Gameenginestart Podcast

We're at an ebb in the ebb and flow of video game releases. Nice relaxed podcast today.We Played...Euan gives all the updates this week with Mars First Logistics and System ShockTimestamps00:08:02 - Final Fantasy XVI00:09:07 - System Shock00:13:18 - Mars First Logistics00:21:38 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't have a release date on Xbox yet, as Larian is having issues getting split-screen working on the Series S00:24:23 - News - Annapurna rounded off Not-E3 with a bunch of new games, and their first in-house project, a new game in the Blade Runner universe00:28:18 - News - Sega have finally listened and are ditching their NFT plans.00:30:25 - News - Sonic and Balan Wonderworld creator Yuji Naka has now been sentenced on charges of insider trading.00:32:59 - News - The official Pokémon Forums have launched, and for a brief moment were a nightmare00:37:26 - News - The Microsoft Activision merger court case brought more interesting info, this time from a Sony document that was very poorly redacted.00:43:49 - Ne

The weather is hot and so are the video games. Actually, not really we've hit the end of the big new releases. There's more to talk about!We Played...Euan talks about several Steam Next Fest demos, and continues to wander around in Zelda: Tears of the KingdomCalum talks newest release Final Fantasy XVI. It's the sixteenth Final Fantasy game and I will hear no other arguments at this time.Timestamps00:08:13 - Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom00:16:57 - Final Fantasy XVI00:46:08 - Twitch continues to make baffling business decisions for the people who create the content.00:55:09 - Don't worry, there was supposed to be a solitary woman at Summer Games Fest, there was just scheduling conflicts.00:58:54 - Seemingly out of nowhere, Bungie dropped a massive lore dump on Destiny players they weren't expecting.01:07:22 - Looks like E3 2024 and 2025 might already be cancelled?01:11:28 - Jim Ryan may have blown their main argument in the case against the Microsoft/ABK merger01:13:43 - It was an unexciting Nintendo Direct, unt

It's the start of video game releases. The heavy hitters start now!We Played...Calum talks the two big releases in Diablo 4 and Street Fighter 6. Busy time for fans of ARPGs and fighting games across the land.Euan gives his opinion on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Will it be different from the majority? Listen to find out!Timestamps00:02:13 - Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom00:11:59 - Diablo 400:34:40 - Street Fighter 600:58:49 - Quick Destiny check in for the new season01:02:04 - News - Jason Shrier published a great internal look into Arkane and why Redfall may have turned out the way it did01:04:47 - Sony got out ahead of Not-E3 with their PlayStation Showcase01:06:10 - AI Generated Content was all over the place in the last few weeks, and none of it was good news01:16:52 - Two separate people picked up warehouse jobs purely to steal copies of Zelda ahead of release01:18:46 - Twitch announced some changes to their policies on branded content, which was pretty tone deaf and unanimously rejected by streamers.01:26

The conversations went long this week. More to enjoy!MusicIntermission MusicJack Da Funk - Hideki Naganuma - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Side 1BandcampWe Played...Euan talks about his Jedi Survivor experience, and playing Dead by Daylight on a Steam DeckCalum talks Idol Showdown, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and hot game of the moment Zelda: Tears of the KingdomTimestamps00:04:35 - The New Website is Done!00:06:11 - Jedi Survivor00:40:27 - Dead by Daylight on Steam Deck00:45:29 - Idol Showdown00:46:21 - Zelda01:14:58 - Musical Interlude01:17:27 - Pathfinder01:40:47 - News - Not E3 starts with the Sony Showcase on Wednesday01:41:51 - News - Mortal Kombat 1 is a silly name, but seems pretty descriptive01:43:49 - News - Hawken, the indie mech darling from way back has returned, and unfortunately it's not good!01:45:10 - News - The person in charge of Ganon's design for the new Zelda finally got to make him hot, according to an interview01:46:12 - News - Wow it seems like Overwatch 2 is having a bad time01:54:32 -

