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Euan is in a new studio and Calum didn't help him get there! Just another day in brotherly comradery. On this episode... Intermission Music... Lone Star - Jim Guthrie - Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies Bandcamp We Played... Euan played the new Overwatch: Uprising mode, and enjoyed destroying many robots. Calum is still playing Persona 5 but was minorly distracted by the funky grooves of Rhythm Paradise Megamix We both attended Games are for Everyone: Vol.V, where we tried a whole bunch of cool stuff, including: Ola De La Vida Spacewave 2079 Nidhogg 2 Anatomy Vaccination In News... If you play ranked DOTA 2, you will need to add a valid phone number to your account to keep playing, in an effort to cut back on people "smurfing" There's some DLC out for NeiR: Automata, and lets you fulfil your dreams of fighting the CEOs of Square Enix and PlatinumGames in an arena. Sega continue to tease a PC release of Vanquish. Here's hoping. Nintendo have stopped production of t

You'll never see it comiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!!! On this episode... Intermission Music... Payload - Rémi Gallego - Hacknet Labyrinths Official Soundtrack Steam (DLC) | GOG (DLC) We Played... Euan dons his mirror shades once again for Hacknet: Labyrinths DLC. Drawn to Death is one of the most unsuccesful games that Euan has ever played. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is played by lovers...in an only mildly dangerous...time... Calum is obsessed with Persona 5 with good reason! In News... Bioware have announced that Mass Effect: Andromeda will be fixed and improved over the coming months. We discuss the opinion that EA are now selling a £50 Early Access game Microsoft are opening the "Minecraft Marketplace" to sell content for the game, while sweeping the hugely more modifiable Java original, with a wealth of free content, under a rug. ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting

In space, apparently everyone can hear you lipsync badly and animate poorly. On this episode... Intermission Music... Under Construction - Adrian Talens - Poly Bridge Original Soundtrack Bandcamp We Talked About... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjWWuUDtSaE We Played... Calum has some THINGS TO SAY about Mass Effect: Andromeda The new Furi boss is a tricky one. Tearaway Unfolded is one of March's PlayStation Plus games, and is much better than Euan expected. Euan has seen the finale of Yakuza 0, and will be going back in to really make the most of his cabaret club business Snipperclips is probably the other game you should get for your new Nintendo Switch In News... Harmonix is partnering with Hasbro to make a card game..thing? PlayStation Now is introducing PS4 games soon. Destiny 2 was leaked and then confirmed, we will see what it looks like in September. David Jaffe's new title, Drawn to Death, is arriving on April 4th, and PlayStation Plus people will get it for free Turns out that e

It's a relentless few months in games, and it's not slowing down. Let's get into it. On this episode... Intermission Music... Those Who Dwell In The Shadows - Garoad - VA​-​11 HALL​-​A - Second Round Bandcamp We Played... Horizon: Zero Dawn is finally out, and we both get to grips with hunting big animal robots. Euan got to hold a Switch for 15 minutes, so naturally he has the authority to judge it. We got to mess around with helicopters in the Ghost Recon: Wildlands Open Beta. We are equally as bad at driving things that fly. Calum is back on the CRPG train with Torment: Tides of Numenera, and it's pretty hardcore. In News... People are starting to answer the questions that Nintendo haven't been answering before the Switch launch. Most of the time there has been a reason for that. EA Sports head honcho Peter Moore is leaving games to go be the CEO of Liverpool FC. Yes, the actual football club. Microsoft are bringing a Netflix style games subscription service to Xbox One, coming this spring G

We are the champions. Champions. On this episode... Intermission Music... DUEL!! - Noriyasu Agematsu - FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS Original Soundtrack iTunes | Amazon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIfAkOBMf5A We Played... Euan has put a lot of time into Yakuza 0, and is amazed at the scope of the things it keeps throwing at him Calum has a Nintendo mobile game journey with Fire Emblem: Heroes & FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS, and is not happy with the translations of those franchises The For Honour Open Beta ran over the weekend, and it turns out that throwing around sharp hunks of metal is really difficult. Calum finally gets into Final Fantasy XV, and thinks it's the best stag do he has been part of. Disgaea 5 is real weird guys. In News... Subset Games, developers of FTL, have a new game in the works, and it looks like Advance Wars with Kaiju. Valve is killing off Steam Greenlight and replacing it with a system that requires a recoupable fee to be listed. South Park: The Fractured But Whol

Calum and Euan end their quest for the Game of the Year broken, beaten and changed men. Not really. They did decided the Biggest News, Best Visuals, Best Soundtrack and finally, the Game of the Year 2016.

