What’s In a Game? ‘WoW Clones’ Debunked!

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wowlogo with qmThis week on What’s In a Game, join me on a journey to learn what people are trying to say (and see how people really sound) when they call a game a “WoW Clone”. You’ll also see why I think calling a game a WoW Clone is disrespectful and more than a bit ignorant.  Things may get a bit bumpy, but just ride it out and hopefully we’ll all make it to the end.  Fair warning, there are a lot of games mentioned that I’m not going into detail over (because I haven’t played some of them, but primarily because this isn’t the place) but I will still provide ESRB ratings.

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Stephen’s Soap Box – The Banning

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The American political satirist P.J. O’Rourke said, “There  is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with  it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the  consequences.” I imagine there are some of you all right now who were wishing that wasn’t true. Welcome to the great banning of January 2014.

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Our Own White Sale… (CONTEST!)

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We still have some Holiday treasures left to award, and I reckon you all might be interested in winning them! Shoot us an e-mail to spiralradio101@gmail.com with your Pirate or Wizard’s New Year’s Resolution! Every day between January 15 and January 22 I’ll be giving out one prize a day to a randomly selected entrant. What’s it gonna be? Could be a Yuletide pet from the Skyways, could be a cache of KI Crowns – who knows?!

Use the subject RESOLUTION CONTEST and enter TODAY! The entry deadline is January 22 at 12:01 AM Central time, and I’ll be awarding each prize around lunchtime every day between the 15th and the 22nd. GOOD LUCK!

Spiral Radio101 Episode 7 LIVE!

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Did you miss us? We sure as heck missed you guys! The holidays are OVER and it’s time to get back to the world of gaming both inside and outside of the Spiral. Can’t wait to see you guys this Wednesday!

Spiral Radio101 #7 goes live at 8:45pm Central Time on Wednesday, January 15. You can join us live by clicking the ‘Listen Live’ link at the top of the page here at spiralradio101.com. (We’ll be giving away some prizes LIVE tonight, so I hope you can join us!) If you’re not able to join us live, never fear, we’ve got a contest going all week! And you can catch the podcast on iTunes or right here at spiralradio101.com (I reckon we’ll have it out on January 18).

Happy New Year and we hope to see you Wednesday!