Gameenginestart Podcast

In the first part of our Game of the Year deliberations we choose our 20xx Game of the Year, Best Looking Game, Best Studio, Most Disappointing, Best Soundtrack and Best Moment

Nothing quite like flying through space to the sounds of slide guitar, firing giant laser guns off the starboard bow... On this episode... Intermission Music... bignic - Scream - Zombies (featured on Lethal League OST) Official Site | Bandcamp We Played... With another Steam sale over, we go through our spoils. Euan finishes up SOMA before diving into pharmaceutical simulator Big Pharma, finishes a game in The Magic Circle and hacks the world in Hacknet Calum goes down a well in ... Downwell, fights the corporations in Satellite Reign and flies through space with an awesome soundtrack in Rebel Galaxy In News... Weeks into 2016 and the VR war has started, with Oculus Rift launching in March at $599, with the HTC Vive following in April at an unconfirmed price point. Hideo Kojima and his new studio have partnered with Sony to make a PS4 exclusive new IP. Keiji Inafune's new title ReCore is coming to PC this year, as well as Xbox One Uncharted 4 has been pushed back to April ...and more! Intro Music - 

We really want a new SSX, and now that Hideo Kojima is officially done with Metal Gear and Konami, how about he takes on a totally new genre that deserves some love. Someone just give us a new SSX. Please... On this episode... Intermission Music... PROTODOME - There's Always Next Week - BLUESCREEN Official Site | Bandcamp We Played... Euan finally finishes Metal Gear Solid 5, goes under the sea in SOMA and wonders why he missed out on Beyond: Two Souls the first time around. Calum is done with Fallout 4 in more ways than one, and wingsuits around the fun but flawed Just Cause 3. When the framerate isn't tanking at least. We also talk about the amazingly named Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist, probably the funniest game you will play this year. In News... Both The Game Awards and the Playstation Experience happened over the last few weeks, with some small bits of news coming out of each The Final Fantasy 7 remake got a gameplay trailer, as well as the announce

Come on guys, this pink rabbit needs to keep the lights on in his arcade... On this episode... Intermission Music... Simon Viklund  - Evil Eye - Payday 2 : Hotline Miami DLC OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan spent an evening with more indie games at the latest Games are for Everyone, and relived the awkwardness of 14 year old MSN conversations in Cible. Calum continues to spend an inordinate amount of time with Fallout 4, and starts to form some interesting impressions and thoughts for the future of Bethesda. In News... YouTube are finally starting to sort out their DMCA Takedown issue that has plagued content creators for a long while In a conversation with Wired, Sony have confirmed they are working on PS2 emulation on PS4. Cloud Strife is coming to Super Smash Bros, in the strangest crossover since Solid Snake made an appearance. Nintendo continue to do things in their own unique way, by using a pink rabbit to explain microtransactions. There is a new Valkyria Chronicles game coming for PS4, subtitle

The internet could not have had a bigger tonal shift over the past few weeks, going from happy little trees to nuclear oblivion. On this episode... Intermission Music... Big Giant Circles - Threes is the Bees Knees - Threes OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan discovered the joy of flicking switches and pressing exquisitely detailed buttons in The Room 3 and tries to not let hapless teenagers die horribly in Until Dawn. Calum gives us his impressions of the first 8 hours of the all consuming nuclear disaster simulator that is Fallout 4. In News... Activision buys digital crack provider King, makers of the Candy Crush Saga, for $5.9 billion dollars. On top of that, Activision have also launched a Film and TV studio, with their first project being a Skylanders animated TV show. Blizzard are bringing their team based shooter Overwatch to PS4 and Xbox One as well as PC, for $60 and $40 respectively Playstation Vue has now signed up with ESPN, Disney and ABC, making the service more and more attractive to cable

I'm all for card game jargon, but... really?! On this episode... Intermission Music... AdhesiveWombat - Anthem - Marsupial Madness Bandcamp | Soundcloud We Played... Euan is still ploughing away at Metal Gear Solid 5, while taking breaks to be social with the Jackbox Party Pack 2 Our official card game editor Calum tries out Duelyst and regails more D&D stories. In News... Lots of news from the Paris Games Week Sony press conference, including a date for No Mans Sky, a new game from Quantic Dream, more creepy nightmares from Dreams and site mascot Michel Ansel showing of gameplay from his new title. A Kickstarter story with a good ending for a change, Rebellion have picked up bankrupt studio GRIN and are fulfilling the last of the missing backer rewards for their episodic title Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries Games site VG247 wrote up an unimpressed preview on Uncharted 4, before realising they had been shown the Uncharted 2 remaster. Friday the 13th is back in an asymmetric multiplayer game, now on

