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Grab yourself a warm drink and a blanket, shuffle up next to us as we talk about the year gone past in video games. The good, the bad, and the existential crisesSpoiler WarningWe were pretty good at calling out when we are going to talk about endings and the like, but maybe don’t give a huge amount of notice. You have been warned.Timestamps…Sifu – 0:02:29Hardspace: Shipbreaker – 0:07:39Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 0:15:09We Are OFK – 0:23:29God of War: Ragnarok – 0:27:59IXION – 0:48:47Citizen Sleeper – 0:56:25Neon White – 1:14:42Some Good Soundtracks – 1:23:53Pentiment – 1:26:53Honourable Mentions – 1:46:30Destiny 2 in 2022 – 1:56:55The Year of the Steam Deck – 2:05:58The Final Year of Giving Fromsoft a Chance – 2:07:04The Award for Only Game I returned This – 2:09:37The Dumbest News Story of the Year – 2:10:05Some Games Are Not For You – 2:11:10A Eulogy for Zachtronic – 2:16:46Looking Forward – 2:18:08Intro & Outro Music – Jazzy Abstract Beat – Coma-Media (pixabay.com)

For the last podcast of the year, we have a lot of news to talk about and even some new games.Intermission MusicCloud Nine – Machine Girl – Neon White OST 1 – The Wicked HeartBandcampWe Played…We wrap up The Game Awards and all the announcements there inWe both catch up on our god killing progress in God of War RagnarokCalum prevents a chaos incursion in Warhammer 40k: Darktide and becomes best friends with marvel heros in Marvel’s Midnight SunsTimestamps…2:14 – 2023 is already looking stacked4:25 – The Game AwardsCORRECTION – Euan said that Elden Ring won Best Narrative, he meant to say nominated.36:46 – Euan caught up on a bunch of games37:22 – Ixion42:45 – Warhammer 40,000: Darktide54:22 – Music Break56:32 – Midnight Suns1:28:24 – News – Yuki Naka has been arrested again for insider trading1:29:55 – News – Microsoft announce a commitment to bring Call of Duty to Switch and Steam for at least 10 years1:31:51 – News – The director of Days Gone believes that ‘woke reviewers’ are the reason for it’s midding cr

It’s getting towards the end of the year which means god there are so many games to play.Intermission MusicEmber’s Wake – Amos Roddy – Citizen SleeperBandcampWe Played…Euan plays PS1 style sci-fi thriller SignalisCalum plays the “perfectly 6/7 out of 10” Harvestella and tells us the story of attending the Scottish Esports LeagueWe both become gods once again in God of War: RagnarokTimestamps…0:30 – Holy crap it’s almost December1:33 – Signalis9:26 – Shadows of Rose – Resident Evil Village DLC11:19 – SSX316:09 – Harvestella37:52 – NIKKE44:37 – Music Break48:22 – God of War: Ragnarök1:14:23 – News – Immortality hit iOS and is, surprisingly, uncut and in it’s original form.1:16:28 – News – The UK Treasury launched a Discord, and proceeded to get trolled intensely.1:20:44 – News – The back and forth between composer Mick Gordon and id Software continues, with Gordon dropping hard evidence, and id claiming they have their own.1:23:34 – News – Yuji Naka, creator of Sonic and Balan Wonderworld, was arrested for insi

One of us went on holiday and still managed to play loads of video games. Isn’t the modern world fantastic? Intermission Music Customer Service – Eli Rainsberry – Wilmot’s Warehouse OST Bandcamp | Itch.io We Played… Calum talks professional DOTA with TI Final, and plays yet another card game in Marvel Snap, and is really presently surprised. Euan checks the rat tech in A Plague Tale: Requiem, and takes a look at dystopian point-and-click turn based RPG (too many genres) Sunday Gold Timestamps… 2:14 – Andor is great god damn show 5:41 – The Mandalorian Spoilers 12:56 – DOTA 2: The International 21:32 – A Plague Tale: Requiem 33:25 – Sunday Gold 44:37 – Music Break 47:09 – Marvel Snap 1:11:23 – News – Konami are throwing a bunch of studios at a bunch of new Silent Hill games and seeing what happens 1:30:29 – News – The physical disc versions of Modern Warfare have barely anything on them, and still require a 150Gb download to use. 1:36:48 – Upcoming Releases, Site Stuff and Wrap Up Intro Music – There It Is –

