Gameenginestart Podcast

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. Part 2 coming soon. Music - Jazzy Abstract Beat - Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/music/beats-jazzy-abstract-beat-11254/)

We're back in 2022 and there's still games to talk about. It is never ending. We Played... Euan played space co-op shooter The Anacrusis and chucks heavy objects in first person in Hitman 3 VR.Calum talks in depth about the dynamics of high level raiding in Final Fantasy 14 - EndwalkerWe both played fake (but should be real) e-sport Windjammers 2 and shoot off about Guardians of the Galaxy Timestamps... 2:19 - Post Trauma2:59 - BPM: Bullets Per Minute3:25 - Hitman 3 VR7:27 - The Anacrusis10:54 - Game Pass and Game Reviews15:22 - Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raids35:08 - Windjammers 235:39 - Guardians of the Galaxy55:27 - News - Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard for $68.9m1:23:30 - News - Playstation provide details on their next VR Headset.1:26:26 - News - Cricket 22 embroiled in a dick-pic scandal. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

This will probably be the last podcast for a while, so we better talk about some video games. We Played... Euam finished SPG (that's shread playing game) Artful Escape and checks out Enigma Machine. He also attempts to play Oxenfree, but it does not go well.Calum talks new Apex Legends season content. Timestamps... 3:14 - We are very tired5:26 - Local COVID Updates13:45 - The Artful Escape18:19 - Oxenfree might be busted on PC?20:59 - Phasmophobia in VR hurts.22:57 - The Enigma Machine26:42 - Apex Legends34:12 - Music Intermission36:40 - News - FFXIV Endwalker is delayed48:04 - News - Steam Deck and Playdate are also delayed into next year51:01 - News - Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 are also also delayed into * checks notes * 2023?!55:29 - News - Microsoft are making much needed improvements to the Xbox App for PC57:33 - News - The Nintendo Switch Online Pass Expansion is making people very very unhappy.1:01:43 - News - MercurySteam left a bunch of developers out of the credits for Metroid Dread, saying that's jus

As a title suggests, spooky season approches. That means there are video games to talk about and the slow march of time to worry about for one of us. We Played... Euan played a Bunch of Demos and focuses on Pony Island developers new deckbuilder GameDec. Yes that was a weird sentence to writeCalum reverts to type in playing CCG Legends of Runeterra and has to see what the deal with Genshin Impact is and leads to a wider discussion of the "Gatcha" genre Timestamps... 2:55 - Game of the Year Starts Early10:29 - Euan played a load of demos15:59 - No-one Lives Under The Lighthouse18:05 - Gamedec30:39 - Music Interlude34:34 - Legends of Runeterra49:50 - Genshin Impact 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've hit video game season, so it seems right we talk about video games We Played... Euan plays former Skyrime mod turned strange mystery game The Forgotten City and gets in touch with his inner sad teen yet again in Life is Strange: True ColorsCalum bought a PS5 and played Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart to completion We both played Deathloop, then played Deathloop, then played Deathloop, then played Deathloop, then played Deathloop, then played Deathloop (it's a very clever joke i`m sure you've never seen anywhere else) Timestamps... 3:44 - The Forgotten City8:19 - Life is Strange: True Colors23:57 - Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart & Purchasing a PS533:28 - Deathloop1:04:47 - Music Intermission1:06:45 - News - The Skyrim "treasure fox" is real. Kind of.1:10:03 - News - Ever popped off so hard you've literally popped a joint?1:12:28 - News - The PlayStation showcased some big new announcements.1:32:09 - News - We remembered that we hadn't talked about Gamecom, specifically DokeV. So we did that. Intro Music

Calum's new PS5 is the surprise guest this week! Live and on the podcast! NOTE - This podcast discusses the story and ending of Twelve Minutes between 41:05 - 46:48. If that's something you care about, skip that section. We Played... Euan talks about a pair of disappointing games in Recompile and Twelve MinutesCalum discusses latest advancements in both looting and shooting in Destiny 2: Season of the Lost Timestamps... 0:39 - Live Playstation 5 "Unboxing"14:17 - Recompile29:29 - Twelve Minutes (Spoiler Free)41:05 - Twelve Minutes (Spoilers)46:48 - Destiny 2: Season of the Lost1:04:09 - Musical Intermission1:05:47 - Exactly two minutes of Evangelion Discussion1:07:41 - News - Sony announced the next big Playstation showcase, September 9th1:08:38 - News - Bungie announce and detail the next big Destiny 2 expansion1:13:55 - News - Sony announce, and then back off on the idea, that Horizon: Forbidden West will have no PS4 to PS5 upgrade path outside the $100+ editions of the game.1:22:53 - News - Steam's blanket