The stars have aligned in such a way where we have both played a bunch of the same games this time, and the genre range could not be more vast On this episode... Intermission Music... Halfbrick Studios - Jetpack Joyride Main Theme - Jetpack Joyride OST Official Site | iTunes | Amazon We Played... Euan gets to play with Lego for the first time in years with Lego Dimensions Between us we covered a lot of very different games, from the Star Wars: Battlefront Beta to The Beginners Guide, and a lot of bomb defusal and Mongolian exploration in between. In News... Destiny are adding microtransacted emotes to the game as of today, with rumours being that it will be funding their new plan for DLC The co-head of The Chinese Room is leaving the studio due to a combination of illness, displeasure with their Sony partnership and the industries sexist attitudes to women in lead studio positions Batman is coming back to PC in October The Microsoft HoloLens is going on sale to developers for a cool $3000 The P.T ins

It's always a good day when you find out your sibling would do grievous bodily harm to you for a Kit-Kat. On this episode... Intermission Music... Jonathan Eng feat. Stephanie Hladowski- Tuesday - The Sailor's Dream (Original Soundtrack) Official Site | iTunes | Amazon We Played... Destiny: The Taken King has arrived and swallowed all of Euan's game time, while also trying to explain the new puzzle game from Simogo SPL-T, and how he ended up getting Lego Dimensions on launch day. Calum has finished Metal Gear Solid 5 and appears to have damaged his brain a little, evidenced by the fact that he's ready to spend another 100 hours with a game, namely The Witcher 3. In News... We may be on the verge of a voice actors strike, the union is voting on action at the end of the month More games pushed to 2016, with Persona 5 in summer, Star Fox Zero in Q1 and Hitman on March 11th Kickstarter is now a Public Benefit Corporation Counter Strike has been shaken up with it's latest updates, fixing the hitboxes and a

Listen kids, guns aren't cool. Nerf guns on the other hand, are the coolest. Lightsabers are a close second. We are functioning adults, I promise... On this episode... Intermission Music... Danny Baranowsky - Konga Conga Kappa (King Conga) - Crypt of the Necrodancer OST Official Site | Bandcamp | We Played... In preparation for The Taken King, Euan explores the pretty big changes in Destiny 2.0, as well as talking about what he saw at the most recent Games are for Everyone night in Edinburgh. Sick of waiting for the next Knights of the Old Republic game that will never come, Calum tries The Old Republic MMO to get ready for the next big expansion. In News... The story of the firing of Marty O'Donnell has come to light during the now settled court case Nintendo have appointed a new CEO The Pokemon Company are working with Ingress developers Niantic on the next AR based Pokemon game. The FTC have put their foot down in regards to the Microsoft/Machinima "deceptive" marketing from YouTubers The big UI i

Hey, in case you didn't know already, we are super excited for Metal Gear Solid 5 On this episode... Intermission Music... Valve Software - Science Is Fun - Portal 2 Soundtrack: Volume 1 Official Site We Played... Euan poorly attempts to save the world from the alien menace by diving back into XCOM: Enemy Within, and can't get the damn theme song out his head after playing Lego: Jurassic World Calum gets a look at the Heroes of Might and Magic 7 beta as well as "punching deck" in the next instalment of the Shadowrun series, Shadowrun: Hong Kong In News... Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is launching Feburary 23rd, and has possibly the worst pre-order scheme ever. Uncharted 4 also has a date, March 18th. Mortal Kombat X has been officially cancelled for PS3 and 360. Guild Wars 2 is now Free to Play YouTube launched their Twitch competitor, and people are not happy with it's heavy handed use of it's ContentID system. There's a free version of Triple Triad you can play on your phone via the Final Fantasy Port

