Gameenginestart Podcast

Happy 36th Podcast to you all! Join us as we celebrate with malfunctioning soundboards, drinking games and discussion of a random selection of video game based entertainment. Unusual I know, but we might just stick with it. On this episode... We Played... Euan finally gets around to the amazing Wolfenstein: The New Order, as well as talking about the early development release of Lucas Pope's new game, The Return of the Obra Dinn Calum continues to spout Smash Bros. terms, reminds himself how amazing Metal Gear Solid is, and wishes he had a Wii U for Bayonetta 2 In News... John Riccitiello, former EA CEO, becomes head of Unity Jade Raymond leaves Ubisoft to pursue "other ambitions and new opportunities" FYI, Gamersgate.com is a cool digital store to buy games. GamerGate is a horrible internet movement. Don't confuse them. The uncensored version of Evil Within in Japan is still kinda censored Super Smash Bros for Wii U gets Mewtwo and 8 player battles The Iron Banner is coming back to Destiny, after t

We are back later than usual, with another caffeine fuelled episode. This time, we have more than a little anger, a touch of astonishment, and a one act play featuring the Nintendo marketing team. Just another day at the office. On this episode... We Played... Euan gets really angry at the disappointing Evil Within, as well as talking about his Destiny review, and the realisations that have come from it. Calum talks FFXIII PC, his experiences with Super Smash Brothers for 3DS(™) and metal eyepatches in Shadow of Mordor In News... Ubisoft lock both versions of Assassins Creed: Unity at 900p 30fps "to avoid all the debates and stuff", provoking a lot of heated debates and stuff. Microsoft try to defend their launch parity clause on Xbox One, and come out looking worse than before. Ex-Irrational developers launch a Kickstarter for a facinating and bizzare new game The PSPlus version of Driveclub is delayed, as the release of the full price version melts their servers. Jason Rohrer's new game requires yo

The leaves are falling from the trees, the colder weather encroaches in, but hey! Vidja games! On this episode... We Played... Euan contemplates why he is still playing Destiny even though it appears to be everything he dislikes in games, and goes deep into the mechanics. Also, he talks about the progression of the Ace Attorney games and how they are still crazy and pretty great. Calum joins the Lego train with Lego Marvel Heroes, dances to J-Pop in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call and gets all excited about Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS, the longest named game this year. We both share our accounts of the amazing looking Vanishing of Ethan Carter, and admit we are both big scary game babies, especially when it comes to water sections... In News... The Xbox One gets a further UK price drop to £329.99 Blizzard cancels their next big MMO project, Titan, after 7 years of development. Lots of Destiny chat, with the killing of the loot cave and the spawning of some amazing parody Twitter accounts

With the first big game of the autumn hitting, we talk about when an MMO is really an MMO, Japanese TV and creative uses of GIFs On this episode... We saw... ...all these awesome products of the Madden Giferator From GameEngineStart's own Calum From Polygon   We Played... Euan gets deep into Destiny, and comes to terms with the fact he is playing an MMO, while contemplating The Fall and discovering mid 90's adventure game The Last Express Calum hacks limbs in Dead Rising 3, and laments that he is still playing Dragon Quest 8. Still. In News... Amazon buys Twitch for $970 million. Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5 billion. I buy a pizza for £10. It's not news, I just thought you would want to know The Aliens: Colonial Marines lawsuit has the side effect of showing off some amazingly terrible PR documents not meant to be seen my mere humans Samsung partners to make the Gear VR, a headset you slide your phone into. The Sims 4 release brings with it amazing anti-piracy measures and some ludicrous patch not

The great drought of Summer 2014 continues, so we have to make do with movies, old space sims and action movies. Meh, it works. On this episode... We Played... Calum goes back to his video game roots with the Heroes of Might and Magic series, Freespace 2 and more Counter-Strike, plus talks about The Raid 2 as an improvement over the amazingly dumb original. Euan talks about The Walking Dead finale, The Fall and Star Citizen: Arena Commander, as well as discovering his secret talent at hockey games in NHL15 In News... There's a new 3DS coming with better internals, screen and a second analog stick. A "hacker" group took down a bunch of games related services, and rerouted a plane carrying the Sony Online president John Smedley bay calling in a bomb threat on his flight. Pokken Tournament is a Pokemon fighting game coming to arcades nowhere near you. The standalone Xbox One Kinect is going on sale for $150 in October Bloodborne, spiritual successor to Demons Souls, hits Japan in February next year. Pe

