Quick and cheerful podcast this time as we prepare for the coming storm of video game releases on the horizon. We also celebrate a birthday!

We Played...

• We both continue to gush over just how good Hades is.
• Calum plays creative 4X Endless Space 2 and remembers how good Titanfall 2 is in the new Apex Legends Halloween Event
• Euan talks the latest GTFO rundown, and husky based rouge-like The Red Lantern

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 7:20 - Hades
• 15:36 - Endless Space 2
• 32:06 - GTFO
• 46:24 - The Red Lantern
• 59:26 - Apex Legends Halloween Event

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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Want to hear about our hobbies other than video games? We have the show for you!

We Played...

• Euan plays an old card game in new ways in The Solitaire Conspiracy and hunts some ghosts in Phasmophobia
• Calum continues to fall with Fall Guys Season 2 and dips a toe into Genshin Impact
• We both play Star Wars Squadrons with varying results.

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 22:26 - Spelunky 2
• 23:46 - Synth Riders
• 26:37 - The Solitaire Conspiracy
• 32:41 - Fall Guys Season 2
• 39:23 - Destiny 2 Halloween Event
• 44:19 - Music Break
• 46:14 - Phasmophobia
• 1:01:16 - Genshin Impact
• 1:08:20 - Star Wars: Squadrons
• 1:25:09 - News - First Hands-On With Xbox Series X
• 1:27:02 - News - Official Sony PlayStation 5 Tear Down
• 1:31:30 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access / People Make Boring Characters

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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This podcast takes a turn from talking about home ownership to video games. Wild swings I know.

We Played...

• Euan talks further about Tell Me Why and speaks vaguely on Othercide, in preparation for a video later.
• We both spend a lot of time talking about the absolute gem that is Hades

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 13:40 - Tell Me Why
• 20:43 - Othercide
• 24:05 - Hades
• 1:06:00 - Music Break
• 1:21:39 - News - Playstation 5 Date/Price and Communication Failure
• 1:40:15 - News - No More Robots E-Shop Investigation
• 1:41:45 - News - Amazon Luna
• 1:4638 - News - Microsoft Purchased Zenimax

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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After a week gap, we return and we aren't even talking about the game we took a week off to play! Isn't that something!

We Played...

• Euan inhabits not sad teens in Tell Me Why, surprising for a Dontnod game and is disapointed by the Control: AWE DLC. Also Paradise Killer is a game that you should really just hear about.
• Calum Re-turns to an underappreciated gem in Kingdoms of Amalur: ReReckoning and dies many times in Risk of Rain 2.

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 12:20 - Tell Me Why
• 28:01 - Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning
• 42:20 - Control DLC - AWE
• 52:46 - Music Break
• 57:40 - Crusader Kings III
• 1:06:52 - Risk of Rain 2
• 1:15:56 - Paradise Killer
• 1:36:05 - News - XBox Series S/X Price Details
• 2:17:07 - News - Super Mario 3D All Stars
• 2:22:59 - News - Ubisoft Fails to Address Many Controversies

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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Calum writes this as he's busy looking for gigabit internet so... yea... video games

We Played...

• Euan gets back to Doom Eternal, then a dramatic tone change in Spiritfarer, then is baffled by The Avengers Beta
• Calum talks about the current state of COVID Wrestling, Season 6 of Apex Legends, and does many drop kicks in Dying Light

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 2:24 - Gigabit Internet
• 8:45 - Doom Eternal
• 15:59 - Spiritfarer
• 18:44 - Marvel Avengers Beta
• 37:08 - Wrestling/Summerslam
• 51:13 - Music Break
• 52:43 - Calums Destiny 2 Update™
• 55:35 - Apex Legends Season 6
• 1:04:21 - Dying Light
• 1:14:34 - New DC Games
• 1:21:04 - Epic vs Apple

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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We return with another fine selection of video games. From the wordy to the weird to the wonderful.

We Played...

