Is the Governor of California on the side of Activision? Is Richard Garriott's new studio going to be worth a damn? Is boosting in MMOs a good thing or a bad thing? What's Midnight Ghost Hunt like? As we welcome a new host, we answer all of these questions and more! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

12:44 Rapid Fire News

40:22 How Do You Feel About Boosting in MMOs?

49:18 First Look Review of Midnight Ghost Hunt

54:37 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) / Question of the Week

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

Time to welcome our first of two new staff to the show as we look at a few upcoming (or recently released) titles like Ubisoft's Pathfinder and Black Desert's new expansion, chat about Blizzard leaking its own expansion name and eFootball's continued failures, and applaud Wargaming for moving their operations! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

05:34 Interested in These Upcoming or Recent Releases? (Black Desert Eternal Winter, Pathfinder, and more)

24:27 Rolling Our Eyes (Blizzard, eFootball, and more)

35:35 Wargaming's Big Move

39:25 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) / Question of the Week

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

Today's show marks Jason Winter's departure as a regular host as he leaves MMOBomb (don't worry, he'll still guest host) so we take the opportunity to lay out our favorite and least favorite companies and moments in our own content creation histories. We'll also pass judgement on Rift, Vanguard, and Amazon Games Studio and review Sony's answer to Game Pass! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

05:41 Sony's "Answer" to Game Pass

23:40 Are These Things Dead? (Rift, Call of Duty Vanguard, Amazon Games as a Development House)

38:07 Reviewing Our Favorite and Least Favorite Moments in Gaming Coverage

56:06 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) / Question of the Week

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

Has there ever been an intellectual property more suited to an asymmetric style of gameplay than Ghostbusters? We'll take a look at that, Marauders, and Fortnite's no build mode to see if we're eager to get our hands on any of them. We'll also see exactly why Storybook Brawl is getting review bombed (surprise it has to do with NFTs), and we'll review the massive dev blog posted by the Guild Wars 2 team! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

03:28 Upcoming Releases (Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, Marauders, and Fortnite No Build)

22:01 More NFTs Coming (Krafton/PUBG and Storybook Brawl)

31:37 Guild Wars 2's Future Plans

37:23 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) / Question of the Week

Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

NCSoft surprised quite a few of us this week with the reveal of Throne and Liberty and Project E. How these projects have morphed and what they have planned COULD be interesting...but will NCSoft monetization shenanigans mar their release this year? We've also got quite a few betas getting ready to kick off including V Rising, Blood Hunt, and Tower of Fantasy...and we'll finish with some stupid news in multiplayer gaming! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

11:57 NCSoft's New Titles (Throne and Liberty and Project E)

29:58 Upcoming Betas (V Rising, Bloodhunt, and Tower of Fantasy)

29:53 Stupid News

50:58 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) / Question of the Week

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

We can't go back in time in real life, but we can in the world of MMORPGs! On today's show we'll take a walk back in time and look at our favorite MMORPG titles of all time. We'll chat about what we liked, how they feel today, and examine if we could play them in their original forms if they came out today! After that, we'll catch up with Noobfridge and SWTOR before examining a number of upcoming multiplayer titles including Capcom's Exoprimal! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

03:07 Our Favorite MMORPGs of All Time and Could We Still Play Them?

47:10 SWTOR Legacy of the Sith Review Recap

50:46 Upcoming Titles Including Exoprimal

01:00:55 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) / Question of the Week

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

Busy week this week with new multiplayer releases! We'll give our initial impressions of Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, Swords of Legends Online's expansion and F2P launch, Babylon's Fall, and more! Then we'll turn our eyes towards some upcoming titles to see if anyone is eagerly awaiting them and roll our eyes a little at Square Enix and ArcheAge! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

03:25 Mini-Reviews of This Week's Releases (Fw2: End of Dragons, Babylon's Fall, and Swords of Legends Online)

37:42 Any Interest In These Upcoming Titles?

44:04 Seriously Square Enix and ArcheAge??!!

46:33 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) / Question of the Week

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

Guess what? Bobby Kotick will make even MORE money in bonuses if he can "turn around the culture" at Activision Blizzard...and that's hot on the heels of news that Microsoft went in FAST to try and buy the company! We'll also look at The Witch Queen launch, the WoW 9.2 launch, and a slew of other MMORPG news from around the world! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

We've partnered up with ArenaNet to score an AWESOME giveaway for our listeners as End of Dragons approaches in Guild Wars 2! While on the topic, we'll look at the recently announced endgame changes and the possible future of fractals and NCSoft's lackluster 4th quarter. After that, we REALLY get into a crazy story as we catch you up on how one person caused TitanReach to blow their chance at making their dream game! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about MMO games and multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

The day has finally come and Lost Ark is set to be unleashed on the west...well, once their delay is over. We'll talk about our early impressions of the game and we've also got news that might make you happy, sad, or make your eyes roll clean out of your head. Add to that a look at some upcoming games where we'll include our thoughts on whether they are worth looking forward to or not and you've got a JAM PACKED episode! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!