Summary: With Harry ill and Layanor on holidays, Chris calls on Ben and Bill (the B and B show) to help out with the first episode of 2014! We discuss MMO betas, updates and more! Listen now: What we did in game Layanor Called back to Cybertron Harry Sick Ben Played a few hours of Defiance to contribute to the clans overall rating Played a few hours of Neverwinter to try out the Hunter Ranger class. Eyeballin Alpha access to Rust REALLY HARD Bill GW2 - Flamed out with Chris. Little bit of monthly work L4D2, obviously Solforge - badly addicted Chris - Wildstar: Leveled my spellslinger and esper. Surprised by how much I like the esper, and don’t love the spellslinger. Trying to put to words why that is… LOTRO: Almost level 95 GW2: Ran Cathedral of Flames and a couple of Fractals. L4D2 with Bill News: Aura Kingdom open beta has started. http://aurakingdom.aeriagames.com/ Aura Kingdom is a anime themed fantasy mmo that looks and feels like a action ps3 RPG The game features eight classes, multiclassing, and flexible skills. You also get companions that grow and evolve with you. Companions also prove useful in combat, as they can form combo attacks with the player in a fluid action combat system If you like asian grind games more than questing games, you should check this one out. Fantasy Frontier Online If your intrested in trying the game, dont forget to get your Gloryus Evoy Package from MMOsite.com for a 3 day mount and some limited time buffs. http://news.mmosite.com/content/2014-01-07/aura-kingdom-glorious-envoy-package-giveaway.shtml Tailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBv9-l7zZtc Gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRmZ-UKfjHE Blackgold may have a beta launch soon. http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/10/14/black-gold-could-possibly-start-beta-in-early-2014/ Blackgold is a Steampunk vs Fantasy mmo. After the huge success that Age of Wushu has seen, Snail games turned some heads when they acquired $97 million loan from four Chinese banks to develop this new title. The game will be free to play in north america. Lone info: http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/07/29/black-gold-online-secures-97m-in-funding-from-chinese-banks/ Combat Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR5dMUIZNns#t Website: http://bg.snailgame.com/ Final Fantasy XIV opens up a free weekend for former subscribers http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/f22966f70e31307c98ca44dea8b5ed1f2e31cb2c Starting on Saturday, January 11th, at 3:00 a.m. EST, former players whose accounts are inactive will be able to log in and play the game absolutely free until Monday, January 13th Offical Site: http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/ The Secret World: Issue 9# Tokyo is coming! http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/game_director_letter_december_2013 Leading up the new “expansion” like update, will be a boss fight with Flappy. Flappy has been breaking off branches in Agartha, cutting off access to other worlds. It is time to stop him in a 60 man raid! Once he has been put to rest, the branch with Tokyo will be revealed. Issue #9 will be released within the first quarter of 2014 and will allow you to continue your main factions story. The update will also introduce the new AEGIS system that is still unexplained, but hinted to over and over by newsletters. Elder Scrolls Online: Beta invites soon! http://elderscrollsonline.com/en/news/post/2014/01/07/new-beta-invites--january-7th We’re greeting the new year with a round of beta invites. Check your registered email address to find out if you received one, and don’t forget to look in your spam folder just in case. Remember, if you use Gmail, our invites will be automatically filtered to the “promotions” tab. The beta is getting bigger as launch approaches,
