Gameenginestart Podcast

The last show before the holiday season, and the even more important GOTY season! Oh god we have to do that don't we?! We Played... Euan finishes Hitman 2 and fails to talk about what The Hex actually is. It's cool though.Calum becomes the mobile general in Command and Conquer: Rivals and ganks the mid lane in Artifact. That sounds like a joke, that's a thing you can actually do in that card game. In The News... The Game Awards and the Kinda Funny Games Showcase both happened while we were away, with a long list of announcements and trailersEpic Games is the first company to make moves in direct competition to Steam, by launching their own digital PC store with a bunch of exclusives.With the demise of the Steam Link hardware, Valve have released a version of the Steam Link software designed to run on a Raspberry PiAlongside Fallout 76 apparently being a poor quality game, the $200 collectors edition also shipped with a poor quality bag when a nice canvas one was promised. This became A THING.2 Milly has offic

Winter rolls in and games slow down. I'm trying to distract from the fact there is more Destiny talk this show (although this time Calum gets involved). We Played... Euan engages the virtual hyperdrives in From Other Suns and throws many objects in Hitman 2Calum caved to sale pressure and played Destiny 2: Forsaken. He's not proud of himself In The News... The beta for Valve's digital card game Artifact went live at the weekend, and the monetisation structure of the game seems to be surprising people coming from Hearthstone or have never played paper MTGSony have announced they will not be present at E3 2019, and becoming the first "headline" company to pull out of the show altogether.Three of the four DLC packs coming for Final Fantasy XV have been cancelled. The one remaining DLC will be out in March next year.The Spyro remaster released last week has been received well, except for the fact that it has no subtitles. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Ho

I was going to make cowboy jokes here but it seems too obvious somehow...  We Played... Euan finished Return of the Obra Dinn, and has some things to say about the endingCalum gets some funky beats in Lethal League Blaze and talks (again)) about the limited time "raid" in Monster Hunter WorldWe both adopt the outlaw life with Red Dead Redemption 2 In The News... Hellgate: London is back? Apparently?Blizzcon happened, and brought with it a flurry of announcements, such as...a new Overwatch characterfree copies of base Destiny 2 for everyonea remaster of Warcraft 3a mobile version of Diablo that has caused some real manbaby-esque reactions from some corners of the internet. 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

Getting into late October, imagine there are cobwebs and bats and skeletons and what not around. They might be important, but not more than video games. We Played... Euan (for whatever reason) has a "party" with Super Mario Party and investigates many deaths on an ancient ship in Return of the Obra DinnCalum runs a fantasy shop...shoppe?...shop in Moonligher and screams at the top of his voice in Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise In The News... The conversation around working conditions in Rockstar Games studios has once again bubbled up after some choice quotes taken from an interview with one of the Housers.Microsoft has publically announced their game streaming service, Project xCloud, with a limited beta starting soon.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

I want to say there's no Destiny talk, but that's a lie. There's a lot MORE chat about PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING THOUGH. THAT'S BETTER RIGHT?!?! We Played... Euan started a new chapter in Life is Strange 2 and replays an old favorite in TransistorCalum becomes BEST FRIENDS with the upper echelons of wrestling talent in Fire Pro Wrestling World, and commands an army of surprisingly charming orcs in Shadow of War  In The News... The closure of Telltale Games has sent ripples through the industry, with most of the staff being laid-off with no warning, no severance and a weeks worth of medical insurance.The creatives behind the Zero Escape and Danganronpa series have formed a new studio and announced their first new game, Death March Club. Calum is happy.The rumbles are getting louder that the much requested PSN name change is coming.October has a little unexpected surprise for XCOM 2 fans (like me), with some free DLC remastering stuff from the original XCOM as well as some stand alone missions that bridge the gap

I tried to stop him. I really did. Euan talks about Destiny some more... We Played... Yea Euan played Destiny 2 : Forsaken or something. He also managed a cyberpunk anti-terrorist unit in Frozen Synapse 2We both play Marvel's Spiderman, and I can't think of a non-cliche post joke so i'll just say we played it and it's amazing. In The News... Nintendo hit play on a new Direct, and had some cool announcements, as well as some top shelf Animal Crossing trolling.The developers of Yakuza have announced a new game in a similar mould but with an investigation and courtroom drama angle. Steam have finally done what they said they would, and started to approve fully uncensored adult games.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