Returning from a holiday and games start coming out. What a time to have a podcastWe Played…Euan plays Shadows of Doubt, a game with more genres than time I have to type them out here. You’ll just have to listen.We both “played” Redfall and have some thoughts. They are not good thoughts, but they are thoughts.Calum talks at length about Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. As a Star Wars fan, you can imagine this is a long discussion.Timestamps…02:01 – Holidays & our bodies are getting old.07:36 – Shadows of Doubt.16:30 – Redfall.36:31 – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.1:11:57 – Citizen Sleeper and the Lost In Cult collaboration.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

Shorter catch up this week as we lie in wait for the release hellscape of May/June. Also Euan has holidays to go on so we didn’t want to leave you good people hanging.We Played…Euan played a variety of smaller games, including Drop: System Breach, Dredge, A Little To The LeftCalum has a Destiny 2 Catchup as the seasonal story ends and talks massive changes to DOTA 2 (yes he’s playing DOTA 2 again)Timestamps…0:02:14 – Euan’s Catch-up0:05:44 – Pistol Whip, and Borderlands OST0:07:57 – Dredge0:12:43 – Resident Evil 4 + More Remakes0:21:00 – Destiny 2 Check-in0:27:26 – DOTA2 & the new patch0:33:28 – News – Someone has ported Jedi Outcast to VR, and it looks great.0:37:03 – News – Jedi Survivor is a big game, and you might need a download even with the disc version0:38:42 – News – Niantic are taking their Pokemon GO formula and trying again with Monster Hunter0:40:37 – News – The Division 2 is still going strong, and we got details of two new titles in the series.0:44:26 – News – Troubled developers of Dark an

It’s been a while since we did this. Luckily, there are games to talk about.Intermission MusicPhotosynthetic Skin – Amos Roddy – Citizen Sleeper (Original Soundtrack)BandcampWe Played…Calum played in the weekend limited Diablo 4 Beta.Euan played maze building PvP game Meet Your Maker by the creators of Dead by DaylightWe both played Resident Evil 4 Remake. As much as we enjoyed the original, it has been a very long time.Timestamps…00:09:01 – Diablo 4 Beta00:30:13 – Meet Your Maker00:50:15 – Music Interlude00:51:46 – Resident Evil 401:16:23 – Deliver Us Mars, Dredge, Hitman is good01:20:09 – News – There is a Persona 5 mobile game coming, but it’s coming from a predominantly gatcha studio so…01:21:01 – News – Sega put out a Sonic murder mystery visual novel, and it’s apparently the best Sonic game in years.01:21:37 – News – Epic have launched a very powerful editor and a new Creative mode for Fortnite, but the profit sharing model is kinda wild.01:25:49 – News – Multiversus is leaving open beta by going to sle

It’s that time of year again. It’s time to talk about Destiny for an inordiante amount of time.Spoiler Warning – We talk about the story of Destiny 2: Lightfall between 16:24 and 22:33.Intermission MusicCalling Upon Bravery – Eddie Marianukroh – Chained Echoes (Original Game Soundtrack)BandcampWe Played…Calum talks Destiny 2: Lightfall, the latest expansion. That’s it, that’s all he talks aboutEuan talks mech based XCOM-like Phantom BrigadeTimestamps…4:22 – Destiny 2: Lightfall16:24 – Destiny 2: Lightfall Story Spoilers22:33 – Destiny 2: Lightfall Story Spoilers End1:12:30 – Music Break1:15:23 – Phantom Brigade1:38:55 – News – Paradox announced a bunch of things, including a Sims competitor1:41:06 – News – The Suicide Squad gameplay might have been recieved so badly they have delayed it again1:42:09 – News – Capcom showed off their lineup, and gave more details on the Resident Evil 4 remake1:43:40 – News – A whole bunch of games have shut down so far this year, and it’s only March1:46:22 – News – Sony continu