Honestly we talk about sports for far too long. No joke. Like actual sports. We Played... Euan plays bizarre styled horror/narrative game Mundaun, gives us his occasional VR Update, and talks about how PC game pass is totally brokenCalum give an Apex Legends Season 10 review and talks about a true indie gem in Death's Door Timestamps... 1:24 - The Olympics21:05 - Mundaun28:21 - VR Update (Contractors, The Secret of Retropolis, Maskmaker)32:43 - The Game Pass Ecosystem is Broken, Cross Play is strange.43:30 - New Apex Legends Season56:20 - Music Break57:53 - Deaths Door1:08:03 - News - Playstation 5 Beta Firmware supports M2 drives, they are extortionate.1:11:13 - News - Nintendo's profits are down, but it's only cause Animal Crossing did gangbusters.1:12:28 - News - Xsolla fired 150 based on big data from their work interactions, and that's not even the worst bit.1:20:51 - News - Activison Blizzard had their investor call in the wake of the abysmal workplace culture reporting and a lawsuit. It went kind of ho

We battle blazing temperatures to bring you the video game chat you need! We Played... Euan played Gears of War 5, for reasons, and is floored by The Last Stop. He can't really explain why. Just trust himCalum goes back to the MOBA genre with Pokemon UniteWe both played Boomerang X. The shooter both impressed and confused at the same time. Timestamps... 13:45 - Gears 521:45 - Last Stop44:24 - Pokemon Unite1:13:00 - MUSIC BREAK1:15:30 - Boomerang X1:32:42 - News - Someone leaked British military secrets to complain a developer wasn't doing their job right1:40:45 - News - EA Play live happened, and the biggest thing was a Dead Space remake1:46:02 - News - DigitalFoundry confirmed reports that removing DRM from RE:Village fixes the PC performance issues.1:49:33 - News - The state of California sued Activision Blizzard for widespread harassment of women and says that they are in "violation of state civil rights"1:54:16 - News - Valve announces the Steam Deck, a handheld Linux based console that plays the whole St

E3 happened, and since we couldn't be in the same room this year we thought we should dump our opinions out in public even though no-one asked. That's what you do on a podcast right? Timestamps... 4:41 - Summer Games Fest Kickoff15:49 - Ubisoft26:07 - Xbox & Bethesda40:13 - Square Enix47:43 - Sam Barlow's New Game + Euan has played every Silent Hill Game51:46 - Capcom53:43 - Nintendo1:07:56 - The Twitch Co-Streaming Disaster (a.k.a. The DMCA Process has Totally Broken Twitch). 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 got the E3 sweats! Honestly it's not because it's roasting outside... We Played... Euan deals with trains in Metro Exodus and Necromunda: Hired Gun, and tries to get away with stylish murder in Overboard!Calum finished Mass Effect 2 for the billionth time, and has a dodge-brawl in Knockout City Timestamps... 6:58 - Metro Exodus9:28 - Necromunda: Hired Gun22:47 - Overboard!30:35 - Mass Effect 241:02 - Knockout City58:29 - Musical Interlude1:00:58 - News - E3 Is Happening1:06:21 - News - Want a PS3 version of Gears 3?1:08:03 - News - The PS5 will be profitable in June.1:10:59 - News - FFVII Integrade has a ridiculous save transfer system, like apparently every PS4 to PS5 game.1:14:38 - News - It looks like Sony may have forced Gearbox to exclude Playstation for its Borderlands 3 Cross Play plans.1:17:47 - News - Far Cry 6 is just "asking questions", it's not political. Apparently. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.

It's our yearly Eurovision review podcast. No guesses as to who shows up. We Played... Euan finishes Resident Evil: Village and does as instructed in Hardspace: ShipbreakerCalum talks the new Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer and the many things there in.We both talk at length about a remaster of one of the best video game trilogies ever, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Timestamps... 16:42 - Resident Evil: Village31:23 - Hardspace: Shipbreaker40:54 - Destiny 2 Season59:31 - Music Intermission1:02:07 - Destiny 2 Transmog Controversy1:10:59 - Mass Effect: Legendary Edition1:25:04 - Overwatch 2 is moving to 5v5 removing a Tank class from each side, along with other details.1:28:04 - Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest happened, along with a memorial for late Bezerk Manga artist Miura Kentarō.1:32:12 - Timesplitters is coming back. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbib

