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We're starting to wind down for the year, but that doesn't stop us from talking for WAY to long about video games. Spoiler Warning - We get into a very specific mechanics discussion around Death Stranding which if your wanting to avoid as much info as possible you minght want to skip. It happens between 1:10:41 and 1:13:33. We Played... Euan experiments with perspective shifting SuperliminalCalum picks up from where he left his childhood off with Pokemon SwordWe spend a lot of time talking about Death Stranding, with differing experiences In The News... XO19, Microsoft's public focused event happened, along with new announcements of both games and services.Blizzcon was always going to be an interesting one to watch this year, and it didn't disappoint. Maybe not for all the right reasons.We may have prematurely called the death of Anthem, with reports saying EA are going to massively overhaul and relaunch the game....and more Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Mu

We're killing time till Death Stranding to be honest. There other games, some really good games, but we can't get our minds out of the possibilities of Kojima unhinged. We Played... Euan tries to out drink Satan in Afterparty.Calum discusses Disco Elysium and how he can't get it out of his head.We both hit up the corporate space nightmare of The Outer Worlds. In The News... Bethesda has decided that the shot in the arm that Fallout 76 needs to get it back on track is ... a subscription fee? Which is also very broken?Ubisoft have delayed a number of early next year games, and been very open about the fact that Ghost Recon Breakpoint did not do as well as they expected.Anthem continues to look like it's future is in question, as the "live services" producer leaves BioWare....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 Licens

There's a lot of Destiny talk this week. We get surprisingly deep about the nature of competitiveness in loot based shooters towards the end, but yes, lots of Destiny. We Played... Calum shoots and survives in a whole new area with Apex Legends Season 3: MeltdownEuan has an emotional experience behind the wheel in Neo CabWe both play the new Mike Bithel joint John Wick Hex which manages to be both incredibly intelligent and very coolAs mentioned, lots of talk of the new expansion Destiny 2: Shadowkeep In The News... Blizzard has certainly had a week, huh? Also it looks like Riot is going down the same path.Worried about the lag in Google Stadia's cloud based streaming gaming? Don't worry, they are saying it is going to have NEGATIVE LATENCY....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

This is the calm before the storm folks. It's not even really all that calm, but there are video games on the horizon that are going to need played. We all need to be ready. We Played... Calum played new Spiders RPG Greedfall. He has a great fondness for Spiders previous products, so is excited to talk about the new one.Euan plays many small games including electronic pop journey Sayonara Wild Hearts, and a surprise hit in Jenny LeClue Detectivu We are both just awful to inhabitants of a quaint English town in Untitled Goose Game In The News... The pitch deck for E3 2020 to group members was leaked, and it's filled with the most horrific PR and Marketing terms you will see this year.The French Supreme Court has ruled that Steam cannot stop customers from reselling digital games in the same way they can for physical releasesTelltale Games is back under new management, and making some slightly questionable decisionsThe DLC roadmap for Control has been released, and fans of Remedy games seem pleased....and more

As the video game season picks up, we both play some weird ass video games. They are weird for separate reasons, but still very strange. We Played... Euan has his mind bent by the new Remedy game ControlCalum experiences hard anime action in Astral Chain In The News... Calum does a very quick run down of The International, cause apparently people still play DOTA2?...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

Euan got a cat and surprisingly still finds time to talk about video games! We Played... Euan plays a roguelike so roguelike it even has rogue in the name in Streets of Rogue (it's not THAT rogue-like) and has a visual novel hit way too close to home with ElizaCalum wrangles space dinos and man sized penguins in Age of Wonders: PlanetfallWe both spend time in space doin' what good southern space trucker boys do in Rebel Galaxy Outlaw In The News... Everyone probably already knows about Ninja moving to Mixer, but there might be another reason behind the move.Do you want to see a bunch of Chinese game players give the middle finder to a booth on a convention floor? Make a game that "takes some elements" from Breath of the WildWant a reminder how difficult games are to make? Listen do these devs talk about the "six day chair" and other bits of game dev that take longer than you would imagine.IO have doubled down on the homing briefcase in Hitman 2, and are putting out a Mk2 one with better homing. Intro Music - 

