Most excellent readers, today we present for you a report on the the most non-heinous Age of Conan Beta. While traveling through the lush underbrush of the most interesting of unreleased online games, Ron and Shawn contemplate the differences and extol the virtues of this soon to release dark fantasy world. Remember that the impressions recounted in the podcast are based upon impressions of a BETA and not final game code and as always may change prior to release of the final game.

We ran long so unfortunately there is no  Rant-n-Rave section this week for fans of that segment.

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This week, after a slight delay of game thanks to rain and technology, the File-N-Forget podcast ignores the GTA IV release hype and instead focuses on two games that might interest folks who are not mindless GTA obsessed zombies. Iron Man the Game and Viking: Battle for Asgard. Sure Stephany dinged Viking pretty badly in her impression, but Ron quite likes it and talks about why.

The Rant and Rant section of the episode features Ron talking about how World of Warcraft can fail while Shawn bitches about bitchy women.

This weeks show is available by direct download here.

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Its a shame to see a promising game begin to falter. Last week’s announcement regarding server consolidation for the recently launched Pirates of the Burning Sea MMORPG might not be the best sign that the game is doing well. Regardless it sparked a discussion between Ron and I about why MMORPGs fail today and thus this week’s Podcast was born. Then the topic moves to my recent trip to Chicago to meet with Wizards of the Coast about the future of Dungeons & Dragons. If you’re interested in more info on D&D 4E be sure to check out The Analog Gamer.

The rant and rave section of the podcast features a rant at a very special audience and Ron implores Sony to fix the horrible problems with the Playstation Store and its downloads.

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This week we purge the unclean from the podcast and discuss just where that Kane guy was during the lull between the 1st and 2nd Tiberium War. Our topics are two recently released RTS games – Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath and Dawn of War: Soulstorm. Join us for approximately 24 minutes as we talk good and bad and mostly great things about these two expansions. Additionally , Ron rants and I rave. Good Times. I almost apologize for the use of the word orgy in the podcast’s metadata too.

You can check out my “impression” of Kane’s Wrath as mentioned in the podcast here. And here is a link to 1Up’s official network review  of Kane’s Wrath and Soulstorm as well.

This weeks show is available by direct download here.

As always, you can get past episodes from our podcast page at http://podcast.filefront.com, and you can send your comments, questions, suggestions, or snarky comments to podcast@filefront.com.

File-N-Forget is also available on the iTunes Music Store.

We may be bad company for some after this weeks episode of the File-N-Forget podcast.

Thanks to the graciousness of Electronic Arts, Shawn Ron and Gaming Today PR Czar, Daniel Perez all had an invite to play and discuss the Xbox Live! Beta for the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company. We cover what impressed us and what didn’t and even got to enjoy Ron’s pained Rant about finally shelling out the cash for an Xbox Live! Gold membership.

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The prodigal podcast returns this week to talk about an inflammatory subject – Copy Protection. Is it the root of all evil? Does piracy destroy lives and murder children? Ron and Shawn discuss it at length in light of the success of Sins of a Solar Empire and the death of Iron Lore studios.

This weeks show is available by direct download here.

As always, you can get past episodes from our podcast page at http://podcast.filefront.com, and you can send your comments, questions, suggestions, or snarky comments to podcast@filefront.com.

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The ever popular Ron Whitaker returns to primary hosting duties, relegating me to sidekick and comic foil this week, but in a File-N-Forget first we invite some developers into the virtual studio for an interview. Jason Faller, President of Silverlode Interactive and Marketing Director Slava Zatuchny talk about the first Massively Multiplayer Real-Time Strategy Game: SAGA.

The gentlemen describe how they brought the RTS genre into the MMO realm, what their overriding goal is in creating the game they always wanted to play and quite a few hints of what is to come in the future for this newly launched game. I’d write more but my darned peasants are being lazy in Brekton and have to be put to the whip again.

Not sure what SAGA is? You can find out more at www.playsaga.com

This weeks show is available by direct download here.

As always, you can get past episodes from our podcast page at http://podcast.filefront.com, and you can send your comments, questions, suggestions, or snarky comments to podcast@filefront.com.

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After a week break, Shawn and Ron return for the 22nd installment of the File-N-Forget podcast. This week the topic is MMOs and the impact that players have on developer decisions. Our hosts discuss the upcoming changes to World of Warcraft and the proposed change Blizzard later reversed to the Warlock Lifetap ability because of player outcry. Star Wars Galaxies of course gets brought into the fray when the discussion turns to examples of where developers chose to ignore the fans and the consequences of that decision.

What impact do you think players have on persistent games and their development? Should players be more or less involved? Post your opinions below.

This week we also introduce the “What are you playing and why?” segment.

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This week the File-N-Forget podcast returns with Ron Whitaker and Shawn Sines discussing the wonderful new 4X/RTS hybrid Sins of a Solar Empire from Ironclad Games and publisher Stardock. We bypass the “Guess the Game” segment this week but as usual Shawn has a Rave and Ron continues to Rant.

This weeks show is available by direct download here.

As always, you can get past episodes from our podcast page at http://podcast.filefront.com, and you can send your comments, questions, suggestions, or snarky comments to podcast@filefront.com.

File-N-Forget is also available on the iTunes Music Store.

Oh and if you’re looking for the official 1Up review of Sins you can check it out here for another opinion on the game.

 A little delayed but File-N-Forget Episode 20 has roared across the finish line.

This Week Shawn asks Ron about the most recent Burnout Game: Burnout Paradise and his opinions of the series transition to an open world racer. We also have a new “Guess the Game” this week as well as a Rave from Ron and a Rant from Shawn about Rock Band and DLC.

Congratulations to last week’s “Guess the Game” winner S.T.A.L.K.E.R for his correct answer of Beyond Good and Evil, an underrated title that should not be missed (if you’re a GameTap subscriber you can play it now as a matter of fact.)

You can grab this week’s episode here.

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