Gameenginestart Podcast

The world has conspired so that we both got a game from a series we love in one week, so it's a long one.We Played...After months of discourse, Calum digs into Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and seems to like it a lot.Life is Strange: Double Exposure takes Euan into his Pacific North West feelings, even though this installment takes place in Vermont. Remember, "sad teen" is a genre not a time period.Timestamps00:05:55 - Euan Game Catchup00:09:31 - Dragon Age: The Veilguard01:00:31 - Life is Strange: Double Exposure01:36:15 - News - Sony decided that the "best path forward" for Concord is to close the studio completely01:37:47 - News - 343 Industries is now Halo Studios, and are pivoting to Unreal Engine for the future games.01:38:35 - News - The mobile Animal Crossing game is getting one more year of updates, and if you want access to it then it's going to cost you $20.01:44:52 - News - Another month, another Destiny 2 controversy, this time with the community sleuthing out a bug with their drop rates.01:59:39 -

Nostalgia is a double edged sword, make sure your not falling for it. Also some quirky hardware with a crank. Real hard swings this episode.We Played...Silent HIll 2 is a foundational game for Euan, so his time with the Bloober Team remake is complicated.Awful delivery companies aside, Calum finally got a Playdate. It seems cool!We realised we had never talked about the joy of Astro Bot, so we remedy that. Timestamps00:03:31 - Euans Random Games00:06:07 - Silent Hill 200:54:49 - Playdate01:09:20 - Astro Bot01:24:07 - News - What is happening over at Ubisoft?01:33:53 - Upcoming & Housekeeping Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

We took some time away. We've come back. There are video games. It never changesWe Played...Calum talks now real video game Deadlock. We all thought it was a secret, but it was just a MOBAEuan talks about the seemingly perfectly average Star Wars OutlawsTimestamps00:02:00 - Sony announced a £700 PlayStation Pro00:11:48 - Concord has been taken offline after less than a month00:20:39 - Former head of Sony Europe says industry layoffs aren't caused by greed, and people should "figure out how to get through it"00:23:51 - Deadlock00:45:17 - Star Wars Outlaws00:59:51 - Space Marine 201:01:40 - Upcoming & Housekeeping Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

We saw some video games happen, some people are denying video games are happening, and some people appear to be doing whatever they can to ensure they don't make another video game happen again.We Played...Euan investigates some sci-fi murders with mixed results in No One Wants To DieCalum conquers his demons, namely the new Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raids, and experiences some retro Morrowind vibes in Dread DelusionWe both finally got to experience Thank Goodness You're Here, and it's every bit as good as we were hoping forTimestamps00:01:10 - Deathlock is being played by 20,000 people, but has never been officially announced or even acknowledged. Also we talk about that Verge article, and how people who don't understand what journalism is lost their minds.00:15:05 - No One Wants To Die00:26:25 - Thank Goodness You're Here00:35:46 - FFXIV Savage Raid00:44:38 - Dread Delusion00:54:03 - News - PSVR2 looks like it's in trouble, with not a lot of new games and now $200 off in a fire sale00:56:56 - News - Silent H

The games are sparse so we revert to type with RPGs and VR galoreWe Played...Calum plays hot new release Elden Ring. This is a lie but he hasn't heard anyone talk about this game, so it's worth a go. This was also a lie.Euan forgets reality for one of a virtual kind with Contractors Showdown and Ghosts of TaborWe both tried The First Decendant. It's alright. That's it, that's all we have to sayTimestamps00:02:08 - Elden Ring00:22:47 - Contractors Showdown00:39:30 - Ghosts of Tabor00:46:18 - The First Decendents00:49:35 - FFXIV Raid00:50:43 - Upcoming & Housekeeping Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

We haven't heard from Calum in a while. He said he was exploring Tural? Don't know what that means but hopefully he's ok.We Played...Calum explores the latest Final Fantasy 14 expansion, DawntrailEuan does what every Scottish person has to consider at one point in their life, and decides to work on an oil rig in Still Wakes the DeepTimestamps00:02:02 - FFIVX: Dawntrail00:21:43 - Dragon Age: Inquisition00:22:51 - Still Wakes the Deep00:34:33 - Still Wakes the Deep - Spoiler Start00:41:41 - Still Wakes the Deep - Spoiler End00:41:50 - News - Cities Skylines 2 had to patch out landlords00:46:31 - Upcoming & Housekeeping Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

