Gameenginestart Podcast

You say I'm just a punk. And useless junk. Game theme lyrics of the year... On this episode... Intermission Music... Carnival Kerfuffle - Kristofer Maddigan - Cuphead - Original Soundtrack Bandcamp | Steam (DLC) We Played... Euan continues to look to the past with the SNES Classic, and revisiting Wolfenstein: The New Order in preparation for the sequel later this year. Calum chills out in the mud in Steamworld Dig 2, then is infuriated in the best possible way by Cuphead Also Dandy Dungeon is a thing.....yea You Should Watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQknBJo4aBQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_bdRDjElSI&t=1s In News... EA are closing down Visceral Games, and moving their much awaited Star Wars game to a new studio to be entirely reworked. You can hear Calum screaming in pain from here. That insane Chinese Overwatch clone we talked about before is getting sued from Blizzard China. Mike Laidlaw, BioWare creative director who has been involved in both Mass Effect and Dragon Age, is lea

I love video games, really I do. But there's a lot right now, can we just stop for a month? On this episode... Intermission Music... Surviving Exile - Darren Korb - Pyre OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan goes back to Kamurocho with Yakuza Kiwami, wishes pixels were edible in Cook, Serve, Delicious 2, and has a strange experience in Lone Echo Calum does his job and plays new CRPG Divinity Original Sin 2 In News... Nintendo are cracking down on live streaming their games on YouTube, unless you are not a member of their Partner Program, then it's OK? Atlus went after a PS3 emulator and it's developers, trying to shut down their site and Patreon, simply cause they were showing footage of Persona 5 on it. Those previously passive aliens that were found in Elite: Dangerous? Their blowing pilots out of the sky now. Swery's new game will have an option to change what his mystery towns occupants will turn into at night. Cats or dogs, your choice. ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (inco

It's all Destiny all the time round these parts. Now go away, I have rep to grind On this episode... Intermission Music... Still Alive - Lisa Miskovsky - Still Alive (The Theme From Mirror's Edge) [The Remixes] Amazon MP3 We Played... Euan talks about sci-fi horror game Observer, a game which is distinctly not Destiny 2 Calum briefly expands on the evolution of Absolver and a small taste of Divinity Original Sin 2 before a deeper dive on the next show. Both of these games are also not Destiny 2 Believe it or not, we both played a LOT of Destiny 2 and think it's pretty great. In News... Blizzard are going to open their own esports arena in LA, to hold their own events for Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and World of Warcraft. Epic switched on PS4 and XBox One cross play by accident for Fortnite, and then promptly switched it off. Maybe it's not as difficult as people are claiming? The Switch will be the first console to both have Mario and the Doomslayer on it, when Doom and Wolfenstein

Euan's too exhausted to do anything except sit in a room with a microphone and talk about video games. Wait, that's every two weeks here. Oh well, thing's never change. On this episode... Intermission Music... Red Flag - Dan le Sac - Subsurface Circular OST Bandcamp We Played... Euan played a whole bunch of things with his week off. Finishing Horizon:Zero Dawn, trying a lot of new VR Stuff, starting a new season of Life is Strange:Before the Storm. He, however, spent most of his time fighting off alien kidnapping in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. Calum looks to his past with Sonic Mania, and investigates new martial arts RPG Absolver You Should Watch... https://youtu.be/U4FNBMZsqrY In News... The new trailer for Swery's new crowdfunded title The Good Life shows that even in a happy country town, there is still time for drinKING. Bethesda have rolled out the beta of their Creation Club, providing paid mods for Fallout 4. They launched with horse armour. Not kidding. Brink suddenly appeared on Steam as a

