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them.

This is a special episode of the Dice Tower presenting the winners of the Dice Tower

awards for 2012. And now without further ado, here's your

host, Tom Vassal.

Why, hello folks, my name is Tom Vassal. And hello, I'm Eric Sommerer.

And you're listening to a very special.

You get confused sometimes, Tom.

This is the audio version of what you do.

You're listening to a very special edition of the

Dice Tower. I've thrown you off. You want to start again? No! We...

Welcome! Welcome, ladies and gentlemen gentlemen to the Dice Tower Award show for 2012.

These are the Dice Tower Gaming Awards, and even though this is 2012, we are giving out awards

for the best games of 2011.

It's sometimes hard to find out what games are the best,

so we always want to wait half a year before we announce the best ones

because we want to get a chance to play as many of these

awesome games as we possibly can. And what we've done with this is we've invited

podcasters and bloggers and folks who are contributors to the Dice Tower Awards to come on and in the different categories that we have.

We had over 35 people voting on the final awards

and I think we have a slate of great games

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