Gameenginestart Podcast

For our final segment, we have the absolute best and worst that 2018 had to offer. A fitting finale. Worst Game - 00:12 Game of the Year - 11:08 There is also a podcast version of this video available on the site or via your podcast subscription. See the site for more details Intro Music Music from https://filmmusic.io "Chill Wave" by Kevin MacLeod Website: https://incompetech.com Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) End Music Sci Fi - Bensound - https://www.bensound.com

Stories, music and news this time around, need to cover all the video game bases. Best Narrative - 00:12 Most Important News - 34:04 Best Soundtrack - 1:04:39 There is also a video version of this podcast available on the site or via our YouTube page. Intro Music Music from https://filmmusic.io "Chill Wave" by Kevin MacLeod Website: https://incompetech.com Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) End Music Sci Fi - Bensound - https://www.bensound.com

It's only two categories this time round, but the second is a real doozy. Best Original Track - 00:12 Best Moment - 16:06 There is also a video version of this podcast available on the site or via our YouTube page. Intro Music Music from https://filmmusic.io "Chill Wave" by Kevin MacLeod Website: https://incompetech.com Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) End Music Sci Fi - Bensound - https://www.bensound.com

Let's get this started. 20xx Game of the Year - 00:12 Best Looking Game - 28:21 Most Disappointing - 50:44 There is also a video version of this podcast available on the site or via our YouTube page. Intro Music Music from https://filmmusic.io "Chill Wave" by Kevin MacLeod Website: https://incompetech.com Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) End Music Sci Fi - Bensound - https://www.bensound.com

Even Eurovision can't stop the video game drought. Luckily we still found games to talk about. We Played... Euan played strange adventure game Unforseen Incidents and, of course, strangely real world-like hacking game NITE Team 4Calum screams and swings medieval weaponry in Mordhau and casually explores the persistent online version of Tamriel in Elder Scrolls Online In The News... World of Warcraft Classic has launched, and players are forgetting just how buggy it was at the time.The first Division 2 raid has dropped, and it's missing matchmaking and console players are having some trouble with it.The PC game store slugfest continues, with Epic managing to piss off a lot of their developer partners with a not fully thought through sale.There has been some upheaval with the traditional 3 studio model for Call of Duty development, which has an effect on the 2020 game....and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com

We expected this show to be short. Even when there aren't video games, we still manage to talk about video games for over an hour. We Played... Calum talks about the incredibly mild Destiny 2 controversy during the spring event "The Revelry" Euan takes a very British jaunt to another planet in 39 Days to Mars and talks about the staggering creativity already in the Dreams Early Access event In The News... GameInformer wrote a quick piece saying that despite Randy Pitchford announcing there will be no microtransactions in Borderlands 3, they will in fact be selling cosmetics. Randy then handled it in a very mature and calm manner.Square Enix have a new joint advertising partnership between Just Cause 4 and ...anti-virus company BitDefender?The Persona 5 spin off games have been announced with one being a Musou game from Omega Force. Didn't see that coming.Bioware have pushed back their Anthem plans so that they can prioritize "things like bug fixes, stability and game flow"...and more! Intro Music - There It I

Calum returns to existence after his wrestle based isolation! We Played... Calum played Pathfinder:Kingmaker,and found its surprisingly important to the current difficulty discourse.Euan is enjoying Yoshi's Crafted World and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden for very different reasons. In The News... Jason Schreier is at it again, with a huge article outlining how Anthem ended up in the state it was at launch.Respawn provided more details for Jedi: Fallen Order, their Star Wars single player action adventure coming in November.PSN name changes are finally here, and they sound like they could really mess up some old games.Halo: The Master Chief collection is coming to PC, via the Microsoft Store as well as Steam, strangely enough.CCP has removed a member of their Eve Online Council of Stellar Management, who also happens to be a politician in real life, for "sharing confidential information"...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin Mac

After last week, we figured everyone would want some discussion of some traditional, grounded video games. So Devil May Cry 5... We Played... Calum tries the new offers from the Drifter in Destiny 2 Season of the Drifter and participates in the stylish, hard, wacko action in Devil May Cry 5.Euan tries British FMV game Late Shift, manages life and thrall in Cultist Simulator, and plays with mechs in Daemon X MachinaWe've both played a LOT of The Division 2 In The News... Google have announced Stadia, their first move into gaming with a streaming solution that could have profound effects on games in more ways than you might thinkMicrosoft are releasing Halo: The Master Chief collection on PC finally, and it's surprisingly also coming to Steam.Vivendi have sold their final shares in Ubisoft, letting them escape the perpetual shadow of takeover.Yakuza developer RGG Studio have announced that they will be recasting actor Kyohei Hamura in their next game Judgement, after he was charged with cocaine possession, a bi

