<p>Some people like our random, unplanned discussions. Others prefer it when we follow a list of news items and keep the discussion nominally on track. This week we’re doing the latter.</p>
<p>Hosts: <a href="http://www.chocolatehammer.org/">Rutskarn</a>, <a href="http://www.errantsignal.com/blog/">Chris</a>, Josh, Shamus</p>
<p>Show notes:</p>
<p><span id="more-20310"></span><strong>00:30</strong> Intro: Josh is playing <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/05/the-walking-dead-400-days-review/">Walking Dead 400 Days</a> and <a href="?p=14422" title="Skyrim Thieves Guild Part 1">Skyrim</a>. Chris is playing Walking Dead 400 Days, <a href="http://www.animal-crossing.com/newleaf/">Animal Crossing</a>, and <a href="http://www.thelastofus.com/">The Last of Us</a>. Shamus is playing Borderlands 2: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC9ufhqkdlA">Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep</a>. Rutskarn is reading nerd books for nerds.</p>
<p><strong>07:00</strong> <a href="http://www.geek.com/games/ea-wants-9-to-add-airships-and-balloons-to-simcity-1560684/">The $10 Airship DLC</a> for SimCity.</p>
<p><strong>21:00</strong> Here we discuss the whole <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.820491-Darkspore-Gone-Forever-Due-to-Abandoned-DRM-UPDATED">Darkspore debacle</a>.</p>
<p><strong>27:30</strong> We discuss the <a href="?p=20267" title="A Note From UPlay">UPlay security leak</a>.</p>
<p><strong>34:00</strong> CEO of <a href="http://www.red5studios.com/">Red 5 Studios</a> Mark Kern believes that <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/125533-Former-Dev-WoW-Has-Killed-the-MMO-Genre">WoW killed the MMO genre by making MMOs “too accessible”</a>.</p>
<p><strong>52:30</strong> Double Fine asked for $400k to make a game. They got $3 million on Kickstarter and arguably launched the whole Kickstarter craze by doing so. Now a year later <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57592491/double-fine-productions-broken-age-game-over-budget-delayed/">they’re running out of money and they’re less than halfway done</a>.</p>
<p><strong>1:08:00</strong> Tea Time! (Mailbag.) Related reading: <a href="?p=1415">Here are my thoughts on drinking coffee</a>, how I started and why I stopped.</p>
