GW2 coverage?

TSW
- Halloween event
- More pro-game raving

WoW
- MoP end-game
- 5.1 on the horizon
- confirmation of a further WoW expansion

Other
- Disney’s buy out of LucasFilm discussion
- Judge Dredd 3D mini-review
- Assorted pop culture chat

- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon’s Twitter account and Kristy’s Blog.

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Time for another quality MMO podcast from Down Under, with our resident WoW-ophile Luke LePage joining us again. We also bid a temporary farewell to Ed and cover the big four plus some League of Legends, Marvel Heroes and more.

Points of discussion:

SWTOR
- 1.5 on the PTS
- 12-hour downtime last week
- Oceanic Server Merges
- Shout out for Scope’s One Shot One Kill Column
- Lore Update: languages and Galactic Basic
- falling for 2012′s James Cameron/George Lucas new Stars Wars Trilogy April Fool’s joke

GW2

- Halloween event
- Dev Team Reddit AMAA

TSW

- Response to Joel Bylos interview
- Halloween Event / Issue #3 content
- Reticle combat

WoW
- more impressions and kudos
- Blizzard as a continuing innovator
- 5.1 patch

Other
- League of Legends popularity
- Marvel Heroes beta invites
- New Rift player housing

- Shout outs for our forums, Facebook page, Twitter account and Simon’s Twitter account.

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