Gameenginestart Podcast

We settle back into our groove after E3, and throw ourselves headlong into FMV financial crisis simulators, rewinding water towers, and apparently the first indie game Euan doesn't like. On this episode... We Played... While bemoaning the incorrect use of the Greek letters, we talk about the current state of the Destiny Alpha and the Battlefield Hardline Beta. All the pretty art in the world can't save Entwined from Euan's ire, but makes up for it with the FMV insanity of Bear Stearns Bravo. 2014 y'all. Calum pretends he was an American 80's kid in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, lies about his gun-toting exploits in Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, and the pant wetting elation of Magitek Armour in Final Fantasy 14 In News... The phenomenal soundtrack from Transistor sells 48,000 copies in 10 days Is Aaron Paul turning on YOUR Xbox One with his sultry voice? You're not alone. Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare hits PS4 and PS3 in August Sony finally stops selling the PSP in Japan League of Legends players are ki

It's E3 time, and we talk about what we saw of the conferences, and what we were excited and annoyed by. All the while trying to stay awake after a long two days... 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

It's the last podcast before E3, and we start to mentally prepare ourselves, as well as Watch Dogs forcing us to take a good look at our moral fibre. Or lack thereof. On this episode... We Played... We both talk about the incredible Transistor, while disagreeing on it's flaws, and our first impressions of the much delayed Watch Dogs. The Walking Dead continues to pull Calum along, along with being a muthafrikkin dragon in Warlock 2: The Exiled Euan goes back to the iPad with FTL: Advanced Edition, and visits Scoggins, Minnesota in Puzzle Agent. In News... YouTube is reportadly in talks to buy Twitch for $1 billion Site favourite Superhot launches it's Kickstarter. Check out our video to see why we think it has so much potential. Harmonix successfully funded their Amplitude remake. The next Battlefield game leaks ahead of E3, and features law enforcement rather than the military. The Division, Halo 5, The Order: 1886 and Valve's Steam Machines all get delayed to 2015 Sony are covering the booth cost

Unreal Tournament is coming back, and with it comes memories of The Matrix, Ed Edd and Eddy and a little bit of Mambo No 5. 1999 was a weird year you guys... On this episode... We Played... Lack of new games makes Euan go deep into weird indie. He starts to sour on Kentucky Route Zero, finishes rewiring Fract OSC and reads peoples brains in Stick it To The Man, with a dash of Hitman Go in there for good measure. Calum mines some asteroids to make spaceships in Survival Space Engineers, relives the bizarre story of Final Fantasy X-2 and falls off on Bravely Default, going from being one of the best games of the year, to one of the worst. In News... We talk about DOTA 2, The Internationals, and how this years Compendium might totally break the finely tuned economy of the game. Tomodachi Life gets same sex relationships patched out as a "bug", and Nintendo reacts both poorly then well in quick succession. Unreal Tournament returns as a free, community driven, moddable game. *heavy breathing* Zenimax want

Tomodachi Life might be the greatest video game ever created, and we have only seen the announcement trailer. Maybe it's not even a game? Maybe it's art? Maybe it doesn't actually exist and was all a wonderful dream... On this episode... We Played... Tomodachi Life enters our lives and our hearts, and we both hope it never leaves. Euan dives Tron style into a synthesizer in Fract OSC, can't decide if he should be disappointed by Trials Frontier and tracks down paper manipulating superheroes in the Infamous DLC To distract himself from revision, Calum goes back to older games by playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, walking through his shiny spaceship in Star Citizen, and punching people with a human saxophone in Skullgirls In News... They actually found those ET carts in the New Mexico Desert Earth: Year 2066 gets Greenlit on Steam, and everyone wonders how such an abomination managed it. Snoop Dogg voices an announcer pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts, with accompanying cannabis leaf weapon camo pack. Sure.

