Gameenginestart Podcast

We continue with our Game of the Year discussions with two of our favourite categories. We have our first music category, Best Original Track, and one of the most fascinating chats about the Best Moment in 2017

It all starts here! We begin our much belated Game of the Year discussions with the first three categories, 2017's 20xx Game of the Year, Best Looking Game and Best VR Thing.

Internet returns to Calum, and so too does the show! On this episode... Intermission Music... Diggin It Baby - 2 Mello - Memories Of Tokyo​-​To: An Ode To Jet Set Radio Bandcamp We Played... Euan continues doing horrible things to simulated humans in Oxygen Not Included and tries communist Limbo-like Black: The Fall Calum finally gets his hands on Bayonetta 2 and spends a lot of time staring at Into the Breach We both don our big beards and bigger pickaxes in Deep Rock Galactic ...and more! In News... The insanely popular Fortnight Battle Royale is coming to mobile, with cross-platform progression and servers, with a pretty conspicuous Sony shaped hole. Metal Gear Survive seems to be a disappointing release, and now even more so since Konami has rolled out the micro-transactions. They aren't pretty. If you have an Amazon Prime account, you can pick up the PC version of the Devil May Cry HD collection for free, but it might be impossible to play if you have a high refresh rate monitor. DOTA 2 a

We all make mistakes. Some ethical, some in our choices in video games. You be the judge at who is worse. On this episode... Intermission Music... Madeline and Theo - Lena Raine - Celeste OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan plays The Fall: Part 2, the continuing tale of AIs, Robots and all those future ethical issues. Calum goes back to playing World of Warcraft... look he was bored OK... We both played some Warframe and flew around all crazy like the robot ninjas we are. ...and more! In News... A selection of Nintendo news with official movie announcements, Mario Kart coming to smartphones and a date for when you are going to have to start paying for Switch online The world finally triggered the hidden Metal Gear Solid V cut-scene that talks about how happy Diamond Dogs are that everyone has removed their nukes. Except they didn't. It was a bug. ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro

We're going to do it. We're going to ruin million of investment in crypto futures! Or we'll just talk about video games again. On this episode... Intermission Music... This World Is Not My Home - The Bedquilt Ramblers - Kentucky Route Zero Act VI Bandcamp We Played... Euan finished  Zelda:BotW in surprising fashion, plays the almost incomprehensible Angels Fall First, and assembles extra-terrestrial assembly lines in Oxygen Not Included We both play MGS1 styled Never Stop Sneakin' and the Metal Gear Survive Beta In News... Paragon is shutting down, despite never leaving beta, with the statement "there isn’t a clear path for us to grow Paragon into a MOBA that retains enough players to be sustainable". Someone is trying to actively encode the Trump presidency into a Civilisation VI civilisation, by actually talking to the community and voting on what should be there. ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) New

The crew are at it again. It being video games, and "dem boys" being the two idiots that host this show. I'm sorry. On this episode... Intermission Music... Spike in a Rail - Darren Korb - Bastion OST Amazon | Bandcamp | Apple Music We Played... Euan briefly talks about picture puzzle game Goroga and his historical time travel experience in CoD WWII + Zombies Calum very VERY quickly enters the King of Iron Fist in Tekken 7 (more later) and does some crimes and has many laughs in GTAV Online We went into the terrifying realm of VRChat, and left changed people. In News... Some enterprising conservationists have preserved 17 terabytes of data from the Miiverse and made it available to be searched online. The developers of Rebel Galaxy pitched a Star Wars space combat game to EA, and there is video evidence The gold rush continues, with F2P hero shooter announcing a Battle Royal mode, imaginatively named "Battlegrounds" Oxenfree developers Night School Studio have revealed details of their new game,