It’s 2023 and we are back doing what we do best. Making mediocre content. Welcome in.We Played…It’s 2008 again as Euan plays the Dead Space remake, gets in some cel shaded music action in Hifi Rush, and deals with the baffling experience that is Atomic Heart.When not prepping to spend the next few weeks in a Destiny 2 hole with the new expansion, Calum has been putting time into modern retro JRPG Chained EchosTimestamps…1:49 – Dead Space12:20 – Hifi Rush15:52 – Atomic Heart28:02 – Destiny 2 Lightfall Preperation31:27 – Chained Echos46:08 – News – Ubisoft has delayed Skull & Bones for the millionth time, as well as cancelling 3 games that we don’t know about49:54 – News – Activision Blizzard continue to be real wierd by requiring everyone to come back into the office, as well as making wild salary claims around their management.53:55 – News – There was a Playstation State of Play, and we all collectively hmmmed at Suicide Squad55:28 – News – Apparently your Xbox is now woke, since it’s started doing update

Grab yourself a warm drink and a blanket, shuffle up next to us as we talk about the year gone past in video games. The good, the bad, and the existential crisesSpoiler WarningWe were pretty good at calling out when we are going to talk about endings and the like, but maybe don’t give a huge amount of notice. You have been warned.Timestamps…Sifu – 0:02:29Hardspace: Shipbreaker – 0:07:39Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 0:15:09We Are OFK – 0:23:29God of War: Ragnarok – 0:27:59IXION – 0:48:47Citizen Sleeper – 0:56:25Neon White – 1:14:42Some Good Soundtracks – 1:23:53Pentiment – 1:26:53Honourable Mentions – 1:46:30Destiny 2 in 2022 – 1:56:55The Year of the Steam Deck – 2:05:58The Final Year of Giving Fromsoft a Chance – 2:07:04The Award for Only Game I returned This – 2:09:37The Dumbest News Story of the Year – 2:10:05Some Games Are Not For You – 2:11:10A Eulogy for Zachtronic – 2:16:46Looking Forward – 2:18:08Intro & Outro Music – Jazzy Abstract Beat – Coma-Media (pixabay.com)

For the last podcast of the year, we have a lot of news to talk about and even some new games.Intermission MusicCloud Nine – Machine Girl – Neon White OST 1 – The Wicked HeartBandcampWe Played…We wrap up The Game Awards and all the announcements there inWe both catch up on our god killing progress in God of War RagnarokCalum prevents a chaos incursion in Warhammer 40k: Darktide and becomes best friends with marvel heros in Marvel’s Midnight SunsTimestamps…2:14 – 2023 is already looking stacked4:25 – The Game AwardsCORRECTION – Euan said that Elden Ring won Best Narrative, he meant to say nominated.36:46 – Euan caught up on a bunch of games37:22 – Ixion42:45 – Warhammer 40,000: Darktide54:22 – Music Break56:32 – Midnight Suns1:28:24 – News – Yuki Naka has been arrested again for insider trading1:29:55 – News – Microsoft announce a commitment to bring Call of Duty to Switch and Steam for at least 10 years1:31:51 – News – The director of Days Gone believes that ‘woke reviewers’ are the reason for it’s midding cr

It’s getting towards the end of the year which means god there are so many games to play.Intermission MusicEmber’s Wake – Amos Roddy – Citizen SleeperBandcampWe Played…Euan plays PS1 style sci-fi thriller SignalisCalum plays the “perfectly 6/7 out of 10” Harvestella and tells us the story of attending the Scottish Esports LeagueWe both become gods once again in God of War: RagnarokTimestamps…0:30 – Holy crap it’s almost December1:33 – Signalis9:26 – Shadows of Rose – Resident Evil Village DLC11:19 – SSX316:09 – Harvestella37:52 – NIKKE44:37 – Music Break48:22 – God of War: Ragnarök1:14:23 – News – Immortality hit iOS and is, surprisingly, uncut and in it’s original form.1:16:28 – News – The UK Treasury launched a Discord, and proceeded to get trolled intensely.1:20:44 – News – The back and forth between composer Mick Gordon and id Software continues, with Gordon dropping hard evidence, and id claiming they have their own.1:23:34 – News – Yuji Naka, creator of Sonic and Balan Wonderworld, was arrested for insi

