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It's time. Has Driveclub Man done what he promised and created the ultimate car game that will make you feel all tingly? No. Not really... On this episode... Intermission Music... Philter - Adventure Time - The Blossom Chronicles Official Site | iTunes | Amazon We Played... Euan isn't entirely happy with Life is Strange's fourth episode, finally sees the fruits of Driveclub Man's labours, and confirms that Angry Birds 2 is in fact more Angry Birds Calum completes his Mass Effect quest and unearths the new content from the Knights of the Old Republic 2 unofficial content patch. In News... We already knew Konami is going through some difficulties, but Japanese Newspaper Nikkei is reporting that the staff are facing some pretty Orwellian working conditions at the minute. At least they are making an "erotic violence" Castlevania Pachinko machine... League of Legends killed off a character as part of its "story", then brought it back with a new skin. The ESL is dealing with doping, which is starting to beco

Games are thin on the ground, so Calum revisits the sci-fi past and Euan ends up playing rocket football. It's as awesome as it sounds. On this episode... Intermission Music... Kirill Pokrovsky - Bittersweet Regrets - Divinity: Original Sin OST Official Site We Played... Euan helps a spaceship crash survivor on a different world in Lifeline, and finally plays a football video game, albeit a football game involving rocket powered cars, named Rocket League. Calum revisits the Mass Effect saga, and comes to some realisations about the series. In News... Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, has died at 55 Respected Ubisoft producer Jade Raymond has moved to EA and opened a new studio Continuing Konami's ejection of Kojima from the company, his name has been taken off the box of Metal Gear Solid V Bungie has revealed the details of the weapon tweaks coming in Destiny 2.0. Leave my god damn Ice Breaker alone. Angry Birds 2  is coming at the end of the July. Whatever that means. One week the Star Citizen F

It's time to set zail for scouting the grand zee of video games, with your trusty zailors Zuan and Zalum. I really should have thought this intro through properly... On this episode... Intermission Music... Mogi Grumbles - Extractor - Fract OSC Soundtrack Bandcamp | Twitter We Played... Euan distracts himself from crippling fear while flying with Her Story and a selection of DS Lite games, as well as exploring alternative flooded London in Sunless Sea Calum throws himself into the new Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Heavensward, and talks about just how fanservice filled that game is. We both played the new Tales from the Borderlands, and continue to be impressed by just how well Telltale is handling that universe, and how impressive it is that they have made it laugh out loud funny. In News... Arkham Knight, the final Batman game from Rocksteady has appeared, and the PC version was all kinds of messed up, even to the point that it was pulled from Steam until they can properly fix it. Destiny had a bad fe

We have finally relaxed and reflected on the week that was E3, and this week we talk about what happened, what didn't happen, and what we think probably should have happened. Expect Calum getting excited about pirate ships, Euan finally getting a Last Guardian prediction right, and the fan-fiction that Sony decided to make a reality at their conference. On this episode... Intermission Music... Access Games Inc. - Theme of D4 - D4 : Dark Dreams Don't Die Original Soundtrack -David Young Disc- Official Site | Bandcamp 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

Grab a glass of mead and prepare for tales of Dungeons & Dragons. Also video games, but you should expect that by now... On this episode... Intermission Music... Raphael Müller, Washington Rayk - All Play and No Work - Chroma Squad OST Bandcamp | Steam We Played... Euan pairs Spotify with Destiny, and realises the future is here, as well as discovering that what he likes about Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros might not actually be the gameplay... Calum jumps back into Fallout: New Vegas in preparation for the recently announced sequel, as well as regaling us with his continuing insane D&D adventures In News... Steam is now officially offering refunds for purchased games, and it's proving pretty divisive. Lego has finally launched it's take on Minecraft as an Early Access Steam title Sticking with Lego, one of the core developers of the failed Lego Universe MMO posted a collection of tweets detailing how difficult it was to prevent...unwanted phalluses...from being built in their kid friendly ga