Euan and Calum begin their end of year task for 2016. Deciding the best things in video games for the year. In the first part of our deliberations, the brothers discuss the Best Game not in 2016 for the year, the Most Disappointing game, the Smaller Game of the Year, the Best Original Song, and the Best Moment in video games of 2016.

It's 2017 y'all, so lets talk about the Nintendo Switch and ... well ... Destiny... On this episode... Intermission Music... Sojourner's Truth - Lyndon Holland - Virginia OST Steam (DLC) | PS4 (DLC) We Played... Since he picked up a PlayStation 4, Calum finally gets to experience Uncharted 4, and now understands the cries of people who much maligned Destiny at launch. Euan finally had a chance to get deep into Hitman, and is tremendously impressed Obduction has some of the best FMV use in a game in a while, especially since it's otherwise a glorious looking 3D adventure game The demo for NeiR: Automata appears to be pretty cool, but shows that Furi might have ruined this style of games for us. In News... The Nintendo Switch is out on March 3rd, £270, and while a lot of the presentation was positive, a lot of extra details surrounding it still seem unanswered or just plan bad. Mass Effect: Andromeda is coming March 21st Elite: Dangerous players have finally found aliens, and it's a terrifying exp

I don't think either of us expected to talk about Gilmore Girls on this podcast, but here we are. On this episode... Intermission Music... The Last of Us - Gustavo Santaolalla - The Last of Us OST Amazon | iTunes We Talked About... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7CKWnL3ek&t We Played... Euan is having some real technical issues with Infinite Warfare. Stories: The Path of Destinies might be one of the best surprises of the year Watch Dogs 2 continues to be one of the best open world games in a long time Calum finally played Furi, and is really really really into it. In News... The Playstation Experience happened and brought with it a metric crapton of announcements. Sony announced Project Field, a new hardware project designed for intelligent card based gaming Classic site favourite Oni almost had a sequel, and that pains us. Guillermo Del Toro explicitly saying "Fuck Konami" might be one of the best tweets of the year. We knew it was coming, but expect to see Starbucks promo Pokestops

As it turns out that being a grown-up just boils down to buying gloves and table decorations. Programming Note We had some audio issues at the start of recording this week, but stick with it, it all resolves in the first 5 minutes. On this episode... Intermission Music... We Move Like Wolves - Philter - The Campfire Tales Official Site | Amazon | iTunes We Played... Watch Dogs 2 is a much more exciting and joyful game than its much more dour predecessor. After not being able to talk about the Alpha, we get a chance to talk about Ubisoft's extreme sports game Steep and our impressions of the open Beta After a long silence, Hello Games dropped a pretty massive update for No Mans Sky, which Euan spent a few hours playing with We jump back into The Division after a bit of a hiatus to look at the pretty great Survival expansion Calum continues to explore the morally grey world of Tyranny In News... Persona 5 has been delayed out to April 4th. If you listen close you can hear Calum still screaming in ang

It seems unusual for us to be talking about big budget shooters, but here we are. Don't worry, there's some fantasy and dystopian future in there too. On this episode... Intermission Music... Pedestrians Crossing - Brenton Kossak, Blaine McGurty - Skullgirls Encore: Expanded Soundtrack Official Site | Amazon | iTunes We Played... A game with big stompy mechs is out, so it's surprising that Euan isn't as into Titanfall 2 as other people Resident CRPG editor Calum is really into being evil in Tyranny Dystopian Big-Brother simulator Orwell is a facinating game that is unlike anything else you will play this year Euan finally finished the solid and gorgeous Rise of the Tomb Raider As a big fan of Witcher 3, it's no surprise that Calum is into the two DLC packs. In News... Blizzcon happened, with a collection of mainly Overwatch news, with a touch of Diablo 3. Google's has a new target for their DeepMind machine learning system, Starcraft 2. More details on the next Division expansion are out there

