On the 150th anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter, Troy and Rob rally around the bonnie blue flag and find Gamers With Jobs’ Erik Hanson waiting for them there. Then they march off to discuss the American Civil War and its gaming legacy. They discuss how changes in a game’s scale also change how […]

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Bill Abner and Dan Stapleton arrive to help Rob sort out the long-delayed Dawn of War II: Retribution episode. Rob isn’t wild about the campaign for a few reasons, and eventually he starts to figure out why. Bill dislikes Chaos Marines wailing on electric guitars, and he thinks that’s indicative of the direction the 40K […]

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GameShark’s Bill Abner joins Troy and Rob to discuss Shogun 2, mortality rates among Japanese generals, and Bill’s enchanted copy of Shogun 2, in which everything awesome that can happen, does. Rob’s Gamepro series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Bill’s GameShark review Listen here. RSS here. Subscribe on iTunes.

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After the panel completely falls apart on the eve of recording a Dawn of War 2: Retribution episode, Troy and Rob soldier on by themselves. Troy hasn’t played Retribution, but he is happy to announce his upcoming marriage to Field of Glory. Rob forgets that he’s on a podcast and just starts talking with Troy, […]

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Julian and Rob are at death’s door following PAX East and a week of cruel beatings at the hands of Men of War: Assault Squad. Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Jim Rossignol, author of This Gaming Life, comes to their rescue, and together they try to figure out why this genre-breaking, rule-defying battlefield simulator exerts such a […]

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During GDC, Tom Chick and Soren Johnson hosted a talk that was so good that a single panel couldn’t contain them. They have invaded Three Moves Ahead to talk to Rob and Bruce about why strategy gaming is in a platinum age, how the business of development is changing, and the relative importance of AI […]

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