GameEngineStart Podcast

By GameEngineStart

Get your bi-weekly dose of haberdash from our internet habershery, mainly concerning video games.

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February 03, 2017 Game of the Year 2016 Deliberations: Part 2
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.
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
...more
1h 60min
January 27, 2017 Game of the Year 2016 Deliberations: Part 1
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.
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
...more
2h 47min
January 18, 2017GameEngineStart Podcast – Overhead Throw
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 experience.

The Titanfall 2 Twitter account is taking an...active... approach to directly engaging with people.

Swery65 is back with a new studio, White Owls, which looks to be getting involved with VR and books, as well as games.

Razer showed off an insane 3 screen 4k laptop at CES, which ended up getting stolen at the end of the event.

...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
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
...more
1h 14min
December 13, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Smells Like Snow
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 in Pokemon Go.

...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
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
...more
1h 23min
November 29, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Bacchanalian Temple
As it turns out that being a grown-up just boils down to buying gloves and table decorations.
Programming Note
We had some audio issues at the start of recording this week, but stick with it, it all resolves in the first 5 minutes.
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
We Move Like Wolves - Philter - The Campfire Tales
Official Site | Amazon | iTunes
We Played...
Watch Dogs 2 is a much more exciting and joyful game than its much more dour predecessor.
After not being able to talk about the Alpha, we get a chance to talk about Ubisoft's extreme sports game Steep and our impressions of the open Beta

After a long silence, Hello Games dropped a pretty massive update for No Mans Sky, which Euan spent a few hours playing with

We jump back into The Division after a bit of a hiatus to look at the pretty great Survival expansion

Calum continues to explore the morally grey world of Tyranny
In News...
Persona 5 has been delayed out to April 4th. If you listen close you can hear Calum still screaming in anguish
Ubisoft will no longer be selling DLC that contains core gameplay, and instead are moving to the character and customisation options, in the mould of Rainbow Six: Siege

Inside is one of our favourite games of the year, and there is a demo out on Steam now.

Big Robot, developers of Sir, You Are Being Hunted, have announced their new game The Signal From Tölva.

Capcom have now banned 3 separate stages from their Capcom Cup.

...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
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
...more
1h 30min
November 15, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Robot Saxophone
It seems unusual for us to be talking about big budget shooters, but here we are. Don't worry, there's some fantasy and dystopian future in there too.
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Pedestrians Crossing - Brenton Kossak, Blaine McGurty - Skullgirls Encore: Expanded Soundtrack
Official Site | Amazon | iTunes
We Played...
A game with big stompy mechs is out, so it's surprising that Euan isn't as into Titanfall 2 as other people
Resident CRPG editor Calum is really into being evil in Tyranny

Dystopian Big-Brother simulator Orwell is a facinating game that is unlike anything else you will play this year

Euan finally finished the solid and gorgeous Rise of the Tomb Raider

As a big fan of Witcher 3, it's no surprise that Calum is into the two DLC packs.
In News...
Blizzcon happened, with a collection of mainly Overwatch news, with a touch of Diablo 3.
Google's has a new target for their DeepMind machine learning system, Starcraft 2.

More details on the next Division expansion are out there, and looks like it adds more needed variety to the game

If you want to play the new Call of Duty with the most people on PC, don't get it from the Windows Store, as those players are locked into playing with other Windows players.

Ubisoft may have hidden the trailer for their next game in a Watch_Dogs2 mission.

...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
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
...more
1h 23min
November 01, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – I Don’t Like Your Face
I would do an impression of a spooky ghost here, but that would be a little cliche. How about "The Final Fantasy VII Remake will never come out!" as a Halloween spooky goof?
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Daedelus - Clouds - Nidhogg OST
Steam (included with game)
We Played...
If your looking for something to pour hundreds of hours into, it seems like that Civilisation 6 is what you will be looking for.
The sequel is coming very soon, so now is as good a time as any to revisit the impressive first Dishonoured game.

Calum got in on the ground floor of the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game, and it seems like it is better than you would expect

We are big fans of rhythm action games, but Thumper is at a whole new level of difficulty for the genre

Euan attended Games are For Everyone Vol IV a few weeks ago, and saw some sights there
In News...
Nintendo has announced the NX, now known as the Switch, and we have some thoughts
EA is continuing with their tone-deaf marketing campaign for Battlefield 1, and it shows no signs of approving

Bethesda are no longer sending early review copies of their games to press for review. Unless you are a huge fan of the games on YouTube that is.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming, and was announced with a Rockstar-ass trailer.

