Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 104!

The topics for this week are listed below. You will also find a list of the articles discussed as well as a discussion on this week’s musical education featuring early jazz musicians.

1. Aliens in the past, Guild Wars 2 and Zorro in the future

2. Print is Dead

3. Slight Mad Studios show publishers the door; Doublefine and Kickstarter use crowd publishing to give publishers the old heave-ho

4. Stuck in the virtual mud – puzzles are not strategy, but sometimes they are brick walls

5. It’s all Andy Mahood’s Fault - Simulation Games

6. Have games become more about how they look than how they play?

7. Playing in the dirt – Dirt 2 off road racing

8. Microsoft and Ubisoft – usually we get kissed first

9. Sopa and Pipa part 2 – Act 2

10. Pond takes a dive

11. Marks “Notch” Persson goes off, Dear Esther takes off

12. It’s a snap – go to www.noprisonersnomercy.com for notes

Articles Discussed:

Eisenhower and the Aliens:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100947/Eisenhower-secret-meetings-aliens-pentagon-consultant-claims.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/eisenhower-met-aliens-says-timothy-good_n_1277133.html

http://blastr.com/2012/02/did-eisenhower-hold-secre.php

Post Apocalyptic Zorro: http://blastr.com/2012/02/believe-it-or-not-were-ge.php

It’s all Andy Mahood’s Fault: http://noprisonersnomercy.com/2012/02/its-all-andy-mahoods-fault/

Giving Publishers the Old Heave-Ho

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/02/double-fine-seeks-to-cut-out-publishers-with-kickstarter-funded-adventure.ars

Publishers Beware - Kickstarter

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/02/publishers-beware-can-other-game-developers-copy-double-fines-kickstarter-millions.ars

A little Help Please…

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/02/should-games-offer-more-help-when-we-get-stuck.ars

SOPA and PIPA Part 2 – ACTA

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/17/anonymous-hacks-us-government-websites-protest-acta

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/acta-referred-to-european-court-as-support-falters.ars

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120126/12313917555/polish-politicians-don-guy-fawkesanonymous-masks-to-protest-acta-signing.shtml

Pond takes a dive: http://blastr.com/2012/02/karen-gillan-insists-amys.php

Henry and Aaron: It’s a Snap http://blastr.com/2012/02/the-funniest-bloodiest-te.php

Make me an offer I can’t refuse…

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/02/minecraft-developer-makes-serious-offer-to-fund-psychonauts-sequel.ars

http://www.edge-online.com/news/notch-stop-hyping-internet