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This is the last week of games coming out for a while, so we're going to spend it letting Calum talk about Dragon's Dogma 2.We Played..Euan plays tarot based story telling game The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood and slasher inspired puzzle narrative game Killer FrequencyCalum talks all things Dragons Dogma 2. That's all.Timestamps00:06:20 - The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood00:11:31 - Killer Frequency00:16:32 - Dragon’s Dogma 200:41:58 - Minor Dragon’s Dogma 2 Quest Spoilers00:53:29 - News - Apex Hack00:59:46 - News - Kotaku Pivot01:03:42 - News - GW3?01:09:04 - Upcoming & Wrap Up01:09:36 - Secret News - Destiny 2 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 brief hospital visit, we're back again with some actual video games.Intermission MusicThe Woods - Wilbert Roget, II - Pacific Drive: Official Game SoundtrackSteam | Epic Games StoreWe Played...Euan rumbles around a messed up Pacific North-West in Pacific Drive, an early GOTY candidate.Calum is in the early stages of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, and has a bunch of things he can't talk about.We both have put a bunch of time into Helldivers, and we talk about how it might be the first game in a long time to do live service right.Timestamps00:02:05 - Hospital Chat00:19:40 - Helldivers 2 & Live Service00:40:00 - Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth00:47:20 - Destiny 2 Hoverboards00:52:26 - Music Break00:54:20 - Pacific Drive and its save system.01:20:45 - News - Akira Toyama passed away at 68, and leaves behind a legacy that touched a lot of people01:22:25 - News - The remaster of the first three Tomb Raider games had some strange inconsistencies between the Steam and EGS versions01:24:45 - News - Rooster Teeth s

No new games to talk about this week, so instead we talk about the Xbox Business Update and its ramifications on the gaming space 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 back! After a holiday/sickness break, we return to talking about video games.Spoiler WarningWe spoil some of the Tekken 8 story mode in this episode (1:00:00 -> 1:07:17). Timestamps are below if you want to avoid it.We Played...Euan talks life after Yakuza in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and is saddened once again by Konami's decisions in Silent Hill: A Short MessageCalum low parries his own anxiety to try and learn what the fuck Tekken 8 is all about.Timestamps00:14:08 - Lethal Company00:18:58 - Max Payne 300:23:14 - Yakuza00:44:29 - Tekken 801:00:00 - Tekken 8: Spoilers01:07:17 - Tekken 8: Spoilers End01:15:43 - Silent Hill: TSM01:36:53 - Upcoming Games & HousekeepingIntro 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 may have finally hit the end of the year for video games, but jesus there is still so much to play.We Played...Euan talks about the co-op perspective of Baldur's Gate 3, and the atrocity that is Silent Hill: Ascension.Calum briefly discusses the Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Playtest, more to follow in December when the game releases in full.We both dicuss our continuing amazement at Alan Wake 2Timestamps00:01:17 - Black Friday & Buying a Laptop in 202300:10:57 - Alan Wake 200:18:25 - Baldur's Gate 300:42:56 - Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Playtest00:51:17 - Silent Hill: Ascension01:15:29 - News - Hades is coming to mobile via Netflix01:16:47 - News - The internet has bullied Rockstar enough where they are showing the first trailer for GTA6 in December01:18:06 - News - The Glory Society, the studio from the developers of Night in the Woods, is closing due to members serious health issues.01:19:48 - News - We talk at length about the direction that different parts of the industry are taking with liv

BOO! It's so spooky. It's a spooky show for the spooky day. MusicIntermission MusicThe Crystal Bot - Arnaud Roy - Endless Dungeon (Original Game Soundtrack)BandcampWe Played...We both discuss the conversion of old nanomachines to the nanomachines running on current gen platforms in Metal Gear Solid Collection Vol 1, continuing adventures in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and multi-genre cross-over a-thon, Endless DungeonEuan dicusses his brief beginnings with Alan Wake 2, expect more to comeTimestamps00:09:59 - Metal Gear Solid Collection Vol 100:42:51 - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty00:46:31 - Endless Dungeon00:55:08 - Music Break00:56:31 - Steam Demo Fest00:59:20 - Alan Wake 201:19:57 - The International01:24:46 - News - EA FC, previously FIFA, has had a patch that stopped players from running with the ball in their hands. Kind of a key feature of the sport.01:26:20 - News - Disney Dreamlight Valley will no longer be free to play when it leaves Early Access in December.01:30:59 - Upcoming & Wrap UpInt

