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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 21: Episode 21

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, War Games, Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2009

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Soren Johnson drops by to talk to Troy, Tom and Julian about how the future of strategy games is online - whether you like it or not. He drops some hints about what he is working on at EA, talks a little bit about Civ and why RTSes have to die in order to be reborn. Julian sells iPhones to everyone, too.We also conclude with our regular Dominions 3 update - there could be a war a-brewin'. Tom predicts the future course of the game.TravianIkariamQuarantine 2019Nile OnlineLeague of LegendsSoren's Blog

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0:00.0

You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.

0:08.3

With me tonight, our freelance journalist, Tom Chick.

0:12.7

Hello, everyone. If anyone needs a coffee, I'll run and get you on, let me know.

0:16.5

Freelance writer and gamers with the jobs, co-boss Julian Murdoch I'm not doing coffee but I'm

0:23.4

happy to do a little St. Germain champagne cocktail you really live the life don't you

0:28.2

and with us today is our special guest from electronic arts Sorin Johnson hi good to be here

0:36.9

yay soren Johnson I don. Good to be here.

0:39.0

Yay, Soren Johnson. I don't think we've had, I mean, I was really, I thought it was really awesome when we had, like, like, Vic Davis, I think, was to me, like, our biggest celebrity we had so far. Vic has done great work. But, Soren, you're kind of upstaging all of our other guests, I feel. like next to

0:54.1

I guess maybe we could have

0:55.4

Miyamoto that would be like the next best

0:57.1

that would be the only all of our other guests, I feel. Like next to, I guess maybe we could have Miyamoto.

0:56.1

That would be like the next best, that would be the only way we can go up from getting you on the podcast, as far as I'm concerned.

1:01.4

Or maybe Barack Obama.

1:03.1

Barack Obama.

1:04.0

That would be an upstage.

1:06.2

I actually don't think Barack Obama would have much to say about strategy games, so I would rather have Sorin Johnson on the Barack Obama.

1:13.2

I don't know. You could do a health care management sim or something. That would count.

1:18.0

So Soren, how are things at Electronic Arts?

1:21.5

Good. Good. I'm a good time there.

1:24.0

Now, how long, Sorin, have you been gone from, how long have you been at EA? Because I'm still so used to thinking of you as the SIV-4 guy. And I know that's like in your, that's like probably ancient history to you now. Well, let's see. I left PRAXIS a little over two years ago. And the SIV-4 shipped, it's almost four years old at this point so which

1:47.3

kind of shocks me yeah doesn't it does it feel like ancient history to you as well like I still think

1:52.1

of SIV 4 is like tremendously relevant but it just seems like such like it seems like such an

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