Gameenginestart Podcast

Want to hear about our hobbies other than video games? We have the show for you! We Played... Euan plays an old card game in new ways in The Solitaire Conspiracy and hunts some ghosts in PhasmophobiaCalum continues to fall with Fall Guys Season 2 and dips a toe into Genshin ImpactWe both play Star Wars Squadrons with varying results. Want to jump to something specific?... 22:26 - Spelunky 223:46 - Synth Riders26:37 - The Solitaire Conspiracy32:41 - Fall Guys Season 239:23 - Destiny 2 Halloween Event44:19 - Music Break46:14 - Phasmophobia1:01:16 - Genshin Impact1:08:20 - Star Wars: Squadrons1:25:09 - News - First Hands-On With Xbox Series X1:27:02 - News - Official Sony PlayStation 5 Tear Down1:31:30 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access / People Make Boring Characters 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 Creati

This podcast takes a turn from talking about home ownership to video games. Wild swings I know. We Played... Euan talks further about Tell Me Why and speaks vaguely on Othercide, in preparation for a video later.We both spend a lot of time talking about the absolute gem that is Hades Want to jump to something specific?... 13:40 - Tell Me Why20:43 - Othercide24:05 - Hades1:06:00 - Music Break1:21:39 - News - Playstation 5 Date/Price and Communication Failure1:40:15 - News - No More Robots E-Shop Investigation1:41:45 - News - Amazon Luna1:4638 - News - Microsoft Purchased Zenimax 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 week gap, we return and we aren't even talking about the game we took a week off to play! Isn't that something! We Played... Euan inhabits not sad teens in Tell Me Why, surprising for a Dontnod game and is disapointed by the Control: AWE DLC. Also Paradise Killer is a game that you should really just hear about.Calum Re-turns to an underappreciated gem in Kingdoms of Amalur: ReReckoning and dies many times in Risk of Rain 2. Want to jump to something specific?... 12:20 - Tell Me Why28:01 - Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning42:20 - Control DLC - AWE52:46 - Music Break57:40 - Crusader Kings III1:06:52 - Risk of Rain 21:15:56 - Paradise Killer1:36:05 - News - XBox Series S/X Price Details2:17:07 - News - Super Mario 3D All Stars2:22:59 - News - Ubisoft Fails to Address Many Controversies 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

Calum writes this as he's busy looking for gigabit internet so... yea... video games We Played... Euan gets back to Doom Eternal, then a dramatic tone change in Spiritfarer, then is baffled by The Avengers BetaCalum talks about the current state of COVID Wrestling, Season 6 of Apex Legends, and does many drop kicks in Dying Light Want to jump to something specific?... 2:24 - Gigabit Internet8:45 - Doom Eternal15:59 - Spiritfarer18:44 - Marvel Avengers Beta37:08 - Wrestling/Summerslam51:13 - Music Break52:43 - Calums Destiny 2 Update™55:35 - Apex Legends Season 61:04:21 - Dying Light1:14:34 - New DC Games1:21:04 - Epic vs Apple 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 return with another fine selection of video games. From the wordy to the weird to the wonderful. We Played... Euan plays a duo of visual novella experiences with Necrobarista and EricaCalum betrays and lies to his friends in Among Us. It's not as evil as it sounds.We both run, jump and, as the name suggests, fall in Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Want to jump to something specific?... 6:59 - Among Us15:28 - Necrobarista25:49 - Erica34:37 - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout54:08 - Music Break56:45 - News - Konami are making (bad) ESports hardware1:02:02 - News - Nintendo launched their absurd Animal Crossing: New Horizons save backup system1:09:49 - News - The "gigaleak" of Nintendo assets and source code1:17:20 - News - Apple are preventing the Microsoft xCloud streaming app from being released on the iOS app store.1:34:37 - News - The makers of Lethal League have finally done the thing and announced a Jet Set Radio game in everything but name1:37:48 - We started playing the Halo series. We don't think it's very

We took a week off to allow more time for games. Sometimes that's worth it, sometimes that is not. It's up to you how it will come across this time. We Played... Euan has gone back in time to 2012 with Spec Ops: The Line for purely research purposes, and a brand new release SUPERHOT: Mind Control DeleteCalum also goes back to 2012 (not planned) with Persona 4: Golden, now on PCWe both engage in grown creature based dance battles in Ooblets and once again explore the bizarre world of SWERY with Deadly Premonition 2 Want to jump to something specific?... 15:11 - SUPERHOT: Mind Control Delete21:09 - Spec Ops: The Line28:01 - Persona 4:Golden34:29 - Ooblets53:47 - Music Break56:53 - Deadly Premonition 21:30:45 - News - Devolver Digital Livestream1:39:37 - News - NBA2K21 is $70/$100 on next gen1:48:54 - News - EVO 2020 Online cancelled as CEO faces sexual misconduct allegations1:54:02 - News - Ubisoft sexual assault and harrasment allegations Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Not going to lie, this week is kind of a bummer, but at least we got some interesting discussions out of it. We Played... Euan completes Unavowed and flashes back to the early days with 198XCalum revisits Persona 4 Golden for the 12th time, and has a lot to say after spending time with The Last of Us 2. Want to jump to something specific?... 5:15 - Unavowed7:18 - 198X18:50 - The Last of Us: Part 2: Part 143:29 - Music Intermission47:12 - The Last of Us: Part 2: Part 21:29:09 - News - Industry Harrasment and Abuse Allegations1:40:22 - News - Mixer Is Going Away1:50:04 - News - Dr Disrespect gets banned from Twitch2:00:29 - Other News In The News... A number of allegations of harassment and abuse have been made all across the industry, from development to streamingMixer has been shut down and redirected to Facebook Gaming, and it looks like neither partners nor employees were told in advanceDr Disrespect, one of the biggest names on Twitch, has been banned from the platform for reasons which have not been made

