On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: WOW 6.2 is coming

Mkallah: BUT, final Fantasy is releasing an Expansion!

Tetsemi: Knights of the Fallen Empire- “Sacrifice” Trailer has been released

Mkallah: Wait- Guild Wars 2 is releasing an update!

Tetsemi: We have Jedhai here to talk to us about GW2, GOTM, etc

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #235 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has ben podcast. Happy Father’s Day to all the great Dads in AIE! This is Mkallah: To to my right, cleaning up what ever mess I made in the guild kitchen, we have Tetsemi: (Catch Phrase here ). We sent Alludra off to soak in a mud bath, since she loves to dig in the dirt. This week we are joined by special guest Jehdai who is here to talk to us about AIE in Guildie of the Month, Minecraft and GW2 Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be chatting about with Jehdai about a host of subjects shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

World of Warcraft

Patch 6.2 - Fury of Hellfire drops on Tuesday, June 23rd, bringing with it new Garrison missions in the form of the Shipyard, new upgradeable gear (level 5 and 6), purchasable gear with Apexis crystals, continuation of the Legendary Ring story/quest line, a new zone Taanan Jungle and a new raid Hellfire Citiadel. as well as Timewalking weekends, and so much more.

Check out WoW Head’s write up here - http://www.wowhead.com/news=247977/patch-6-2-fury-of-hellfire-arrives-june-23-ptr-build-20157

And Blizzard’s write up

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/19803325/patch-62-fury-of-hellfire-arrives-june-23-6-17-2015

They have the raid schedule for LFR, Normal, Heroic and Mythic, as well as

Also with the release of Patch 6.2, any character who hasn’t logged into the game since December 7, 2010 will have their named freed up and available to anyone using the paid name change service.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/15910697/release-the-names-character-name-reclamation-coming-6-18-2015

FFXIV

Heavensward expansion drops on June 23rd (what a shocking coincidence Blizzard, not)

Don’t forget to do your benchmarking and see some of the stuff coming in the expansion

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/heavensward

New Jobs - Dark Knight

New Races - Raen and Xaela

New Areas - Ishgard, Dravania, and Abalathia

Primals and Beastmen - The Vanu Vanu and The Gnath

Nidhogg - One of the seven great wyrms born of Midgardsormr , relic known as “the Eye’ buried deep within the vaults of Ishgard.

Star Trek Online

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9411943-star-trek-online%3A-time-in-a-bottle-now-live%21

Time in a Bottle episode now live and this weeks reward is the Chroniton Split Beam Rifle. You also will get a Featured Episode Weekly Reward box the first time you complete this on any character on your account. You get either an Enhanced Universal Tech Upgrade or a Captain Specialization Point. All rewards are Bound to Account and may be traded between your characters.

Guild Wars 2

And shockingly, coming as a surprise to no one, Guild Wars 2 is also releasing an update on June 23rd, must be a trend. Jehdai will be giving us more info on that in just a few minutes!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-is-available-for-pre-purchase

SWTOR

Announcing Knight of the Fallen Empire expansion (note, not on June 23rd, it’s October 27th, someone didn’t get the memo).

http://www.starwarstheoldrepublic.com/info/news/article/20150615

This expansion also raises the Level cap to 65, and includes the option to create a Level 60 character! This allows you to start fresh in Knights of the Fallen Empire and jump right into the new story content. They are delivering this story content in a way never before done in Star Wars: The Old Republic: Chapters.