Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.

Joining me tonight is our elite irregular panelist, once again, Bruce Garrick. Bruce, welcome back

to the show. Hello gamers. Oh, there it is. And we also welcome back for the first time in a long

time, Julian Murdoch. It's been like two months or something, maybe even longer.

Yeah, I think the last time was when we had Rob DeVie on the show up at Tahoe. Maybe. It may be true. Well, it's good to be back. Thank you for having me. And it's a good time to have you back, because it's about that time of year where we start talking about the games we played this year, what stands out. I don't want to call this a best of, you know, best of 2013 show because we're really not that well prepared and we haven't thought deeply enough about it.

As opposed to all those other shows where we're so well prepared.

Yeah, and we're also, you're also missing, you know, Troy and I'd like to get Tom around

for one of those shows, but I do kind of want to talk about, you know, Troy and I'd like to get Tom around for one of those shows, but I do

kind of want to talk about, you know, what stands out in your mind, you know, as the major

strategy releases of the year. And, you know, Julian, you've been saying that you don't have

a ton to talk about, so I thought we'd start off with you, like in a year where you haven't

maybe gotten a chance to play a ton of strategy games. What's a highlight? Well, I, you know, honestly, I've played, and this isn't something we talk a lot about here. If I think of all of the strategy time that I've spent, and we'll talk about cardboard later maybe, but, you know, in terms of video gaming, I got to tell you was 90% mobas and that's not you know

i think we get to talk about mobas for like 11 minutes a year uh except for like the occasional

every other year show on it um but you know lull has really hit its stride as an esport and as a strategy

game and the meta game has gotten really interesting and you know i follow it like

an actual sport now and play it uh and that has been very satisfying and and honestly very strategic right

i mean there's a lot of metagame strategy a lot of discussion about will this work will that work

um you know much like playing uh you know a football football game where people, you know, pre-plan

their strategies and figure out who they're going to take in when. And then we had, you know,

this was the year that Dota 2 officially launched from Valve and got sort of its first run

out in real competitive circles and did really well, and I played a bunch of that.

I'm not very good at it, so I don't play a lot of it.

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