I would do an impression of a spooky ghost here, but that would be a little cliche. How about "The Final Fantasy VII Remake will never come out!" as a Halloween spooky goof? On this episode... Intermission Music... Daedelus - Clouds - Nidhogg OST Steam (included with game) We Played... If your looking for something to pour hundreds of hours into, it seems like that Civilisation 6 is what you will be looking for. The sequel is coming very soon, so now is as good a time as any to revisit the impressive first Dishonoured game. Calum got in on the ground floor of the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game, and it seems like it is better than you would expect We are big fans of rhythm action games, but Thumper is at a whole new level of difficulty for the genre Euan attended Games are For Everyone Vol IV a few weeks ago, and saw some sights there In News... Nintendo has announced the NX, now known as the Switch, and we have some thoughts EA is continuing with their tone-deaf marketing campaign for Battlefie

Just breathe people, everything is going to be fine. Distract yourself with video games while 2016 works itself out. On this episode... Intermission Music... Jeremy Soule - Neverwinter Nights Main Theme - Neverwinter Nights OST GoG (included with Diamond Edition) We Played... Oxenfree is a stylish and at points genuinely creepy adventure game, who does teenage conversations right when it's not interrupting itself. The new game from Spacechem developer Zachtronics has hit early access. It's called Shenzhen I/O and if messing about with hardware programming is your thing, then you should check it out Being alone in space with an AI that you can actually text chat with makes Event[0] a really unique and effective storytelling mechanic Stardew Valley got a pretty big free update, and more content in that game can only be a good thing If you want to get into the mood for the sequel, Divinity: Original Sin is now even better now that it has had fixes and a whole lot of new voice work. In News... Amazon

Back to our normal schedule we have a collection of games to talk about that couldn't be more different. Also we laugh for 3 solid minutes at dumb YouTube videos. Something for everyone I feel. On this episode... Intermission Music... Ben Babbitt - This World is Not My Home - Kentucky Route Zero - Act IV Soundtrack Bandcamp | Steam (comes with Season Pass) Here are those videos we were laughing at... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpUVKP2i3So https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr9DM3St0vA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYM4WfyDvM We Played... Despite the terrible and borderline distasteful marketing, Euan discovers that the Battlefield 1 Open Beta seems pretty much exactly what you expect. The new Destiny expansion, Rise of Iron, doesn't give the game as much of a kick as it really needs to Virginia is a fantastic narrative experience that pulls off some adventurous design choices. Calum finished Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and is not happy about it. We both jumped back into Lost Planet 2, and still ma

Axes and magic just cant compete with hacking and robot arms. Apparently this is a controversial opinion. On this episode... Intermission Music... Tomoki Miyoshi - Frozen Highlights - I am Setsuna Official Soundtrack Collection: Winter's End Steam | Amazon We Played... Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is finally here, and we are really enjoying it. Euan finally gets his first VR experience, pilots awesome robots in Titanfall 2, and is very excited by the demo of the Fargo-esque Virginia. Calum continues with last weeks card games and JRPGs with Elder Scrolls: Legends and I am Setsuna, and serves his purpose as GameEngineStart MOBA editor by giving some opinions on Paragon In News... Konami have done the impossible and announced a new Metal Gear game, but it's probably not what your hoping for. At least it's not pachinko Allison Road is back, self funded by one of the developers on the original team. Playstation Now is available ... now ... on PC and Mac Don't be this guy and make grand claims on stuff y