The regular podcast will return as normal next week, but to tide you over you can find our Kingdom Hearts 3 Spoilercast on the site on Wednesday, as well as some more goodies later on in the week. Keep an eye on the site for more! 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

I know the start of this show will make it sound like we are real adults. Trust me, we are just as scared of that idea as you are. We Played... Euan finishes 1/4 of Resident Evil 2 and seems to enjoy much of his experience. Calum has finished Kingdom Hearts 3, more from that will come later. We, like seemingly the entire rest of the world, have been playing Apex Legends. We feel secure in saying it's very good. In The News... While it's still only a rumour, there are reports out there that Microsoft may be bringing the Xbox Game Pass to Switch via their game streaming service.The Corporate VP of XBox had some wild takes on criticism of Anthem's road block "tombs" quest, directly hitting out at reviewers for being bad at games. We missed this last time, but Bungie have separated from Activision and taken Destiny with them.There was a Nintendo Direct, which brought some cool new announcements... and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevi

It's 2019 and we are still doing this huh? And you are still listening? Well, alright then....here we go. We Played... We both played Resident Evil 2 and discover it does the impossible task of being a game that is both modern and from 1995.Euan continues his other existence in Life is Strange 2 Episode 2Kingdom Hearts 3 is out and Calum is very excited. 14 years to conclude a story no one understands. In The News... Depending on how far down the conspriracy theory hole you want to go, the spat between SpacialOS and Unity is either a degradation of inter company negotiation, or a carefully planned PR move involving Epic.Farming Simulator devs Giants Software are setting up a €250,000 esports league for the game, and we are legit excited about it.Metriod Prime 4 has been totally scrapped and rebooted, bringing on Retro Studios to advise, with no indication of a new release window.The Division 2, Ubisoft's entirely non-political game set in DC about the fall of the US government, and where the devs are send

The last show before the holiday season, and the even more important GOTY season! Oh god we have to do that don't we?! We Played... Euan finishes Hitman 2 and fails to talk about what The Hex actually is. It's cool though.Calum becomes the mobile general in Command and Conquer: Rivals and ganks the mid lane in Artifact. That sounds like a joke, that's a thing you can actually do in that card game. In The News... The Game Awards and the Kinda Funny Games Showcase both happened while we were away, with a long list of announcements and trailersEpic Games is the first company to make moves in direct competition to Steam, by launching their own digital PC store with a bunch of exclusives.With the demise of the Steam Link hardware, Valve have released a version of the Steam Link software designed to run on a Raspberry PiAlongside Fallout 76 apparently being a poor quality game, the $200 collectors edition also shipped with a poor quality bag when a nice canvas one was promised. This became A THING.2 Milly has offic

Winter rolls in and games slow down. I'm trying to distract from the fact there is more Destiny talk this show (although this time Calum gets involved). We Played... Euan engages the virtual hyperdrives in From Other Suns and throws many objects in Hitman 2Calum caved to sale pressure and played Destiny 2: Forsaken. He's not proud of himself In The News... The beta for Valve's digital card game Artifact went live at the weekend, and the monetisation structure of the game seems to be surprising people coming from Hearthstone or have never played paper MTGSony have announced they will not be present at E3 2019, and becoming the first "headline" company to pull out of the show altogether.Three of the four DLC packs coming for Final Fantasy XV have been cancelled. The one remaining DLC will be out in March next year.The Spyro remaster released last week has been received well, except for the fact that it has no subtitles. Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Ho

I was going to make cowboy jokes here but it seems too obvious somehow...  We Played... Euan finished Return of the Obra Dinn, and has some things to say about the endingCalum gets some funky beats in Lethal League Blaze and talks (again)) about the limited time "raid" in Monster Hunter WorldWe both adopt the outlaw life with Red Dead Redemption 2 In The News... Hellgate: London is back? Apparently?Blizzcon happened, and brought with it a flurry of announcements, such as...a new Overwatch characterfree copies of base Destiny 2 for everyonea remaster of Warcraft 3a mobile version of Diablo that has caused some real manbaby-esque reactions from some corners of the internet. 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

Getting into late October, imagine there are cobwebs and bats and skeletons and what not around. They might be important, but not more than video games. We Played... Euan (for whatever reason) has a "party" with Super Mario Party and investigates many deaths on an ancient ship in Return of the Obra DinnCalum runs a fantasy shop...shoppe?...shop in Moonligher and screams at the top of his voice in Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise In The News... The conversation around working conditions in Rockstar Games studios has once again bubbled up after some choice quotes taken from an interview with one of the Housers.Microsoft has publically announced their game streaming service, Project xCloud, with a limited beta starting soon.and more... 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