You want everything from old Bioware games to the latest in Playstation 5 showpieces? How about a "short show" that lasted two hours? This is probably the episode for you. We Played... Calum revisits Dragon Age: Origins as best he can on a modern machine, and we talk about the new Apex Legends game mode and legend that came with the new season.Euan actually plays a PS5 exclusive with roguelike shooter Returnal and confirms that big lady big in Resident Evil: Village Timestamps... 2:47 - Dragon Age: Origins17:47 - Apex Legends31:41 - Returnal57:41 - Musical Interlude1:00:21 - Resident Evil: Village1:15:50 - News - Returnal got some bad patches1:17:50 - News - Humble Bundle "reconsidering" their slider changes1:18:57 - News - Steam sued after threatening a developer with delisting after they want to take their game to other platforms at a lower price point1:21:45 - News - The fallout from the Epic vs Apple court case hits more than just those two companies Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.

We somehow manage to talk about video games in this current time where they don't really exist. It's a real skill we have. We Played... Euan catches up with the 2019 modern classic Disco Elysium with it's "Final Cut" update, and has caught the Apex Legends bug again. A bug that has never left CalumCalum talks FFXIV Patch 5.5 (among other things) and his triumphant return to Destiny 2 Want to jump to something specific?... 12:51 - Final Fantasy XIV 28:49 - Destiny 240:21 - Apex Legends42:24 - Disco Elysium - Final Cut53:54 - Oddworld: Soulstorm54:46 - Resident Evil: Village Demo1:00:59 - Music Interlude1:03:40 - News - Destiny is adding Transmogs, noone is happy.1:22:30 - News - Sony invests $200m in Epic1:27:35 - News - CDPR reveal they sold 13.7m copies of Cyberpunk 2077, and processed 30,000 refunds, not including Sony/Microsoft stores.1:31:18 - News - Humble caps the charity donation of their bundles at 15%. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee

Surprisingly, we lied when we said there wouldn't be any games to play. We played loads! We Played... Euan finished The Medium and was unimpressed, enjoyed Immortals Fenyx Rising: Myths of the Eastern Realm DLC and was incredibly shocked by the existence of Spacebase StartopiaCalum talks at length about Monster Hunter: Rise Want to jump to something specific?... 2:39 - The Medium4:06 - Immortals: Fenyx Rising: Myths of the Eastern Realm DLC8:49 - Starbase Startopia28:39 - Apex Legends31:27 - Monster Hunter: Rise55:31 - Music Interlude58:20 - News - Upcoming Final Fantasy XIV patch1:03:39 - News - Sony show the controllers for the next version of PSVR1:06:50 - News - Turns out Six Days in Fallujah has politics after all?1:11:00 - News - Activision Blizzard let their Esports division go, Bobby Kotick gets more bonuses.1:12:07 - News - Sony involved in partnership that buys the Evo fighting game tournament1:17:01 - News - Sony are closing PS3, PSP and PSVita storefronts in the next few months1:22:01 - News - Tec

The big one, what's the five best games that we can agree on that game out this year. This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel There will be a new category every few days, so keep an eye on the site for details. Music Credits Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.com)

Our other music category, where we find the one track that we couldn't stop playing all year. This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel There will be a new category every few days, so keep an eye on the site for details. Music Credits Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.com)

Games look really good in 2020, so let's talk about some of the best looking ones. This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel There will be a new category every few days, so keep an eye on the site for details. Music Credits Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.com)

It's the best name we can come up with, that covers writing, performance and VO. Better suggestions are welcome. This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel There will be a new category every few days, so keep an eye on the site for details. Music Credits Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.com)

I mean… avoiding the obvious… it's fair to say there was some news this year. This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel There will be a new category every few days, so keep an eye on the site for details. Music Credits Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.com)

Already in March and we're talking about games that came out years ago. It's a slow start to the year folks. We Played... Euan talks about the new episode of Necrobarista and Maquette makes him feel very stupid, and not necessarily about the puzzles.Calum continues to play Final Fantasy 14 and finally tried Star War Jedi Fallen Order.We both have a lot to say about the Outriders Demo. Not much of that is positive. Want to jump to something specific?... 3:27 - Necrobarista5:17 - Maquette18:05 - Final Fantasy 1423:04 - Jedi: Fallen Order36:13 - Outriders Demo1:03:54 - Music Interlude1:05:25 - News1:06:57 - Destiny abandons sunsetting, details other seasonal improvements1:12:15 - Elaborate win-trading scheme in Destiny is massively complicated1:22:58 - Google abandoning internal development leaves game in completely broken state1:25:11 - Watch Dogs: Legion multiplayer gets last minute delay on PC1:27:52 - People are very into the new K-Pop Killer in Dead by Daylight1:30:31 - Playstation had a State of Play strea