UK retailer GAME is charging £5 for 10 minutes on a Playstation VR, which seems at best a poor business decision.

...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
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
...more
1h 59min
October 12, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Getting Snarky With an AI
Just breathe people, everything is going to be fine. Distract yourself with video games while 2016 works itself out.
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Jeremy Soule - Neverwinter Nights Main Theme - Neverwinter Nights OST
GoG (included with Diamond Edition)
We Played...
Oxenfree is a stylish and at points genuinely creepy adventure game, who does teenage conversations right when it's not interrupting itself.
The new game from Spacechem developer Zachtronics has hit early access. It's called Shenzhen I/O and if messing about with hardware programming is your thing, then you should check it out

Being alone in space with an AI that you can actually text chat with makes Event[0] a really unique and effective storytelling mechanic

Stardew Valley got a pretty big free update, and more content in that game can only be a good thing

If you want to get into the mood for the sequel, Divinity: Original Sin is now even better now that it has had fixes and a whole lot of new voice work.
In News...
Amazon have left Twitch alone since they bought them, but now they are giving Amazon Prime members a bunch of premium features with Twitch Prime
If you were looking to pick up the new Call of Duty game just to sell it back after cashing in the Modern Warfare Remaster, Activision have closed that loophole.

The new Skylanders game will let you 3D print your character for a limited amount of time.

Looks like Playstation Skyrim and Fallout 4 players will be getting mods after all, just heavily restricted content wise.

...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
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
...more
1h 6min
September 27, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Passive Dabber
Back to our normal schedule we have a collection of games to talk about that couldn't be more different. Also we laugh for 3 solid minutes at dumb YouTube videos.
Something for everyone I feel.
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Ben Babbitt - This World is Not My Home - Kentucky Route Zero - Act IV Soundtrack
Bandcamp | Steam (comes with Season Pass)
Here are those videos we were laughing at...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpUVKP2i3So
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr9DM3St0vA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYM4WfyDvM
We Played...
Despite the terrible and borderline distasteful marketing, Euan discovers that the Battlefield 1 Open Beta seems pretty much exactly what you expect.
The new Destiny expansion, Rise of Iron, doesn't give the game as much of a kick as it really needs to

Virginia is a fantastic narrative experience that pulls off some adventurous design choices.

Calum finished Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and is not happy about it.

We both jumped back into Lost Planet 2, and still maintain that game is great.
In News...
Wildcard have released paid DLC for Ark: Survival Evolved into Early Access, despite the game itself still being in Early Access.
The latest update for the PC version of Street Fighter V installed a rootkit, which is a real bad idea.

There is an expansion for 2015 favourite Hacknet coming in December

It's currently not possible to stream any of Bioshock: The Collection, and it really feels like 2K are hiding the reason.

Square Enix is making a HTC Vive game, and it looks like it's going to be a card battler.

Planet Coaster seems like it knows what people want to see from its game
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
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
...more
1h 12min
August 30, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Shitty Dwarves
Axes and magic just cant compete with hacking and robot arms. Apparently this is a controversial opinion.
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Tomoki Miyoshi - Frozen Highlights - I am Setsuna Official Soundtrack Collection: Winter's End
Steam | Amazon
We Played...
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is finally here, and we are really enjoying it.
Euan finally gets his first VR experience, pilots awesome robots in Titanfall 2, and is very excited by the demo of the Fargo-esque Virginia.

Calum continues with last weeks card games and JRPGs with Elder Scrolls: Legends and I am Setsuna, and serves his purpose as GameEngineStart MOBA editor by giving some opinions on Paragon
In News...
Konami have done the impossible and announced a new Metal Gear game, but it's probably not what your hoping for. At least it's not pachinko
Allison Road is back, self funded by one of the developers on the original team.

Playstation Now is available ... now ... on PC and Mac

Don't be this guy and make grand claims on stuff you don't know anything about. Multiplayer is not going to take 4 weeks to add to No Mans Sky.

Below, the oft delayed rougelike from Capy has been delayed again "until you hear otherwise".
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
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
...more
1h 24min

FAQs about GameEngineStart Podcast:

How many episodes does GameEngineStart Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 281 episodes available.