We welcome Euan back from his business overseas. Business guns are still smoking I assure you. On this episode... Intermission Music... Knife Fight - Alec Holowka - Night in the Woods Vol. 1: At The End Of Everything Bandcamp | Steam (DLC) We Played... Euan regales with tales from Japan, featuring  Japanese Arcades and got into some Switch games. He also talks about coming of age adventure game Night in the Woods Calum works through his back-log, starting with Neir:Automata. He is also SO FUCKING SAD ABOUT Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. In News... EA continue to try and claw back the PR nightmare that Star Wars: Battlefront II has become, with further changes to the progression. Sega have announced a new Valkyria Chronicles for all the home consoles. Marvel Heroes is shutting down, and taking the dev studio Gazillion with it. Here's a new instalment of "games have weird patch notes". There's a new Mega Man coming, and it looks like a direct callout to Mighty No. 9. ...and more! Intro Music -

We aren't trying to ignore our GoTY backlog. Honestly we aren't! On this episode... Intermission Music... New Heights in El Machino - El Huervo - SteamWorld Dig 2 OST Steam (DLC) | Bandcamp | GoG We Played... Euan talks about Life is Strange: Beyond the Storm Ep2 and all it's teen drama. He also continues his self imposed prison escape of trying to complete Neir: Automata. Calum played the bizarre Japanese console hunt Game Hidden by Mom 2, and restarted his road trip with the boys of Final Fantasy 15. He also started the sequel to Bravely Default, Bravely Second but lets not talk about that... In News... Star Wars: Battlefront II went live for EA Access, and people are not happy about the amount of time it would take to grind out enough currency to unlock everything. Actually "not happy" is a massive understatement. Blizzcon happened, with a few interesting announcements including official WoW Classic servers and some better features for competitive Overwatch streaming. EA has bought Respawn for $4

Never disrupt a man during his sensory deprivation deep thought session. You never know the result. On this episode... Intermission Music... Title Theme - monomer - The Mummy Demastered (Original Video Game Soundtrack) Amazon UK | iTunes UK We Played... Euan played the new Tom Francis game Heat Signature, and enjoys exploding people out into the cold vacuum of space We talk at great length (spoiler-free) about Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Honestly we talk a lot about everything in this game. It's very good. In News... Sony had their Media Showcase at Paris Games Week, and there was some very cool looking stuff on show, as well as some worrying trailer trends. After the loot crate complaints from a few recent titles,  EA have scaled back the plans for their Battlefront II implementation of them. Activision has been awarded a slimy sounding patent, describing how to influence multiplayer matchmaking in a way to get people to spend more money on blind boxes. Swery's new White Owls studio are sel

You say I'm just a punk. And useless junk. Game theme lyrics of the year... On this episode... Intermission Music... Carnival Kerfuffle - Kristofer Maddigan - Cuphead - Original Soundtrack Bandcamp | Steam (DLC) We Played... Euan continues to look to the past with the SNES Classic, and revisiting Wolfenstein: The New Order in preparation for the sequel later this year. Calum chills out in the mud in Steamworld Dig 2, then is infuriated in the best possible way by Cuphead Also Dandy Dungeon is a thing.....yea You Should Watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQknBJo4aBQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_bdRDjElSI&t=1s In News... EA are closing down Visceral Games, and moving their much awaited Star Wars game to a new studio to be entirely reworked. You can hear Calum screaming in pain from here. That insane Chinese Overwatch clone we talked about before is getting sued from Blizzard China. Mike Laidlaw, BioWare creative director who has been involved in both Mass Effect and Dragon Age, is lea

I love video games, really I do. But there's a lot right now, can we just stop for a month? On this episode... Intermission Music... Surviving Exile - Darren Korb - Pyre OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan goes back to Kamurocho with Yakuza Kiwami, wishes pixels were edible in Cook, Serve, Delicious 2, and has a strange experience in Lone Echo Calum does his job and plays new CRPG Divinity Original Sin 2 In News... Nintendo are cracking down on live streaming their games on YouTube, unless you are not a member of their Partner Program, then it's OK? Atlus went after a PS3 emulator and it's developers, trying to shut down their site and Patreon, simply cause they were showing footage of Persona 5 on it. Those previously passive aliens that were found in Elite: Dangerous? Their blowing pilots out of the sky now. Swery's new game will have an option to change what his mystery towns occupants will turn into at night. Cats or dogs, your choice. ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (inco