A long one for everyone this week. Between the Summer Keighley Fest and a new Destiny expansion, it's a new season for games.We Played...We talk about the things we care about from Summer Games Fest, including the new Dragon Age, slow female vocal covers in trailers, and many other smaller items.Calum takes up his mantle of Destiny editor and goes in depth to Destiny 2: The Final Shape.Euan talks about Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, a much anticipated sequel for him.Timestamps00:02:22 - SGF: The Dragon Age: The Veilguard: The Trailer00:12:24 - SGF: Trailers and their Slow Music Covers00:23:06 - SGF: South of Midnight and Souls-likes00:27:23 - SGF: More From the Xbox Showcase00:30:00 - SGF: Euan's Sad Teen Hour00:35:42 - SGF: The Dragon Age Cinematic Universe00:42:15 - SGF: The Actual SGF Show00:58:51 - Euan bought a Quest 301:08:02 - Destiny 2: The Final Shape01:42:08 - Hellblade 201:56:39 - Upcoming & HousekeepingBreak Music -The Complex - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Intro Music - There It Is -&nbs

As summer approaches, one of us prepares for months of MMO gameplay and the other does what he always does. Plays weird indie games. NOTE - We talk about minor spoilers from Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, we are explicit when we are about to start, and there is a timestamp in the podcast description.We Played...We both played XDefiant, and had a surprisingly long conversation about the current state of the FPS genre.Euan plays a pile of puzzlers with The Excavation of Hobs Barrow and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.Calum plays the latest Playstation PC port Ghosts of Tsushima. Timestamps00:02:44 - XDefiant00:25:45 - Onward Mercenaries00:28:01 - Hellblade00:30:41 - The Excavation of Hobs Barrow00:38:29 - Lorelei and the Laser Eyes00:46:24 - Lorelei Spoilers Start00:50:27 - Lorelei Spoilers End00:51:33 - Ghosts of Tsushima PC01:01:18 - News - Ubisoft have cancelled the F2P spin off of The Division. I hope the third instalment actually makes it out.01:02:17 - News - Jake Solomon, the game designer behind the XCOM reboot

We return with video games to talk about. Some of them are even current and relevant! We Played...Euan plays the unexplainable Indika and the very explainable cat sim Little Kitty, Big CityCalum substitutes his lack of raiding with raiding roguelike Rabbit and Steel and "anime Monster Hunter" Granblue Fantasy RelinkTimestamps00:02:00 - Little Kitty, Big City00:04:19 - Saints Row00:06:52 - Indika00:15:16 - Rabbit and Steel00:19:38 - Granblue Fantasy: Relink00:36:19 - News - In order to capitalize on the success of the Fallout series, Bethesda decided to catastrophically break Fallout 4.00:40:47 - News - Nintendo just tweeted it out, and have confirmed that the follow up to the Switch is coming this fiscal year.00:42:46 - News - Sony managed to destroy massive amount of goodwill behind Helldivers 2 by trying to enforce a PSN link on PC. They have now backed down from this idea.00:50:20 - News - The industry takes another massive hit, as Microsoft shutters more studios, including Tango Gameworks and Prey develop

This is the last week of games coming out for a while, so we're going to spend it letting Calum talk about Dragon's Dogma 2.We Played..Euan plays tarot based story telling game The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood and slasher inspired puzzle narrative game Killer FrequencyCalum talks all things Dragons Dogma 2. That's all.Timestamps00:06:20 - The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood00:11:31 - Killer Frequency00:16:32 - Dragon’s Dogma 200:41:58 - Minor Dragon’s Dogma 2 Quest Spoilers00:53:29 - News - Apex Hack00:59:46 - News - Kotaku Pivot01:03:42 - News - GW3?01:09:04 - Upcoming & Wrap Up01:09:36 - Secret News - Destiny 2 Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