We are joined by special guest Michel Ansel (kinda) to talk about all the Gamescom news and talk about the scariest 30 minutes you will be exposed to this year in our longest podcast yet! On this episode... We Played... Calum finally gets around to Wolf Among Us, pretends it's 1999 with Counter-Strike and starts to realise that maybe Dragon Quest might be a little long... Euan starts spitting out clones in The Swapper, really connects with parts of Depression Quest and still isn't sleeping right since going through P.T. In News... There was a bunch of news from Gamescom, from both Sony and Microsoft. Twitch has started muting sections of archived streams with licensed music Valve may have just secretly launched the next iterations of the Source engine, in DOTA2 of all places Casey Hudson has left Bioware, but says everything there is still good, so don't worry. The next Tomb Raider is Xbox One exclusive. For a while at least. You can run a (albeit messed up) version of the original Gamecube Pikmin s

With a lack of actual games to talk about, we just go from bizarre topic to bizarre topic. This game drought is making us go a little crazy... On this episode... We Played... Euan isn't happy with the way The Walking Dead is going after it's fourth episode, and instead turns to poking and dropping a ninja in Clumsy Ninja for kicks. Calum continues down an RPG hole with Divinity, FFX-2, Dragon Quest 8 and playing through both Dragon Age games again. I'm sure he sleeps at some point. In News... EA Access will give Xbox One players access to some of their back catalog for a monthly or yearly subscription. Sony passed it up for their own reasons Dragon Age: Inquisition gets delayed to November, and Battlefield Hardline drops back to 2015 Bungie settled the case against them from their old audio director for $95,000  Michael Finch, writer of 2010's Predators will be penning the Deus Ex movie script. Crytek finally make an official statement about their recent financial troubles, and they say it's all cool

Hard Carry. BKB. AA Blast. Lane Push. Racks. Denies. Ganking. Last Hit. Stacking Big Camps. Guess what, The International is happening and we are deep into it. Kinda. On this episode... We Played... We record immediately after the The International finals, and talk about it being the closest we have in the industry right now to a real watchable sport. Euan talks Wolf Amongst Us season finale, and how the Walking Dead: Season 2 just can't stand next to it. Calum burns through the backlog, finishing Burial at Sea and the slow burn success that is Wolfenstein: The New Order, along with falling in love with Divinity: Original Sin. In News... YogVentures, the Kickstarter open world sandbox game, falls apart causing the titularly named YouTube legends to disown themselves from the project. Microsoft sees Xbox One sales double with the new Kinectless SKU As part of a layoff of 18,000 employees, Microsoft close down the short lived Xbox Entertainment Studios division EA ends support for the 10 year old Sims

We celebrate Calum becoming a grown up with a proper degree by talking about video games. Would you expect anything else from us? On this episode... We Played... Euan starts to think Game of the Year lists while playing World War I adventure game Valiant Hearts, and talks about his personal conflict between the fascinating content of 30 Flights Of Loving versus its $5 price tag. Calum tells A Story About My Uncle (well, not OUR Uncle) and shares in the surprise of what seems like the rest of the world that Wolfenstein is a well made shooter with some really interesting story elements. In News... The IeSF removes their "male-only" restriction on their upcoming tournament. Valve are ramping up for the DOTA2 Internationals, and it looks like they are making a concise effort to bring in new players with "beginners" streams. The new Oculus Rift Developer Kit is no longer available for sale in China, due to bulk resellers looking to cash in. There are reports of engine and game developer Crytek not being ab

We settle back into our groove after E3, and throw ourselves headlong into FMV financial crisis simulators, rewinding water towers, and apparently the first indie game Euan doesn't like. On this episode... We Played... While bemoaning the incorrect use of the Greek letters, we talk about the current state of the Destiny Alpha and the Battlefield Hardline Beta. All the pretty art in the world can't save Entwined from Euan's ire, but makes up for it with the FMV insanity of Bear Stearns Bravo. 2014 y'all. Calum pretends he was an American 80's kid in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, lies about his gun-toting exploits in Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, and the pant wetting elation of Magitek Armour in Final Fantasy 14 In News... The phenomenal soundtrack from Transistor sells 48,000 copies in 10 days Is Aaron Paul turning on YOUR Xbox One with his sultry voice? You're not alone. Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare hits PS4 and PS3 in August Sony finally stops selling the PSP in Japan League of Legends players are ki