It's here, and we can get out there into some procedural generated space and ... mine some stuff? On this episode... Intermission Music... 65daysofstatic - Supermoon - No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe Laced Records We Played... Euan plans some heists with programming in the unique Quadrilateral Cowboy, and gets some friends together to run a kitchen in Overcooked As resident card based editor, Calum tries out the Elder Scrolls: Legends beta, and sees what the Tokyo RPG Factory have been up to, with the old school I Am Setsuna. After not getting the skins we actually wanted in the Overwatch Summer Games, we finally get a chance to go out into space with No Man's Sky and share our thoughts on this hyped title In News... A number of outlets are reporting that Sony will be revealing the plan for Playstation NEO on September 7th Nordic Games have bought so many THQ properties they decided to just rename themselves THQ Nordic Look out for a Kickstarter in December this year for a Superhot ca

We are on the verge of the release of a number of games that feel like they have been in production forever, and they couldn't be more different. We are still taking bets on when the FFVII Remake will appear though... On this episode... Intermission Music... Waveshaper - Wisdom of Rage - Furi Original Soundtrack Bandcamp We Played... Turns out Euan is still not into MOBAs after trying out Paragon, and is conflicted about Kentucky Route Zero now that Act 4 has arrived Calum has his favourite MMO boss battle ever in Final Fantasy 14 and continues to be strangely drawn to The Technomancer Ana has arrived in Overwatch, and we both have our opinions. In News... Nintendo's stock took a roller-coaster ride since Pokemon GO came out, rising sharply when it broke big and then dropping hard when investors realised Nintendo only own a third of the company The 2TB version of the Xbox One S goes on sale on August 2nd for $399. The 500Gb and 1Tb versions are yet to have a date attached. Nintendo are producing t

We promise that there is only a little bit of Pokemon GO in this weeks episode. The rest of the internet is doing a great job of talking about it every 30 seconds. On this episode... Intermission Music... Carpenter Brut - Enraged - Furi Original Soundtrack Bandcamp We Played... Euan fights a stream of bosses to an incredible soundtrack in Furi, and hires some robots for his XCOM 2 squad Calum gets to Mars and gets into the B-Movie frenchness of The Technomancer We both play through the new game from Limbo developers Playdead, the beautiful and disturbing Inside. In News... Counter-Strike:GO gets it's latest dose of controversy with two prominent YouTubers promote a skin gambling website that they actually own. Deep Silver will be officially publishing Atlus games in Europe, including the anticipated Paersona 5. 2015's Evolve has been relaunched as a free-to-play game. Twitch had to write down official guidelines for emotes, covering such important topics as poop and butts. Sony is removing sup

With E3 over and done with, and a Steam sale on the horizon it's time to get back to the important task of playing some god damn games. Note - We talk very specifically about the ending of DOOM between 29:00 and 36:00, so beware of potential spoilers. We warn you just beforehand. On this episode... Intermission Music... nervous_testpilot - Triumph - Frozen Synapse: Original Soundtrack Bandcamp We Played... Not just content with spending obscene amounts of time with Overwatch, and scavenging scrap from a command line in Duskers, Euan attempted the Resident Evil 7 E3 demo and tried to improve his basketballship with NBA2k16. After finally finishing DOOM, and continuing to be impressed with The Division, Calum picked up Elder Scrolls Online to see if it can stand next to classics like Skyrim. In News... Tencent has bought a majority stake in Clash of Clans developer Supercell. Oculus have reversed their hardware lock once again allowing Vive users to play Oculus exclusive games. Blizzard are removing t

Summer is here, and brings with it sunny days, less excuses to stay in and play video games, and of course E3. Prepare yourselves. On this episode... Intermission Music... Weval - Rooftop Paradise - Half Moon EP Bandcamp | Soundcloud We Played... While not away on holiday, Euan tries out The Tomorrow Children Open Beta toiling away for the greater communist good. Calum took the bullet and saw the Warcraft movie, commanded an army in Total War: Warhammer, and caves in to buy Overwatch. In News... Various sources are reporting that there is to be a new slim XBox One this year, with a new more powerful version next year. Watch Dogs 2 is to be announced this Thursday, based on an official teaser. Volition Studios, of Saints Row fame, have announced their new game which appears to have a lot of similarities to the Saints games. No Mans Sky has been delayed to August 9th. Continuing what appears to be a trend, Ubisoft is reportedly making a movie with Jake Gyllenhaal based on The Division. Allison R