A couple of weeks has given the chance to catch up on some current video games, so now we can talk about it!Intermission MusicLast Light - Borislav Slavov - Baldur’s Gate 3: Original SoundtrackSteamWe Played...Euan talks eat theivery simulator Pizza Possum and noir hell-em-up El Paso, ElsewhereCalum talks about his journey into custom fight game controllers and, appropriately, Mortal Kombat 1We both discuss recent changes to Cyberpunk 2077 and its new DLC Phantom LibertyTimestamps00:06:01 - Pizza Possum00:09:40 - El Paso, Elsewhere00:11:01 - Mortal Kombat 100:22:31 - Calum's Artisan Leverless Controller00:37:57 - Purchasing from Small Companies00:49:10 - Music Break00:52:16 - Phantom Liberty01:13:13 - News - Unity have walked back some of their insane "installation fee", but not completely01:15:42 - News - Sega cancelled their upcoming PvPvE game Hyenas, with some reporting showing the troubles the game had during development01:18:10 - News - Epic are cutting 870 jobs, because they have been "spending way mor

It's a space heavy episode. Exploration in space Disneyland, the end of the world from a space rock, and changes to pricing structures that should be launched into space.Intermission MusicReunion - Reunion (Ft. Brigitte Naggar) - Goodbye Volcano High (Original Game Soundtrack)BandcampWe Played...Euan plays music while facing the end of the world in Goodbye Volcano High, updates on limited Armoured Core 6 progress and finds Sonic in the strangest places in the Hyenas Closed Beta.We both have put some time into Starfield, and talk about how it treats the scale of space, and the issues it causes itself issues because it's trying so hard to be a Bethesda game.Timestamps00:02:31 - Armoured Core 600:08:54 - Hyenas Closed Beta00:13:24 - Goodbye Volcano High00:18:51 - Starfield00:47:30 - Music Break00:48:53 - News - Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 is back under a new studio, and with a different direction00:51:30 - News - Everyone knows that Baldur's Gate 3 is a horny game, but it might have been too horny becau

These games. They never end. There's more on the way too. I'm so tired.Intermission MusicDA PEOPLE - Hideki Naganuma - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk SoundtrackWe Played...Euan plays puzzle slasher Homebody, narrative explorer The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales and hot mech game of the moment Armored Core 6We both talk about the absolute coolest game on the planet Bombrush CyberfunkTimestamps00:00:57 - Baldur's Gate 300:13:41 - Techtonica00:14:41 - The Bookwalker00:17:36 - Homebody00:19:19 - Homebody Spoilers00:20:55 - Armoured Core 600:46:57 - Music Break00:49:11 - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk01:01:18 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 seems to be coming to XBox before the end of the year after reaching an "agreement" with Microsoft01:03:49 - News - ABK have turned their sights back on UK regulators by giving cloud streaming rights to their games to... Ubisoft?01:09:30 - News - Keith David is picking up the role of Zavala in Destiny 2 after the loss of Lance Reddick, and Calum fills in what happened on the Final Shape stream.01:20:30 - News

What? Huh? Oh right you're here. Yes, there's a podcast, Calum talks about Baldur's Gate 3. Listen to it, or don't. I'm going back to playing Baldur's Gate 3.We Played...Baldur's Gate 3. Yep that's it. It's an hour of Baldur chat.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

Going to be honest, Calum writes these and he's just killing time till Baldur's Gate 3. So, yea, video games, check them out.MusicIntermission MusicNo Exit - scntfc - Oxenfree II: Lost Signals OSTBandcampWe Played...Euan experiences Sludge Life 2 and is sadly disapointed by the return of confused teens in Oxenfree IICalum explores the deep blue for tasty fish in Dave the DiverTimestamps0:04:13 - Sludge Life 20:09:36 - Oxenfree II0:26:14 - Dave The Diver0:38:41 - Music Break0:39:43 - Exoprimal0:51:10 - News - Major Nelson himself Larry Hryb is leaving Microsoft after 22 years0:52:59 - News - Sony agreed to keep Call of Duty on the platform for 10 years by sacrificing all other Activision IP0:57:31 - News - Overwatch 2 is coming to Steam on August 10th with the new single player missions0:59:13 - News - Game documentarians Noclip are ripping and reencoding a number of lost industry footage1:06:09 - News - The people that are working on the Silent Hill live Twitch streaming... thing... are also doing it with Bor

