VtW Radio: Warcraft Anonymous

The return from the impromptu holiday hiatus and discuss immersion in MMO's, how to achieve it, and whether or not it's really worth the effort.

WoW Appreciation continues as Speedyf40 joins Hiko and Rail as the release of SWTOR takes center stage and what it means for WoW!

The podcaster formerly known as Duncor joins our dynamic duo as the inaugural guest in the Appreciating Warcraft series. Listen in as they mostly talk about Skyrim with a little bit of WoW thrown in for good measure (including an update on 365 days of WoW)!

It's been a couple weeks since their centennial episode and Hiko and Railvas are still coming down off their high. Technical difficulties rear their ugly head again as the dynamic duo address concerns about amputees, levy insults against their constituents, the problem of damage creep and a whole host of other exciting topics. Railvas even survives a fire!

Hiko and Rail's 100th show together is a big one! All your Blizzcon coverage in a TWO HOUR spectacular! From Jack Black to Monks, Pandas to Pokemon, Diablo and Gold Farming. Absolutely everything you'd want from a Blizz con recap show. More exciting? The epic return of USER INPUT THINGIES! Plus, Hiko and Rail answer the all important question: has World of Warcraft jumped the shark? And a promise of much more awesomeness to come!

Only one more episode before the big 100! Hiko and Railvas spend some time discussing the upcoming Blizzcon, auctions for chairity and the inevitable singularity. Not only that, but they announce a contest for their 100th episode, which will air during Blizzcon! T-minus one week and counting...

It's a pre-centenial extravaganza! Join Hiko and Rail as they ramp up for their hundredth episode together.

Summer's over and Warcraft Anonymous is back! Listen in as Hiko and Railvas get back into the swing of things and spend an hour and a half catching up with the last two months of WoW!

We've all been there: you're in a lowbie dungeon, your tank and one of the DPS are up to their ears in Hierloom gear, and everything dies before you can even get rolling. How are you supposed to learn your class when you can't even get through your rotation? Listen in as Hiko and Rail discuss how everything in WoW these days is a complete and utter joke.

One set of technical difficulties replaces another as Hiko and Railvas load up the mobile broadcasting rig and talk about altoholism, the pace of leveling, inflaction and so much more! The only trouble? The mobile broadcasting rig has a hard time keeping up with everything. Tune in to find out if the world ends!

Are they talking about Internet etiquette again? Really? Yep! And so much more as Hiko and Rail discuss how to play your class, how to approach people who aren't playing their class correctly, and abusing the CTA system. But wait, there's more! A new recording format slams the dynamic duo with technical difficulties, but paves the way for a new era of Warcraft Anonymous that promises that the archives will get up on time!

In the final time traveling episode Hiko and Railvas warn of the two week hiatus that finishes up today! After that, they turn a fresh eye to the Dungeon Finder Call to Arms and the impact of the new zones on Azeroth's geography.

It's mother's day (or at least it was when this was episode was recorded) and Hiko and Railvas have actually played some WoW this week! Listen as they discuss phasing, heroics, and getting to 85.

The unspeakable happens as Hiko and Railvas get a user input thingie, but will it be relevant? Listen to find out! (Spoiler alert: no). But that doesn't stop them from discussing a plethora of other WoW related topics.

Hiko and Railvas talk about the new (old) Call to Arms mechanic, the necessity of sump pumps, and the 4.1 patch notes. Tune in to this exciting time-travelling episode of WCA!

What starts off as an enthusiastic return to normalcy turns into commentary on maturity on the Internet (or the lack thereof). Learn about Railvas's newfound interest in the Steampunk scene, how Hiko got back on the Zero Punctuation horse, and just how essential Wheaton's Rule is, even in the phantasmagoric land of Azeroth.

Hiko and Rail decide to give play-by-play announcing a shot, but quickly get distracted by inept PuG's and other such nonsense. Listen in as they run mid level random's and tell stories about idiots past. It's colorful commentary you won't want to miss!

It's special guest week on Warcraft Anonymous as Maxmaps, the infamous destroyer of innocents, joins Hiko and Railvas to celebrate the return of MaxSpeed to the Internet. The trio push the limits of this podcast's family friendly rating as they delve into the seedy underbelly of RP-servers: Goldshire ERP. As an added bonus, Max dispenses helpful advice for Americans traveling abroad!

It's time to clean out the inbox on Warcraft Anonymous! And Hiko and Railvas pull no punches, going all the way back to the ye old days of 2007!>

This week's episode harkens back to a grander time when boys were men, girls were men, and talking about guild politics was a respectible subject for an internet radio show about WoW! Join Hiko and Railvas as they argue over whose responsibility it is to manage guild politics: Blizzard's or the player's.

