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Entries Tagged as 'Three Moves Ahead'

Three Moves Ahead Episode 84: Civilization V with Todd Brakke

September 30th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Firaxis, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

  One guest cancels, but his shoes are ably filled by Gameshark’s Todd Brakke as Troy, Julian and Rob hold forth on the game that has already eaten Troy’s life – and he has to keep writing about it for at least another month. Listen as the team talks about their favorite innovations in Civ […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 83: RUSE

September 23rd, 2010 · 18 Comments · Podcast, RTS, Three Moves Ahead, WW2

  This week, Rob takes the lead and sings the praises of RUSE, the new WW2 RTS from Ubisoft and Eugen Systems. Troy and Julian push him on the differences between the single and multiplayer components, whether it uses real deception and some rambling bits about World War 2 games in general. Listen here. RSS […]

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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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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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Three Moves Ahead Episode 79: Victoria 2

August 25th, 2010 · 20 Comments · Paradox, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

  Rob Zacny’s sound goes in and out, but when it works you can hear him, Troy and Julian talk about the latest grand strategy game from Paradox. Why does it make Julian angry? Do you have to force the politics to make them interesting? What does the game get right and wrong about the […]

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