After our week break, we've got a lot to talk about. So much so, we skipped the news. No excited chat about EVO from Calum from another 2 weeks. We Played... Euan plays the new (old) David Cage game Detroit: Become Human, and finds it to be very heavy handed. Shocker.Calum engages the minds of digital youth in Fire Emblem: Three HousesWe both played Wolfenstein: Youngblood and were very disappointed for several reasons. In The News... Nothing this week, spent too long talking about games! 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're in the low energy part of the video game year. Not going to stop us talking about them though. Even if they are from 2013... We Played... Calum plays My Time At Portia, a relaxing cartoony take on the Harvest Moon genre, and drops on Apex Legends: Season 2 to find it much more deserving of attention than season 1.Euan delivers justice in Judgement and goes back in time to the 2008 financial crisis with Bear Stearns Bravo In The News... Grey market key sales site G2A is up to some shady stuff. More so than normal.Ubisoft have gone back to the HitRecord for another round of "hey submit some content for our AAA game and we might pay you" for Watch Dogs Legion. Go Google No!SpecPolygon talked to a gamer who spent months essentially harassing a dev team to get a broken achievement fixed. It's not pretty.The new game from Until Dawn devs Supermassive has a multiplayer mode based on watching how people played their ostensibly single player previous game....and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (i

Post E3 hit us pretty hard. After a month of waiting, we're finally back. So which button is record again...? We Played... Euan played that game everyone on twitter is talking about Outer Wilds and explored and danced his way through Hyrule in Cadence of Hyrule Resident Destiny correspondent Calum gives us the details on the latest update for Destiny 2:Season of the Drifter, and continues his infatuation with Japanese visual novel murder in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony We both pretend we're in a John Woo movie, complete with our best banana friend in My Friend Pedro In The News... Bungie had a big announcement regarding the content for Shadowkeep, the expansion in September, and it's substantial!We got some more details about Google Stadia, and none of the business questions we have have been answered.EA defended their loot box policies in front of the UK parliament, an made sure to clear up that they are not loot boxes, they are "surprise mechanics". Seriously....and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevi

For our final segment, we have the absolute best and worst that 2018 had to offer. A fitting finale. Worst Game - 00:12 Game of the Year - 11:08 There is also a podcast version of this video available on the site or via your podcast subscription. See the site for more details Intro Music Music from https://filmmusic.io "Chill Wave" by Kevin MacLeod Website: https://incompetech.com Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) End Music Sci Fi - Bensound - https://www.bensound.com

Stories, music and news this time around, need to cover all the video game bases. Best Narrative - 00:12 Most Important News - 34:04 Best Soundtrack - 1:04:39 There is also a video version of this podcast available on the site or via our YouTube page. Intro Music Music from https://filmmusic.io "Chill Wave" by Kevin MacLeod Website: https://incompetech.com Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) End Music Sci Fi - Bensound - https://www.bensound.com

It's only two categories this time round, but the second is a real doozy. Best Original Track - 00:12 Best Moment - 16:06 There is also a video version of this podcast available on the site or via our YouTube page. Intro Music Music from https://filmmusic.io "Chill Wave" by Kevin MacLeod Website: https://incompetech.com Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) End Music Sci Fi - Bensound - https://www.bensound.com

Let's get this started. 20xx Game of the Year - 00:12 Best Looking Game - 28:21 Most Disappointing - 50:44 There is also a video version of this podcast available on the site or via our YouTube page. Intro Music Music from https://filmmusic.io "Chill Wave" by Kevin MacLeod Website: https://incompetech.com Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) End Music Sci Fi - Bensound - https://www.bensound.com

Even Eurovision can't stop the video game drought. Luckily we still found games to talk about. We Played... Euan played strange adventure game Unforseen Incidents and, of course, strangely real world-like hacking game NITE Team 4Calum screams and swings medieval weaponry in Mordhau and casually explores the persistent online version of Tamriel in Elder Scrolls Online In The News... World of Warcraft Classic has launched, and players are forgetting just how buggy it was at the time.The first Division 2 raid has dropped, and it's missing matchmaking and console players are having some trouble with it.The PC game store slugfest continues, with Epic managing to piss off a lot of their developer partners with a not fully thought through sale.There has been some upheaval with the traditional 3 studio model for Call of Duty development, which has an effect on the 2020 game....and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com

