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We've been playing Cryptic's new free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons MMORPG, and we have deep thoughts to share. Or at least some observations about the lack of bards and RP servers and a comparison to the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online. I hate to disappoint, but Andy McNamara has a rare absence... More

We promised it forever ago, but Andy McNamara, Adam Biessener, and special guest Robert Johnson of Namco Bandai are finally delivering some of the crazy stories that have taken place in our years playing MMOs. Andy and Robert have been playing MMOs together since the glory days of EverQuest, and they... More

The shooter MMO from Trion has had some launch pangs, particularly with its console versions, but we have some good things to say about it too. GI's Andy Reiner and Mike Futter, who have had the ill fortune to (attempt to) play the Xbox 360 version, join host Adam Biessener and his perspective from... More

GI editor-in-chief Andy McNamara makes his long-awaited return to our MMO podcast this week to grill Respec Radio host and GI PC editor Adam Biessener about The Elder Scrolls Online. Anything that I can speak about from my four hours of playtime in two of the game's starter zones is fair game, and... More

The newly appointed creative director of the live teams for The Secret World, Age of Conan, and Anarchy Online joins GI's Adam Biessener for a chat about the dramatic restructuring of Funcom's development teams, commercial disappointments, and the company's future. Joel Bylos was one of the... More

Mike Donatelli and Mike Geldard from Wildstar development studio Carbine join the GI MMO podcast for an informal chat about housing, tabletop role-playing, and space bacon. Host Adam Biessener grills content director Donatelli and global brand manager Geldard on a variety of topics on their upcoming... More

The 5.2 update to World of Warcraft introduces the Thunder King and his raid tier alongside a whole bunch of other stuff for Mists of Pandaria players to keep themselves busy with. Lead encounter designer Ian Hazzikostas joined the prestigious GI MMO podcast to tell us all about the juggernaut MMO's... More

We are alive! Now that the Game Informer editors have survived the annual onslaught of holiday games and news, Andy McNamara finally had a minute or fifty to sit down with Respec Radio host to chat about PlanetSide 2. Between Andy's war stories from the original game and Adam's gushing about... More

Join Adam Biessener and Andy McNamara for a freewheeling discussion of ArenaNet's brand new smash hit MMO, Guild Wars 2. Whether you're looking to have your own opinions validated or more interested in picking our proclamations apart, we've got you covered with plenty of jibber-jabber on... More

Host Adam Biessener and Respec stalwart Andy McNamara are joined by GI's Ben Hanson in a wide-ranging exploration of the consequences of the recently announced free-to-play move for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Also, we shout at each other about PvP and healing UIs. Before Hanson's questions... More

Funcom's Ragnar Tørnquist joins Respec Radio host Adam Biessener for a discussion on his soon-to-be-live MMORPG. The Secret World puts players into one of three secret societies warring over control of hidden magical energy in our modern world. Tørnquist and his team are trying to build... More

Three GI editors tackle the three big names in shooter/MMOs that were the highlights in massively multiplayer gaming from E3 2012. Host Adam Biessener is joined as always by Andy McNamara as well as Matt Miller. Listen in to find out what we think the most promising massively multiplayer game from the... More

Three GI editors tackle the three big names in shooter/MMOs that were the highlights in massively multiplayer gaming from E3 2012. Host Adam Biessener is joined as always by Andy McNamara as well as Matt Miller. Listen in to find out what we think the most promising massively multiplayer game from the... More

Editor-in-chief Andy McNamara interviews GI PC Editor Adam Biessener about the recently launched, action-heavy MMO. Is this Korean import worth your time? Listen to the podcast for 20-plus minutes of Tera details and analysis on why this is the best MMO combat I've played – and why that may... More

Editor-in-chief Andy McNamara interviews GI PC Editor Adam Biessener about the recently launched, action-heavy MMO. Is this Korean import worth your time? Listen to the podcast for 20-plus minutes of Tera details and analysis on why this is the best MMO combat I've played – and why that may... More

Two things make this a very special edition of Respec Radio: our guest, Guild Wars 2 designer Jonathan Sharp of ArenaNet, and the last appearance of Phil Kollar as an editor at Game Informer. You'll have to do without Andy McNamara's customary ranting this week, but we like to think that Sharp's... More

It's been a slow year for MMOs so far, but things are about to heat up. On this episode of Respec Radio, we share our experiences with the Guild Wars 2 and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria betas. As always, I'm joined by Andy McNamara and Adam Biessener. In addition to lots of gushing about... More

We're back from break, and would you believe we wasted most of our holiday time off playing the freshly-launched Star Wars: The Old Republic? Of course we did. Adam Biessener, Andy McNamara, and Andrew Reiner join me on this episode of Respec Radio to discuss the first few week's of BioWare's... More

Not even two weeks since our last episode, and Respec Radio is back! This time, Matt Miller and Adam Biessener join me to discuss the beta for Star Wars: The Old Republic. In this hour-long talk, we dive into the first 20 levels of our Empire-side characters, including how close to World of Warcraft... More

We're back! After an extra-long summer break, Andy McNamara and Adam Biessener join me for some long-overdue MMO talk. On our dramatic return episode, we take a long look at all of the details surrounding Mists of Pandaria, the latest World of Warcraft expansion. Listen to this hour-long episode... More