Dovetail and Moreslack, Hiko and Rail's evil alter egos, take over the airwaves to field questions for the Blizzard development team. It's a little known fact that Dovetail and Moreslack have actually worked for Blizzard since before it existed, so they have the inside scoop on all the answers that the WoW community is dying to know.

Railvas has combed the official forums and the dynamic duo has decided to try (in vain) to bring legitimacy to topics which could only be described as troll fodder. This is what happens when half of your content team falls off the face of the planet into a bizarre alternate reality where black is white, cats and dogs live together, and mass hysteria reigns supreme! Marvel as Hiko and Rail discuss DUEL pistols, the 4.1 patch notes, and how WoW is (not) turning into Warhammer.

Warcraft Anonymous is proud to announce its very own line of World of Warcraft peripherals! Just don't get them confused with those jerks over at Razer, who just can't measure up to our gratuitous amounts of originality. Tune in this week as we find out that Hiko's dismissal of tank griefing led Blizzard to putting in a hotfix. Be amazed as the boys provide you a surefire way to win a contest that has already ended!

Starting off with PvP, the dynamic duo fights through a veritable tsunami of technical trouble on their way towards a discussion about tank griefing. If you can forgive the poor audio quality at the beginning, stick around for this exciting episode of Warcraft Anonymous!

This week Hiko and Railvas feed the trolls in an extra long episode fueled by imitation haterade! Having (apparently) learned nothing from their three-plus years as Internet radio sensations, they tackle a controversial forum post in between discussions on re-learning how to behave. That's right, a new expansion means the general population has forgotten the meaning of common decency, and it's up to Hiko and Railvas to remind them how to play.

On this exciting episode of Warcraft Anonymous Hiko and Rail are joined by Gnomewise, host of Casually Hardcore! With naught but Railvas's prompts to guide them, the intrepid trio tackle the tumutous topic of entitlement and the whining it spawns. But that's not all! Hiko and Rail expand their horizons as they discuss cross platform gaming, how much realism is too much realism, and gorilla-donkey shows. This is one episode of Warcraft Anonymous you don't want to miss!

Another exciting episode wherein Railvas struts his stuff as a professional educator as the boys tackle games as an educational medium. Meanwhile Hiko puts people to sleep and incorrectly identifies Mavis Beacon as a video game. Nothing out of the ordinary here on Warcraft Anonymous!

Thanks to a blizzard (no, not THAT Blizzard) Hiko was without power, so the boys of Warcraft Anonymous had to take an unintentional hiatus. But have no fear, for they now return, having triumphed over the evil that is the holidays! Tune is as they get back in the saddle and bring you up to date on WoW.

Santa Claus forgot this exciting episode of Warcraft Anonymous at his workshop, but Hiko and Rail laid seige to the north pole in an attempt to get it to you in a timely manner! Of course they failed, but that won't stop them from sharing personal stories from their second (or third? It's hard to keep track with all this time travel) week in Cataclysm.

Join Hiko and Rail as they attempt to scavenge something to talk about from the dearth of content left in the wake of the Cataclysm release. Somehow, they manage to put together enough topics for a full show!

No cartoons for you this Saturday morning, instead you get a heaping bowlful of Hiko and Railvas! Listen in as they discuss the pending release of Cataclysm in a sleep deprived haze, and reveal your thoughts on what classes are most deserving of a swift eviction from World of Warcraft.

Thanksgiving came and went in the states, and somehow managed to muck everything up at Hiko and Rail's hidden lair in The Cloud. Personally, we blame the time traveling turducken that put Hiko in a tryptophan-induced coma over the long weekend. But never fear! We've fixed the hole in the space-time continuum and all the Cataclysm talk you've been lusting for is finally here. Tune in as the dynamic duo field user input thingies, and talk about the new content iminently coming over the horizon.

Good things come to those who wait! Except you, instead you get a week-old, crotchety old man telling you about how WoW was so much better "back in his day." Not only that, but you get some Hiko and Railvas too!

Hiko and Railvas celebrate Bonfire Night by ignoring it completely! Instead, they talk about the age-old problem of keeping people interested in stagnating content, and how to be a good podcaster. Spoiler alert: they only succeed at one of them!

User input thingies! Rail and Hiko asked, and you answered! Listen in for YOUR thoughts on designing your own weapon and Pandaren as a playable race. Plus, a bit of Blizzcon wrapup for good measure!

With Cataclysm on the horizon, the dynamic duo turn their attention to upcoming changes, while reflecting on what they'll miss from Wrath of the Lich King. As a bonus: WoW on your iPhone is coming! Okay, not really, but we talk about it anyway!

Hiko and Railvas are back on the Intertubes for the first time in almost a year! Tune in and listen as they talk about the upcoming expansion and what they've been up to since the last show.