A couple of weeks has given the chance to catch up on some current video games, so now we can talk about it!

Last Light - Borislav Slavov - Baldur’s Gate 3: Original Soundtrack

Steam

• Euan talks eat theivery simulator Pizza Possum and noir hell-em-up El Paso, Elsewhere
• Calum talks about his journey into custom fight game controllers and, appropriately, Mortal Kombat 1
• We both discuss recent changes to Cyberpunk 2077 and its new DLC Phantom Liberty

• 00:06:01 - Pizza Possum
• 00:09:40 - El Paso, Elsewhere
• 00:11:01 - Mortal Kombat 1
• 00:22:31 - Calum's Artisan Leverless Controller
• 00:37:57 - Purchasing from Small Companies
• 00:49:10 - Music Break
• 00:52:16 - Phantom Liberty
• 01:13:13 - News - Unity have walked back some of their insane "installation fee", but not completely
• 01:15:42 - News - Sega cancelled their upcoming PvPvE game Hyenas, with some reporting showing the troubles the game had during development
• 01:18:10 - News - Epic are cutting 870 jobs, because they have been "spending way more money than we earn" for a long time. That seems like a management problem.
• 01:24:35 - Upcoming & Housekeeping

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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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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It's a space heavy episode. Exploration in space Disneyland, the end of the world from a space rock, and changes to pricing structures that should be launched into space.

Reunion - Reunion (Ft. Brigitte Naggar) - Goodbye Volcano High (Original Game Soundtrack)

Bandcamp

• Euan plays music while facing the end of the world in Goodbye Volcano High, updates on limited Armoured Core 6 progress and finds Sonic in the strangest places in the Hyenas Closed Beta.
• We both have put some time into Starfield, and talk about how it treats the scale of space, and the issues it causes itself issues because it's trying so hard to be a Bethesda game.

• 00:02:31 - Armoured Core 6
• 00:08:54 - Hyenas Closed Beta
• 00:13:24 - Goodbye Volcano High
• 00:18:51 - Starfield
• 00:47:30 - Music Break
• 00:48:53 - News - Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 is back under a new studio, and with a different direction
• 00:51:30 - News - Everyone knows that Baldur's Gate 3 is a horny game, but it might have been too horny because of a bug.
• 00:52:48 - News - Unity want to charge developers a fee per install of a game. No one thinks this is a good idea.
• 01:12:43 - News - Calum talks about a long running Destiny 2 bug which has surfaced, which lets people make really wild gun configurations.
• 01:19:51 - Upcoming Games & Wrap Up

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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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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These games. They never end. There's more on the way too. I'm so tired.

DA PEOPLE - Hideki Naganuma - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Soundtrack

• Euan plays puzzle slasher Homebody, narrative explorer The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales and hot mech game of the moment Armored Core 6
• We both talk about the absolute coolest game on the planet Bombrush Cyberfunk

• 00:00:57 - Baldur's Gate 3
• 00:13:41 - Techtonica
• 00:14:41 - The Bookwalker
• 00:17:36 - Homebody
• 00:19:19 - Homebody Spoilers
• 00:20:55 - Armoured Core 6
• 00:46:57 - Music Break
• 00:49:11 - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
• 01:01:18 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 seems to be coming to XBox before the end of the year after reaching an "agreement" with Microsoft
• 01:03:49 - News - ABK have turned their sights back on UK regulators by giving cloud streaming rights to their games to... Ubisoft?
• 01:09:30 - News - Keith David is picking up the role of Zavala in Destiny 2 after the loss of Lance Reddick, and Calum fills in what happened on the Final Shape stream.
• 01:20:30 - News - Kotaku ex-EIC Patricia Hernandez was fired by parent company G/O media, and gave a unbelievable picture on The Games Press podcast as to what that experience was like.
• 01:24:51 - News - Sony announced the PlayStation Portal, a handheld that lets you stream games from your own PS5, and that's it.
• 01:33:35 - Upcoming & Outro

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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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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What? Huh? Oh right you're here. Yes, there's a podcast, Calum talks about Baldur's Gate 3. Listen to it, or don't. I'm going back to playing Baldur's Gate 3.

• Baldur's Gate 3. Yep that's it. It's an hour of Baldur chat.

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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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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Going to be honest, Calum writes these and he's just killing time till Baldur's Gate 3. So, yea, video games, check them out.

No Exit - scntfc - Oxenfree II: Lost Signals OST

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• Euan experiences Sludge Life 2 and is sadly disapointed by the return of confused teens in Oxenfree II
• Calum explores the deep blue for tasty fish in Dave the Diver

• 0:04:13 - Sludge Life 2
• 0:09:36 - Oxenfree II
• 0:26:14 - Dave The Diver
• 0:38:41 - Music Break
• 0:39:43 - Exoprimal
• 0:51:10 - News - Major Nelson himself Larry Hryb is leaving Microsoft after 22 years
• 0:52:59 - News - Sony agreed to keep Call of Duty on the platform for 10 years by sacrificing all other Activision IP
• 0:57:31 - News - Overwatch 2 is coming to Steam on August 10th with the new single player missions
• 0:59:13 - News - Game documentarians Noclip are ripping and reencoding a number of lost industry footage
• 1:06:09 - News - The people that are working on the Silent Hill live Twitch streaming... thing... are also doing it with Borderlands
• 1:08:30 - News - A collection of industry veterans have started a new studio making games exclusively in Fortnite using UEFN
• 1:11:52 - Baldurs Gate 3 Discourse is Wild
• 1:19:30 - Upcoming & Wrap Up

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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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're at an ebb in the ebb and flow of video game releases. Nice relaxed podcast today.