Real world delivery issues are key to this weeks podcast. Intermission Music Murky Brew – Alberto Sueri and Johnny Moutzouris – Eville OST Steam Also we talk about Brandon Acker before the break, and you should go check out his YouTube channel We Played… Calum played stuff on a Steam Deck. Various games, of varying quality, just had a grand old time. Euan solves puzzles in Egression and hates solving puzzles in Scorn. Timestamps… 0:47 – Ordering a Xmas tree in October 3:20 – Calum got his Steam Deck, and started wildy throwing games at it. 21:11 – Egression 23:46 – Scorn 46:39 – Music Intermission 50:28 – Warhammer 40K: Darktide Closed Beta Impressions 55:52 – News – Google Stadia is no more, and you can actually get a refund 1:00:23 – News – The voice behind Bayonetta spoke out how the actual reason she isn’t in the third game is that they offered her a tiny paycheck for the role, and Hideki Kamiya blocks everyone on Twitter 1:07:34 – News – The launch of Overwatch 2 was a trashfire, and the game itself is

It’s a short pod as we venture into Autumn, with a good mix of old, new and new that reminds you of old. We Played… Euan finishes We Are OFK, and ventures into some modern nostalgia with Return to Monkey Island Calum is preparing to get a Steam Deck and keeps busy in Guild Wars 2 when not continuing doing Savage Raids in Final Fantasy XIV Timestamps… 0:46 – Guild Wars 2 is still a franchise 4:30 – What’s Out in October 8:40 – We Are OFK 13:09 – Rollerdrome 14:33 – Crimesight 17:50 – Return to Monkey Island 33:54 – Calum is getting a Steam Deck 40:37 – FFXIV Savage Raids Continue 41:43 – Guild Wars 2 is a chill game. Apparently. 45:18 – News – The “live service” Halo Infinite doesn’t appear to be that “live” 50:04 – News – CDPR confirmed Cyberpunk 2077’s first expansion, (probably) out next year 52:06 – News – The GTAVI Leak has been both facinating and depressing to watch play out. Intro Music – There It Is – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music – Honey Bee – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Stin

Calum took some time off to play one video game a lot. Luckily we have a space to talk about that experience. Intermission Music The Disaster of Passion – AISHA & Arc System Works – GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK VOL.1 Amazon We Played… Euan played tiny platformer Tinykin and the latest Sam Barlow epic Immortality Calum goes in-depth of the ins and outs of Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raiding   Timestamps… 2:11 – Hey, people are actually listening to this! 8:07 – Tinykin 14:52 – Immortality 46:37 – Music Break 52:09 – Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raids 1:41:16 – Site Stuff and Wrap Up    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 finally time to talk openly about one of our favourite games of the year. Calum wasn’t available, so Euan has drafted in friend of the site, and narrative game connoisseur, Vaida to talk about the world of The Eye, the incredible characters we meet there, and just how well this game uses mechanics from tabletop games to add to the storytelling. This is a spoilercast, so we talk openly about the events of the plot of Citizen Sleeper and it’s first expansion. If you have not played the game yet it’s highly recommended that you go do that and then come back for this conversation  Citizen Sleeper is out now for PC (Steam, GOG, Epic), Game Pass, and Switch right now. The first free update is also out now, with two more updates coming in October and 2023. Vaida can be found on Twitter @underskinnyhrt and their games can be played at https://vaidap.itch.io/.  Intro / Outro Music – Density – Citizen Sleeper (Original Soundtrack) – Amos Roddy Bandcamp | Steam | GOG | Apple Music

Euan got COVID, so this is the first podcast for a while. He’s fine now, so we’re back to video games Intermission Music Follow/Unfollow – OFK – We Are OFK E.P. We Played… Calum writes this part of the post so he gets to type such sentences as “Euan plays a new ‘sad teen game'” We Are OFK, and talks about old favorites GTFO and Boneworks with Metal Gear Solid mods Calum plays out his wrestler fantasy in Rumbleverse and starts a cult (in a video game please don’t ban me) with Cult of the Lamb Timestamps… 1:25 – Euan got COVID 13:55 – We Are OFK 21:34 – Boneworks MGS1 Mod 23:52 – A quick GTFO story 30:29 – Rumbleverse 41:36 – Cult of the Lamb 59:32 – Music Break 1:02:40 – News – Calum runs down the first in-person EVO in a few years. 1:13:34 – News – There is a new Tales from the Borderlands out in October and we forgot it existed. Might be for the best. 1:15:24 – News – Activision Blizzard are at it again, looking very much like they are taking designs from artists and putting them into CoD with no credit or