One of us went on holiday and still managed to play loads of video games. Isn’t the modern world fantastic? Intermission Music Customer Service – Eli Rainsberry – Wilmot’s Warehouse OST Bandcamp | Itch.io We Played… Calum talks professional DOTA with TI Final, and plays yet another card game in Marvel Snap, and is really presently surprised. Euan checks the rat tech in A Plague Tale: Requiem, and takes a look at dystopian point-and-click turn based RPG (too many genres) Sunday Gold Timestamps… 2:14 – Andor is great god damn show 5:41 – The Mandalorian Spoilers 12:56 – DOTA 2: The International 21:32 – A Plague Tale: Requiem 33:25 – Sunday Gold 44:37 – Music Break 47:09 – Marvel Snap 1:11:23 – News – Konami are throwing a bunch of studios at a bunch of new Silent Hill games and seeing what happens 1:30:29 – News – The physical disc versions of Modern Warfare have barely anything on them, and still require a 150Gb download to use. 1:36:48 – Upcoming Releases, Site Stuff and Wrap Up Intro Music – There It Is –

Real world delivery issues are key to this weeks podcast. Intermission Music Murky Brew – Alberto Sueri and Johnny Moutzouris – Eville OST Steam Also we talk about Brandon Acker before the break, and you should go check out his YouTube channel We Played… Calum played stuff on a Steam Deck. Various games, of varying quality, just had a grand old time. Euan solves puzzles in Egression and hates solving puzzles in Scorn. Timestamps… 0:47 – Ordering a Xmas tree in October 3:20 – Calum got his Steam Deck, and started wildy throwing games at it. 21:11 – Egression 23:46 – Scorn 46:39 – Music Intermission 50:28 – Warhammer 40K: Darktide Closed Beta Impressions 55:52 – News – Google Stadia is no more, and you can actually get a refund 1:00:23 – News – The voice behind Bayonetta spoke out how the actual reason she isn’t in the third game is that they offered her a tiny paycheck for the role, and Hideki Kamiya blocks everyone on Twitter 1:07:34 – News – The launch of Overwatch 2 was a trashfire, and the game itself is

It’s a short pod as we venture into Autumn, with a good mix of old, new and new that reminds you of old. We Played… Euan finishes We Are OFK, and ventures into some modern nostalgia with Return to Monkey Island Calum is preparing to get a Steam Deck and keeps busy in Guild Wars 2 when not continuing doing Savage Raids in Final Fantasy XIV Timestamps… 0:46 – Guild Wars 2 is still a franchise 4:30 – What’s Out in October 8:40 – We Are OFK 13:09 – Rollerdrome 14:33 – Crimesight 17:50 – Return to Monkey Island 33:54 – Calum is getting a Steam Deck 40:37 – FFXIV Savage Raids Continue 41:43 – Guild Wars 2 is a chill game. Apparently. 45:18 – News – The “live service” Halo Infinite doesn’t appear to be that “live” 50:04 – News – CDPR confirmed Cyberpunk 2077’s first expansion, (probably) out next year 52:06 – News – The GTAVI Leak has been both facinating and depressing to watch play out. Intro Music – There It Is – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music – Honey Bee – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Stin

