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Posted January 23rd, 2009 by Ethec

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Show Notes - Episode #3: In the year 2009... - January 13 , 2009

Length: 31:33

Synopsis: Ten Ton Hammer's third episode of Loading... Live takes you inside the head of two of the Ten Ton Hammer main site's top writers, Cody "Micajah" Bye and Reuben "Sardu" Waters, as they evaluate 2008 in MMO gaming and look ahead to 2009. Did the MMO industry suffer enormous damage in 2008? Will any major MMO titles release in 2009? Tune in for Micajah's and Sardu's take!

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Participants

Hosts

Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle
Editor in Chief- Ten Ton Hammer Network
Ben "Machail" de la Durantaye
Managing Editor - Ten Ton Hammer Network

Guests

Cody Bye
Executive Editor - Ten Ton Hammer Network
Reuben "Sardu" Waters
Ten Ton Hammer Forums and PR Specialist Extraordinaire
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Introductions

0:00 Introductions
0:44 Straight to business.

Ethec shows that he's absolutely cool with a sloppy intro, complete with ums, ahs, and dead air. But at least he remembered to start recording this week.

Links

Loading... - Ten Ton Hammer's daily newsletter and column

News and Events

1:22 The Machail Report
2:00 MMOguls schmoguls
3:25 China "treats" gaming addiction

Ben reviews the weeks' news, including the MMOguls scheme that CME flatly denies its properties, including Stargate Worlds, are involved with, China's plans for gamers that exceed the maximum ration of gaming time, and

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Ten Ton Hammer Latest News
MMOguls schemery and the Loading that started it all.
China's new non-material addictions re-education camp for the people.

Looking Forward to 2009

5:16 The MMO Crash of 2008? Really?
10:40 Biggest 2009 Titles
12:44 Chronicles of Spellborn
14:38 A twitchy 2009?
16:49 WoW - No console for you.
18:49 Picking sides in the console war
22:47 Which studio will be top dog, well, after Blizzard?
25:57 Most outlandish predictions, ever.
30:42 Closing

Cody and Reuben look back at a MMO gaming's 2008, which probably got a bad rap. We go on to discuss the three titles we know that (for sure) will launch in 2009, how a console-focus will shape at least two of these titles, which studio will cement its place as the top MMO studio (after Blizzard, of course), and end with Cody's and Reuben's choice of their most outlandish prediction that they think will actually come true.

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