We're at an ebb in the ebb and flow of video game releases. Nice relaxed podcast today.We Played...Euan gives all the updates this week with Mars First Logistics and System ShockTimestamps00:08:02 - Final Fantasy XVI00:09:07 - System Shock00:13:18 - Mars First Logistics00:21:38 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't have a release date on Xbox yet, as Larian is having issues getting split-screen working on the Series S00:24:23 - News - Annapurna rounded off Not-E3 with a bunch of new games, and their first in-house project, a new game in the Blade Runner universe00:28:18 - News - Sega have finally listened and are ditching their NFT plans.00:30:25 - News - Sonic and Balan Wonderworld creator Yuji Naka has now been sentenced on charges of insider trading.00:32:59 - News - The official Pokémon Forums have launched, and for a brief moment were a nightmare00:37:26 - News - The Microsoft Activision merger court case brought more interesting info, this time from a Sony document that was very poorly redacted.00:43:49 - Ne

The weather is hot and so are the video games. Actually, not really we've hit the end of the big new releases. There's more to talk about!We Played...Euan talks about several Steam Next Fest demos, and continues to wander around in Zelda: Tears of the KingdomCalum talks newest release Final Fantasy XVI. It's the sixteenth Final Fantasy game and I will hear no other arguments at this time.Timestamps00:08:13 - Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom00:16:57 - Final Fantasy XVI00:46:08 - Twitch continues to make baffling business decisions for the people who create the content.00:55:09 - Don't worry, there was supposed to be a solitary woman at Summer Games Fest, there was just scheduling conflicts.00:58:54 - Seemingly out of nowhere, Bungie dropped a massive lore dump on Destiny players they weren't expecting.01:07:22 - Looks like E3 2024 and 2025 might already be cancelled?01:11:28 - Jim Ryan may have blown their main argument in the case against the Microsoft/ABK merger01:13:43 - It was an unexciting Nintendo Direct, unt

It's the start of video game releases. The heavy hitters start now!We Played...Calum talks the two big releases in Diablo 4 and Street Fighter 6. Busy time for fans of ARPGs and fighting games across the land.Euan gives his opinion on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Will it be different from the majority? Listen to find out!Timestamps00:02:13 - Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom00:11:59 - Diablo 400:34:40 - Street Fighter 600:58:49 - Quick Destiny check in for the new season01:02:04 - News - Jason Shrier published a great internal look into Arkane and why Redfall may have turned out the way it did01:04:47 - Sony got out ahead of Not-E3 with their PlayStation Showcase01:06:10 - AI Generated Content was all over the place in the last few weeks, and none of it was good news01:16:52 - Two separate people picked up warehouse jobs purely to steal copies of Zelda ahead of release01:18:46 - Twitch announced some changes to their policies on branded content, which was pretty tone deaf and unanimously rejected by streamers.01:26

The conversations went long this week. More to enjoy!MusicIntermission MusicJack Da Funk - Hideki Naganuma - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Side 1BandcampWe Played...Euan talks about his Jedi Survivor experience, and playing Dead by Daylight on a Steam DeckCalum talks Idol Showdown, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and hot game of the moment Zelda: Tears of the KingdomTimestamps00:04:35 - The New Website is Done!00:06:11 - Jedi Survivor00:40:27 - Dead by Daylight on Steam Deck00:45:29 - Idol Showdown00:46:21 - Zelda01:14:58 - Musical Interlude01:17:27 - Pathfinder01:40:47 - News - Not E3 starts with the Sony Showcase on Wednesday01:41:51 - News - Mortal Kombat 1 is a silly name, but seems pretty descriptive01:43:49 - News - Hawken, the indie mech darling from way back has returned, and unfortunately it's not good!01:45:10 - News - The person in charge of Ganon's design for the new Zelda finally got to make him hot, according to an interview01:46:12 - News - Wow it seems like Overwatch 2 is having a bad time01:54:32 -

Returning from a holiday and games start coming out. What a time to have a podcastWe Played…Euan plays Shadows of Doubt, a game with more genres than time I have to type them out here. You’ll just have to listen.We both “played” Redfall and have some thoughts. They are not good thoughts, but they are thoughts.Calum talks at length about Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. As a Star Wars fan, you can imagine this is a long discussion.Timestamps…02:01 – Holidays & our bodies are getting old.07:36 – Shadows of Doubt.16:30 – Redfall.36:31 – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.1:11:57 – Citizen Sleeper and the Lost In Cult collaboration.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