Since we can't go visit Star Wars Theme Land Park, we might as well talk about some video games. A couple of them are in space! One is even actually Star Wars! On this episode... Intermission Music... Shira Kammen - Downstream - Music from Braid Official Site | Amazon We Played... Euan enjoys the PlayStation summer indie promotion by flying a mech in Galak-Z and walking around a eerily quiet Middle England village in Everybody's Gone To The Rapture Calum is sufficiently pleased with the KOTOR 2 fan expansion, wraps up Pillars of Eternity and moonwalks through a dungeon in Crypt of the Necrodancer. In News... Nintendo let go an employee who went and podcasted about their internal workings without their consent. It's not all bad though, Sonic has his back. Twitch Plays... is back, and this time they are attempting Dark Souls, with all 22 inputs mapped to chat commands The ESL has adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency list of banned substances, which includes marijuana. It's not like that's a gamer stereot

It's time. Has Driveclub Man done what he promised and created the ultimate car game that will make you feel all tingly? No. Not really... On this episode... Intermission Music... Philter - Adventure Time - The Blossom Chronicles Official Site | iTunes | Amazon We Played... Euan isn't entirely happy with Life is Strange's fourth episode, finally sees the fruits of Driveclub Man's labours, and confirms that Angry Birds 2 is in fact more Angry Birds Calum completes his Mass Effect quest and unearths the new content from the Knights of the Old Republic 2 unofficial content patch. In News... We already knew Konami is going through some difficulties, but Japanese Newspaper Nikkei is reporting that the staff are facing some pretty Orwellian working conditions at the minute. At least they are making an "erotic violence" Castlevania Pachinko machine... League of Legends killed off a character as part of its "story", then brought it back with a new skin. The ESL is dealing with doping, which is starting to beco

Games are thin on the ground, so Calum revisits the sci-fi past and Euan ends up playing rocket football. It's as awesome as it sounds. On this episode... Intermission Music... Kirill Pokrovsky - Bittersweet Regrets - Divinity: Original Sin OST Official Site We Played... Euan helps a spaceship crash survivor on a different world in Lifeline, and finally plays a football video game, albeit a football game involving rocket powered cars, named Rocket League. Calum revisits the Mass Effect saga, and comes to some realisations about the series. In News... Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, has died at 55 Respected Ubisoft producer Jade Raymond has moved to EA and opened a new studio Continuing Konami's ejection of Kojima from the company, his name has been taken off the box of Metal Gear Solid V Bungie has revealed the details of the weapon tweaks coming in Destiny 2.0. Leave my god damn Ice Breaker alone. Angry Birds 2  is coming at the end of the July. Whatever that means. One week the Star Citizen F

It's time to set zail for scouting the grand zee of video games, with your trusty zailors Zuan and Zalum. I really should have thought this intro through properly... On this episode... Intermission Music... Mogi Grumbles - Extractor - Fract OSC Soundtrack Bandcamp | Twitter We Played... Euan distracts himself from crippling fear while flying with Her Story and a selection of DS Lite games, as well as exploring alternative flooded London in Sunless Sea Calum throws himself into the new Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Heavensward, and talks about just how fanservice filled that game is. We both played the new Tales from the Borderlands, and continue to be impressed by just how well Telltale is handling that universe, and how impressive it is that they have made it laugh out loud funny. In News... Arkham Knight, the final Batman game from Rocksteady has appeared, and the PC version was all kinds of messed up, even to the point that it was pulled from Steam until they can properly fix it. Destiny had a bad fe

We have finally relaxed and reflected on the week that was E3, and this week we talk about what happened, what didn't happen, and what we think probably should have happened. Expect Calum getting excited about pirate ships, Euan finally getting a Last Guardian prediction right, and the fan-fiction that Sony decided to make a reality at their conference. On this episode... Intermission Music... Access Games Inc. - Theme of D4 - D4 : Dark Dreams Don't Die Original Soundtrack -David Young Disc- Official Site | Bandcamp 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

