No Prisoners, No Mercy

Welcome to No Prisoners, No Mercy Show 104!   The topics for this week are listed below.  You will  also find a list of the articles discussed as well as a discussion on this week’s musical education featuring early jazz musicians.   1.      Aliens in the past, Guild Wars 2 and Zorro in the future 2.      Print is Dead 3.      Slight Mad Studios show publishers the door; Doublefine and Kickstarter use crowd publishing to give publishers the old heave-ho 4.      Stuck in the virtual mud – puzzles are not strategy, but sometimes they are brick walls 5.      It’s all Andy Mahood’s Fault - Simulation Games 6.      Have games become more about how they look than how they play? 7.      Playing in the dirt – Dirt 2 off road racing 8.      Microsoft and Ubisoft – usually we get kissed first 9.      Sopa and Pipa part 2 – Act 2 10.  Pond takes a dive 11.  Marks “Notch” Persson goes off, Dear Esther takes off 12.  It’s a snap – go to www.noprisonersnomercy.com for notes   Articles Discussed:   Eisenhower and the Alien