Shorter catch up this week as we lie in wait for the release hellscape of May/June. Also Euan has holidays to go on so we didn’t want to leave you good people hanging.We Played…Euan played a variety of smaller games, including Drop: System Breach, Dredge, A Little To The LeftCalum has a Destiny 2 Catchup as the seasonal story ends and talks massive changes to DOTA 2 (yes he’s playing DOTA 2 again)Timestamps…0:02:14 – Euan’s Catch-up0:05:44 – Pistol Whip, and Borderlands OST0:07:57 – Dredge0:12:43 – Resident Evil 4 + More Remakes0:21:00 – Destiny 2 Check-in0:27:26 – DOTA2 & the new patch0:33:28 – News – Someone has ported Jedi Outcast to VR, and it looks great.0:37:03 – News – Jedi Survivor is a big game, and you might need a download even with the disc version0:38:42 – News – Niantic are taking their Pokemon GO formula and trying again with Monster Hunter0:40:37 – News – The Division 2 is still going strong, and we got details of two new titles in the series.0:44:26 – News – Troubled developers of Dark an

It’s been a while since we did this. Luckily, there are games to talk about.Intermission MusicPhotosynthetic Skin – Amos Roddy – Citizen Sleeper (Original Soundtrack)BandcampWe Played…Calum played in the weekend limited Diablo 4 Beta.Euan played maze building PvP game Meet Your Maker by the creators of Dead by DaylightWe both played Resident Evil 4 Remake. As much as we enjoyed the original, it has been a very long time.Timestamps…00:09:01 – Diablo 4 Beta00:30:13 – Meet Your Maker00:50:15 – Music Interlude00:51:46 – Resident Evil 401:16:23 – Deliver Us Mars, Dredge, Hitman is good01:20:09 – News – There is a Persona 5 mobile game coming, but it’s coming from a predominantly gatcha studio so…01:21:01 – News – Sega put out a Sonic murder mystery visual novel, and it’s apparently the best Sonic game in years.01:21:37 – News – Epic have launched a very powerful editor and a new Creative mode for Fortnite, but the profit sharing model is kinda wild.01:25:49 – News – Multiversus is leaving open beta by going to sle

It’s that time of year again. It’s time to talk about Destiny for an inordiante amount of time.Spoiler Warning – We talk about the story of Destiny 2: Lightfall between 16:24 and 22:33.Intermission MusicCalling Upon Bravery – Eddie Marianukroh – Chained Echoes (Original Game Soundtrack)BandcampWe Played…Calum talks Destiny 2: Lightfall, the latest expansion. That’s it, that’s all he talks aboutEuan talks mech based XCOM-like Phantom BrigadeTimestamps…4:22 – Destiny 2: Lightfall16:24 – Destiny 2: Lightfall Story Spoilers22:33 – Destiny 2: Lightfall Story Spoilers End1:12:30 – Music Break1:15:23 – Phantom Brigade1:38:55 – News – Paradox announced a bunch of things, including a Sims competitor1:41:06 – News – The Suicide Squad gameplay might have been recieved so badly they have delayed it again1:42:09 – News – Capcom showed off their lineup, and gave more details on the Resident Evil 4 remake1:43:40 – News – A whole bunch of games have shut down so far this year, and it’s only March1:46:22 – News – Sony continu

It’s 2023 and we are back doing what we do best. Making mediocre content. Welcome in.We Played…It’s 2008 again as Euan plays the Dead Space remake, gets in some cel shaded music action in Hifi Rush, and deals with the baffling experience that is Atomic Heart.When not prepping to spend the next few weeks in a Destiny 2 hole with the new expansion, Calum has been putting time into modern retro JRPG Chained EchosTimestamps…1:49 – Dead Space12:20 – Hifi Rush15:52 – Atomic Heart28:02 – Destiny 2 Lightfall Preperation31:27 – Chained Echos46:08 – News – Ubisoft has delayed Skull & Bones for the millionth time, as well as cancelling 3 games that we don’t know about49:54 – News – Activision Blizzard continue to be real wierd by requiring everyone to come back into the office, as well as making wild salary claims around their management.53:55 – News – There was a Playstation State of Play, and we all collectively hmmmed at Suicide Squad55:28 – News – Apparently your Xbox is now woke, since it’s started doing update