On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: One month to Nerdtacular

Tetsemi: Developer Interviews galore

Mkallah: Exploding is always an option

Tetsemi: Sign up for Heroes of the Pants

Mkallah: We have Abovan to talk about AIE in Final Fantasy XIV

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #236 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has ben podcast. This is Tetsemi (lost somewhere in the Tanann Jungle) and to my left is Mkallah - (There are chocolate fig cakes in the guild kitchen). We sent Alludra out on a super secret assignment (okay let’s be honest, she’s digging in the dirt, shocking I know.). This week we are joined by special guest Abovan who is here to talk to us about AIE in Final Fantasy 14. Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into Final Fantasy 14 shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Community

The great summer nerd family reunion, Nerdtacular, is quickly approaching. The annual celebration of all things Frogpants is just under a month away. There are still a few tickets left, so if you have been thinking about going, but were waiting for the last minute- that time is now! There is also a meetup posted on http://www.meetup.com/Alea-Iacta-Est and there is plenty of chatter in the Nerdtacular section of the Frogpants forums, including people planning caravans, looking for roommates, boardgame requests and more.

Guildie of the Month - Help us recognize our outstanding guildies in all of the games that AIE plays! AIE’s Guildie of the Month program is our way to acknowledge outstanding members in our community. If you know someone that deserves to be recognized, please send an email to us at [email protected] with the name of the person you are nominating in the subject line.

WoW

Developer Interviews - Cory Stockten and Ion Hazzikostas sat down with different fan sites to discuss patch 6.2 content and issues surrounding the patch.

The Instance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0CCSuYjmoY

WoW Head - http://www.wowhead.com/news=248110/patch-6-2-interview-with-lead-game-designer-ion-hazzikostas

And there is some lively discussion about Patch on our own forums, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56483-62-fail-ready-for-the-next-expansion

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56485-really-enjoying-wow-patch-62-with-you-guys

EVE

Apparently politics and drama are rearing their ugly head in EvE (shocking I tell you) and Hoots has posted some Emergency Evacuation Procedures in case of losing stuff in Fountain. Fly safe and remember, as StupidGenius says, exploding really is your only option.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56482-reminder-emergency-evacuation-procedures

GW2

Jaricko has started a thread on the forums discussing the new patch and AIE activity in GW2 and Dejara posted some good information in the thread.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56473-aie-guild-wars-2-activity

Jedhai has also posted a new thread listing all the patch changes and there’s a good discussion going on about them as well

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56478-june-23rd-patch

SWTOR

A reminder of the mandatory fun nights in SWTOR, come one, come all, there’s stuff to see and do!

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/53691-tuesday-mandatory-fun-night

Arv has posted a thread discussing what to do with all the pesky Basic Commendations you have stacking up once you hit level 60.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/56489-what-to-do-with-those-pesky-basic-commendations

And, on episode 96 of the SWTOR Escape Pod Cast,

Sema, Max, nd Astromech EPC-96 dive into the details on the Knights of the Fallen Empire announcement and the news and clarifications that are continuing to be announced. They give their perspective and debate a bit on the direction that BioWare seems to be taking. They also cover other game news for the week from SW...