Right up front Steve Butts announces that Jason Ocampo and Staci Krause are no longer with IGN. The quick manor in which he gleans over the statement makes it seem like somewhat of a sensitive issue. There are no hints pointing towards this being a joke.
This week is still very MMO heavy starting out with Champions Online. This is the latest superhero MMO from the developer of City of Heroes and it has many excited by it’s extremely flexible character creation. Marissa talks about IGN’s PAX plans and teases a FunCom reveal. Could this be the next game in The Longest Journey series? Let’s hope so.
The crew has a discussion about the mixing of genres with Borderlands on the horizon. Although they generally feel that it usually doesn’t pan out, they are quite impressed with the deft with which Borderlands layers its RPG systems over a very solid shooting experience. Borderlands sounds like it is going to be the RPG-shooter to Fallout 3′s shooter-RPG.
Covered games and topics: Champions Online, PAX, FunCom reveal, Heroes of Newerth, Borderlands, Star Wars: The Old Republic, id still AAA?
The IGN PC Team is back with a new installment of Command Prompt, but change is definitely in the wind, both for the show and for entertainment as a whole. The latest details about the Disney/Marvel deal are discussed, as we try to discover just what this could mean for the realm of gaming, movies and much more. Hopefully, we won’t see any singing or dancing from Peter Parker in upcoming games, but you never know. New details are explored about Champions Online, Borderlands and Heroes of Newerth, and we make sure that we answer a number of your questions in this packed episode.
Runtime – 54:22
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