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Entries from February 21st, 2013

Three Moves Ahead Episodes 205 and 206: Unity of Command and the Cold War

February 21st, 2013 · Comments Off on Three Moves Ahead Episodes 205 and 206: Unity of Command and the Cold War · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

I know I’m losing it when I keep forgetting to remind people that I do a podcast sometimes. A couple of weeks ago, the guys had Tomislav Uzelac to talk about one of my favorite all time wargames, Unity of Command, specifically the Red Turn expansion as well as general design issues. UoC is simply […]

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Some Thoughts On The Evils of Multiplayer

February 20th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Me, Multiplayer, Paradox

Hello, blog. Clearly I suck at promises, like one substantive post a week, but that’s because I am writing long essays to reframe the strategy game language space and then realize I wrote them backwards. So, sometime in the next week expect a couple of 6000 word posts. Clearly I need more modest goals, like […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episodes 203 and 204: The Kickstarter Shows

February 6th, 2013 · Comments Off on Three Moves Ahead Episodes 203 and 204: The Kickstarter Shows · Gas Powered Games, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

A trip to Iceland prevented me from posting last week, so I’ll take this chance to remind people that watch this space that we did a Classic Game Analysis of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander with Chris Taylor from Gas Powered Games. The conversation, naturally, turned to his struggling Kickstarter, and Rob wrote a great […]

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