You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash or Steel.com, and this is episode number 98.

I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and this is the first show of 2011.

With me today is regular panelists, freelance writer Rob Zakney.

Good evening.

And making a return visit, one of my favorite bosses is the reviews editor of PC Gamer, Mr. Dan Stapleton. One of your favorite bosses, Troy? One of? One of. Well, I have many bosses. I'm trying to work my way up to the... Up to the... Well, right now, since Bill Abner is the commissioner of my Out-of-the-Park baseball league... Oh, tread carefully. I have to, like, he can screw my team so quickly by just changing a rule.

So right now, he's got to stay my favorite boss for now.

Love you, Bill. Be nice. Save the College Park riots.

This is the first show of 2011.

It is probably a good time to look back at 2010.

See how the strategy genre grew, evolved, didn't.

What worked for us, what didn't work for us,

and some favorite gaming memories from strategy titles of the last year.

Last week, I put my annual post of my awards on the blog,

and there will be a link to that at the bottom of the summary for this podcast,

if you've missed it.

The highlights, the best game of the year for me was Ruse, the best strategy game.

Ubisoft's quite interesting and original RTS, a card slash game that actually works on a console.

I'm happy to see it.

That was the big winner for me, that, and Supreme Commander 2, which was the big surprise for me.

So there's the highlights. You don't have to read it. That also gave a worst and

trends and all that. But let's go to the panel. Dan, since you're our guest, you've

play a lot of strategy games. Not just you play a lot of games in general, but you certainly

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