Another week and the show actually manages to stay on track talking about videogames. I'm just as shocked as you are. On this episode... Intermission Music... Strange Voyage - Darren Korb - Pyre: Original Soundtrack Steam (DLC) | Bandcamp | Supergiant Store We Played... Hellblade:Senua's Sacrifice was released and took us by surprise at how intense and dark a depiction of psychosis a character action game can have. Euan looks at the new No Mans Sky patch, which is making real efforts to build it as a worth while product, and Subsurface Circular, a robot visual novel. In News... Valve have announced a new game! I mean it sounds like a Hearthstone-like, but still! Spelunky developer Derek Yu is joining with a selection of other indie devs to release UFO 50, a collection of 16-bit themed games. Planet Coaster developers Frontier are making a Jurassic World management game. Can't wait to build my park and then just delete the walls of the T-Rex enclosure. THQ Nordic has their first new game leaked, Bi

Get in lane and eat some trees, it's podcast time. On this episode... Intermission Music... MainTheme - Epic Games - RoboRecall OST Soundcloud (Free Download) We Played... Tacoma, the new sci-fi narrative experience from Fullbright finally released last week. We share our thoughts on this new game by the Gone Home developers Fantasy rugby/basketball/visual novel Pyre was released. If that sounds like a strange mix, we can tell you it is, but a very enjoyable one. Calum played with Euan's new VR headset, causing Euan to try new stuff like Dead and Buried and I Expect You To Die The International has begun and we give you all the news on the hot strats and team comps with our DOTA expert, Euan*. (*his expertise may be entirely fictional) In News... Looks like that Pokemon Go Fest didn't go very well, huh? Not content with just selling Louis Vuitton, FFXIII characters Lightning and co. are now selling...Nissans? PUBG is getting first person only servers, and the concept of that terrifies me to my v

Euan comes out of the virtual world long enough to talk to all of us ABOUT the virtual world. Virtual insanity! On this episode... Intermission Music... Mick Gordon - Alex Theme - Prey Original Game Soundtrack Amazon MP3 | iTunes We Played... Euan finally gave into his desires and bought a VR headset. He talked at length about his experiences with Job Simulator, Rec Room, Super Hot, Echo Arena and Robo Recall. Calum talks more about FF14:Stormblood, and shares his experiences at the Resonate convention. 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 Steam sale brought a beaming bounty of software to the brothers. On this episode... Intermission Music... Porth Wen - Geoff Hart-Jones - The Final Station OST Steam DLC We Played... Euan loses all his night time to Anno 2070 , is sad that NeiR: Automata is not as good as he expected initially, and finds That's You is just....bad Calum goes to the Final Fantasy far east in FF14: Stormblood, and spends a confusing and chilled out experience in Elite: Dangerous In News... Developers of the Baldurs Gate: Enhanced Editon have decided to do the same treatment to Icewind Dale II, but have found that noone can find the source code. In a related note, Kotaku has a great read on the struggles of a company trying to bring No One Lives Forever to modern digital storefronts. After being on sale for a single day, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was the biggest selling game on PSN, beating out Tekken 7 and the remaster of CoD: Modern Warfare. After only 8 months of life, Communist-esque F2P game The Tomorrow

We are back from E3 and we forgot how all of this podcasting business works. On this episode... Intermission Music... Let it die -Subete wa isutori game- - PAN - Goo Goo Goo Amazon MP3 We Played... Euan goes Steam sale crazy and tries the disappointing Space Hulk: Deathwing and the interesting The Final Station. He also plays Lego City: Undercover cause he wants to! Totally not because he is being made to by the sites official Lego editor... Calum finally finishes Persona 5, so you don't have to hear him talk about it anymore, and becomes enamored with Prey Jazzpunk: Flavour Nexus DLC also came out. It's very good. We love Jazzpunk. In News... Nintendo are trying again with the SNES Classic, dropping on 29th September for £79.99 One of the former developers of Scribblenauts went to Twitter to give some background of how that game was put together, and it sounds like a nightmare. IO Interactive are now an independent studio, and have full control of the Hitman licence. It looks like Microsoft are