Calum took some time off to play one video game a lot. Luckily we have a space to talk about that experience. Intermission Music The Disaster of Passion – AISHA & Arc System Works – GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK VOL.1 Amazon We Played… Euan played tiny platformer Tinykin and the latest Sam Barlow epic Immortality Calum goes in-depth of the ins and outs of Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raiding   Timestamps… 2:11 – Hey, people are actually listening to this! 8:07 – Tinykin 14:52 – Immortality 46:37 – Music Break 52:09 – Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raids 1:41:16 – Site Stuff and Wrap Up    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 finally time to talk openly about one of our favourite games of the year. Calum wasn’t available, so Euan has drafted in friend of the site, and narrative game connoisseur, Vaida to talk about the world of The Eye, the incredible characters we meet there, and just how well this game uses mechanics from tabletop games to add to the storytelling. This is a spoilercast, so we talk openly about the events of the plot of Citizen Sleeper and it’s first expansion. If you have not played the game yet it’s highly recommended that you go do that and then come back for this conversation  Citizen Sleeper is out now for PC (Steam, GOG, Epic), Game Pass, and Switch right now. The first free update is also out now, with two more updates coming in October and 2023. Vaida can be found on Twitter @underskinnyhrt and their games can be played at https://vaidap.itch.io/.  Intro / Outro Music – Density – Citizen Sleeper (Original Soundtrack) – Amos Roddy Bandcamp | Steam | GOG | Apple Music

Euan got COVID, so this is the first podcast for a while. He’s fine now, so we’re back to video games Intermission Music Follow/Unfollow – OFK – We Are OFK E.P. We Played… Calum writes this part of the post so he gets to type such sentences as “Euan plays a new ‘sad teen game'” We Are OFK, and talks about old favorites GTFO and Boneworks with Metal Gear Solid mods Calum plays out his wrestler fantasy in Rumbleverse and starts a cult (in a video game please don’t ban me) with Cult of the Lamb Timestamps… 1:25 – Euan got COVID 13:55 – We Are OFK 21:34 – Boneworks MGS1 Mod 23:52 – A quick GTFO story 30:29 – Rumbleverse 41:36 – Cult of the Lamb 59:32 – Music Break 1:02:40 – News – Calum runs down the first in-person EVO in a few years. 1:13:34 – News – There is a new Tales from the Borderlands out in October and we forgot it existed. Might be for the best. 1:15:24 – News – Activision Blizzard are at it again, looking very much like they are taking designs from artists and putting them into CoD with no credit or

Hopefully you all should be still be able to see this message. Hopefully you can also still hear us talk about video games. NOTE - There are mild spoilers for the ending of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 during the discussions of Xenoblade Chronicles 3. There is a warning before hand. Intermission Music Blueprint For A Slow Machine – 65daysofstatic – No Man’s Sky- Music For An Infinite Universe Amazon We Played… Euan plays hit cat sim Stray. As father to two cats, this is unsurprising Calum starts a 100+ hour journey into Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and it starts a lot better than the other ones! We both played No Man’s Sky again for the upteenth time. Marketing really makes that game look cool ok?   Timestamps… 1:15 – The Fringe is slowly encroaching 5:27 – Podcast housekeeping 6:11 – Audio transcription with our accents is sometimes great 7:54 – No Mans Sky 12:00 – Stray 25:59 – Tunic, and difficulty options as accessibility 28:55 – Bear & Breakfast 34:29 – Xenoblade Chronicles 3 59:54 – Music Break 1:03:04 – Stea

As I type this it is over 30 degrees, and I can't think. So yea, video games. We Played... Euan plays space thriller Deliver Us The Moon, adorable adventure Tunic and, of course, the latest and last Zachtronics joint, Last Call BBS.Calum wishes he could break the actual sun, and instead settles for more Monster Hunter: Sunbreak and watches teens get murdered in video game format in The Quarry Timestamps... 0:30 - Holy crap it's warm9:10 - Deliver Us The Moon12:55 - Last Call BBS16:39 - Steam Deck29:18 - Monster Hunter: Sunbreak31:19 - Fall Guys33:29 - The Quarry57:51 - Music Break59:26 - The Blade Runner remaster is a mess, both in implementation and distribution1:04:45 - No surprises, but a recently announced "Web3" consoles is saying a lot of words and promises that don't make sense1:07:19 - A game dev at the Brazil International Games Festival pulled the greatest bait and switch, changing his talk from "The Future of Game Design" to "Why NFTs are a nightmare" almost immediately.1:08:38 - Ubisoft continues