Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm your host, Rob Zakeney. With me tonight, we have the full regular panel plus a member of the old regular panel. First, we welcome friend and co-host, Troy Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show.

I'm very happy to be here, even though there's a couple of really awesome football games going on right now.

Yeah, we are missing overtime in the Denver-Baltimore game. So I hope you understand how much we love you. Well, you're missing, and I haven't. I'm on my monitor right in front of me. Yeah, if you hear Troy and I make a hoot, that'll be, that'll be... Okay. And, of course, the other voice you just heard there was a friend and freelance writer, Julian Murdoch.

Hello.

And, of course, we're also joined by Dr. Bruce Garrick.

Yeah.

Hello, gamers.

And finally, you're a barista for this evening, Tom Check.

How about those ducks?

Mighty ducks.

Mighty or otherwise.

Are they still an NHL team?

That might be semi-topical, actually, by accident.

Is there still an NHL?

There is, once again.

There's sort of an NHL, a bastardized, limping, lame NHL.

And we can all look forward to Rivalry Week whenever that's going to be as soon as Overlord

Betman gets his head out of his ass.

And I haven't understood a single thing you guys are talking about yet.

Labor law.

So anyway, the reason we've all gathered together is to talk about some of our favorite games

from 2012, some trends we may have noticed over the course of the year,

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