Euan feels his future loom over him and Calum laughs at the fact the passage of time affects his brother first! On this episode... Intermission Music... Everything Is Going to Be Okay - Mick Gordon - Prey OST Amazon MP3 | iTunes | Google Play We Played... Calum talks more about Persona 5... see the pattern yet? Euan gets more into Prey and tries to explain the turn based strategy All Walls Must Fall, the most unexpected game to have a musical influence. In News... Destiny 2 got its big gameplay unveiling, but there are still more key questions that have not been answered. Far Cry 5 is coming, and a combination of setting and chilling trailers makes it suddenly more interesting. In a frankly unbelievable move, Square Enix is splitting with Hitman developers IO Interactive. Did you like Parappa and Gitaroo Man? You should probably look at this Kickstarter from the developers of those games There's another Life is Strange game coming, and Euan can't wait. You finally get to create and play as you

One year further on life's great journey, and Calum is still just playing Persona games. Some things never change. On this episode... Intermission Music... Edith's Theme - Jeff Russo - What Remains of Edith Finch OST Steam (DLC) We Played... Euan goes on some sort of puzzle trip with GNOG and explores the unnerving sci-fi world of Prey Calum continues on his Persona 5 voyage, and looks at the changes to Heroes of the Storm in the latest update. What Remains of Edith Finch captures our minds with it's very special brand of storytelling. In News... Julian Gollop of XCOM fame is back with a new strategy game, Phoenix Point, now crowdfunding on Fig Bethesda have requested that indie PC game Prey for the Gods change their name, as it violates their trademark on Prey. This is more complicated situation than it sounds. The last thing DOTA 2 needed was a Co-op Campaign, but it looks like it's getting it? ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - 

Euan is in a new studio and Calum didn't help him get there! Just another day in brotherly comradery. On this episode... Intermission Music... Lone Star - Jim Guthrie - Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies Bandcamp We Played... Euan played the new Overwatch: Uprising mode, and enjoyed destroying many robots. Calum is still playing Persona 5 but was minorly distracted by the funky grooves of Rhythm Paradise Megamix We both attended Games are for Everyone: Vol.V, where we tried a whole bunch of cool stuff, including: Ola De La Vida Spacewave 2079 Nidhogg 2 Anatomy Vaccination In News... If you play ranked DOTA 2, you will need to add a valid phone number to your account to keep playing, in an effort to cut back on people "smurfing" There's some DLC out for NeiR: Automata, and lets you fulfil your dreams of fighting the CEOs of Square Enix and PlatinumGames in an arena. Sega continue to tease a PC release of Vanquish. Here's hoping. Nintendo have stopped production of t

You'll never see it comiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!!! On this episode... Intermission Music... Payload - Rémi Gallego - Hacknet Labyrinths Official Soundtrack Steam (DLC) | GOG (DLC) We Played... Euan dons his mirror shades once again for Hacknet: Labyrinths DLC. Drawn to Death is one of the most unsuccesful games that Euan has ever played. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is played by lovers...in an only mildly dangerous...time... Calum is obsessed with Persona 5 with good reason! In News... Bioware have announced that Mass Effect: Andromeda will be fixed and improved over the coming months. We discuss the opinion that EA are now selling a £50 Early Access game Microsoft are opening the "Minecraft Marketplace" to sell content for the game, while sweeping the hugely more modifiable Java original, with a wealth of free content, under a rug. ...and more! Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) News Sting

In space, apparently everyone can hear you lipsync badly and animate poorly. On this episode... Intermission Music... Under Construction - Adrian Talens - Poly Bridge Original Soundtrack Bandcamp We Talked About... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjWWuUDtSaE We Played... Calum has some THINGS TO SAY about Mass Effect: Andromeda The new Furi boss is a tricky one. Tearaway Unfolded is one of March's PlayStation Plus games, and is much better than Euan expected. Euan has seen the finale of Yakuza 0, and will be going back in to really make the most of his cabaret club business Snipperclips is probably the other game you should get for your new Nintendo Switch In News... Harmonix is partnering with Hasbro to make a card game..thing? PlayStation Now is introducing PS4 games soon. Destiny 2 was leaked and then confirmed, we will see what it looks like in September. David Jaffe's new title, Drawn to Death, is arriving on April 4th, and PlayStation Plus people will get it for free Turns out that e