• Euan plays a duo of visual novella experiences with Necrobarista and Erica
• Calum betrays and lies to his friends in Among Us. It's not as evil as it sounds.
• We both run, jump and, as the name suggests, fall in Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 6:59 - Among Us
• 15:28 - Necrobarista
• 25:49 - Erica
• 34:37 - Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
• 54:08 - Music Break
• 56:45 - News - Konami are making (bad) ESports hardware
• 1:02:02 - News - Nintendo launched their absurd Animal Crossing: New Horizons save backup system
• 1:09:49 - News - The "gigaleak" of Nintendo assets and source code
• 1:17:20 - News - Apple are preventing the Microsoft xCloud streaming app from being released on the iOS app store.
• 1:34:37 - News - The makers of Lethal League have finally done the thing and announced a Jet Set Radio game in everything but name
• 1:37:48 - We started playing the Halo series. We don't think it's very good.

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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We took a week off to allow more time for games. Sometimes that's worth it, sometimes that is not. It's up to you how it will come across this time.

We Played...

• Euan has gone back in time to 2012 with Spec Ops: The Line for purely research purposes, and a brand new release SUPERHOT: Mind Control Delete
• Calum also goes back to 2012 (not planned) with Persona 4: Golden, now on PC
• We both engage in grown creature based dance battles in Ooblets and once again explore the bizarre world of SWERY with Deadly Premonition 2

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 15:11 - SUPERHOT: Mind Control Delete
• 21:09 - Spec Ops: The Line
• 28:01 - Persona 4:Golden
• 34:29 - Ooblets
• 53:47 - Music Break
• 56:53 - Deadly Premonition 2
• 1:30:45 - News - Devolver Digital Livestream
• 1:39:37 - News - NBA2K21 is $70/$100 on next gen
• 1:48:54 - News - EVO 2020 Online cancelled as CEO faces sexual misconduct allegations
• 1:54:02 - News - Ubisoft sexual assault and harrasment allegations

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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Not going to lie, this week is kind of a bummer, but at least we got some interesting discussions out of it.

We Played...

• Euan completes Unavowed and flashes back to the early days with 198X
• Calum revisits Persona 4 Golden for the 12th time, and has a lot to say after spending time with The Last of Us 2.

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 5:15 - Unavowed
• 7:18 - 198X
• 18:50 - The Last of Us: Part 2: Part 1
• 43:29 - Music Intermission
• 47:12 - The Last of Us: Part 2: Part 2
• 1:29:09 - News - Industry Harrasment and Abuse Allegations
• 1:40:22 - News - Mixer Is Going Away
• 1:50:04 - News - Dr Disrespect gets banned from Twitch
• 2:00:29 - Other News

In The News...

• A number of allegations of harassment and abuse have been made all across the industry, from development to streaming
• Mixer has been shut down and redirected to Facebook Gaming, and it looks like neither partners nor employees were told in advance
• Dr Disrespect, one of the biggest names on Twitch, has been banned from the platform for reasons which have not been made public
• ...and more

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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E3 was supposed to happen right now. Clearly, it did not.

We Played...

• Euan clones himself for space faring in Genesis: Alpha One and Wadjet Eye make a return in Unavowed
• Calum talks about the first Destiny 2 live event, and punches monsters in Dauntless

In The News...

• Paradox Interactive has signed a collective bargaining agreement with labour unions
• Are you all ready to witness the power of FOG GAMING?
• Destiny 2 ended it's season with a giant spaceship crashing to the ground live, take from that what you will
• ...and more

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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The title is weird I know. It was a weird conversation.

We Played...

• Euan can't sit still, playing deckbuilding RPG Hand of Fate 2, hacking tactical game Cyber Ops, and Supergiant Games's Transistor for the 8th time
• Calum plays Apex Legends Season 5 and Terraria in an effort to recapture his university days.

In The News...

• Microsoft showed off some 3rd party games coming to Xbox Series X, and we saw the first footage of the new Unreal Engine running on a Playstation 5.
• Valorant is coming out of beta and will be publicly available on June 2nd
• ...and more

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Intro Music - There It Is - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Outro Music - Honey Bee - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

News Sting - News Intro - Maximilien (soundbible.com)

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