Three Moves Ahead 47: Looking forward to 2010

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2010

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Troy, Tom and Rob look at the big 4 RTSes coming out this year (Command & Conquer 4, Starcraft 2, Supreme Commander 2 and RUSE) as well as the return of Norb Timpko, the future of Facebook games, the battle between Victorian Age games. And Tom makes Troy sing. Apologies for the sound issues. It was a bad connection that we tried to fix a couple of times without much success. Greed Corp Scourge of War: Gettysburg Sid Meier talks to Julian Murdoch Paradox buys AGEod Vainglory of Nations Victoria Developer’s Diaries

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:06.5	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:11.8	Hello, can I get you a coffee Troy Goodfellow?
0:15.5	Yes, you can. It will go well with my Sam Adams-Boston Logger.
0:20.5	And should I refer to as a freelance writer, Rob, or what are you?
0:24.7	Yeah, let's go with freelance writer.
0:26.9	Okay, let's pretend Rob Zakeney is a freelance writer, Rob. How are you?
0:31.3	Oh, not bad, enjoying a nice, tasty ice water.
0:35.6	Ice water.
0:36.7	Yeah, there's no coffee in that pot. I thought there was, but stainless steel craft wins again. Why would we not refer to Rob as a freelance writer? He's got a blog going. I know he's got a blog. He's written fairly prolific in terms of writing about games, and why would we not call him that? I don't know. So he's written some stuff for the Escapist, and you used to write for UGO, right? Yeah, it did a bit of work for them. So, yeah, okay, you're a freelancer. I just wasn't quite sure if you're comfortable with that title. Do you have a day job, Rob, like a thing you have to do during the days? I work very hard at avoiding those.
1:12.8	I've discovered after much experimentation that I'm terrible at working like regular day jobs.
1:18.7	So I try to earn my keep in other ways.
1:21.3	Okay.
1:21.6	I just didn't know if there was another job title that might be more appropriate.
1:25.0	I'm partnered to an academic.
1:27.5	Woohoo.
1:28.6	Yeah, that saves my ass.
1:31.3	Did they give you business cards for that?
1:34.9	You know, strangely, they don't.
1:37.9	The life of the academic spouse.
1:39.5	It's a good one.
1:41.5	All the fun parts about hanging around a university and none of the faculty wars
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