Gameenginestart Podcast

It looks like Calum is going to talk about Bravely Default again this episode but trust me it doesn't happen. On this episode... Intermission Music... A Settlement in the Red Bluffs - Yasunori Nishiki - OCTOPATH TRAVELER Original Soundtrack Amazon | iTunes We Played... Euan has joined Calum in playing Hollow Knight, as well as returning to Destiny 2 and Shenzen I/O Calum finishes Danganronpa with much acclaim, and tries new JRPG Octopath Traveller ...and more! In News... More DLC characters are coming to Dragonball FighterZ, and they are... Goku and Vegeta? It's 2018, and there is a Metal Gear Solid 5 patch coming? F2P 3rd person shooter Raiders of the Broken Planet is being relaunched as Spacelords, a ... 3rd person F2p shooter? ... 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

Euan recovers from the horrors of last week, but we are all still dying in the heat. Even video games are harder to play. On this episode... Intermission Music... What Lies Beneath - Jesse Harlin - Yoku's Island Express (Original Video Game Soundtrack) Amazon | Steam DLC | Apple Music We Played... Euan finishes pinball-vania Yoku's Island Express and sees the future of Life is Strange in The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit Calum betrays his better judgment and tries a japanese visual novel in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc ...and more! In News... Areanet, developers of Guild Wars 2, have fired two of their developers for what they perceived as tweets attacking the games community. The content of the messages aside, the company not standing behind their devs sets a very dangerous precedent for public facing developers. Sony are being called out on their practices of not allowing full cross platform play with other systems, starting with Minecraft, now with Fortnite, and in the future with Fall

Short one this week as Euan's own body fights against the tyranny of grass in the air. On this episode... We Played... Calum continues his journeys in Pillars of Eternity 2, and creates a character in Path of Exile so good even the server can't keep up with him! He also explores a very different world in Hollow Knight, now on switch. Euan enters VR stealth robot land in Budget Cuts and explores a pinball-based landscape in Yoku's Island Express In News... THERE IS NO NEWS! Due to the previously mentioned battlefield that is Euan's innards. 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

In lieu of an actual podcast this week, the brothers talk about E3. Predictions, suggestions, wild SSX based theories abound ahead of the best weekend on the gaming calendar. On this episode... We run through all of the press conferences and talk about what we know, what we think we know, and the fact that another year will probably go by without a Gitaroo Man HD Remaster. 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 100% European on this show. All the best chats about Eurovision, royal weddings...tea...other things... On this episode... Intermission Music... Machine Learning - Fingerspit - The Red Strings Club Original Soundtrack Bandcamp We Played... Calum continues the journey of The Watcher in Pillars of Eternity 2:Deadfire, and begins a long, intimidating journey into why Rainbow 6: Siege is so damn popular Euan uses totally not lighsabers to hit to the beat in Beat Saber, as well as a duo of realistic VR shooters with Pavlov VR and Onward In News... Rage 2 was not the game anyone expected to be talking about, but it's coming. Treyarch had their big BLOPS4 announcement event, and the two rumours of "no single player campaign" and "battle royale" are both 100% confirmed There is a new Halo coming, and it's an arcade machine? Nintendo put out pricing and extra details around their online service that you will need to buy to play the three multiplayer games that exist on Switch. ...and more! Intro M

Our hands smell like cardboard (not a euphemism) but there is a podcast to record! Although there's also this motorbike to build... On this episode... Intermission Music... Vagrant Song (Deep South) - Ryan Ike - Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Original Game Soundtrack) Bandcamp We Played... Euan continues his recent discovery of the long running series with Yakuza 6 and tries David Cage's Detroit: Become Human's Demo We both punch cardboard to make glorious machines with Nintendo Labo and call for boy in God of War In News... Quantic Dream is suing Le Monde and Mediapart, well respected French news outlets, for reports around the poor working conditions at the studio. Also, the way that Kotaku found this out was not exactly typical... Amongst a collection of fixes and tweaks, Maxis have made the forward thinking move to rename the "Insane" trait to "Erratic". Firewatch developers Campo Santo have been acquired by Valve Epic managed to change the player usage of shotguns in Fortnite purely by cha