• Euan gives all the updates this week with Mars First Logistics and System Shock

• 00:08:02 - Final Fantasy XVI
• 00:09:07 - System Shock
• 00:13:18 - Mars First Logistics
• 00:21:38 - News - Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't have a release date on Xbox yet, as Larian is having issues getting split-screen working on the Series S
• 00:24:23 - News - Annapurna rounded off Not-E3 with a bunch of new games, and their first in-house project, a new game in the Blade Runner universe
• 00:28:18 - News - Sega have finally listened and are ditching their NFT plans.
• 00:30:25 - News - Sonic and Balan Wonderworld creator Yuji Naka has now been sentenced on charges of insider trading.
• 00:32:59 - News - The official Pokémon Forums have launched, and for a brief moment were a nightmare
• 00:37:26 - News - The Microsoft Activision merger court case brought more interesting info, this time from a Sony document that was very poorly redacted.
• 00:43:49 - News - The new shepherds of future Skullgirls development decided to clean-up some questionable content from the game, and naturally the internet was very calm about it and didn't behave like giant embarrassing children.
• 00:49:26 - Upcoming Games + Wrap Up

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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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 weather is hot and so are the video games. Actually, not really we've hit the end of the big new releases. There's more to talk about!

• Euan talks about several Steam Next Fest demos, and continues to wander around in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Calum talks newest release Final Fantasy XVI. It's the sixteenth Final Fantasy game and I will hear no other arguments at this time.

• 00:08:13 - Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• 00:16:57 - Final Fantasy XVI
• 00:46:08 - Twitch continues to make baffling business decisions for the people who create the content.
• 00:55:09 - Don't worry, there was supposed to be a solitary woman at Summer Games Fest, there was just scheduling conflicts.
• 00:58:54 - Seemingly out of nowhere, Bungie dropped a massive lore dump on Destiny players they weren't expecting.
• 01:07:22 - Looks like E3 2024 and 2025 might already be cancelled?
• 01:11:28 - Jim Ryan may have blown their main argument in the case against the Microsoft/ABK merger
• 01:13:43 - It was an unexciting Nintendo Direct, until they gave Mario acid right at the end.
• 01:16:52 - Wrap Up & Coming Soon

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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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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It's the start of video game releases. The heavy hitters start now!

• Calum talks the two big releases in Diablo 4 and Street Fighter 6. Busy time for fans of ARPGs and fighting games across the land.
• Euan gives his opinion on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Will it be different from the majority? Listen to find out!

• 00:02:13 - Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• 00:11:59 - Diablo 4
• 00:34:40 - Street Fighter 6
• 00:58:49 - Quick Destiny check in for the new season
• 01:02:04 - News - Jason Shrier published a great internal look into Arkane and why Redfall may have turned out the way it did
• 01:04:47 - Sony got out ahead of Not-E3 with their PlayStation Showcase
• 01:06:10 - AI Generated Content was all over the place in the last few weeks, and none of it was good news
• 01:16:52 - Two separate people picked up warehouse jobs purely to steal copies of Zelda ahead of release
• 01:18:46 - Twitch announced some changes to their policies on branded content, which was pretty tone deaf and unanimously rejected by streamers.
• 01:26:48 - We discuss the (surprisingly limited) things to be excited for from Summer Games Fest and other streams so far.

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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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 conversations went long this week. More to enjoy!

Jack Da Funk - Hideki Naganuma - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Side 1

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• Euan talks about his Jedi Survivor experience, and playing Dead by Daylight on a Steam Deck
• Calum talks Idol Showdown, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and hot game of the moment Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

• 00:04:35 - The New Website is Done!
• 00:06:11 - Jedi Survivor
• 00:40:27 - Dead by Daylight on Steam Deck
• 00:45:29 - Idol Showdown
• 00:46:21 - Zelda
• 01:14:58 - Musical Interlude
• 01:17:27 - Pathfinder
• 01:40:47 - News - Not E3 starts with the Sony Showcase on Wednesday
• 01:41:51 - News - Mortal Kombat 1 is a silly name, but seems pretty descriptive
• 01:43:49 - News - Hawken, the indie mech darling from way back has returned, and unfortunately it's not good!
• 01:45:10 - News - The person in charge of Ganon's design for the new Zelda finally got to make him hot, according to an interview
• 01:46:12 - News - Wow it seems like Overwatch 2 is having a bad time
• 01:54:32 - News - Shocking no-one, Ubisoft is doubling down on Assassins Creed
• 01:57:14 - News - The Apex Legends Board Game is closer to Warhammer than a traditional board game, but man the miniatures are cool.
• 02:00:45 - Wrap Up & Upcoming Games

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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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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Returning from a holiday and games start coming out. What a time to have a podcast

• Euan plays Shadows of Doubt, a game with more genres than time I have to type them out here. You’ll just have to listen.
• We both “played” Redfall and have some thoughts. They are not good thoughts, but they are thoughts.
• Calum talks at length about Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. As a Star Wars fan, you can imagine this is a long discussion.

• 02:01 – Holidays & our bodies are getting old.
• 07:36 – Shadows of Doubt.
• 16:30 – Redfall.
• 36:31 – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
• 1:11:57 – Citizen Sleeper and the Lost In Cult collaboration.

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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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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