Why was there never an actual Blitzball game? I would play the crap out of a yearly EA Sports Blitzball title on some next gen tech. The continual roster updates might be a problem though... On this episode... We Played... Euan dives back into Rapture in the Bioshock Infinite Burial at Sea DLC, farms 2D bad guys for guns in Mercenary Kings and goes pixel hunting with the iPad remake of Broken Sword 2 Calum rediscovers FTL: Advanced Edition and continues to get that phat loot in Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls, while trying to not be dragged down with a group of people falling back into World of Warcraft In News... Facebook buys Oculus VR for $2 billion, and the internet freaks out Attempting to turn a Game Jam into a reality show causes most of the participants to walk out within 24 hours Amazon continues to hire talent for it's game studios, picking up Kim Swift of Portal fame and Far Cry 2 designer Clint Hocking. A number of Sony studios lose prestigious staff members including Uncharted writer Amy Hennig

The GameEngineStart podcast, for all your news from the world of footballsmen, touchslams and baseball racquets. And sometimes video games. On this episode... We Played... Euan explores Seattle with neon powers and wrestles with remarkably simple moral choices in InFamous: Second Son. When not drowning in a sea of Threes, Calum gives his thoughts on riding mechs in Titanfall. The next instalment of "what the hell is that god damn bear up to" with Calum's Tabletop RPG campaign. That's not actually the final name of the segment. Probably In News... Game rentals briefly appear on the Playstation store, confirming they are happening. The developer of Papo and Yo announces his new game The Xbox 360 version of Titanfall is delayed again to April 8th Crytek and Epic both announce that their respective engines now offer very reasonable monthly licence fee options. There's a new Oculus Rift dev kit coming in July. Sony joins the VR party with Project Morpheus. Last of Us has sold over 6 million copies The

Ever seen a grizzly bear take two attractive receptionists up to a penthouse hotel room with a pot of honey? Calum has, and he got a point of insanity because of it. On this episode... We Played... Euan finds Calum just chillin' in Dust: An Elysian Tale, breaks and then rejoins the F2P mechanics of Warframe, and prepares to be destroyed by the internet in Dead Nation: Apocalypse Calum dives into Risk of Rain, cultivates a village in Banished, and finds out that Diablo 3 is actually a really good game now that it's fixed. The continuing story of Calum's pen and paper adventures takes interesting bear and (literal) arse-kicking turns. I would listen to that if it was it's own podcast... In News... Threes hits Android. Go get it. Murdered: Soul Suspect (June 6), 999 for iOS (March 17) and Persona 5 (2015) all get dated The new Batman game from Rocksteady is announced as next gen only for 2014 SquareEnix play good guy publisher and are pretty candid about Thief review scores. South Park shows that even

There were a few points this episode where we forgot we were recording a podcast, and just reminisced for a while. Then again if you aren't expecting that by now, I don't know why you are still listening... On this episode... We Played... Euan finds The Castle Doctrine lacking slightly, but not as much as The Last of Us DLC, Left Behind. He might be the only person in the world who really didn't like it. Calum has adventures in hardware with the trials and tribulations of PC upgrading. Turns out 3mm can make all the difference. No jokes. Please. We recount our adventures in the Titanfall beta. It's great, but remember it's still a FPS almost exclusively populated by horrible internet denizens. The Threes soundtrack is really great. You should listen to it In News... There is a new Sonic game, and they have already lost us at the trailer. yourself[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0a7-1wdDuw] The Xbox One is getting a price drop to £399 in the UK only. Smart move with Titanfall on the horizon I

With the addition of two special guests this weeks episode goes to some strange places, including bags of penny whistles and boxes full of Pokemon. It's all the better for it. On this episode... We Played... Euan talks new Wolf Amongst Us, and actually starting down a comic book based hole Calum regails us with stories of his adventure into...adventuring, with his first experience of table top role playing. With a team like he describes, they will either not make it past the first encounter or go down in legend. Special guest Dave makes a case for Call of Duty: Ghosts not being as bad as it has been made out to be, while simultaneously playing FTL Equally special guest Jordan provides a first hand account of the first months with an Xbox One, with Forza Drivatars being dicks and Battlefield 4 actually becoming almost playable. Euan and Calum both share their experience with Jazzpunk, a game very difficult to sell to people without spoiling the amazing sense of humour. You should really go buy it though