Grab a glass of mead and prepare for tales of Dungeons & Dragons. Also video games, but you should expect that by now... On this episode... Intermission Music... Raphael Müller, Washington Rayk - All Play and No Work - Chroma Squad OST Bandcamp | Steam We Played... Euan pairs Spotify with Destiny, and realises the future is here, as well as discovering that what he likes about Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros might not actually be the gameplay... Calum jumps back into Fallout: New Vegas in preparation for the recently announced sequel, as well as regaling us with his continuing insane D&D adventures In News... Steam is now officially offering refunds for purchased games, and it's proving pretty divisive. Lego has finally launched it's take on Minecraft as an Early Access Steam title Sticking with Lego, one of the core developers of the failed Lego Universe MMO posted a collection of tweets detailing how difficult it was to prevent...unwanted phalluses...from being built in their kid friendly ga

We don't get enough opportunity to use cyberpunk language in day to day life, so we thought we would cram as much as we can in this episode. On this episode... Intermission Music... Danny Baranowsky - Hot Damned - Super Meat Boy Soundtrack Official Site | Bandcamp We Played... Euan still thinks Destiny is great, and now even more so now House of Wolves is out. When not collecting Spinmetal, he continues to experience the cliffhangers of Life is Strange and explores someone's mind in Ether One. Calum goes full on cyberpunk, with the turn based tactics of Invisible Inc. and the more traditional RPG-ness Shadowrun: Dragonfall. Euan also attended the Games Are For Everyone event in Edinburgh, and played a bunch of great in development indie games. In News... The Oculus Rift is coming, and they have released the specs for the PC you will need to run it. It's definitely at enthusiast level. Konami is officially moving to mobile as their main development platform. Monster Strike, the massive mobile hit from

Sometimes you have to look back on your life and go, "Why did I think using the rubber chicken on the zipline made sense all those years ago". On this episode... Intermission Music... Darren Korb and Ashley Barret - We All Become - Transistor OST Bandcamp | Official Store We Played... Euan takes a long hard look at his gaming past with Broken Age: Act 2, messes with a classic with Brutal Doom, and relives his childhood Power Rangers fantasies with Chroma Squad. Calum experiences patch hell with Mortal Kombat X, wears the springy trousers of Gunpoint and confirms that Heroes of Might and Magic 4 is, in fact, terrible. In News... Oculus VR have confirmed they are aiming for a Q1 2016 launch for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift. You will probably know more than us by the time you read this, but the new Assassins Creed game is due to be announced on the 12th May, and all signs point to Industrial Revolution London. Portal, Doctor Who and more are coming to Lego Dimensions. Mirrors Edge 2 isn't dead

I wish the best of luck to the first convention that decides to give us a panel. It's going to be the greatest visual spectacle this side of Monday Night RAW On this episode... Intermission Music... Jake Kaufman - Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage) - Shovel Knight OST Official Site | Bandcamp | Soundcloud We Played... Euan buys a joystick for the sole purpose of playing a 16 year old game, but its a good thing that Freespace 2 is still such a great game. Calum does some worryingly gruesome things in Mortal Kombat X  In News... D4 IS COMING TO THE PC! BEST NEWS OF 2015 SORTED! It's been a bad couple weeks for Konami. With Kojima still AWOL, the rumour then confirmation of Silent Hills being cancelled, and finally then de-listing of themselves from the US Stock Exchange, their future seems uncertain Valve and Bethesda rolled out paid mod support for the Skyrim Steam Workshop, the internet collectively exploded, Valve shut it down. DOTA2 is getting a new patch, including a new item that serves as a tr

Craigslist is a strange and dark place. I'm sure Steveslist is too, but it doesn't really get the publicity it deserves. On this episode... Intermission Music... Carpenter Brut - Disco Zombie Italia iTunes | Bandcamp | Soundcloud We Played... Euan finishes up Hotline Miami 2 and The Talos Principle and talks about how they wrap up their very diverse stories Calum continues dungeoning in Pillars of Eternity, and messes about with the Steam Broadcasting. In News... Guitar Hero Live has been announced, and uses FMV to put you on a stage. There was a new Nintendo Direct, and there are a lot of Amiibo and DLC coming. Promient YouTuber Angry Joe decides to no longer cover Nintendo games after they pull down his Mario Party 10 video Tony Hawk 5 may have been leaked accidentally by a caterer showing off his work The next Destiny expansion, House of Wolves, drops on May 19th, and comes with a new horde mode as opposed to a new Raid Bill Paxton will be playing Jack Thompson in the BBC dramatization of the ris