We don't get enough opportunity to use cyberpunk language in day to day life, so we thought we would cram as much as we can in this episode. On this episode... Intermission Music... Danny Baranowsky - Hot Damned - Super Meat Boy Soundtrack Official Site | Bandcamp We Played... Euan still thinks Destiny is great, and now even more so now House of Wolves is out. When not collecting Spinmetal, he continues to experience the cliffhangers of Life is Strange and explores someone's mind in Ether One. Calum goes full on cyberpunk, with the turn based tactics of Invisible Inc. and the more traditional RPG-ness Shadowrun: Dragonfall. Euan also attended the Games Are For Everyone event in Edinburgh, and played a bunch of great in development indie games. In News... The Oculus Rift is coming, and they have released the specs for the PC you will need to run it. It's definitely at enthusiast level. Konami is officially moving to mobile as their main development platform. Monster Strike, the massive mobile hit from

Sometimes you have to look back on your life and go, "Why did I think using the rubber chicken on the zipline made sense all those years ago". On this episode... Intermission Music... Darren Korb and Ashley Barret - We All Become - Transistor OST Bandcamp | Official Store We Played... Euan takes a long hard look at his gaming past with Broken Age: Act 2, messes with a classic with Brutal Doom, and relives his childhood Power Rangers fantasies with Chroma Squad. Calum experiences patch hell with Mortal Kombat X, wears the springy trousers of Gunpoint and confirms that Heroes of Might and Magic 4 is, in fact, terrible. In News... Oculus VR have confirmed they are aiming for a Q1 2016 launch for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift. You will probably know more than us by the time you read this, but the new Assassins Creed game is due to be announced on the 12th May, and all signs point to Industrial Revolution London. Portal, Doctor Who and more are coming to Lego Dimensions. Mirrors Edge 2 isn't dead

I wish the best of luck to the first convention that decides to give us a panel. It's going to be the greatest visual spectacle this side of Monday Night RAW On this episode... Intermission Music... Jake Kaufman - Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage) - Shovel Knight OST Official Site | Bandcamp | Soundcloud We Played... Euan buys a joystick for the sole purpose of playing a 16 year old game, but its a good thing that Freespace 2 is still such a great game. Calum does some worryingly gruesome things in Mortal Kombat X  In News... D4 IS COMING TO THE PC! BEST NEWS OF 2015 SORTED! It's been a bad couple weeks for Konami. With Kojima still AWOL, the rumour then confirmation of Silent Hills being cancelled, and finally then de-listing of themselves from the US Stock Exchange, their future seems uncertain Valve and Bethesda rolled out paid mod support for the Skyrim Steam Workshop, the internet collectively exploded, Valve shut it down. DOTA2 is getting a new patch, including a new item that serves as a tr

Craigslist is a strange and dark place. I'm sure Steveslist is too, but it doesn't really get the publicity it deserves. On this episode... Intermission Music... Carpenter Brut - Disco Zombie Italia iTunes | Bandcamp | Soundcloud We Played... Euan finishes up Hotline Miami 2 and The Talos Principle and talks about how they wrap up their very diverse stories Calum continues dungeoning in Pillars of Eternity, and messes about with the Steam Broadcasting. In News... Guitar Hero Live has been announced, and uses FMV to put you on a stage. There was a new Nintendo Direct, and there are a lot of Amiibo and DLC coming. Promient YouTuber Angry Joe decides to no longer cover Nintendo games after they pull down his Mario Party 10 video Tony Hawk 5 may have been leaked accidentally by a caterer showing off his work The next Destiny expansion, House of Wolves, drops on May 19th, and comes with a new horde mode as opposed to a new Raid Bill Paxton will be playing Jack Thompson in the BBC dramatization of the ris

Guys, we deal in controversial opinions here at GameEngineStart. With that in mind, it's the opinion of the staff that Metal Gear Solid 4 is a weird game. Hold back your gasps. On this episode... We Played... Euan goes back to school with the second episode of Life is Strange and starts to turn on Hotline Miami 2 Calum becomes the mayor of Cities Skylines and frolics in a field of character sheets in Pillars of Eternity We talk at length about the wonder that is Metal Gear Solid 4 and continue to enjoy Tales From the Borderlands. In News... Nintendo partner with DeNA to make mobile games, and announce that they are working on their next piece of hardware, codenamed NX The Wii U Legend of Zelda game falls out of 2015 and won't be at E3 Halo 5 comes out October 27th Playstation 4 finally gets the Suspend/Resume patch as well as a slick Spotify app. Mentions of Hideo Kojima starts to disappear from both Metal Gear Solid assets and Konami websites. Looks like he means it when he's done with Metal Gear th