When a free lunch is at stake, the brothers try (and fail) to go as fast as possible on this podcast We Played... Euan sees the latest teenage anime war simulator in the Valkyria Chronicles 4 Demo, sees the future of a past great with Two Point Hospital and and makes a HORRIBLE MISTAKE by choosing to play more Destiny 2.Calum finally "gets" Monster Hunter World, sees another class of murderous high school kids in Danganropa 2:Goodbye Despair and finds a new time sink in Graveyard Keeper . In The News... Just when you thought that the phenomenon that is Fortnite couldn't get stranger, people are mobbing electronics stores and loading it on demo Samsungs, just to get a skin.Shenmue III has a date, after multiple delays. It's almost exactly a year away.Supermassive Games, the devs behind Until Dawn, have announced their new project. It's a series of independent horror titles that they are calling The Dark Pictures Anthology.Hitman 2 is getting all of the maps from the first game, updated to use the new mechanics

Euan wanted to be in a cat cafe. Instead he recorded a podcast. This is his story. On this episode... Intermission Music... Stardust Speedway Zone (Act 2) - Tee Lopes, Naofumi Hataya - Sonic Mania (Original Soundtrack) [Selected Edition] iTunes | Amazon MP3 | Google Play We Played... Calum explores the new wold of killing dinosaurs in Monster Hunter World, and then goes way back to Planescape:Torment Euan experiences the best game of last year in a new way in Hellblade VR, and runs a cyberpunk bar in The Red Strings Club ...and more! In News... IGN had a helluva week, dealing with an editor who was caught plagiarising parts of a review from a YouTube channel, and as it turns out has been at this for quite a while... Discord looks like the latest player in the digital game store race. The UI in NeiR: Automata was one of the (few) bits Euan liked, and the designer wrote a great little blog post on it's origin. The Switch port of The World Ends With You finally has a date, October 12th Someone mo

We're experimenting with recording times this week. Does it work? Who knows, but there are still video games. On this episode... Intermission Music... Sam's Hunting Trip - Jeff Russo - What Remains of Edith Finch Original Score iTunes | Amazon | Steam (DLC) We Played... Euan plays the latest chapter of RPG/Adventure mash up The Council. Calum continues the stories of Octopath Traveller, and takes a look at uniquely styled 4x game Endless Legend. We both go back  to No Man's Sky, for the NEXT update, in hopes that it breathes life into it's incredibly rocky launch. ...and more! In News... Epic are bypassing the Google Play store for the Android release of Fortnite, and it feels like a really bad idea for consumers. GameEngineStart's Game of the Year 2017 has a VR version out now, and it looks like it needs a pretty hefty machine to run it. People are "removing" pieces of armour, in solidarity with a beloved character that was killed in the latest expansion. DOTA 2 players did some math and foun

It looks like Calum is going to talk about Bravely Default again this episode but trust me it doesn't happen. On this episode... Intermission Music... A Settlement in the Red Bluffs - Yasunori Nishiki - OCTOPATH TRAVELER Original Soundtrack Amazon | iTunes We Played... Euan has joined Calum in playing Hollow Knight, as well as returning to Destiny 2 and Shenzen I/O Calum finishes Danganronpa with much acclaim, and tries new JRPG Octopath Traveller ...and more! In News... More DLC characters are coming to Dragonball FighterZ, and they are... Goku and Vegeta? It's 2018, and there is a Metal Gear Solid 5 patch coming? F2P 3rd person shooter Raiders of the Broken Planet is being relaunched as Spacelords, a ... 3rd person F2p shooter? ... 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 recovers from the horrors of last week, but we are all still dying in the heat. Even video games are harder to play. On this episode... Intermission Music... What Lies Beneath - Jesse Harlin - Yoku's Island Express (Original Video Game Soundtrack) Amazon | Steam DLC | Apple Music We Played... Euan finishes pinball-vania Yoku's Island Express and sees the future of Life is Strange in The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit Calum betrays his better judgment and tries a japanese visual novel in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc ...and more! In News... Areanet, developers of Guild Wars 2, have fired two of their developers for what they perceived as tweets attacking the games community. The content of the messages aside, the company not standing behind their devs sets a very dangerous precedent for public facing developers. Sony are being called out on their practices of not allowing full cross platform play with other systems, starting with Minecraft, now with Fortnite, and in the future with Fall

