It's our yearly Eurovision review podcast. No guesses as to who shows up.

We Played...

• Euan finishes Resident Evil: Village and does as instructed in Hardspace: Shipbreaker
• Calum talks the new Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer and the many things there in.
• We both talk at length about a remaster of one of the best video game trilogies ever, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

Timestamps...

• 16:42 - Resident Evil: Village
• 31:23 - Hardspace: Shipbreaker
• 40:54 - Destiny 2 Season
• 59:31 - Music Intermission
• 1:02:07 - Destiny 2 Transmog Controversy
• 1:10:59 - Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
• 1:25:04 - Overwatch 2 is moving to 5v5 removing a Tank class from each side, along with other details.
• 1:28:04 - Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest happened, along with a memorial for late Bezerk Manga artist Miura Kentarō.
• 1:32:12 - Timesplitters is coming back.

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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You want everything from old Bioware games to the latest in Playstation 5 showpieces? How about a "short show" that lasted two hours? This is probably the episode for you.

We Played...

• Calum revisits Dragon Age: Origins as best he can on a modern machine, and we talk about the new Apex Legends game mode and legend that came with the new season.
• Euan actually plays a PS5 exclusive with roguelike shooter Returnal and confirms that big lady big in Resident Evil: Village

Timestamps...

• 2:47 - Dragon Age: Origins
• 17:47 - Apex Legends
• 31:41 - Returnal
• 57:41 - Musical Interlude
• 1:00:21 - Resident Evil: Village
• 1:15:50 - News - Returnal got some bad patches
• 1:17:50 - News - Humble Bundle "reconsidering" their slider changes
• 1:18:57 - News - Steam sued after threatening a developer with delisting after they want to take their game to other platforms at a lower price point
• 1:21:45 - News - The fallout from the Epic vs Apple court case hits more than just those two companies

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 somehow manage to talk about video games in this current time where they don't really exist. It's a real skill we have.

We Played...

• Euan catches up with the 2019 modern classic Disco Elysium with it's "Final Cut" update, and has caught the Apex Legends bug again. A bug that has never left Calum
• Calum talks FFXIV Patch 5.5 (among other things) and his triumphant return to Destiny 2

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• 12:51 - Final Fantasy XIV
• 28:49 - Destiny 2
• 40:21 - Apex Legends
• 42:24 - Disco Elysium - Final Cut
• 53:54 - Oddworld: Soulstorm
• 54:46 - Resident Evil: Village Demo
• 1:00:59 - Music Interlude
• 1:03:40 - News - Destiny is adding Transmogs, noone is happy.
• 1:22:30 - News - Sony invests $200m in Epic
• 1:27:35 - News - CDPR reveal they sold 13.7m copies of Cyberpunk 2077, and processed 30,000 refunds, not including Sony/Microsoft stores.
• 1:31:18 - News - Humble caps the charity donation of their bundles at 15%.

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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Surprisingly, we lied when we said there wouldn't be any games to play. We played loads!

We Played...

• Euan finished The Medium and was unimpressed, enjoyed Immortals Fenyx Rising: Myths of the Eastern Realm DLC and was incredibly shocked by the existence of Spacebase Startopia
• Calum talks at length about Monster Hunter: Rise

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 2:39 - The Medium
• 4:06 - Immortals: Fenyx Rising: Myths of the Eastern Realm DLC
• 8:49 - Starbase Startopia
• 28:39 - Apex Legends
• 31:27 - Monster Hunter: Rise
• 55:31 - Music Interlude
• 58:20 - News - Upcoming Final Fantasy XIV patch
• 1:03:39 - News - Sony show the controllers for the next version of PSVR
• 1:06:50 - News - Turns out Six Days in Fallujah has politics after all?
• 1:11:00 - News - Activision Blizzard let their Esports division go, Bobby Kotick gets more bonuses.
• 1:12:07 - News - Sony involved in partnership that buys the Evo fighting game tournament
• 1:17:01 - News - Sony are closing PS3, PSP and PSVita storefronts in the next few months
• 1:22:01 - News - Techland put out a Dying Light 2 developer update, quoting fans sending them horrendous messages.

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 big one, what's the five best games that we can agree on that game out this year.

This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel

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Music Credits

Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.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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Our other music category, where we find the one track that we couldn't stop playing all year.

This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel

There will be a new category every few days, so keep an eye on the site for details.

Music Credits

Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.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)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Games look really good in 2020, so let's talk about some of the best looking ones.

This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel

There will be a new category every few days, so keep an eye on the site for details.

Music Credits

Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.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)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

It's the best name we can come up with, that covers writing, performance and VO. Better suggestions are welcome.

This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel

There will be a new category every few days, so keep an eye on the site for details.

Music Credits

Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.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)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

I mean… avoiding the obvious… it's fair to say there was some news this year.

This podcast is also available as a video, via the site or our YouTube channel

There will be a new category every few days, so keep an eye on the site for details.

Music Credits

Outro Music - Sci Fi - Bensound (https://www.bensound.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)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Already in March and we're talking about games that came out years ago. It's a slow start to the year folks.

We Played...

• Euan talks about the new episode of Necrobarista and Maquette makes him feel very stupid, and not necessarily about the puzzles.
• Calum continues to play Final Fantasy 14 and finally tried Star War Jedi Fallen Order.
• We both have a lot to say about the Outriders Demo. Not much of that is positive.

Want to jump to something specific?...

• 3:27 - Necrobarista
• 5:17 - Maquette
• 18:05 - Final Fantasy 14
• 23:04 - Jedi: Fallen Order
• 36:13 - Outriders Demo
• 1:03:54 - Music Interlude
• 1:05:25 - News
• 1:06:57 - Destiny abandons sunsetting, details other seasonal improvements
• 1:12:15 - Elaborate win-trading scheme in Destiny is massively complicated
• 1:22:58 - Google abandoning internal development leaves game in completely broken state
• 1:25:11 - Watch Dogs: Legion multiplayer gets last minute delay on PC
• 1:27:52 - People are very into the new K-Pop Killer in Dead by Daylight
• 1:30:31 - Playstation had a State of Play stream, announced Final Fantasy VII Remake PS5 upgrade and content
• 1:36:49 - Nintendo had their first full Direct in 2 years, showed not much.
• 1:43:22 - It's looking like the next version of the Switch is hitting factories soon, will output 4K when docked.
• 1:45:59 - Someone thought it was a great idea to bring back Six Days in Fallujah, and lucky for everyone it's going to be entirely apolitical. Of course it is.

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)

All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0