Euan worked out how to hook up a soundboard to the Skype call. It went about as well as you would expect On this episode... We Played... Euan revisits Abe's Odyssey in the HD remake "New and Tasty", and struggles with controlling OlliOlli 2. Calum looks at the now free Unreal Tournament development build and tells tales of travelling to an official Magic tournament. We both run around with chainsaws and baseball bats causing havoc to an incredible soundtrack in Hotline Miami 2. In News... Metal Gear Solid V has a worldwide release date, September 1st. Rock Band 4 is official, and it looks like your instruments and DLC will carry over. Titanfall 2 is confirmed, and it's definitely coming to all platforms this time around. EA have shut down Maxis, developers of the original Sims and Spore. Project Morpheous, Sony's foray into VR is coming in the first half of 2016 Valve announced that their Source 2 engine will be free to developers GameFreak, developers of the Pokemon games, have a new title in the

Who would have thought Calum had such a knack for tasteful frozen water based art pieces? He doesn't, I'm more asking who would have thought that in the first place. Idiots. On this episode... We Played... Euan continues burning brain cells on The Talos Principle, discovers the insanity of Dead or Alive: Last Round's DLC collection and builds cannons that don't work in Besiege. Calum runs scared from Russian Heroes of Might and Magic 3 players and shares tales of his D&D adventures In News... Valve partner with HTC to build an Oculus Rift VR headset competitor due out this year. Epic scrap their monthly charge system and make Unreal Engine 4 free to develop for. Simogo announced a 4 part "podcast mystery", based in the world of The Sailors Dream Nintendo release a gold Mario Amiibo which sells out in 15 minutes and appears on EBay for 10x the price GTAV is delayed on PC again to April, but the online heists are hitting on March 10th The studio responsible for the Phantom Dust reboot has shuttered

All the chicken heads. Be quiet. Life advice right there. On this episode... We Played... While not moving flats, Euan loses his taste for Far Cry 4, while failing to keep a township alive in Banished and hacking everything in sight in Hack and Slash Calum continues down the MOBA rabbit hole with Heroes of the Storm and goes insane in the Darkest Dungeon In News... Bethesda has a presentation at E3 this year, spiking the Fallout 4 hype train Netflix and Nintendo are in talks to make a live action Legend of Zelda show. Towerfall: Ascension is getting an expansion pack including a new Anita Sarkeesian inspired character League of Legends is asking parents to be considerate of their kids being sent to bed in the middle of a game Jonathan Blow's new game The Witness takes 6 and a half hours to speed-run, by the games creator Evolve has $60 of extra content that's not part of the season pass at launch There's a new Asteroids game coming, and it's a multiplayer survival game.  Intro Music - There It Is -

Football. FOOTBALL. FOOTBALL!!! Also, video games and nostalgia. On this episode... We Played... Euan confirms that Life is Strange, as well as revisiting Warframe and Grim Fandango Remastered Calum relives his youth with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD, as well as recounting the games of our youth. In News... Joystiq is shutting down after 10 years. Halo: Master Chief Collection still doesn't work, so 343 are beta testing a patch. Nvidia are releasing a new graphics card aimed at the mid tier MOBA playing PC gamer The first big expansion for Guild Wars 2 is coming soon Homeworld Remastered is coming Feburary 25th, and has a real pretty Collectors Edition Sid Meier's Starships was announced for this year. Nicki Minaj will be pleased. Valve's economist, who was responsible for large chunks of the TF2 economy, is now the Finance Minister for Greece. Yup. Sony are shutting down Music Unlimited and replacing it with Spotify Nintendo announced their YouTube revenue sharing system, and everyone hates it.

