Episode 48 - i15 Launch and i16 Details [52:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Happy July (shhhh – its still technically July!) Lots of exciting things have been happening in CoHLand and we’re happy to bring you an episode chock full of newsy goodness!

In this episode we discuss:

• We are Parsec Finalists again this year !!!
• We are going to Dragon Con!
• We’ll be dropping a special episode with Tee Morris into the feed soon, discussing movies from comic books
• Paragon Studios team hits Twitter
  • @Positron_CoH
  • @Niviene_CoH
  • @MelissaBianco (WarWitch)
  • @CoH_OCR (the community relations team)
  • Honorable mentions include: @plaync, @thetitannetwork
  • Of course, you can follow us too as: @choochus, and @vividmuse
• Paragon Studios at Comic Con
• Issue 15: Anniversary Releases info from forums
• Issue 15: Anniversary Releases info from news
• Double XP Save The Date
• Issue 16: Power Spectrum
• Migration of the message boards part 1 and part 2
• Purchase new MA story slots
• Issue 15: Anniversary Full Release Notes (cwned!)
• Promo: Mur Lafferty’s WAR
  

 

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This episode we take a break from XPXPing to bring you some news, patch notes, and the (almost!) final installment of the IO Sets feature.

Linkage:

• Details About Mac Version & Perks
• New Video Ads for Mac!
• Massively.com gives City of Heroes 2008 Award!!
• URGENT! – Do NOT Use Witch Leather Top
• City of Heroes Featured on Apple Games!
• Live Patch — 1.22.09
• Announcing 57 & 60 Month Veteran Rewards!
• Mur Lafferty’s favorite character
• Promo:Movie Mantras

Clicky to see the full text for Part 4 of Fantastic Foe’s IO Sets feature

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Today we have another halfcast, with some announcements and news, news, news. Following in a few days will be two Accolade Spotlights and your feedback!

Announcement: Congratulations to our Playing For Keeps novel contest winner: Brian Kotarski!!

News Linkage:

• Leipzig & Penny Arcade (PAX) Exclusive Costumes
• Facebook: Official City of Heroes Page
• Game Update – Tuesday, Aug. 19th @ 6AM Pacific
• Top 5 Finalists Announced in Machinima Contest
• Training Room01 Going Offline on Thursday, Aug. 21
• See City of Heroes at the Seattle PAX Show
• Bay Area Hero-Con 08 Registration Now Open

Promo: Chris Lester’s Arise High School fund

 Ebook: Download

Attached is the full PDF of Mur Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps novel with the bonus story- PARASITE AWAKENS

He likes Pallas. He likes who he is when he experiences her life out of her eyes. And now he looks through her eyes at his own sleeping brown face as she peers at him through the crystal porthole in his stasis chamber.

After twenty years, Parasite will wake up.

Don’t forget to purchase the print edition of Playing For Keeps from Amazon.com on Monday, August 25, 2008 !! If you’d like to buy a copy its important to wait until that date to help push it up the Amazon charts enabling higher visibility of this awesome book!

And don’t forget to enter our contest to win a signed copy of the novel!! But you gotta hurry- we need to receive your e-mail w/ name, address, and age (over 18, please) by midnight tonight (5/23/2008)!!

 

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In this special episode we interview Mur Lafferty – author of the new novel from Swarm Press “Playing for Keeps”

We discuss:

• Playing for Keeps
• Writing
• JC Hutchins and Matt Wallace are hacks
• City of Heroes compared to other MMOs
• A contest for a free signed copy of Playing for Keeps
• How awesome Cheyenne Wright is
• Pie!