Calum returns from an intravenous injection straight from slam town. God, I hate that I typed that. On this episode... Intermission Music... Closer - Zamilska - Ruiner OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan continues AC: Origins, regresses to early PC years with The Riddle of Master Lu, and discovers a hidden gem in Ruiner Calum also goes back to his origins with Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, and brings unity to the fantasy world of Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom. Oh, he also played Sonic Forces. Yeah I know... In News... Digital Extremes, developers of Warframe, decided to pull a microtransaction from the game because a player used it too much. Digital CCG Shadowverse has taken some flak for stealing art from Magic: The Gathering A new challenger has approached the Smash Bros. Melee EVO tournament, namely Arc System Works' President Minoru Kidooka Just to close the loop on the Star Wars Battlefront 2 story, their latest update has unlocked all characters, and moved the paid currency to purchasing

This is it, the finale! It all comes down to this. Let's all sit together and create an arbitrary list of the 5 best games of the year, and crown a winner.

You know it's going to be a good discussion when Calum cracks his knuckles as it starts. As well as talking about some real bad games, we look at the most important news of the year, and the best bit of in-game thespianism. That's a word right?

Euan feels very old because he doesn't understand the kids and their Fortnites. On this episode... Intermission Music... Aribeth de Tylmarande - BioWare - Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition Soundtrack GoG (with game) We Played... Euan gets dinner to go with PUBG Mobile and tries again to see if Star Citizen is a video game yet (answer: NAH) Calum kills many many rats in Warhammer: Vermintide 2 We talk about strange Dickensian adventure game The Council and escape the big house in A Way Out ...and more! In News... .. we don't have any... cause our news tracker died...sorry... ...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

The deliberations cannot be stopped! Do you like dope head wear? How about sweet tunes? Nuanced writing and storytelling? We have something for you regardless of your preference!

We continue with our Game of the Year discussions with two of our favourite categories. We have our first music category, Best Original Track, and one of the most fascinating chats about the Best Moment in 2017

It all starts here! We begin our much belated Game of the Year discussions with the first three categories, 2017's 20xx Game of the Year, Best Looking Game and Best VR Thing.

Internet returns to Calum, and so too does the show! On this episode... Intermission Music... Diggin It Baby - 2 Mello - Memories Of Tokyo​-​To: An Ode To Jet Set Radio Bandcamp We Played... Euan continues doing horrible things to simulated humans in Oxygen Not Included and tries communist Limbo-like Black: The Fall Calum finally gets his hands on Bayonetta 2 and spends a lot of time staring at Into the Breach We both don our big beards and bigger pickaxes in Deep Rock Galactic ...and more! In News... The insanely popular Fortnight Battle Royale is coming to mobile, with cross-platform progression and servers, with a pretty conspicuous Sony shaped hole. Metal Gear Survive seems to be a disappointing release, and now even more so since Konami has rolled out the micro-transactions. They aren't pretty. If you have an Amazon Prime account, you can pick up the PC version of the Devil May Cry HD collection for free, but it might be impossible to play if you have a high refresh rate monitor. DOTA 2 a

We all make mistakes. Some ethical, some in our choices in video games. You be the judge at who is worse. On this episode... Intermission Music... Madeline and Theo - Lena Raine - Celeste OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan plays The Fall: Part 2, the continuing tale of AIs, Robots and all those future ethical issues. Calum goes back to playing World of Warcraft... look he was bored OK... We both played some Warframe and flew around all crazy like the robot ninjas we are. ...and more! In News... A selection of Nintendo news with official movie announcements, Mario Kart coming to smartphones and a date for when you are going to have to start paying for Switch online The world finally triggered the hidden Metal Gear Solid V cut-scene that talks about how happy Diamond Dogs are that everyone has removed their nukes. Except they didn't. It was a bug. ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting - News Intro