E3 was supposed to happen right now. Clearly, it did not. We Played... Euan clones himself for space faring in Genesis: Alpha One and Wadjet Eye make a return in UnavowedCalum talks about the first Destiny 2 live event, and punches monsters in Dauntless In The News... Paradox Interactive has signed a collective bargaining agreement with labour unionsAre you all ready to witness the power of FOG GAMING?Destiny 2 ended it's season with a giant spaceship crashing to the ground live, take from that what you will...and more 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

The title is weird I know. It was a weird conversation. We Played... Euan can't sit still, playing deckbuilding RPG Hand of Fate 2, hacking tactical game Cyber Ops, and Supergiant Games's Transistor for the 8th timeCalum plays Apex Legends Season 5 and Terraria in an effort to recapture his university days. In The News... Microsoft showed off some 3rd party games coming to Xbox Series X, and we saw the first footage of the new Unreal Engine running on a Playstation 5.Valorant is coming out of beta and will be publicly available on June 2nd...and more 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

Longer than average podcast this week. We somehow find a lot to talk about in isolation. We Played... Euan plays nightmare prison escape shooter GTFO, involving many database prompts.Calum has somehow played a game made in 2019, but plays like 2014 in Borderlands 3, and tries closed beta Riot Games shooter ValorantWe both played XCOM: Chimera Squad, to varying degrees of success. In The News... The Last of Us Part II finally got a release date, and then had a massive data breach resulting in most of the story and cutscenes leaking online.The new Assassins Creed has been announced, y'all ready for VIKINGS!?After complaints, Riot have reworked their Vanguard anti-cheat system to stop it from running even when the game is not....and more 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

There's only really one game to talk about this week. Strap in for a focused one! We Played... It's Final Fantasy 7: Remake discussion time. We spend a long time talking about every part of this game that we can. In The News... The first new game from League developers Riot has been in closed beta, and on top of some hilarious initial bugs, people have found that their anti-cheat protection is a kernel-level driver that runs all the time even when the game is not activeThere is a new XCOM game dropping on Friday. Euan has taken the day off.If you were to pick a game franchise that would cause a digital fist fight between the developers and the IP holders, Cooking Mama is not in the top 10.Bloomberg is reporting that there will be fewer PS5s available at launch than PS4s, but due to a higher than expected price rather than for COVID reasons....and more Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting

Still in isolation, one of us uses technology to escape. The other just uses it to collect eggs. We Played... Euan dons the VR headset with immersive interquel Half Life: Alyx and escape the puzzle box game The Room VR.We both talk more about Animal Crossing:New Horizons. The main takeaway? Fuck eggs. Also not being the first person on the island is terrible. In The News... A number of outlets are reporting that Nintendo are going to release a number of remasters of Super Mario titles for the series 35th anniversary.Last of Us Part II has been delayed "indefinitely" due to logistical concerns caused by COVID-19The closed beta for Valorant, Riot's first non-League game, starts April 7th. Be prepared to watch a lot of Twitch to get access....and more 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 Attri

The world is going to hell. Self isolation, lockdowns, no toilet roll. At least there are still video games. We Played... Calum talks the new Destiny Season, Season of the Worthy. He can talk about Destiny at any hour of any day.We have both decided to escape the current world by starting island lives in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and going to hell in DOOM: Eternal In The News... I don't know if you know, but E3 and GDC got cancelled due to some virus thing.Both the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X got surprisingly detailed tech rundowns Horizon Zero Dawn is coming out for PC, and for some reason Sony decided to get out there and placate some of the worst fanboysSomeone out there saw our Blade Runner play-through and said "hey wouldn't it be great if we remastered that game?"...and more 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

To end the discussion, the titular award. There is also a video version of this podcast available on our YouTube channel. Intro/Outro Music -Sci Fi -Bensound (bensound.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0

Two of our favorite video game topics now. Story and music Best Narrative - 0:06 Best Original Track - 35:04 There is also a video version of this podcast available on our YouTube channel. Intro/Outro Music -Sci Fi -Bensound (bensound.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0

Just one category this time, Best Moment. It's a big one! There is also a video version of this podcast available on our YouTube channel. Intro/Outro Music -Sci Fi -Bensound (bensound.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0

One new and one returning category this time around! Best Mechanics - 0:06 Most Disappointing - 33:31 There is also a video version of this podcast available on our YouTube channel. Intro/Outro Music -Sci Fi -Bensound (bensound.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0

2020 begins and so we begin another year of talking about video games. You're all ok with that right? We Played... Euan re-enters the virtual realm with Pavlov VR & Zero CaliberEuan also starting playing Arknights. If you've seen the adverts, you'll understand why Calum is concerned.Calum returns to the hunt in the frozen tundra with Monster Hunter: Iceborn and continues much shooting and looting in Apex Legends: Season 4Calum also plays a fascinating early access narrative production game Not For Broadcast. Sounds strange, but just listen. In The News... Dan Houser has left Rockstar after a long sabbaticalAnimal Crossing looks wholesome, but it's super restrictive save game and user account system reminds people that Nintendo just does not understand the internetThose rumours of an Anthem reboot look like they are trueGeoff Keighley will not be involved in E3 2020, in case you were not worried enough about the show this year....and more Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Two more categories, two more discussions! Most Important News - 0:06 Best Soundtrack - 23:26 There is also a video version of this podcast available on our YouTube channel. Intro/Outro Music -Sci Fi -Bensound (bensound.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0

Here we go again! 20XX Game of the Year - 0:06 Best Looking - 14:17 There is also a video version of this podcast available on our YouTube channel. Intro/Outro Music -Sci Fi -Bensound (bensound.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0