We are back! 2015 has begun, and with that new year brings a fresh start. We don't change though. We will never change. You can't make us. On this episode... We Played... Euan talks Lego and Deadpool, but mainly recounts his hunting experiences in the Evolve Beta. Calum loses his 3DS, but gains an appreciation for Luftrausers, Shovel Knight and guns that swear at you in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. In News... Microsoft announced Windows 10, along with some cool new features for PC and Xbox One gamers Sony's zombie survival game launched on Steam Early Access, and none of the big streamers they lined up to play it could log in. Hotline Miami 2 has been refused classification in Australia, citing some pretty nasty sounding sexual violence as the reason, which the developers dispute saying it was massively misrepresented. Microsoft are dropping the Xbox One price again, just weeks after their Xmas promotion ended. Pillars of Eternity is dropping on March 26th There was a new year Nintendo Direct, with

We continue where we left of with the final part of our awards deliberations podcast where we decide, amongst other things, the official GameEngineStart Game of the Year 2014. In this part, we discuss... Best Writing Mobile Game of the Year Best Visuals Best Original Song Best Music GameEngineStart Game of the Year 2014

We begin our Game of the Year 2014 feature with part 1 of our awards deliberations podcast. Expect fewer arguments than you might think. In this part, we discuss... Best Moment Best Name in the Industry Best Couch Co-op Game Biggest News Thing Most Disappointing Game Thing To Watch in 2015

The festive season is upon us, and what better way to spend the time than in a pillow fort with some video games. Or you could just burn them in a barrel for warmth. You hobo... On this episode... We Played... Euan ventures back into Watch Dogs and leaves Tales from the Borderlands very happy with Telltales interpretation of Pandora and it's denizens Calum continues down the long RPG road of Dragon Age: Inquisition and Persona Q, along with crossing another road with...well...Crossy Road. In News... Lots of news from the Playstation Experience and The Game Awards, with announcements and trailers abound. Paper's Please is coming to iPad finally, after Apple rejecting it first time around for "pornographic content" Assassins Creed: Unity has a final patch that will supposedly fix most of the remaining issues. Pity it got delayed... KMart and Target in Australia have pulled GTA 5 from it's shelves, under pressure from an online petition, Take 2 says "if you don't like it don't buy it" The singularity ha

A week later than planned we have almost 2 hours of goodness for your ear holes. Well maybe not goodness, but I can at least guarantee that you will definitely hear about video games, fruit based conventions and saxophone powered versions of classic Nintendo titles. On this episode... We Played... Euan begins his exploration of Kyrat in Far Cry 4, goes comic book noir with FRAMED, and looks past the poop to appreciate parts of The Binding of Issac Calum cannot be satiated with the potential 150 hours of Dragon Age: Inquisition, and so must venture on another 100 or so hours of Persona Q In News... Just Cause 3 is coming to PC and next gen next year, won't come with multiplayer at launch and definitely won't have microtransations Sony makes a bold move into streaming TV with Playstation Vue, partnering with some big names like CBS, Fox and NBCUniversal Assassins Creed: Unity came out, and it was pretty substantially broken, as well as pissing off a presidential candidate with it's representation of the

With Calum a frothing mess in anticipation of new Dragon Age, the podcast goes to some strange places this time around. We mention the Backstreet Boys. Multiple times. Apologies in advance. On this episode... We Played... Euan finally gets his hands on ghost detective simulator Murdered: Soul Suspect and really liked it, as well as the gorgeous iPad walking simulator The Sailors Dream. While trying to maintain some semblance of sanity so close to a new Dragon Age game, Calum distracts himself with The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth and Civilization: Beyond Earth In News... Ubisoft's end of year lineup will not be on Steam in the UK, for reasons unconfirmed. You can still use uPlay though...you know...uPlay...guys? Blizzard looks like it's going after some of that Team Fortress 2 hat money with Overwatch. Barack Obama makes a pretty serious recommendation that the FCC treats internet as a utility. Interested in taking your Minecraft worlds with you everywhere? How about a cool looking bracelet that will do