We're going to do it. We're going to ruin million of investment in crypto futures! Or we'll just talk about video games again. On this episode... Intermission Music... This World Is Not My Home - The Bedquilt Ramblers - Kentucky Route Zero Act VI Bandcamp We Played... Euan finished  Zelda:BotW in surprising fashion, plays the almost incomprehensible Angels Fall First, and assembles extra-terrestrial assembly lines in Oxygen Not Included We both play MGS1 styled Never Stop Sneakin' and the Metal Gear Survive Beta In News... Paragon is shutting down, despite never leaving beta, with the statement "there isn’t a clear path for us to grow Paragon into a MOBA that retains enough players to be sustainable". Someone is trying to actively encode the Trump presidency into a Civilisation VI civilisation, by actually talking to the community and voting on what should be there. ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) New

The crew are at it again. It being video games, and "dem boys" being the two idiots that host this show. I'm sorry. On this episode... Intermission Music... Spike in a Rail - Darren Korb - Bastion OST Amazon | Bandcamp | Apple Music We Played... Euan briefly talks about picture puzzle game Goroga and his historical time travel experience in CoD WWII + Zombies Calum very VERY quickly enters the King of Iron Fist in Tekken 7 (more later) and does some crimes and has many laughs in GTAV Online We went into the terrifying realm of VRChat, and left changed people. In News... Some enterprising conservationists have preserved 17 terabytes of data from the Miiverse and made it available to be searched online. The developers of Rebel Galaxy pitched a Star Wars space combat game to EA, and there is video evidence The gold rush continues, with F2P hero shooter announcing a Battle Royal mode, imaginatively named "Battlegrounds" Oxenfree developers Night School Studio have revealed details of their new game,

We welcome Euan back from his business overseas. Business guns are still smoking I assure you. On this episode... Intermission Music... Knife Fight - Alec Holowka - Night in the Woods Vol. 1: At The End Of Everything Bandcamp | Steam (DLC) We Played... Euan regales with tales from Japan, featuring  Japanese Arcades and got into some Switch games. He also talks about coming of age adventure game Night in the Woods Calum works through his back-log, starting with Neir:Automata. He is also SO FUCKING SAD ABOUT Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. In News... EA continue to try and claw back the PR nightmare that Star Wars: Battlefront II has become, with further changes to the progression. Sega have announced a new Valkyria Chronicles for all the home consoles. Marvel Heroes is shutting down, and taking the dev studio Gazillion with it. Here's a new instalment of "games have weird patch notes". There's a new Mega Man coming, and it looks like a direct callout to Mighty No. 9. ...and more! Intro Music -

We aren't trying to ignore our GoTY backlog. Honestly we aren't! On this episode... Intermission Music... New Heights in El Machino - El Huervo - SteamWorld Dig 2 OST Steam (DLC) | Bandcamp | GoG We Played... Euan talks about Life is Strange: Beyond the Storm Ep2 and all it's teen drama. He also continues his self imposed prison escape of trying to complete Neir: Automata. Calum played the bizarre Japanese console hunt Game Hidden by Mom 2, and restarted his road trip with the boys of Final Fantasy 15. He also started the sequel to Bravely Default, Bravely Second but lets not talk about that... In News... Star Wars: Battlefront II went live for EA Access, and people are not happy about the amount of time it would take to grind out enough currency to unlock everything. Actually "not happy" is a massive understatement. Blizzcon happened, with a few interesting announcements including official WoW Classic servers and some better features for competitive Overwatch streaming. EA has bought Respawn for $4

Never disrupt a man during his sensory deprivation deep thought session. You never know the result. On this episode... Intermission Music... Title Theme - monomer - The Mummy Demastered (Original Video Game Soundtrack) Amazon UK | iTunes UK We Played... Euan played the new Tom Francis game Heat Signature, and enjoys exploding people out into the cold vacuum of space We talk at great length (spoiler-free) about Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Honestly we talk a lot about everything in this game. It's very good. In News... Sony had their Media Showcase at Paris Games Week, and there was some very cool looking stuff on show, as well as some worrying trailer trends. After the loot crate complaints from a few recent titles,  EA have scaled back the plans for their Battlefront II implementation of them. Activision has been awarded a slimy sounding patent, describing how to influence multiplayer matchmaking in a way to get people to spend more money on blind boxes. Swery's new White Owls studio are sel