It's E3 time, and we talk about what we saw of the conferences, and what we were excited and annoyed by. All the while trying to stay awake after a long two days... 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

It's the last podcast before E3, and we start to mentally prepare ourselves, as well as Watch Dogs forcing us to take a good look at our moral fibre. Or lack thereof. On this episode... We Played... We both talk about the incredible Transistor, while disagreeing on it's flaws, and our first impressions of the much delayed Watch Dogs. The Walking Dead continues to pull Calum along, along with being a muthafrikkin dragon in Warlock 2: The Exiled Euan goes back to the iPad with FTL: Advanced Edition, and visits Scoggins, Minnesota in Puzzle Agent. In News... YouTube is reportadly in talks to buy Twitch for $1 billion Site favourite Superhot launches it's Kickstarter. Check out our video to see why we think it has so much potential. Harmonix successfully funded their Amplitude remake. The next Battlefield game leaks ahead of E3, and features law enforcement rather than the military. The Division, Halo 5, The Order: 1886 and Valve's Steam Machines all get delayed to 2015 Sony are covering the booth cost

Unreal Tournament is coming back, and with it comes memories of The Matrix, Ed Edd and Eddy and a little bit of Mambo No 5. 1999 was a weird year you guys... On this episode... We Played... Lack of new games makes Euan go deep into weird indie. He starts to sour on Kentucky Route Zero, finishes rewiring Fract OSC and reads peoples brains in Stick it To The Man, with a dash of Hitman Go in there for good measure. Calum mines some asteroids to make spaceships in Survival Space Engineers, relives the bizarre story of Final Fantasy X-2 and falls off on Bravely Default, going from being one of the best games of the year, to one of the worst. In News... We talk about DOTA 2, The Internationals, and how this years Compendium might totally break the finely tuned economy of the game. Tomodachi Life gets same sex relationships patched out as a "bug", and Nintendo reacts both poorly then well in quick succession. Unreal Tournament returns as a free, community driven, moddable game. *heavy breathing* Zenimax want

Tomodachi Life might be the greatest video game ever created, and we have only seen the announcement trailer. Maybe it's not even a game? Maybe it's art? Maybe it doesn't actually exist and was all a wonderful dream... On this episode... We Played... Tomodachi Life enters our lives and our hearts, and we both hope it never leaves. Euan dives Tron style into a synthesizer in Fract OSC, can't decide if he should be disappointed by Trials Frontier and tracks down paper manipulating superheroes in the Infamous DLC To distract himself from revision, Calum goes back to older games by playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, walking through his shiny spaceship in Star Citizen, and punching people with a human saxophone in Skullgirls In News... They actually found those ET carts in the New Mexico Desert Earth: Year 2066 gets Greenlit on Steam, and everyone wonders how such an abomination managed it. Snoop Dogg voices an announcer pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts, with accompanying cannabis leaf weapon camo pack. Sure.

Why was there never an actual Blitzball game? I would play the crap out of a yearly EA Sports Blitzball title on some next gen tech. The continual roster updates might be a problem though... On this episode... We Played... Euan dives back into Rapture in the Bioshock Infinite Burial at Sea DLC, farms 2D bad guys for guns in Mercenary Kings and goes pixel hunting with the iPad remake of Broken Sword 2 Calum rediscovers FTL: Advanced Edition and continues to get that phat loot in Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls, while trying to not be dragged down with a group of people falling back into World of Warcraft In News... Facebook buys Oculus VR for $2 billion, and the internet freaks out Attempting to turn a Game Jam into a reality show causes most of the participants to walk out within 24 hours Amazon continues to hire talent for it's game studios, picking up Kim Swift of Portal fame and Far Cry 2 designer Clint Hocking. A number of Sony studios lose prestigious staff members including Uncharted writer Amy Hennig

