Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead. I am Lynn. I am your host for this week, and I am joined by our good friend Rowan Kaiser.

Hello.

And today we are going to be sort of scoping out the strategy landscape for 2022. What are we looking forward to? What are we a little bit wary of?

What are maybe some smaller games that we think you should have on your radar that you might not have heard of?

All that kind of fun stuff.

It's a chill.

It's a laid back.

After hours lounge style 3MA this week.

Woo, party!

After all the excitement of January before we dive into February,

which looks like it's going to be a pretty busy month.

One of the interesting things is it's like nobody announces release dates anymore,

which I know this isn't the first year that's happened,

but the latest that we have a release date for anything is actually the end of March,

and everything else is just like 2022 or when it's done.

Like I feel like a lot of the stuff we end up talking about on the show just like it shows up

on Steam one day and nobody's ever heard of it and then suddenly everybody gets really into it.

Yeah, I think the pandemic has accelerated this because people really don't want to put deadlines.

But like, I think it's just generally sort of good for the industry that crunching to meet very specific dates is no longer like quite as prevalent.

It's still pretty prevalent.

I'm sure there's still other ways

that companies are trying to force people to crunch.

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