We expected this show to be short. Even when there aren't video games, we still manage to talk about video games for over an hour. We Played... Calum talks about the incredibly mild Destiny 2 controversy during the spring event "The Revelry" Euan takes a very British jaunt to another planet in 39 Days to Mars and talks about the staggering creativity already in the Dreams Early Access event In The News... GameInformer wrote a quick piece saying that despite Randy Pitchford announcing there will be no microtransactions in Borderlands 3, they will in fact be selling cosmetics. Randy then handled it in a very mature and calm manner.Square Enix have a new joint advertising partnership between Just Cause 4 and ...anti-virus company BitDefender?The Persona 5 spin off games have been announced with one being a Musou game from Omega Force. Didn't see that coming.Bioware have pushed back their Anthem plans so that they can prioritize "things like bug fixes, stability and game flow"...and more! Intro Music - There It I

Calum returns to existence after his wrestle based isolation! We Played... Calum played Pathfinder:Kingmaker,and found its surprisingly important to the current difficulty discourse.Euan is enjoying Yoshi's Crafted World and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden for very different reasons. In The News... Jason Schreier is at it again, with a huge article outlining how Anthem ended up in the state it was at launch.Respawn provided more details for Jedi: Fallen Order, their Star Wars single player action adventure coming in November.PSN name changes are finally here, and they sound like they could really mess up some old games.Halo: The Master Chief collection is coming to PC, via the Microsoft Store as well as Steam, strangely enough.CCP has removed a member of their Eve Online Council of Stellar Management, who also happens to be a politician in real life, for "sharing confidential information"...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin Mac

After last week, we figured everyone would want some discussion of some traditional, grounded video games. So Devil May Cry 5... We Played... Calum tries the new offers from the Drifter in Destiny 2 Season of the Drifter and participates in the stylish, hard, wacko action in Devil May Cry 5.Euan tries British FMV game Late Shift, manages life and thrall in Cultist Simulator, and plays with mechs in Daemon X MachinaWe've both played a LOT of The Division 2 In The News... Google have announced Stadia, their first move into gaming with a streaming solution that could have profound effects on games in more ways than you might thinkMicrosoft are releasing Halo: The Master Chief collection on PC finally, and it's surprisingly also coming to Steam.Vivendi have sold their final shares in Ubisoft, letting them escape the perpetual shadow of takeover.Yakuza developer RGG Studio have announced that they will be recasting actor Kyohei Hamura in their next game Judgement, after he was charged with cocaine possession, a bi

The regular podcast will return as normal next week, but to tide you over you can find our Kingdom Hearts 3 Spoilercast on the site on Wednesday, as well as some more goodies later on in the week. Keep an eye on the site for 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

I know the start of this show will make it sound like we are real adults. Trust me, we are just as scared of that idea as you are. We Played... Euan finishes 1/4 of Resident Evil 2 and seems to enjoy much of his experience. Calum has finished Kingdom Hearts 3, more from that will come later. We, like seemingly the entire rest of the world, have been playing Apex Legends. We feel secure in saying it's very good. In The News... While it's still only a rumour, there are reports out there that Microsoft may be bringing the Xbox Game Pass to Switch via their game streaming service.The Corporate VP of XBox had some wild takes on criticism of Anthem's road block "tombs" quest, directly hitting out at reviewers for being bad at games. We missed this last time, but Bungie have separated from Activision and taken Destiny with them.There was a Nintendo Direct, which brought some cool new announcements... and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevi

It's 2019 and we are still doing this huh? And you are still listening? Well, alright then....here we go. We Played... We both played Resident Evil 2 and discover it does the impossible task of being a game that is both modern and from 1995.Euan continues his other existence in Life is Strange 2 Episode 2Kingdom Hearts 3 is out and Calum is very excited. 14 years to conclude a story no one understands. In The News... Depending on how far down the conspriracy theory hole you want to go, the spat between SpacialOS and Unity is either a degradation of inter company negotiation, or a carefully planned PR move involving Epic.Farming Simulator devs Giants Software are setting up a €250,000 esports league for the game, and we are legit excited about it.Metriod Prime 4 has been totally scrapped and rebooted, bringing on Retro Studios to advise, with no indication of a new release window.The Division 2, Ubisoft's entirely non-political game set in DC about the fall of the US government, and where the devs are send