The GameEngineStart podcast, for all your news from the world of footballsmen, touchslams and baseball racquets. And sometimes video games. On this episode... We Played... Euan explores Seattle with neon powers and wrestles with remarkably simple moral choices in InFamous: Second Son. When not drowning in a sea of Threes, Calum gives his thoughts on riding mechs in Titanfall. The next instalment of "what the hell is that god damn bear up to" with Calum's Tabletop RPG campaign. That's not actually the final name of the segment. Probably In News... Game rentals briefly appear on the Playstation store, confirming they are happening. The developer of Papo and Yo announces his new game The Xbox 360 version of Titanfall is delayed again to April 8th Crytek and Epic both announce that their respective engines now offer very reasonable monthly licence fee options. There's a new Oculus Rift dev kit coming in July. Sony joins the VR party with Project Morpheus. Last of Us has sold over 6 million copies The

Ever seen a grizzly bear take two attractive receptionists up to a penthouse hotel room with a pot of honey? Calum has, and he got a point of insanity because of it. On this episode... We Played... Euan finds Calum just chillin' in Dust: An Elysian Tale, breaks and then rejoins the F2P mechanics of Warframe, and prepares to be destroyed by the internet in Dead Nation: Apocalypse Calum dives into Risk of Rain, cultivates a village in Banished, and finds out that Diablo 3 is actually a really good game now that it's fixed. The continuing story of Calum's pen and paper adventures takes interesting bear and (literal) arse-kicking turns. I would listen to that if it was it's own podcast... In News... Threes hits Android. Go get it. Murdered: Soul Suspect (June 6), 999 for iOS (March 17) and Persona 5 (2015) all get dated The new Batman game from Rocksteady is announced as next gen only for 2014 SquareEnix play good guy publisher and are pretty candid about Thief review scores. South Park shows that even

There were a few points this episode where we forgot we were recording a podcast, and just reminisced for a while. Then again if you aren't expecting that by now, I don't know why you are still listening... On this episode... We Played... Euan finds The Castle Doctrine lacking slightly, but not as much as The Last of Us DLC, Left Behind. He might be the only person in the world who really didn't like it. Calum has adventures in hardware with the trials and tribulations of PC upgrading. Turns out 3mm can make all the difference. No jokes. Please. We recount our adventures in the Titanfall beta. It's great, but remember it's still a FPS almost exclusively populated by horrible internet denizens. The Threes soundtrack is really great. You should listen to it In News... There is a new Sonic game, and they have already lost us at the trailer. yourself[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0a7-1wdDuw] The Xbox One is getting a price drop to £399 in the UK only. Smart move with Titanfall on the horizon I

With the addition of two special guests this weeks episode goes to some strange places, including bags of penny whistles and boxes full of Pokemon. It's all the better for it. On this episode... We Played... Euan talks new Wolf Amongst Us, and actually starting down a comic book based hole Calum regails us with stories of his adventure into...adventuring, with his first experience of table top role playing. With a team like he describes, they will either not make it past the first encounter or go down in legend. Special guest Dave makes a case for Call of Duty: Ghosts not being as bad as it has been made out to be, while simultaneously playing FTL Equally special guest Jordan provides a first hand account of the first months with an Xbox One, with Forza Drivatars being dicks and Battlefield 4 actually becoming almost playable. Euan and Calum both share their experience with Jazzpunk, a game very difficult to sell to people without spoiling the amazing sense of humour. You should really go buy it though

It's a new year, we are officially in the future, and we start it with point and click adventure games, fencing simulators and running away from zombies. War never changes... On this episode... We Played... Euan glows about Broken Age and Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons, despite not being able to talk about why they are amazing  Calum tells us that Deadpool is worth playing despite a mediocre game, and that the standalone release of DayZ has managed to preserve most of the jank from the mod. Which is good to hear.  Nidhogg takes over our collective brains. Throwing swords at each other has never been so fun. In News... Remember when EA said they couldn't add an offline mode to SimCity, and that it was impossible? Well they went and did it. About 6 months after anyone would care. Sony announce their Gaikai based streaming service, Playstation Now. Valve finally drops some details on their Steam Machines, which simultaneously ripping the touch screen out the controller. Nintendo pretty viscously slashes t