It's all Destiny all the time round these parts. Now go away, I have rep to grind On this episode... Intermission Music... Still Alive - Lisa Miskovsky - Still Alive (The Theme From Mirror's Edge) [The Remixes] Amazon MP3 We Played... Euan talks about sci-fi horror game Observer, a game which is distinctly not Destiny 2 Calum briefly expands on the evolution of Absolver and a small taste of Divinity Original Sin 2 before a deeper dive on the next show. Both of these games are also not Destiny 2 Believe it or not, we both played a LOT of Destiny 2 and think it's pretty great. In News... Blizzard are going to open their own esports arena in LA, to hold their own events for Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and World of Warcraft. Epic switched on PS4 and XBox One cross play by accident for Fortnite, and then promptly switched it off. Maybe it's not as difficult as people are claiming? The Switch will be the first console to both have Mario and the Doomslayer on it, when Doom and Wolfenstein

Euan's too exhausted to do anything except sit in a room with a microphone and talk about video games. Wait, that's every two weeks here. Oh well, thing's never change. On this episode... Intermission Music... Red Flag - Dan le Sac - Subsurface Circular OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan played a whole bunch of things with his week off. Finishing Horizon:Zero Dawn, trying a lot of new VR Stuff, starting a new season of Life is Strange:Before the Storm. He, however, spent most of his time fighting off alien kidnapping in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. Calum looks to his past with Sonic Mania, and investigates new martial arts RPG Absolver You Should Watch... https://youtu.be/U4FNBMZsqrY In News... The new trailer for Swery's new crowdfunded title The Good Life shows that even in a happy country town, there is still time for drinKING. Bethesda have rolled out the beta of their Creation Club, providing paid mods for Fallout 4. They launched with horse armour. Not kidding. Brink suddenly appeared on Steam as a

Another week and the show actually manages to stay on track talking about videogames. I'm just as shocked as you are. On this episode... Intermission Music... Strange Voyage - Darren Korb - Pyre: Original Soundtrack Steam (DLC) | Bandcamp | Supergiant Store We Played... Hellblade:Senua's Sacrifice was released and took us by surprise at how intense and dark a depiction of psychosis a character action game can have. Euan looks at the new No Mans Sky patch, which is making real efforts to build it as a worth while product, and Subsurface Circular, a robot visual novel. In News... Valve have announced a new game! I mean it sounds like a Hearthstone-like, but still! Spelunky developer Derek Yu is joining with a selection of other indie devs to release UFO 50, a collection of 16-bit themed games. Planet Coaster developers Frontier are making a Jurassic World management game. Can't wait to build my park and then just delete the walls of the T-Rex enclosure. THQ Nordic has their first new game leaked, Bi

Get in lane and eat some trees, it's podcast time. On this episode... Intermission Music... MainTheme - Epic Games - RoboRecall OST Soundcloud (Free Download) We Played... Tacoma, the new sci-fi narrative experience from Fullbright finally released last week. We share our thoughts on this new game by the Gone Home developers Fantasy rugby/basketball/visual novel Pyre was released. If that sounds like a strange mix, we can tell you it is, but a very enjoyable one. Calum played with Euan's new VR headset, causing Euan to try new stuff like Dead and Buried and I Expect You To Die The International has begun and we give you all the news on the hot strats and team comps with our DOTA expert, Euan*. (*his expertise may be entirely fictional) In News... Looks like that Pokemon Go Fest didn't go very well, huh? Not content with just selling Louis Vuitton, FFXIII characters Lightning and co. are now selling...Nissans? PUBG is getting first person only servers, and the concept of that terrifies me to my v