It's a new year, we are officially in the future, and we start it with point and click adventure games, fencing simulators and running away from zombies. War never changes... On this episode... We Played... Euan glows about Broken Age and Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons, despite not being able to talk about why they are amazing  Calum tells us that Deadpool is worth playing despite a mediocre game, and that the standalone release of DayZ has managed to preserve most of the jank from the mod. Which is good to hear.  Nidhogg takes over our collective brains. Throwing swords at each other has never been so fun. In News... Remember when EA said they couldn't add an offline mode to SimCity, and that it was impossible? Well they went and did it. About 6 months after anyone would care. Sony announce their Gaikai based streaming service, Playstation Now. Valve finally drops some details on their Steam Machines, which simultaneously ripping the touch screen out the controller. Nintendo pretty viscously slashes t

It's that time of year where we attempt to take all of the games we played and order them in some arbitrary way. There was a lot less fighting this time around... On this episode... We talk... Euan and Calum both talk about their respective lists We come to a conclusion about our official Game of the Year There are some insane categories in here too. Go give us a like on Facebook HERE, and subscribe to our YouTube HERE. 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 start to wind down for the end of the year. Like we were particularly highly strung before. On this episode... We Played... Euan continues down the PS4 rabbit hole, extolling the virtues of Assassins Creed 4, Warframe, and the features of the console itself that are making it next gen. Doki Doki Universe confuses and delights in equal measure. Calum dives into the terribly named Bravely Default, an old school JRPG with some new tricks up it's sleeve. Unfortunatly one of them is microtransactions. We talk Binary Domain, our favourite game of last year that no-one in their right mind played. Indie Game: The Movie hits Netflix, and we share our thoughts on the insight it gives into the people that make the stuff we love. In News... The VGX awards show brought some heavy Telltale news, more famous voice actors for Double Fines Broken Age, and No Man's Sky makes us tingly in special places. YouTube implodes with mistaken or flat out fraudulent copyright claims, causing the big names on there to get wor

The next gen is here, and almost instantly it feels like it had always existed. But hey, video games! On this episode... We Played... Euan talks at length about the Playstation 4, the midnight launch, the hardware and software in the box, and the experience of being there on day 1. The PS4 plays games too, Assassins Creed 4 seems pretty great, Lego Marvel Super Heroes is exactly what you want from a Lego game, and Warframe is potentially interesting, but needs some real time devotion Calum dives back into Skyrim to explore the mod community, and the most impressive is the one you least expect. We share nostalgic stories about Laser Tag, and how ridiculous in concept it is. In News... PS4 had it's launch issues, and so did Xbox One Twitch streaming from PS4 starts incredibly awesome and goes exceptionally sinister in the space of 72 hours. John Carmack leaves ID Software to go full time with Oculus. Saints Row 4 has Xmas DLC, and it's exactly what you want from Saints Row. Atlus announces a swathe o

Injuries, strange pronunciations and next gen excitement, just another fortnight in the world of us... On this episode... We Played... Euan finishes a bunch of games. Tomb Raider does conclusions for adventure games right, Alan Wake smartly reuses assets, and The Stanley Parable really messes with your opinions of achievements. Calum falls in love with DmC and is suitably impressed with XCOM: Enemy Within's expansion to one of our favourite games of last year. In News... FTL is coming to iPad, which is where it should have been from day 1 30 minutes of Dragon Age: Inquisition make Calum all tingly We get a date for Infamous: Second Son, the next best hope for PS4 first party exclusives. Naughty Dog teases a double punch of Last of Us DLC and new Uncharted. The DOTA2 internet complains it doesn't get Diretide, it gets Diretide, it complains Diretide isn't great. Of course it does. Go give us a like on Facebook HERE, and subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompe

Remember kids, Final Fantasy and alcohol don't mix. Especially when said alcohol is just called "beer" in another language. On this episode... We Played... Euan's brain explodes with The Stanley Parable, explorers an interactive novel in Device 6 and is suitably impressed by The Wolf Among Us Calum continues on with Pokemon, and recounts LAN party stories of Final Fantasy drinking games and Resident Evil 6 We talk Saints Row IV's first DLC pack, Enter the Dominatrix, and how an ending can turn a game from meh to holy shit in 3 seconds. Euan attempts to explain Ingress, the real world ARG driven Android game that has you running around the real world In News... PS4 versions of Call of Duty : Ghosts will run at a higher resolution than the Xbox One version. The internet shits it's collective pants. The Day 1 patch for PS4 provokes questions over what that machine can actually do straight out the box. Bioshock Infinite's first story DLC gets a release date. Enslaved : Oddessy to the West gets a re-rele

Be careful, if Calum wants you to be his friend, he may try to rub your special place and feed you cake. Just saying... On this episode... We Played... Euan rediscovers XCOM and muses on the Beyond : Two Souls demo Calum goes all in on Pokemon X & Y along with revisiting Neverwinter Nights about 10 years too late The Stanley Parable charms, confuses and entertains us with it's bizarre fourth wall commentary. In News... Watch Dogs, The Crew and Driveclub all get delayed to 2014, causing panic for some PS4 pre-orders. Double Fine's new Early Access title lets you run a Spacebase. Our ears are instantly peaked. Ellen Page has a naked texture in Beyond : Two Souls. No-one is surprised. Sportsfriends comes to PS4, we get more excited about that game. More footage of Kingdom Hearts 3 appears, resulting in amazing GIFs like... Go give us a like on Facebook HERE, and subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (inco

Pokemon has changed over all these years. More importantly, it's no Digimon, which was clearly a superior product. On this episode... We Played... Calum gets back into Terraria's new update, with all the penguins you can handle Euan digs through a swathe of indie games, including the finale of To The Moon, continuing adventures in Papers, Please? with a side line in Pocket Trains. We talk the terrible and genius nature of Cookie Clicker. Our first encounters with the Oculus Rift leave no doubt that this might be the future of video games. In News... SteamOS, Steam Machines and the Steam Controller take over the web, and we go "....maybe?" EA actually come clean about putting no effort into Fifa 14 this year on some platforms The new game from the Amnesia people looks real interesting, Stop the presses, Half Life 3 might come out. Except it won't. Ever. Ubisoft PR flips the finger at PETA over Assassins Creed IV in one of the best press statements ever seen. Atlus is bought by Sega. Does this mean

There are some bad movie concepts, and then there is Ghost Shark On this episode... We Played... We manipulate some time while shooting people in Super HOT We talk about our experiences when trying to explain that video games are our hobby to people of the older generation. Actually, our own generation creates some issues too Calum plays a lot of Civ-esque games, namely Anno 2070 and Warlock: Masters of the Arcane. Movies send us off on a tangent, discussing Riddick as well as such classics as Ghost Shark, Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack and One Eyed Monster. In News... Playstation 4 gets a release date in Japan The Playstation Vita TV is both confusing and kinda cool. Capcom's next gen title Deep Down may not be all it seems. Ouya continues to be insane with it's newest funding controversy. The Diablo 3 real money auction house gets shut down, and the 12 people still playing that game shrug GTA V reviews provoke the internet hate machine, specifically on the number of reviews that mention it's more misogyn

Another hour and half dose of the classiest video game podcast on the intertubes. At no point during this episode to we talk about the physical reaction involved in a shot to the testicles. Definitely not in the first 5 seconds. On this episode... We Played... Saints Row IV arrives on our PCs, and continues it's long tradition of being the smartest dumb game you will ever play. Euan talks about how the scourge of  micro-transactions permeates even Need for Speed:Most Wanted. Calum gets his arcade flying on in War Thunder. We talk indie gun-simulator Receiver, the virtues of the Lego games, and the surprisingly decent Puppeteer demo Watch_Dogs continues to excite us with it's multiplayer "drop into someone's game and mess with people" concept In News... Xbox One gets a release date. Next gen fight AHOY! The announcement of the Nintendo 2DS only makes us ask "what the hell are Ninty doing?". Like we weren't already... Old games come back with Timesplitters Rewind, and new games become old games with th