It's a relentless few months in games, and it's not slowing down. Let's get into it. On this episode... Intermission Music... Those Who Dwell In The Shadows - Garoad - VA​-​11 HALL​-​A - Second Round Bandcamp We Played... Horizon: Zero Dawn is finally out, and we both get to grips with hunting big animal robots. Euan got to hold a Switch for 15 minutes, so naturally he has the authority to judge it. We got to mess around with helicopters in the Ghost Recon: Wildlands Open Beta. We are equally as bad at driving things that fly. Calum is back on the CRPG train with Torment: Tides of Numenera, and it's pretty hardcore. In News... People are starting to answer the questions that Nintendo haven't been answering before the Switch launch. Most of the time there has been a reason for that. EA Sports head honcho Peter Moore is leaving games to go be the CEO of Liverpool FC. Yes, the actual football club. Microsoft are bringing a Netflix style games subscription service to Xbox One, coming this spring G

We are the champions. Champions. On this episode... Intermission Music... DUEL!! - Noriyasu Agematsu - FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS Original Soundtrack iTunes | Amazon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIfAkOBMf5A We Played... Euan has put a lot of time into Yakuza 0, and is amazed at the scope of the things it keeps throwing at him Calum has a Nintendo mobile game journey with Fire Emblem: Heroes & FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS, and is not happy with the translations of those franchises The For Honour Open Beta ran over the weekend, and it turns out that throwing around sharp hunks of metal is really difficult. Calum finally gets into Final Fantasy XV, and thinks it's the best stag do he has been part of. Disgaea 5 is real weird guys. In News... Subset Games, developers of FTL, have a new game in the works, and it looks like Advance Wars with Kaiju. Valve is killing off Steam Greenlight and replacing it with a system that requires a recoupable fee to be listed. South Park: The Fractured But Whol

Calum and Euan end their quest for the Game of the Year broken, beaten and changed men. Not really. They did decided the Biggest News, Best Visuals, Best Soundtrack and finally, the Game of the Year 2016.

Euan and Calum begin their end of year task for 2016. Deciding the best things in video games for the year. In the first part of our deliberations, the brothers discuss the Best Game not in 2016 for the year, the Most Disappointing game, the Smaller Game of the Year, the Best Original Song, and the Best Moment in video games of 2016.

It's 2017 y'all, so lets talk about the Nintendo Switch and ... well ... Destiny... On this episode... Intermission Music... Sojourner's Truth - Lyndon Holland - Virginia OST Steam (DLC) | PS4 (DLC) We Played... Since he picked up a PlayStation 4, Calum finally gets to experience Uncharted 4, and now understands the cries of people who much maligned Destiny at launch. Euan finally had a chance to get deep into Hitman, and is tremendously impressed Obduction has some of the best FMV use in a game in a while, especially since it's otherwise a glorious looking 3D adventure game The demo for NeiR: Automata appears to be pretty cool, but shows that Furi might have ruined this style of games for us. In News... The Nintendo Switch is out on March 3rd, £270, and while a lot of the presentation was positive, a lot of extra details surrounding it still seem unanswered or just plan bad. Mass Effect: Andromeda is coming March 21st Elite: Dangerous players have finally found aliens, and it's a terrifying exp

I don't think either of us expected to talk about Gilmore Girls on this podcast, but here we are. On this episode... Intermission Music... The Last of Us - Gustavo Santaolalla - The Last of Us OST Amazon | iTunes We Talked About... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7CKWnL3ek&t We Played... Euan is having some real technical issues with Infinite Warfare. Stories: The Path of Destinies might be one of the best surprises of the year Watch Dogs 2 continues to be one of the best open world games in a long time Calum finally played Furi, and is really really really into it. In News... The Playstation Experience happened and brought with it a metric crapton of announcements. Sony announced Project Field, a new hardware project designed for intelligent card based gaming Classic site favourite Oni almost had a sequel, and that pains us. Guillermo Del Toro explicitly saying "Fuck Konami" might be one of the best tweets of the year. We knew it was coming, but expect to see Starbucks promo Pokestops