He was afraid to go near the hurt locker He was as nervous as he could be He was afraid to go near the hurt locker The armor was skimpy as skimpy could be Two three four tell the people what the ogre wore It was an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Galvanized Metal Bikini That [...]

What we are looking at for the week of August 30, 2010  Wow doesn’t this sound familiar? Most anyone who has ever put up a website on the internet will eventually experience the virtual visits from one of the various companies who buy up potentially popular domain names, including iterations of websites that are popular.  [...]

We all have our favorite games, books and movies. But what happens when they end? What happens when you want to read a engrossing tale of intrigue set in your favorite universe? Well my friends, look no further, because our favorite site for fiction is back. Yes none other than Lorewriter.com brought to you by [...]

Get out your fairy dust and magic wands boys and girls. Click your heals together three times and keep saying “there’s no place like net neutral wireless internet, there’s no place like net neutral wireless internet”.  Gather round as Verizon spins a tall tale of how they will fullfill President Obama’s dream of Net Neutrality… [...]

“If there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.” – Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker talking about the desert planet of Tatooine “For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and [...]

The highlight of the 2010 Chicago Comic Con, at least for me, was being able to meet Brent Spiner.   In person he is every bit as witty and personable as he seems on the big and little screens.  I found it impossible not to be drawn into his wit and charm at once. Some of [...]

“Los Angeles, CA (August 23, 2010) — Atari, one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers and Cryptic Studios, the acclaimed developers behind City of heroes, City of Villains, Champions Online and Star Trek Online, announced today the development of Neverwinter for PC. Neverwinter is a new online roleplaying game based on Wizards of the [...]

If you started this article expecting us to predict the downfall of Fallen Earth or Icarus Studios  you came to the wrong place. In fact I find it interesting how many news sources  fall into the same category as day the Chicago Daily Tribune when it heralded  the now  famous “Dewy Defeats Truman” – by [...]

Walter Koenig we love you madly If you are reading these lines expecting to read an article from a star trek fan girl you will be sorely disappointed.  Yes, as our regular listeners know, I am indeed a Star Trek fan as is my sister and co-host, Sister Frances.  In fact, that is how we [...]

Your cargo bike blasts through the Arizona morn, Maim Your clone is among the first born, Maim Your bike runs through the desert hummin’ And kickin’ up a lot of desert sand, Your shot gun is ready for some pumpin’ Out in post apocalyptic land. And so I asked myself, as I so often do [...]

As regular listeners and readers know, the entire No Prisoners, No Mercy (NPNM) are members of a group called “The Older Gamers” – this is the “TOG” that we talk about on our show so much. Yes, the next time you think that all gamers are created equal stop over at The Older Gamers and [...]

“Street [Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street, lead systems designer for WoW] identifies three main reasons for bringing the apocalypse to Azeroth. First, shock value was a crucial component. Deathwing’s awakening is an explosive event for Azeroth. “We were trying to stage an apocalypse here,” he says, “and we wanted some crazy things to happen and we knew [...]

“Seriously, where do we go from here? WoW 5.0: The Really Really Dark Portal that Leads to the Hecka Burning Crusade (this time it’s personal, and this time you REALLY aren’t prepared)?” – Ixobelle, The Pink Pigtail Inn   Those of you who listened to NPNM show 67  heard Fran and I discuss a funny, [...]

Picture credit: Stevyn Colgan Disney purchased Club Penguin ($350 million), Playdom ($763.2 million) and once you throw in Tapulous  (makers of Iphone games) that is more than just a passing interest in social free to play and mobile games. Robert Iger (CEO Disney) said social games are a “way to reach consumers in a fragmented [...]

Welcome to the back page for Friday, August 14, 2010   Yes, I said August 14th … Yes, I do know what the date really is, and it’s not that I’m superstitious or anything (knock wood). Still,  you can never be careful. O.K. so its Friday (fill in the date) during the month of August [...]

Few people can predict the future with any degree of certainly.  Every now and then someone comes along like Steve Jobs who predicts that the future is mobile application and has the power to help make it true.  As for myself, the only thing I am sure about (other than death and taxes) is the [...]

Earlier today Arstechica released the following quote from The Entertainment Software Association report entitled Video Games in the 21st Century for 2010: “The real annual growth rate of the US computer and video game software industry was 10.6 percent for the period 2005-2009 and 16.7 percent for the period 2005-2008,” the report states. “During the [...]

Photo credit: Mother superior first introduced me to this calendar series available here. First a word from the deep end of the pool…   When Brian “Psychochild” Green speaks we listen – even if it’s a comment on another blog. So that’s why we didn’t want anyone to miss his comment on the issue that [...]

  “My simple child reaction of what you did is that you are not funny. Funnier than you is even Stuart Schlossman, who is my friend, and is eleven, and puts walnuts in his mouth and makes noises. What is not funny is to call us names, and what is mostly not funny is how [...]

There is a definition of chutzpa that is as old as the hills – a man who is arrested for killing both his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan. The problem with Chutzpa and companies that develop what we here at NPNM call “The 800 [...]

  Normally I don’t go in for side scrollers. Yes there is something that is retro about them, but not everything retro has a fond memory with it.  I look back fondly (and also cringe a bit at the waste) of days when gasoline was less than 50 cents per gallon and the car I [...]

We review about 90 plus sources every day here at NPNM (Thank God for the invention of the executive summary).  As result of reviewing that many feeds, when I come upon something with the syllable “porn” in it, I simply roll my eyes and move on.  As a result of when I saw this come [...]

The second in a two part series on social games. First the news of Disney purchasing Playdom, the company that has been purchasing Facebook game developers like there was no tomorrow, for over three quarter of a billion dollars.  Then this morning this crossed our news feed this morning from Worlds in Motion : “Some [...]

part one in a two part series about Social Games [Author's note, if a bit of harsh language by a few irate game developers is likely to bother you than read no further - this article will get blunt] When is a cow evil?  In two cases of which I know. The first is a [...]

He is one of my favorite Star Trek Villains. He’s the man that everyone loves to hate – none other than the man himself, Khan.  Most people who read this site and listen to our show will remember the moment when the Shakespeare quoting villain says “Revenge is a dish best served cold, and it [...]