Gameenginestart Podcast

It's that time of year where we attempt to take all of the games we played and order them in some arbitrary way. There was a lot less fighting this time around... On this episode... We talk... Euan and Calum both talk about their respective lists We come to a conclusion about our official Game of the Year There are some insane categories in here too. Go give us a like on Facebook HERE, and subscribe to our YouTube HERE. 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 start to wind down for the end of the year. Like we were particularly highly strung before. On this episode... We Played... Euan continues down the PS4 rabbit hole, extolling the virtues of Assassins Creed 4, Warframe, and the features of the console itself that are making it next gen. Doki Doki Universe confuses and delights in equal measure. Calum dives into the terribly named Bravely Default, an old school JRPG with some new tricks up it's sleeve. Unfortunatly one of them is microtransactions. We talk Binary Domain, our favourite game of last year that no-one in their right mind played. Indie Game: The Movie hits Netflix, and we share our thoughts on the insight it gives into the people that make the stuff we love. In News... The VGX awards show brought some heavy Telltale news, more famous voice actors for Double Fines Broken Age, and No Man's Sky makes us tingly in special places. YouTube implodes with mistaken or flat out fraudulent copyright claims, causing the big names on there to get wor

The next gen is here, and almost instantly it feels like it had always existed. But hey, video games! On this episode... We Played... Euan talks at length about the Playstation 4, the midnight launch, the hardware and software in the box, and the experience of being there on day 1. The PS4 plays games too, Assassins Creed 4 seems pretty great, Lego Marvel Super Heroes is exactly what you want from a Lego game, and Warframe is potentially interesting, but needs some real time devotion Calum dives back into Skyrim to explore the mod community, and the most impressive is the one you least expect. We share nostalgic stories about Laser Tag, and how ridiculous in concept it is. In News... PS4 had it's launch issues, and so did Xbox One Twitch streaming from PS4 starts incredibly awesome and goes exceptionally sinister in the space of 72 hours. John Carmack leaves ID Software to go full time with Oculus. Saints Row 4 has Xmas DLC, and it's exactly what you want from Saints Row. Atlus announces a swathe o

Injuries, strange pronunciations and next gen excitement, just another fortnight in the world of us... On this episode... We Played... Euan finishes a bunch of games. Tomb Raider does conclusions for adventure games right, Alan Wake smartly reuses assets, and The Stanley Parable really messes with your opinions of achievements. Calum falls in love with DmC and is suitably impressed with XCOM: Enemy Within's expansion to one of our favourite games of last year. In News... FTL is coming to iPad, which is where it should have been from day 1 30 minutes of Dragon Age: Inquisition make Calum all tingly We get a date for Infamous: Second Son, the next best hope for PS4 first party exclusives. Naughty Dog teases a double punch of Last of Us DLC and new Uncharted. The DOTA2 internet complains it doesn't get Diretide, it gets Diretide, it complains Diretide isn't great. Of course it does. Go give us a like on Facebook HERE, and subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompe

Remember kids, Final Fantasy and alcohol don't mix. Especially when said alcohol is just called "beer" in another language. On this episode... We Played... Euan's brain explodes with The Stanley Parable, explorers an interactive novel in Device 6 and is suitably impressed by The Wolf Among Us Calum continues on with Pokemon, and recounts LAN party stories of Final Fantasy drinking games and Resident Evil 6 We talk Saints Row IV's first DLC pack, Enter the Dominatrix, and how an ending can turn a game from meh to holy shit in 3 seconds. Euan attempts to explain Ingress, the real world ARG driven Android game that has you running around the real world In News... PS4 versions of Call of Duty : Ghosts will run at a higher resolution than the Xbox One version. The internet shits it's collective pants. The Day 1 patch for PS4 provokes questions over what that machine can actually do straight out the box. Bioshock Infinite's first story DLC gets a release date. Enslaved : Oddessy to the West gets a re-rele

