GameEngineStart Podcast

By GameEngineStart

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

Join Euan and Calum, two brothers on a quest to pour large amounts of video game discussion int... more

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March 08, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Fertilizer
Ever feel like your boring office job and city lifestyle is getting you down? Maybe you should try farming?
Not that real life dirty farming though, much more sedate digital agriculture...
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Kan R. Gao, feat. Laura Shigihara - To The Moon - To The Moon OST
BandCamp | Steam (Available as DLC)
We Played...
Euan gets a sneak peek at the Uncharted 4 Multiplayer Beta, discovers that Heavy Rain might not hold up on PS4, and is pleasantly surprised by the self described "Pyroguelike" Flame On.
Calum pads out his JRPG history knowledge with Chrono Cross and decides to ditch his current career path to become a video game farmer with Stardew Valley.

SUPER. HOT. SUPER. HOT. SUPER. HOT.
In News...
Microsoft have cancelled Fable Legends, and are shuttering British games institution and Peter Molyneux origin story Lionhead Games
Gabe Newell appears to read Reddit, and is not afraid of calling people out pretty directly when they feel their DOTA2 presenter has gone too far.

Valve have finally talked about the Xmas Day security breach, far far too late

Uncharted 4 has been pushed back a further two weeks to May 10th, and Mass Effect: Andromeda drops back to 2016 Q4

We will have more information on the Playstation VR on March 15th

The PC version of Quantum Break will require an internet connection to stream the TV aspects of that 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 30min
February 23, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Turt Reynolds
Firewatch is advertised as an atmospheric and touching narrative. While this is 100% true, we know that it's really all about the turtles.
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Darren Korb - Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme) - Bastion OST
Bandcamp | Amazon
We Played...
Euan ventured into a New York that has seen better days in The Division Beta, and has some thoughts on the final parts of The Witness
Calum pulls out his stick for some Street Fighter V action, and ventures into random Steam RPGs with The Albino Hunter

We both walked the wilderness in Firewatch, and have some thoughts.
In News...
The HTC Vive has a release date and a price. It's not cheap.
There won't be an Assassins Creed this year, but Egypt is the rumoured setting for when it appears in 2017

Quantum Break is also releasing on PC day and date with the XBox One version

ESPN is officially getting into Esports. They mean it this time.

Doom will arrive with it's double barrel shotgun on May 13th

Sony have pulled together all of it's satellite companies under the Sony Interactive Entertainment heading, now based in the US

The latest Fallout 4 patch fixes a number of hilarious sounding issues surrounding dismemberment.
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
February 09, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Pawns
Let's just get this over and done with so we can both get back to playing XCOM 2
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Carpenter Brut - Roller Mobster - TRILOGY
Bandcamp | Soundcloud | iTunes
We Played...
Euan beams himself onto a future plane in Consortium and can only see line puzzles when he closes his eyes due to The Witness
Calum does some acrobatic stabbing of mythical creatures in Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen

XCOM 2 is out, and we are both really deep into it. Probably too deep.
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
January 28, 2016 Game of the Year 2015 Deliberations – Part 2
In the second part of our deliberations we choose 2015's Smaller Game of the Year, Best Narrative, Best Original Song, Best Hotline Miami 2 Track and the big one, the GameEngineStart Game of the Year 2015
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 25min
January 26, 2016 Game of the Year 2015 Deliberations – Part 1
In the first part of our Game of the Year deliberations we choose our 20xx Game of the Year, Best Looking Game, Best Studio, Most Disappointing, Best Soundtrack and Best Moment
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 41min
January 12, 2016GameEngineStart Podcast – Broadside
Nothing quite like flying through space to the sounds of slide guitar, firing giant laser guns off the starboard bow...
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
bignic - Scream - Zombies (featured on Lethal League OST)
Official Site | Bandcamp
We Played...
With another Steam sale over, we go through our spoils. Euan finishes up SOMA before diving into pharmaceutical simulator Big Pharma, finishes a game in The Magic Circle and hacks the world in Hacknet
Calum goes down a well in ... Downwell, fights the corporations in Satellite Reign and flies through space with an awesome soundtrack in Rebel Galaxy
In News...
Weeks into 2016 and the VR war has started, with Oculus Rift launching in March at $599, with the HTC Vive following in April at an unconfirmed price point.
Hideo Kojima and his new studio have partnered with Sony to make a PS4 exclusive new IP.

