TGL Episode #4 brings us another podcast interview with Scott Hartsman. Check it out.

Tonight’s show Mark, Carla and Ken welcome Scott Hartsman from Trion Worlds, working on the upcoming MMO “Rift: Planes of Telara”

What is Rift?
What is the Story behind Rift?
Game Features: Crafting, PvP, Endgame.

Rift Podcast has released their nineteenth podcast today.

This week is lucky 19! We have the Community Team Invade the podcast. Cindy ‘Abigale’ Bowens and Amanda ‘Amary’ Fry join us again, and we get to welcome Erick ‘Zann’ Adams for the first time.

They take us through how the Community Management team works, and the challenges and opportunities having so many social networking avenues like facebook and twitter poses. They also talk to us about the up and coming Gamer Day at Trion headquarters, and the rapid growth of the Rift Community and don’t forget the PIE!

Check out this week’s Podcast from Rift Podcast.com.

Abigale talks to us in this episode about the fine line they walk trying to make sure they fulfill their development, stress and focus testing needs; balance getting the word out about the game; and try to include their supportive community at the same time. Sadly, it is a fine line and not everyone will be happy – If they did manage to find a way to accomplish it, they could bottle it and make a fortune.

Rift Podcast releases probably their best Podcast yet. This week they sat down and talked with Scott Hartsman to talk about a myriad of topics.

Oh yeah. Scott announced PVP souls. Not guaranteed for release however. Exciting.

[Scott Hartsman] explains about the Scope of the game and that Rift: Planes of Telara is currently on target. We discuss dungeons and instancing, Engame content including Raid Rifts and what they are and how they work. There’s also mention of rare drop rewards throughout the game including pvp – as well as the leveling curve and how it’s progressing and how they’re planning on dealing with gold spammers and bots.

In case you forgot, here is the latest episode of the Rift Podcast.

…we have Abigale with us again and we get to know Amary – a community co-ordinator for the Rift game. Amary takes time out to talk to us about how she got into the industry, what she does at Trion and about how much she loves being a gamer. So much, that she’s taking part in Extra Life. Make sure to take a look – it’s a great cause to support. Other Trion Employees are taking part too.

It’s Monday and it’s time for a new podcast from Rift Podcast.com. This week’s episode has Simon Ffinch on to talk about a ton of new pieces of information.

* There are multiple storylines – each faction expresses their own views on events around Telara through their own storyline.
* Quests will be available in solo, group, and raid difficulty.
* Souls will be obtainable through Quests – difficulty will vary
* The new revamp of the starting areas has been designed to draw the player into the story more
* There are multiple ways for people to stay busy once they reach level cap
* Away with Access Quests! No plans to have them currently at release.
* Putting the MM back in MMO: The only instances around are the Dungeons.
* Guild Quests: What types? How difficult?
* He also touches on Dynamic Quests, Epic Quests, Daily Quests, Hidden quests, Endgame Content and quite a bit more.

Make sure you head over to Rift Podcast and get all the new details.

It’s Monday morning and a new podcast has been released. This week Arithion talks with Captain Cursor and missdoomcookie, both lore leads for Rift: Planes of Telara, and they discuss the stories and backgrounds of both factions.

They talk to us about how they came to be writing lore for an MMO and all about the history of the world of Telara.

From the Gods of the Vigil, to the Rift Invasions and how tie into the world. From whether or not Asha Catari is killable and the bridge of Sanctum – to the weird and wonderful mounts with a hint about the two of them left to come.

This interview was a lot of fun to do. We hope Morgan and Nick will come back one day and share more with us. Thanks go out to Braen and Chronobis for question help.

There’s a new podcast out this morning from Riftpodcast.com. This time Abigale speaks about her time at PAX and GamesCom, as well as commenting on the growing community. A second guest is Karen, the winner of the Massive Online Gamer contest from months ago. She talks about her time at the Trion Studios and her impressions of the game.

Also, stay tuned in the up coming weeks as the developers will get back to interacting with the community.

UPDATE: Here is the transcript.

TenTon Hammer’s Podcast was put out and this week they had Scott Hartsman on for an interview. Scott spent about forty five minutes with the guys and talked about the game in general. He started off with the basics, talking about the dev team and went on about the games class system, souls, how they are used, how things are balanced. For the pro-rifter, no new information was released in this podcast. Much of the discussion centered around information previous TenTon Hammer articles have already discussed. For those new to the game, check out the podcast and skip to the 46 minute mark (you’ll thank me later) and enjoy.

A new podcast this week that goes over PAX and has an interview with AutomaticZen that details his review of his experience at PAX.

Today AutomaticZen joins us. He’s a forum and IRC regular who writes for Industrygamers.com and attended PAX. Not only did he give us a really nice write up of his PAX experience on the boards — he also allowed the podcast team to kidnap approach him and drag invite him on the show to chat to us about his experiences with Rift at the show.

Check it out.