After a brief hospital visit, we're back again with some actual video games.Intermission MusicThe Woods - Wilbert Roget, II - Pacific Drive: Official Game SoundtrackSteam | Epic Games StoreWe Played...Euan rumbles around a messed up Pacific North-West in Pacific Drive, an early GOTY candidate.Calum is in the early stages of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, and has a bunch of things he can't talk about.We both have put a bunch of time into Helldivers, and we talk about how it might be the first game in a long time to do live service right.Timestamps00:02:05 - Hospital Chat00:19:40 - Helldivers 2 & Live Service00:40:00 - Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth00:47:20 - Destiny 2 Hoverboards00:52:26 - Music Break00:54:20 - Pacific Drive and its save system.01:20:45 - News - Akira Toyama passed away at 68, and leaves behind a legacy that touched a lot of people01:22:25 - News - The remaster of the first three Tomb Raider games had some strange inconsistencies between the Steam and EGS versions01:24:45 - News - Rooster Teeth s

No new games to talk about this week, so instead we talk about the Xbox Business Update and its ramifications on the gaming space Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

We're back! After a holiday/sickness break, we return to talking about video games.Spoiler WarningWe spoil some of the Tekken 8 story mode in this episode (1:00:00 -> 1:07:17). Timestamps are below if you want to avoid it.We Played...Euan talks life after Yakuza in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and is saddened once again by Konami's decisions in Silent Hill: A Short MessageCalum low parries his own anxiety to try and learn what the fuck Tekken 8 is all about.Timestamps00:14:08 - Lethal Company00:18:58 - Max Payne 300:23:14 - Yakuza00:44:29 - Tekken 801:00:00 - Tekken 8: Spoilers01:07:17 - Tekken 8: Spoilers End01:15:43 - Silent Hill: TSM01:36:53 - Upcoming Games & HousekeepingIntro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

We may have finally hit the end of the year for video games, but jesus there is still so much to play.We Played...Euan talks about the co-op perspective of Baldur's Gate 3, and the atrocity that is Silent Hill: Ascension.Calum briefly discusses the Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Playtest, more to follow in December when the game releases in full.We both dicuss our continuing amazement at Alan Wake 2Timestamps00:01:17 - Black Friday & Buying a Laptop in 202300:10:57 - Alan Wake 200:18:25 - Baldur's Gate 300:42:56 - Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Playtest00:51:17 - Silent Hill: Ascension01:15:29 - News - Hades is coming to mobile via Netflix01:16:47 - News - The internet has bullied Rockstar enough where they are showing the first trailer for GTA6 in December01:18:06 - News - The Glory Society, the studio from the developers of Night in the Woods, is closing due to members serious health issues.01:19:48 - News - We talk at length about the direction that different parts of the industry are taking with liv

BOO! It's so spooky. It's a spooky show for the spooky day. MusicIntermission MusicThe Crystal Bot - Arnaud Roy - Endless Dungeon (Original Game Soundtrack)BandcampWe Played...We both discuss the conversion of old nanomachines to the nanomachines running on current gen platforms in Metal Gear Solid Collection Vol 1, continuing adventures in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and multi-genre cross-over a-thon, Endless DungeonEuan dicusses his brief beginnings with Alan Wake 2, expect more to comeTimestamps00:09:59 - Metal Gear Solid Collection Vol 100:42:51 - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty00:46:31 - Endless Dungeon00:55:08 - Music Break00:56:31 - Steam Demo Fest00:59:20 - Alan Wake 201:19:57 - The International01:24:46 - News - EA FC, previously FIFA, has had a patch that stopped players from running with the ball in their hands. Kind of a key feature of the sport.01:26:20 - News - Disney Dreamlight Valley will no longer be free to play when it leaves Early Access in December.01:30:59 - Upcoming & Wrap UpInt