Keiji Inafune's new title ReCore is coming to PC this year, as well as Xbox One

Uncharted 4 has been pushed back to April

...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 10min
December 08, 2015GameEngineStart Podcast – Snowboard Nanomachines
We really want a new SSX, and now that Hideo Kojima is officially done with Metal Gear and Konami, how about he takes on a totally new genre that deserves some love. Someone just give us a new SSX. Please...
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
PROTODOME - There's Always Next Week - BLUESCREEN
Official Site | Bandcamp
We Played...
Euan finally finishes Metal Gear Solid 5, goes under the sea in SOMA and wonders why he missed out on Beyond: Two Souls the first time around.
Calum is done with Fallout 4 in more ways than one, and wingsuits around the fun but flawed Just Cause 3. When the framerate isn't tanking at least.

We also talk about the amazingly named Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist, probably the funniest game you will play this year.
In News...
Both The Game Awards and the Playstation Experience happened over the last few weeks, with some small bits of news coming out of each
The Final Fantasy 7 remake got a gameplay trailer, as well as the announcement that it will be episiodic

Psychonauts 2 is actually happening, with a $3.3 million crowdfunding project live.

Telltale are making a Batman game. That's all the details we have.

The next game from Life is Strange developers Dontnod was teased, named Vampyr.

The 1995 Namco patent for "load screen mini-games" has officially expired, and people are running a Game Jam in it's honour
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 33min
November 24, 2015GameEngineStart Podcast – Let’s Get Real
Come on guys, this pink rabbit needs to keep the lights on in his arcade...
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Simon Viklund - Evil Eye - Payday 2 : Hotline Miami DLC OST
Bandcamp
We Played...
Euan spent an evening with more indie games at the latest Games are for Everyone, and relived the awkwardness of 14 year old MSN conversations in Cible.
Calum continues to spend an inordinate amount of time with Fallout 4, and starts to form some interesting impressions and thoughts for the future of Bethesda.
In News...
YouTube are finally starting to sort out their DMCA Takedown issue that has plagued content creators for a long while
In a conversation with Wired, Sony have confirmed they are working on PS2 emulation on PS4.

Cloud Strife is coming to Super Smash Bros, in the strangest crossover since Solid Snake made an appearance.

Nintendo continue to do things in their own unique way, by using a pink rabbit to explain microtransactions.

There is a new Valkyria Chronicles game coming for PS4, subtitled Azure Revolution.

The re-release of Beyond: Two Souls drops on PS4 today, with Heavy Rain coming in March next year.

...and much 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 43min
November 11, 2015GameEngineStart Podcast – Telling the Future
The internet could not have had a bigger tonal shift over the past few weeks, going from happy little trees to nuclear oblivion.
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
Big Giant Circles - Threes is the Bees Knees - Threes OST
Bandcamp
We Played...
Euan discovered the joy of flicking switches and pressing exquisitely detailed buttons in The Room 3 and tries to not let hapless teenagers die horribly in Until Dawn.
Calum gives us his impressions of the first 8 hours of the all consuming nuclear disaster simulator that is Fallout 4.
In News...
Activision buys digital crack provider King, makers of the Candy Crush Saga, for $5.9 billion dollars.
On top of that, Activision have also launched a Film and TV studio, with their first project being a Skylanders animated TV show.

Blizzard are bringing their team based shooter Overwatch to PS4 and Xbox One as well as PC, for $60 and $40 respectively

Playstation Vue has now signed up with ESPN, Disney and ABC, making the service more and more attractive to cable cutters.

Sony have trademarked Valkyria: Azure Revolution, meaning there might be a new Valkyria Chronicles game on the way.

Konami have officially shut down Kojima Productions Los Angeles.

Mirrors Edge: Catalyst has been pushed from February to May next year.
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 29min
October 28, 2015GameEngineStart Podcast – Pump Spell
I'm all for card game jargon, but... really?!
On this episode...
Intermission Music...
AdhesiveWombat - Anthem - Marsupial Madness
Bandcamp | Soundcloud
We Played...
Euan is still ploughing away at Metal Gear Solid 5, while taking breaks to be social with the Jackbox Party Pack 2
Our official card game editor Calum tries out Duelyst and regails more D&D stories.
In News...
Lots of news from the Paris Games Week Sony press conference, including a date for No Mans Sky, a new game from Quantic Dream, more creepy nightmares from Dreams and site mascot Michel Ansel showing of gameplay from his new title.
A Kickstarter story with a good ending for a change, Rebellion have picked up bankrupt studio GRIN and are fulfilling the last of the missing backer rewards for their episodic title Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries

Games site VG247 wrote up an unimpressed preview on Uncharted 4, before realising they had been shown the Uncharted 2 remaster.

Friday the 13th is back in an asymmetric multiplayer game, now on Kickstarter

Squeenix have imposed some pretty insane restrictions for streaming and distributing footage of Dragon Quest: Heroes
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 34min

FAQs about GameEngineStart Podcast:

How many episodes does GameEngineStart Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 281 episodes available.