Euan comes out of the virtual world long enough to talk to all of us ABOUT the virtual world. Virtual insanity! On this episode... Intermission Music... Mick Gordon - Alex Theme - Prey Original Game Soundtrack Amazon MP3 | iTunes We Played... Euan finally gave into his desires and bought a VR headset. He talked at length about his experiences with Job Simulator, Rec Room, Super Hot, Echo Arena and Robo Recall. Calum talks more about FF14:Stormblood, and shares his experiences at the Resonate convention. 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 Steam sale brought a beaming bounty of software to the brothers. On this episode... Intermission Music... Porth Wen - Geoff Hart-Jones - The Final Station OST Steam DLC We Played... Euan loses all his night time to Anno 2070 , is sad that NeiR: Automata is not as good as he expected initially, and finds That's You is just....bad Calum goes to the Final Fantasy far east in FF14: Stormblood, and spends a confusing and chilled out experience in Elite: Dangerous In News... Developers of the Baldurs Gate: Enhanced Editon have decided to do the same treatment to Icewind Dale II, but have found that noone can find the source code. In a related note, Kotaku has a great read on the struggles of a company trying to bring No One Lives Forever to modern digital storefronts. After being on sale for a single day, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was the biggest selling game on PSN, beating out Tekken 7 and the remaster of CoD: Modern Warfare. After only 8 months of life, Communist-esque F2P game The Tomorrow

We are back from E3 and we forgot how all of this podcasting business works. On this episode... Intermission Music... Let it die -Subete wa isutori game- - PAN - Goo Goo Goo Amazon MP3 We Played... Euan goes Steam sale crazy and tries the disappointing Space Hulk: Deathwing and the interesting The Final Station. He also plays Lego City: Undercover cause he wants to! Totally not because he is being made to by the sites official Lego editor... Calum finally finishes Persona 5, so you don't have to hear him talk about it anymore, and becomes enamored with Prey Jazzpunk: Flavour Nexus DLC also came out. It's very good. We love Jazzpunk. In News... Nintendo are trying again with the SNES Classic, dropping on 29th September for £79.99 One of the former developers of Scribblenauts went to Twitter to give some background of how that game was put together, and it sounds like a nightmare. IO Interactive are now an independent studio, and have full control of the Hitman licence. It looks like Microsoft are

Euan feels his future loom over him and Calum laughs at the fact the passage of time affects his brother first! On this episode... Intermission Music... Everything Is Going to Be Okay - Mick Gordon - Prey OST Amazon MP3 | iTunes | Google Play We Played... Calum talks more about Persona 5... see the pattern yet? Euan gets more into Prey and tries to explain the turn based strategy All Walls Must Fall, the most unexpected game to have a musical influence. In News... Destiny 2 got its big gameplay unveiling, but there are still more key questions that have not been answered. Far Cry 5 is coming, and a combination of setting and chilling trailers makes it suddenly more interesting. In a frankly unbelievable move, Square Enix is splitting with Hitman developers IO Interactive. Did you like Parappa and Gitaroo Man? You should probably look at this Kickstarter from the developers of those games There's another Life is Strange game coming, and Euan can't wait. You finally get to create and play as you

One year further on life's great journey, and Calum is still just playing Persona games. Some things never change. On this episode... Intermission Music... Edith's Theme - Jeff Russo - What Remains of Edith Finch OST Steam (DLC) We Played... Euan goes on some sort of puzzle trip with GNOG and explores the unnerving sci-fi world of Prey Calum continues on his Persona 5 voyage, and looks at the changes to Heroes of the Storm in the latest update. What Remains of Edith Finch captures our minds with it's very special brand of storytelling. In News... Julian Gollop of XCOM fame is back with a new strategy game, Phoenix Point, now crowdfunding on Fig Bethesda have requested that indie PC game Prey for the Gods change their name, as it violates their trademark on Prey. This is more complicated situation than it sounds. The last thing DOTA 2 needed was a Co-op Campaign, but it looks like it's getting it? ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee -