No Prisoners, No Mercy

This time out we discuss the recent Unity Game Engine Controversy and Starfield.   See you online. The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to show 279 1. Bobby Kotick, Microsoft and Activision 2. Starfield 3. Warframe 4. a.i., writers and the future Discussion: What breaks immersion? See you online The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team Sites Cited: https://kotaku.com/starfield-open-world-rpg-scifi-ship-cargo-inventory-1850796380 https://kotaku.com/starfield-release-review-accessibility-xbox-pc-steam-1850793327 https://www.pcgamesn.com/warframe/heirloom-skins https://www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/fallout-4-feature

Welcome to Show 278 Subjects: 1. Accessibility features/Cyberpunk 2077 2. Games that are good until you run out of things to do. How do you keep players playing after they reach the level cap. The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to Show 277, Subjects for this time out: 1. Retro games 2. Videogame adaptation movies 3. Movies and people who make them 4. Audiobooks and movie rights See you online, The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to show 276, Here are the topics this time out. The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team 1. Artificial intelligence...I for one welcome our new AI overlords 2. Game Complexity, complicated game systems Sites Cited: Can an AI learn to be racist? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffraikes/2023/04/21/ai-can-be-racist-lets-make-sure-it-works-for-everyone/?sh=4882eea2e40d Is Chat GPT liberal or conservative? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/09/business/are-chatbots-liberal-or-conservative-depends-who-you-ask/ Testing the limits of Chat GPT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAQnkDzGvc  AI and lawsuits https://www.reuters.com/legal/getty-images-lawsuit-says-stability-ai-misused-photos-train-ai-2023-02-06/ Extra Credits Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/extracredits

TRIGGER WARNING:  This we one of our co-hosts talks about the loss of a friend. 1. Have toxic gamers ruined gaming? Have developers and publishers not listened to gamers? 2. Do we pay more attention to negativity? 3. Trigger Warning: Starting at  46 min. Chris talks about the passing of a friend.     

This time out we talk about the following subjects 1. Are cheap games bad? Are mobile games bad? 2. When good game companies go wrong 3. AI, creativity and how it effects us See you online, The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 273, This time out we talk about the following subjects: 1. Microsoft's patent for personalized in game advertising.  2. Solo games vs. multiplayer games vs. mmos. Which do you prefer and why? 3. Linear games with a single story arch vs. Open world sandbox. Which do you prefer and why? Does one format make for a more successful game than the other See you online, The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to the No Prisoners, No Mercy Show. This time out we discuss Conan Exiles.

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 271. This time out we discuss the following topics. See you online, The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team   1. Bethesda games, mods and updates 2. Stadia and cloud gaming

Welcome to Show 270, This time out the No Prisoners, No Mercy Team talk about the following subjects: 1. Developers chasing high end graphics instead of game play, story narratives and optimization 2. With easier tools to make games some developers do not take optimzation into consideration and who has access to the consoles and computers needed to play their game. See you online, The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to Show 269, The gangs all here. This time out we talk about Final Fantasy 14 - the good, the bad, and the very, very good! Along the way we discover what some games have done right that others have done wrong. See you online, The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to show 268, This time out the No Prisoners, No Mercy team welcomes a guest from the Space Game Junkie podcast back to the show.  This time out we discuss the good, the bad, and the very bad of gatekeeping. See you online, The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to Show 267, This time we continue our discussion on accessability in gaming.  We also welcome a special guest from The Space Game Junkie Podcast back to the show. The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to Show 266, This time out the No Prisoners, No Mercy Podcast welcomes a guest.  In part one of two we talk about accessability and games.  See you online, The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to Show 265, This time out we talk about why some games "have legs" and some do not?  Why are some games a flash and a pan and some seem to be around forever? What makes something the "it" game? See you online, The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

This time out the No Prisones, No Mercy Gang talks about the following subjects: See you online! 1. A few notes about Elden Ring 2. Conan Exiles 3. Games we play to relax 4. Artificial intelligence in and out of video games 5. Intelligence - artifical and the lack thereof 6. What are we playing

Welcome to the No Prisoners, No Mercy Show.  This time out we discuss the following subjects: 1. Microsoft acquiring activision blizzard 2. When the producer doesn't understand the product 3. Where is entertainment headed? 4. What are we playing 5. fremdschämen See you online The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team

Welcome to the No Prisoners, No Mercy Show. This time out we are please to welcome to the show author, screenwriter, and film producer Dedra Stevenson! See You Online The No Prisoners, No Mercy Team 

Welcome to show 261, This time out we discuss the following subjects. 1. NFTS and the game industry (see below) 2. What makes a great villain? 2. Star Trek Sites Cited: https://futurism.com/the-byte/650000-nft-yacht-metaverse https://kotaku.com/we-live-in-hell-and-this-ubisoft-nft-that-requires-you-1848202326 https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/2022/html/a_new_years_letter_from_the_president_2.html