On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mkallah: War of the Thorns gets a little prickly!

Tetsemi: Midyear Mayhem is massive!

Mewkow: Discover STO Discovery

Mkallah: Are you ready to compete in Queen's Gauntlet and Festival of the Four Winds?

Tetsemi: And, Max and Sy are here to tell us all about Summer of Love!

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #302 of the the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Mkallah: - (Summer of Love surprise cake is currently baking in the guild kitchen). And to my right is Tetsemi: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests Max and Sy who are here to talk to us about the Summer Of Love! Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be talking to our guests shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

Streaming and guild podcast news

Swtor Escape Pod Cast 251: Don’t Fear The Reaper

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-251-dont-fear-the-reaper/

This week, @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-251 are joined by @MarcusB814 (guild member and host of the Working Class Nerds podcast) to run Red Reaper and talk about Datacrons and the monthly event Marcus is running on the 27th.

NOMADS

No Man's Sky has released a major update to the game 4 days ago. Several changes to the game to include the ability to play together with 3 of your friends. The game is buy-to-play and if you played before, it's a free update, if not it's $29.99 on Steam.

WoW

War of the Thorns has started and it’s looking like the Horde are the bad people, at least right now, and Horde players are not happy with the story so far.

Regular Noob Raid resumes October 6th. Normally the only requirements to join are a max level toon and the willingness to laugh a lot while we die over and over again.

A huge thank you to Syreyne and the DOA raid team for running the Noob’ers through Normal Antorus the past two weekends.

ESO

Congratulations, we’re sorry! Dankinia has been promoted to Game Director of ESO!

Midyear Mayhem is happening right now until August 6th. This event gives bonus rewards and XP for PVP activities.

The DLC will be on sale for 75% off for those that do not have it and there will be bonus rewards for a variety of activities in Wrothgar.

STO

Star Trek Online is about to take you into the world of the latest Star Trek TV series, Star Trek: Discovery. This fall on PC, and soon after on Xbox One and Playstation 4, Captains will take the first step on a continuing journey to 2256, in the height of the Klingon War. For the very first time in STO’s history, we’ll be updating the game in line with a currently airing Star Trek series. Here’s what to expect from Star Trek Online: Age of Discovery:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10962253-star-trek-online%3A-age-of-discovery

For a limited time, Research and Development packs will be available to Captains for 20% off!

From Thursday, July 26th at 8AM PST to Monday, July 30th at 10AM PST, both Research and Development packs as well as bundles will be discounted.

SWTOR

Mandatory Fun Night will be on the Republic side this week, make sure you check in the #swtor channel in AIE Discord to find out what the conquest goal for the week is and how you can best hit that goal.

Congrats to the Conquers of Balmora!

Thank you to MarcusB for the MEGA event in SWTOR this week, they went after Datacrons and had a lot of fun doing it!

And, breaking news from Discord! Friday August 24th. #MEGA Episode 3! Revenge of the hutts

GW2

MFN is on as usual, Monday 6:30 pm PT/9:30 pm ET in coordination with the Summer of Love event.

For the first time in 4 years, the Queen's Gauntlet and Festival of the Four Winds are back! If you missed them the first time, or just want to compete and collect phat lewts, you have until Aug. 14th.

https://en-forum.guildwars2.