Be careful, if Calum wants you to be his friend, he may try to rub your special place and feed you cake. Just saying... On this episode... We Played... Euan rediscovers XCOM and muses on the Beyond : Two Souls demo Calum goes all in on Pokemon X & Y along with revisiting Neverwinter Nights about 10 years too late The Stanley Parable charms, confuses and entertains us with it's bizarre fourth wall commentary. In News... Watch Dogs, The Crew and Driveclub all get delayed to 2014, causing panic for some PS4 pre-orders. Double Fine's new Early Access title lets you run a Spacebase. Our ears are instantly peaked. Ellen Page has a naked texture in Beyond : Two Souls. No-one is surprised. Sportsfriends comes to PS4, we get more excited about that game. More footage of Kingdom Hearts 3 appears, resulting in amazing GIFs like... Go give us a like on Facebook HERE, and subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (inco

Pokemon has changed over all these years. More importantly, it's no Digimon, which was clearly a superior product. On this episode... We Played... Calum gets back into Terraria's new update, with all the penguins you can handle Euan digs through a swathe of indie games, including the finale of To The Moon, continuing adventures in Papers, Please? with a side line in Pocket Trains. We talk the terrible and genius nature of Cookie Clicker. Our first encounters with the Oculus Rift leave no doubt that this might be the future of video games. In News... SteamOS, Steam Machines and the Steam Controller take over the web, and we go "....maybe?" EA actually come clean about putting no effort into Fifa 14 this year on some platforms The new game from the Amnesia people looks real interesting, Stop the presses, Half Life 3 might come out. Except it won't. Ever. Ubisoft PR flips the finger at PETA over Assassins Creed IV in one of the best press statements ever seen. Atlus is bought by Sega. Does this mean

There are some bad movie concepts, and then there is Ghost Shark On this episode... We Played... We manipulate some time while shooting people in Super HOT We talk about our experiences when trying to explain that video games are our hobby to people of the older generation. Actually, our own generation creates some issues too Calum plays a lot of Civ-esque games, namely Anno 2070 and Warlock: Masters of the Arcane. Movies send us off on a tangent, discussing Riddick as well as such classics as Ghost Shark, Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack and One Eyed Monster. In News... Playstation 4 gets a release date in Japan The Playstation Vita TV is both confusing and kinda cool. Capcom's next gen title Deep Down may not be all it seems. Ouya continues to be insane with it's newest funding controversy. The Diablo 3 real money auction house gets shut down, and the 12 people still playing that game shrug GTA V reviews provoke the internet hate machine, specifically on the number of reviews that mention it's more misogyn

Another hour and half dose of the classiest video game podcast on the intertubes. At no point during this episode to we talk about the physical reaction involved in a shot to the testicles. Definitely not in the first 5 seconds. On this episode... We Played... Saints Row IV arrives on our PCs, and continues it's long tradition of being the smartest dumb game you will ever play. Euan talks about how the scourge of  micro-transactions permeates even Need for Speed:Most Wanted. Calum gets his arcade flying on in War Thunder. We talk indie gun-simulator Receiver, the virtues of the Lego games, and the surprisingly decent Puppeteer demo Watch_Dogs continues to excite us with it's multiplayer "drop into someone's game and mess with people" concept In News... Xbox One gets a release date. Next gen fight AHOY! The announcement of the Nintendo 2DS only makes us ask "what the hell are Ninty doing?". Like we weren't already... Old games come back with Timesplitters Rewind, and new games become old games with th

It's a bit early to be talking about our Game of the Year picks, but I think we might have found our #1... It was also Gamescom week, so we have a crapton of news to talk about, hence the longer show. On this episode... We Played... Euan talks about living, working and being arrested in Arstoska while playing Papers, Please We continue our co-op adventures by killing aliens in Natural Selection 2, and stealing stuff in Payday 2 We get all nostalgic on PS2 games that we can't name Calum talks Salty Bet and gambling on Akuma, Ronald Macdonald and Finn from Adventure Time In News... In non-Gamescom news, League of Legends credit cards, Notch's canned project, XCOM expansions and new mobile Dungeon Keeper. Awesome space news with a new game in the X series, and the EvE Online dogfighting demo becomes a real game. Sony shows off more of their PS4 and Vita plans, along with new games, new features and a release date. Microsoft continues it's policy reversal pattern on Xbox One. As it turns out they like in