Short one this week as Euan's own body fights against the tyranny of grass in the air. On this episode... We Played... Calum continues his journeys in Pillars of Eternity 2, and creates a character in Path of Exile so good even the server can't keep up with him! He also explores a very different world in Hollow Knight, now on switch. Euan enters VR stealth robot land in Budget Cuts and explores a pinball-based landscape in Yoku's Island Express In News... THERE IS NO NEWS! Due to the previously mentioned battlefield that is Euan's innards. 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

In lieu of an actual podcast this week, the brothers talk about E3. Predictions, suggestions, wild SSX based theories abound ahead of the best weekend on the gaming calendar. On this episode... We run through all of the press conferences and talk about what we know, what we think we know, and the fact that another year will probably go by without a Gitaroo Man HD Remaster. 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 100% European on this show. All the best chats about Eurovision, royal weddings...tea...other things... On this episode... Intermission Music... Machine Learning - Fingerspit - The Red Strings Club Original Soundtrack Bandcamp We Played... Calum continues the journey of The Watcher in Pillars of Eternity 2:Deadfire, and begins a long, intimidating journey into why Rainbow 6: Siege is so damn popular Euan uses totally not lighsabers to hit to the beat in Beat Saber, as well as a duo of realistic VR shooters with Pavlov VR and Onward In News... Rage 2 was not the game anyone expected to be talking about, but it's coming. Treyarch had their big BLOPS4 announcement event, and the two rumours of "no single player campaign" and "battle royale" are both 100% confirmed There is a new Halo coming, and it's an arcade machine? Nintendo put out pricing and extra details around their online service that you will need to buy to play the three multiplayer games that exist on Switch. ...and more! Intro M

Our hands smell like cardboard (not a euphemism) but there is a podcast to record! Although there's also this motorbike to build... On this episode... Intermission Music... Vagrant Song (Deep South) - Ryan Ike - Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Original Game Soundtrack) Bandcamp We Played... Euan continues his recent discovery of the long running series with Yakuza 6 and tries David Cage's Detroit: Become Human's Demo We both punch cardboard to make glorious machines with Nintendo Labo and call for boy in God of War In News... Quantic Dream is suing Le Monde and Mediapart, well respected French news outlets, for reports around the poor working conditions at the studio. Also, the way that Kotaku found this out was not exactly typical... Amongst a collection of fixes and tweaks, Maxis have made the forward thinking move to rename the "Insane" trait to "Erratic". Firewatch developers Campo Santo have been acquired by Valve Epic managed to change the player usage of shotguns in Fortnite purely by cha

Calum returns from an intravenous injection straight from slam town. God, I hate that I typed that. On this episode... Intermission Music... Closer - Zamilska - Ruiner OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan continues AC: Origins, regresses to early PC years with The Riddle of Master Lu, and discovers a hidden gem in Ruiner Calum also goes back to his origins with Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, and brings unity to the fantasy world of Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom. Oh, he also played Sonic Forces. Yeah I know... In News... Digital Extremes, developers of Warframe, decided to pull a microtransaction from the game because a player used it too much. Digital CCG Shadowverse has taken some flak for stealing art from Magic: The Gathering A new challenger has approached the Smash Bros. Melee EVO tournament, namely Arc System Works' President Minoru Kidooka Just to close the loop on the Star Wars Battlefront 2 story, their latest update has unlocked all characters, and moved the paid currency to purchasing

This is it, the finale! It all comes down to this. Let's all sit together and create an arbitrary list of the 5 best games of the year, and crown a winner.

You know it's going to be a good discussion when Calum cracks his knuckles as it starts. As well as talking about some real bad games, we look at the most important news of the year, and the best bit of in-game thespianism. That's a word right?

Euan feels very old because he doesn't understand the kids and their Fortnites. On this episode... Intermission Music... Aribeth de Tylmarande - BioWare - Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition Soundtrack GoG (with game) We Played... Euan gets dinner to go with PUBG Mobile and tries again to see if Star Citizen is a video game yet (answer: NAH) Calum kills many many rats in Warhammer: Vermintide 2 We talk about strange Dickensian adventure game The Council and escape the big house in A Way Out ...and more! In News... .. we don't have any... cause our news tracker died...sorry... ...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

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