I want to say there's no Destiny talk, but that's a lie. There's a lot MORE chat about PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING THOUGH. THAT'S BETTER RIGHT?!?! We Played... Euan started a new chapter in Life is Strange 2 and replays an old favorite in TransistorCalum becomes BEST FRIENDS with the upper echelons of wrestling talent in Fire Pro Wrestling World, and commands an army of surprisingly charming orcs in Shadow of War  In The News... The closure of Telltale Games has sent ripples through the industry, with most of the staff being laid-off with no warning, no severance and a weeks worth of medical insurance.The creatives behind the Zero Escape and Danganronpa series have formed a new studio and announced their first new game, Death March Club. Calum is happy.The rumbles are getting louder that the much requested PSN name change is coming.October has a little unexpected surprise for XCOM 2 fans (like me), with some free DLC remastering stuff from the original XCOM as well as some stand alone missions that bridge the gap

I tried to stop him. I really did. Euan talks about Destiny some more... We Played... Yea Euan played Destiny 2 : Forsaken or something. He also managed a cyberpunk anti-terrorist unit in Frozen Synapse 2We both play Marvel's Spiderman, and I can't think of a non-cliche post joke so i'll just say we played it and it's amazing. In The News... Nintendo hit play on a new Direct, and had some cool announcements, as well as some top shelf Animal Crossing trolling.The developers of Yakuza have announced a new game in a similar mould but with an investigation and courtroom drama angle. Steam have finally done what they said they would, and started to approve fully uncensored adult games.and more... 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

When a free lunch is at stake, the brothers try (and fail) to go as fast as possible on this podcast We Played... Euan sees the latest teenage anime war simulator in the Valkyria Chronicles 4 Demo, sees the future of a past great with Two Point Hospital and and makes a HORRIBLE MISTAKE by choosing to play more Destiny 2.Calum finally "gets" Monster Hunter World, sees another class of murderous high school kids in Danganropa 2:Goodbye Despair and finds a new time sink in Graveyard Keeper . In The News... Just when you thought that the phenomenon that is Fortnite couldn't get stranger, people are mobbing electronics stores and loading it on demo Samsungs, just to get a skin.Shenmue III has a date, after multiple delays. It's almost exactly a year away.Supermassive Games, the devs behind Until Dawn, have announced their new project. It's a series of independent horror titles that they are calling The Dark Pictures Anthology.Hitman 2 is getting all of the maps from the first game, updated to use the new mechanics

Euan wanted to be in a cat cafe. Instead he recorded a podcast. This is his story. On this episode... Intermission Music... Stardust Speedway Zone (Act 2) - Tee Lopes, Naofumi Hataya - Sonic Mania (Original Soundtrack) [Selected Edition] iTunes | Amazon MP3 | Google Play We Played... Calum explores the new wold of killing dinosaurs in Monster Hunter World, and then goes way back to Planescape:Torment Euan experiences the best game of last year in a new way in Hellblade VR, and runs a cyberpunk bar in The Red Strings Club ...and more! In News... IGN had a helluva week, dealing with an editor who was caught plagiarising parts of a review from a YouTube channel, and as it turns out has been at this for quite a while... Discord looks like the latest player in the digital game store race. The UI in NeiR: Automata was one of the (few) bits Euan liked, and the designer wrote a great little blog post on it's origin. The Switch port of The World Ends With You finally has a date, October 12th Someone mo

We're experimenting with recording times this week. Does it work? Who knows, but there are still video games. On this episode... Intermission Music... Sam's Hunting Trip - Jeff Russo - What Remains of Edith Finch Original Score iTunes | Amazon | Steam (DLC) We Played... Euan plays the latest chapter of RPG/Adventure mash up The Council. Calum continues the stories of Octopath Traveller, and takes a look at uniquely styled 4x game Endless Legend. We both go back  to No Man's Sky, for the NEXT update, in hopes that it breathes life into it's incredibly rocky launch. ...and more! In News... Epic are bypassing the Google Play store for the Android release of Fortnite, and it feels like a really bad idea for consumers. GameEngineStart's Game of the Year 2017 has a VR version out now, and it looks like it needs a pretty hefty machine to run it. People are "removing" pieces of armour, in solidarity with a beloved character that was killed in the latest expansion. DOTA 2 players did some math and foun