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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 597: Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jon is joined by RPS Editor in Chief Katherine Castle and freelance writer Dominic Tarason to discuss Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. Mimimi's swan song, as we sadly learned after recording, is a follow-up and an evolution to Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and Desperados 3, both games that we loved. What makes this one even better? Why is Len using dashes instead of colons to separate the show number from the game title now? I don't know if I like this.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. This is Len in the editing bay.

0:04.3

Basically, the day after we recorded this episode, which I'm not actually on,

0:11.9

Mimi Me has announced that Shadow Gambit, the cursed crew, will be their final game,

0:18.7

which is, we all felt like we should say something about it,

0:23.1

because this is very sad.

0:25.1

You know, this is an indie studio that is making a very unique type of stealth tactics game

0:32.0

that I don't think anyone else is really making anything like it.

0:38.0

And, you know, that's, that's a loss for, for us as strategy and tactics games when something

0:45.4

like this happens.

0:46.3

They've been around for 15 years.

0:49.9

And, you know, they made Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun, which is one of my favorite stealth games and one of my favorite tactics games of all time.

0:59.1

Definitely go check that out if you haven't.

1:01.4

I still need to really sink some time into Shadow Gambit because I've, you know, been juggling so many other huge projects this fall with all the games coming out that

1:12.8

John was kind of riding in the in the vanguard on that one.

1:20.6

But they said, we'll be slowly ramping down the studio over the next few months.

1:25.0

They shared this decision with the whole team at an on-site meeting before releasing the announcement, and they're doing everything in their power to support the team and reaching out to friends in the industry to find suitable jobs for all Mimi-Me-Me's. If you have open positions and are interested in hiring our amazing talents, they say get in touch via hiring. Me, me, me. That's just, am I,

1:47.6

am I, am I? and are interested in hiring our amazing, amazing talents. They say get in touch via hiring.

1:45.6

Me, me, me.

1:46.6

That's just m, my, m, my, my,

1:48.4

my, my, dot games.

1:50.9

We wish them all the best.

1:52.8

I hope everybody who is now having to find somewhere else to work can do so quickly

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