A couple of weeks has given the chance to catch up on some current video games, so now we can talk about it!Intermission MusicLast Light - Borislav Slavov - Baldur’s Gate 3: Original SoundtrackSteamWe Played...Euan talks eat theivery simulator Pizza Possum and noir hell-em-up El Paso, ElsewhereCalum talks about his journey into custom fight game controllers and, appropriately, Mortal Kombat 1We both discuss recent changes to Cyberpunk 2077 and its new DLC Phantom LibertyTimestamps00:06:01 - Pizza Possum00:09:40 - El Paso, Elsewhere00:11:01 - Mortal Kombat 100:22:31 - Calum's Artisan Leverless Controller00:37:57 - Purchasing from Small Companies00:49:10 - Music Break00:52:16 - Phantom Liberty01:13:13 - News - Unity have walked back some of their insane "installation fee", but not completely01:15:42 - News - Sega cancelled their upcoming PvPvE game Hyenas, with some reporting showing the troubles the game had during development01:18:10 - News - Epic are cutting 870 jobs, because they have been "spending way mor

It's a space heavy episode. Exploration in space Disneyland, the end of the world from a space rock, and changes to pricing structures that should be launched into space.Intermission MusicReunion - Reunion (Ft. Brigitte Naggar) - Goodbye Volcano High (Original Game Soundtrack)BandcampWe Played...Euan plays music while facing the end of the world in Goodbye Volcano High, updates on limited Armoured Core 6 progress and finds Sonic in the strangest places in the Hyenas Closed Beta.We both have put some time into Starfield, and talk about how it treats the scale of space, and the issues it causes itself issues because it's trying so hard to be a Bethesda game.Timestamps00:02:31 - Armoured Core 600:08:54 - Hyenas Closed Beta00:13:24 - Goodbye Volcano High00:18:51 - Starfield00:47:30 - Music Break00:48:53 - News - Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 is back under a new studio, and with a different direction00:51:30 - News - Everyone knows that Baldur's Gate 3 is a horny game, but it might have been too horny becau

These games. They never end. There's more on the way too. I'm so tired.Intermission MusicDA PEOPLE - Hideki Naganuma - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk SoundtrackWe Played...Euan plays puzzle slasher Homebody, narrative explorer The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales and hot mech game of the moment Armored Core 6We both talk about the absolute coolest game on the planet Bombrush CyberfunkTimestamps00:00:57 - Baldur's Gate 300:13:41 - Techtonica00:14:41 - The Bookwalker00:17:36 - Homebody00:19:19 - Homebody Spoilers00:20:55 - Armoured Core 600:46:57 - Music Break00:49:11 - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk01:01:18 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 seems to be coming to XBox before the end of the year after reaching an "agreement" with Microsoft01:03:49 - News - ABK have turned their sights back on UK regulators by giving cloud streaming rights to their games to... Ubisoft?01:09:30 - News - Keith David is picking up the role of Zavala in Destiny 2 after the loss of Lance Reddick, and Calum fills in what happened on the Final Shape stream.01:20:30 - News

What? Huh? Oh right you're here. Yes, there's a podcast, Calum talks about Baldur's Gate 3. Listen to it, or don't. I'm going back to playing Baldur's Gate 3.We Played...Baldur's Gate 3. Yep that's it. It's an hour of Baldur chat.Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Going to be honest, Calum writes these and he's just killing time till Baldur's Gate 3. So, yea, video games, check them out.MusicIntermission MusicNo Exit - scntfc - Oxenfree II: Lost Signals OSTBandcampWe Played...Euan experiences Sludge Life 2 and is sadly disapointed by the return of confused teens in Oxenfree IICalum explores the deep blue for tasty fish in Dave the DiverTimestamps0:04:13 - Sludge Life 20:09:36 - Oxenfree II0:26:14 - Dave The Diver0:38:41 - Music Break0:39:43 - Exoprimal0:51:10 - News - Major Nelson himself Larry Hryb is leaving Microsoft after 22 years0:52:59 - News - Sony agreed to keep Call of Duty on the platform for 10 years by sacrificing all other Activision IP0:57:31 - News - Overwatch 2 is coming to Steam on August 10th with the new single player missions0:59:13 - News - Game documentarians Noclip are ripping and reencoding a number of lost industry footage1:06:09 - News - The people that are working on the Silent Hill live Twitch streaming... thing... are also doing it with Bor