Hopefully you all should be still be able to see this message. Hopefully you can also still hear us talk about video games. NOTE - There are mild spoilers for the ending of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 during the discussions of Xenoblade Chronicles 3. There is a warning before hand. Intermission Music Blueprint For A Slow Machine – 65daysofstatic – No Man’s Sky- Music For An Infinite Universe Amazon We Played… Euan plays hit cat sim Stray. As father to two cats, this is unsurprising Calum starts a 100+ hour journey into Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and it starts a lot better than the other ones! We both played No Man’s Sky again for the upteenth time. Marketing really makes that game look cool ok?   Timestamps… 1:15 – The Fringe is slowly encroaching 5:27 – Podcast housekeeping 6:11 – Audio transcription with our accents is sometimes great 7:54 – No Mans Sky 12:00 – Stray 25:59 – Tunic, and difficulty options as accessibility 28:55 – Bear & Breakfast 34:29 – Xenoblade Chronicles 3 59:54 – Music Break 1:03:04 – Stea

As I type this it is over 30 degrees, and I can't think. So yea, video games. We Played... Euan plays space thriller Deliver Us The Moon, adorable adventure Tunic and, of course, the latest and last Zachtronics joint, Last Call BBS.Calum wishes he could break the actual sun, and instead settles for more Monster Hunter: Sunbreak and watches teens get murdered in video game format in The Quarry Timestamps... 0:30 - Holy crap it's warm9:10 - Deliver Us The Moon12:55 - Last Call BBS16:39 - Steam Deck29:18 - Monster Hunter: Sunbreak31:19 - Fall Guys33:29 - The Quarry57:51 - Music Break59:26 - The Blade Runner remaster is a mess, both in implementation and distribution1:04:45 - No surprises, but a recently announced "Web3" consoles is saying a lot of words and promises that don't make sense1:07:19 - A game dev at the Brazil International Games Festival pulled the greatest bait and switch, changing his talk from "The Future of Game Design" to "Why NFTs are a nightmare" almost immediately.1:08:38 - Ubisoft continues

Been a while since we sat down and talked about some video games, so let's fix that! We Played... Euan took the hit for the site and played Elden Ring. A long conversation ensues.Calum hunts continually bigger beasts in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak and selects and makes his first pick in DNF Duel.We both played the fantastic Neon White and Euan gets mad Calum keeps beating him. Timestamps... 0:00 - Public transport can get strange.4:39 - The Fringe is coming11:24 - Elden Ring48:34 - Monster Hunter: Rise Sunbreak DLC51:05 - DNF Duel1:12:10 - Music Break1:15:18 - Neon White1:49:54 - Upcoming Games, Wrap Up 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 to talk all things Keigh3. Summer Game Fest? This was eaiser when it was just E3. Timestamps... 1:22 - Mask assholes exist in Europe too8:12 - Summer Game Fest20:47 - Future Games Show25:20 - Xbox & Bethesda, and a lot about Starfield1:09:11 - PC Gaming Show1:15:40 - Round up, Capcom, What's out soon? 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

A new audio quality for the same old podcast! We Played... Euan plays a lot with Citizen Sleeper, Furi, Card Shark and Hunt: Showdown. All at the same time! (not really)Calum hints opinions of Songs of Conquest to be expanded later, and does some vampire killing with Vampire the Masquerade: Blood Hunt Timestamps... 0:30 - Microphone Chat, ASMR and ambient noise8:14 - Citizen Sleeper11:20 - Half Life: Alyx Workshop support15:20 - Furi17:30 - Hunt Showdown21:56 - Card Shark25:00 - Songs of Conquest29:26 - Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Hunt47:17 - Music Break50:11 - News - GameStop decide to get into NFTs as the market collapses55:50 - News - Norman Reedus just straight up said that Death Stranding 2 is happening59:14 - News - A bunch of potentially Silent Hill related images leaked and then were immediately taken down1:09:08 - News - Now the terrible cloud version of Kingdom Hearts for Switch will tell you not to play it.1:16:30 - News - EA might be queuing themselves up for a purchase1:21:23 - News - Head of

With not many video games to talk about we resort to....other things. We Played... Euan talks to the voice in his head in Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, shoots xenos in Aliens: Fireteam Elite and rolls dice in a strange new VN way in Citizen SleeperCalum talks about F1, apparently? Timestamps... 0:00 - Celebrating 30 with Taco Bell1:40 - Game Tumbleweed3:12 - Diablo Immortal, and why people cheat at games8:56 - Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe11:08 - Aliens: Fireteam Elite15:46 - Citizen Sleeper27:11 - F1. No Seriously.41:39 - News - Yuji Naka says Balan Wonderworld was unfinished, and he didn't contribute to the last six months.44:35 - News - Games are getting pulled from the iOS store cause they havnt been updated, despite being "done".47:11 - News - XBox Live had an outage that appears to still be persisting, bad enough where people can't start their digital games.49:16 - News - Square Enix have sold a bunch of big name IPs and studios to the Embracer Group Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompete

We're already starting to hit the dry spell, so we're talking about the games we haven't stopped playing this week. We Played... Euan becomes a ghost hunter in Ghostwire: Tokyo and looks for answers in NorcoCalum stands on his soapbox and has a lot of things to say about the Dragon Age seriesWe both started brick based comedy-fest Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Timestamps... 3:56 - Go get vaccinated11:18 - Horizon: Forbidden West12:29 - Ghostwire: Tokyo28:29 - Dragon Age48:43 - Music Interlude51:36 - Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga59:23 - Norco1:11:47 - Out of nowhere, Kingdom Hearts 4 was announced.1:20:33 - The FTC are not happy about Kotick getting any money from the Microsoft aquisition1:21:51 - The Ubisoft NFTs for Ghost Recon Breakpoint are no longer being sold, and are now officially worthless.1:23:43 - Breath of the Wild 2 has been delayed to 20231:25:14 - Sony announce their Game Pass-esque PlayStation Plus Premium, with games from every flavour of PlayStation in both streaming and download. I

We're already starting to hit the dry spell, so we're talking about the games we haven't stopped playing this week. We Played... Euan continues to play Horizon: Forbidden West and plays to type in cyberpunk narrative character action game ANNO: MutationemCalum continues his first Fromsoft game Sekiro and gushes over new Destiny 2 raid, Vow of the Disciple Timestamps... 1:53 - Early Morning Podcast Issues4:07 - Horizon: Forbidden West8:14 - ANNO: Mutationem16:25 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice19:21 - Yeah we're probably going to end up playing Elden Ring28:09 - Destiny 2 Vow of the Disciple53:38 - Music Break56:19 - News - Playstation State of Play1:01:22 - News - Square Enix is bad at judging "failed" games1:10:01 - News - ID@Xbox1:18:28 - News - Street Fighter 6s low effort logo1:19:31 - News - Epic bought Bandcamp1:20:52 - News - Bungie are making some quick tweaks to the new weapon crafting1:22:16 - News - Until Dawn devs announced a new game due in the summer1:23:28 - News - Haven got a cool "couples" update

After a one week break there's A LOT to talk about. Well two games, but there's A LOT to say. We Played... Euan explores and is perplexed by the imapct of the story in Horizon: Forbidden WestCalum talks at length about the good and bad in Destiny 2: The Witch QueenEuan dicusses the SteamFest Demos Timestamps... 0:30 - This is an Elden Ring free podcast3:36 - Horizon: Forbidden West43:56 - Music Interlude45:46 - Destiny 2: The Witch Queen1:46:33 - Neon White and Ixion Demos 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

Since everything got delayed last year, the next few months are about to get real busy. We Played... Calum martial arts some fools in Sifu, and confirms that he's pretty good at Final Fantasy XIVAfter messing with Apex for the first time in 6 months, Euan does some rhythm action John Woo in Pistol Whip, then pilots a steampunk mech with no manual both in and out of VR with Nauticrawl and A Rogue Escape Timestamps... 3:24 - Sifu22:50 - Sifu Reviews and CritisismThe Verge article we talk about can be found here28:52 - Apex Legends Season 1132:31 - Pistol Whip35:33 - Nauticrawl & A Rogue Escape39:33 - Musical Interlude42:08 - Lost Ark...kinda...46:30 - Calum is good at FFXIV53:26 - Sekiro57:32 - News - Lego Star Wars has a release date, and TT Games sounds like a terrible place to work1:01:57 - News - Ubisoft says that people just don't understand why NFTs are good for them.1:07:43 - News - Team17 announces and then almost immediately retracts their Worms based NFTs1:17:35 - News - Nintendo Directs continue

It's that time again where we talk best and least best of 2021. We ran a different format this year partially because we felt like it, partially because (as you will hear) we couldn't really fill out our normal categories with the games we had in front of us. Instead we just hit record and talked about what we liked and what we didn't, as well as the happenings in the industry. There is a podcast version of this video available in our normal podcast feed, search GameEngineStart wherever you get your podcasts. If you missed Part 1, you should go check that out first. Music - Jazzy Abstract Beat - Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/music/beats-jazzy-abstract-beat-11254/)