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Entries from September 16th, 2010

Three Moves Ahead Episode 82: Chris King and more Victoria 2

September 16th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

  Unavailable when we needed him, but still game for a show, Victoria 2’s lead designer Chris King joins Troy and Rob for a discussion of Marxist economic models, why they are so many rebels and why he bothered redesigning Vicky in the first place. Listen here. RSS here. Subscribe on iTunes.

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 81: Elemental Post Mortem with Brad Wardell

September 8th, 2010 · 34 Comments · Podcast, Stardock, Three Moves Ahead

  A terrible launch of a game I wanted to love turns what should have been a “WOW” show into another opportunity for Brad Wardell to explain how Stardock screwed up. Listen how imperfect QA practices, overconfidence, groupthink and not taking every beta crash report seriously turned one of the year’s most anticipated new IPs […]

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Podcast Roundup

September 6th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Podcast

Firaxis’s Jon Shafer was recently on the Civ themed Polycast talking about game design as a job and art. I never posted about my Polycast appearance a while back, probably because I wasn’t very good. However, I was brilliant on this week’s Jumping the Shark.

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What I’ve Written for Honest Gamers

September 5th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized

Starcraft 2 Review

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What I’ve Written For PCGamer

September 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · PCGamer

October 2010: Tactical Advantage (intro column), Disciples 3 Review

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 80: Question Time

September 1st, 2010 · 16 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

  This week, the sound is terrible again mostly because my wireless refuses to cooperate. Big promise to fix this next week – I thought I had the problem solved. But if you bear with us, you will hear Troy and Rob answer some questions from listeners about logistics, making losing fun, why games are […]

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