Who knew that the two of us in the same room would result in violence... Go give us a like on Facebook HERE, and subscribe to our YouTube HERE. On this episode... Calum talks about the DOTA2 Internationals, and how he is betting fake items on virtual games How Final Fantasy XIV might have recovered from it's abysmal launch with the new version Euan talks about his indie binge of Kentucky Route Zero and welling up at To The Moon Our adventures in the Just Cause 2 Multiplayer mod, and how we became pirates for an evening In news we talk about the Phil Fish Twitter explosion, self publishing on Xbox One, the first story DLC for Bioshock Infinite and Dragons Crown reviews bringing the worst of the internet to the comments sections of websites everywhere. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Both Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

We know the title will make no sense to anyone except us, but we thought it was funny. A big thanks to those of you who has shared us about to your friends (or enemies...), and really appreciate your support! Go give us a like on Facebook HERE, and subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Spoiler Warning This episode does contain spoilers for Mass Effect 3 between 6:30 -> 11:05 On this episode... 400 Days prompts a discussion how Euan is apparently terrible at video games. Euan experiences Fez for the first time, and explains the difference between weird and weird. There is a revelation that Calum plays the Total War games, and attempts to explain how they work online. Again, Calum tries to comprehend Project X Zone now that he has the full version Euan talks about iPad games, and the shame of enjoying Disney's Wheres My Water? We talk about how Murdered: Soul Suspect sounds surprisingly interesting for a game that has such a terrible title. In news we cover LoveFilm killing game rentals, DiveKick's release date

We talk about a surprising amount of movies for a video game podcast, but at least they are video game related... A big thanks to those of you who has shared us about to your friends (or enemies...), and really appreciate your support! Go give us a like on Facebook HERE, and subscribe to our YouTube HERE in preparation for...something... next week. On this episode... Calum gives us an update on his Animal Crossing town We discuss how jumping from Last of Us to Tomb Raider is a terrible move for your psyche After finally conquering Borderlands 2, we give props to how the final boss is infinitely better than the first games. We talk the terrible Silent Hill movie and how Cabin in the Woods is linked to video games An explanation of Steam Gifts, and how you should all get involved with it Project X Zone blows Calum's mind with it's combination of tactics, action combat and insanity. We talk Don Mattrick, LoveFilm, Ouya, and a Outcast revival in news. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech

Addiction is a dangerous thing. Especially when you really need coconuts. Post E3 we get back to the important task of playing games and talking about them. And apparently we talked about them for an hour and a half... On this episode... Why the best game on the 3DS might be the one that comes with the console. How Fire Emblem tells the story of a young farmhand who grows to kick ass. Calum narcs out his Animal Crossing drug ring. We invent our first Game of the Year category for Gunpoint, "Best Punch Sound Effect". We talk about the incredible The Last of Us, and it's amazing mix of beauty and despair. How The Last of Us multiplayer scratches that Counter-Strike itch that Euan didn't know he had. We discuss the Xbox One DRM reversal, why it happened and what it means for the future of the console. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Both Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

It's E3 time again, our favourite time of year! For our first official GameEngineStart podcast we decided to drop in the deep end, and record our thoughts on the E3 2013 press conferences while sleep deprived after a night of writing. On this episode... E3! Loot and XP in a modern 3rd person shooter? I will take Tom Clancy's The Division right now thank you We lament the lack of Driveclub man from the Playstation 4 reveal What it feels like to be punched in the face by EA Sports UFC representative Why Destiny is the best bits of Halo, Borderlands and Lost Planet 2 The standing ovation at the Sony press conference Titanfall making me feel all weak at the knees with big stompy mechs How if we every play Super Smash Brothers Wii U, I will be playing as the Wii Fit Trainer Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Both Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Some people refer to it as a pilot. Some as a trailer. We refer to it as "Oh hey, that didn't come out terrible!"   Behold, our test podcast which we put together to see if podcasts are actually a thing we should do. Recorded when we were back in our hometown just over a month ago, on a crappy microphone, and with the low hum of a hoover in the background for some of it. No amount of editing could remove the drone of a Dyson. We actually liked the end result however, so please enjoy our first podcast, and you can expect many more (and much more polished ones) in the future. On this episode... DOTA2 and the vileness of the MOBA community The insanity of Metal Gear Rising : Revengence How DmC might be the best game artistically this year, as well as being mental Why The Cave is a great comedy piece but a boring game That Okami HD is worse than Metal Gear Solid for cutscenes Why Spaceteam will cause you to enact violence on your friends More evidence that Bitcoins are the most ridiculous thing ever   Int