It's time for the great WoW Pre-Panda Purplastic Purge, the Summer of Love is in full swing, and we get Steamed with Beefmaster and Wynne! All that and much more coming up right now. THIS is the AIE Podcast...

AIE NEWS

Shrimpiclease and his wife Missesclease announced on the forums that their son Krilliclease (Better known as Oliver) was born on July 27th. If you would like to congratulate the couple on their new addition head on over to the forum post titled by the hashtag ‘#Krillicleasehascome'

We have a release date! September 25th has been announced as the release date of the new WoW expansion, Mists of Pandarama! Pre-orders now available and for the first time ever there is a digital deluxe option which will get you the pet, the mount, and some nifty things for diablo 3 and starcraft!

AIE World of Warcraft would like to remind everyone that all toons that are inactive for 3 or more months will be purged out of the guild at the end of August. We took a break from g-kicks over the summer, but with MoP on the way we have to make room for all our new panda friends! Staying in the guild is quick and easy, just log into all of your guilded toons!

SWTOR has two new officers! Word has reached us from the high council and Emperor Pell-petine himself that we are all to extend a warm welcome to Cakku and Sema! Head on over to the forums and the announcement Two New SWTOR AIE Officers on Deck for your chance to offer congrats!

SWTOR has also announced what features will be available to members when it goes free to play this fall. Head on over to the website to see what they are offering to players without a subscription. More information about the change, including the release date and what ‘limitied access' actually entails will be coming to swtor.com soon!

Summer of love is in full swing. Visit the forums to find out what your favorite AIE branch is doing this week to celebrate! Events include running of the beef, various coop runs and remembrance day.

AIE member Allheals is compiling an ongoing thread about the various cooking, fishing, and pebble dailies of World of Warcraft. You can check the today's cooking/fishing/pebble dailies thread in case you are looking for that final elusive quest.

Only 30 days until DragonCon. We're currently planning to hold our guild meetup in the game room at the bottom of the Hilton, and probably just hang out there throughout the event. We'll be at the MMO Party on Saturday night, and we'll be leading a panel on Extreme Guild Management on Sunday night. See the DragonCon website for more information on all of these event, as well as the Meetup.com website. Hope to see you there.

And with that, let's welcome this week's guests Beefmaster and Wynne (WIN)...

GAME NEWS

Steamy Summer Nights:

1. Growth of the AIE Steam group and TF2 in the last 2 months

a. added 150 members to milestone 750 members

b. Team Fortress 2sdays.

2. introduce a monthly rotating game night:

Tribes:Ascend, LFD2, MW3, Dungeon Defenders?etc. working on details of how to implement due to grouping limitations. IE hard to join as party and keep it but we'll figure it out.

3. Aspects of the Steam social structure:

a. friends list and chat

b. great way to chat live outside of any single game in the aie arena. Yes I will be your friend.

4. noob guide to starting TF2

5. Dedee's guide to backstabbing with skill.

Things new players should focus on

Team work