GameEngineStart Podcast

We're here to talk about Star Wars before one of us goes on holiday to be IN Star Wars.We Played...Euan does cop simulations in Ready or Not and throws way way back to the best in the series with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the PatriotsWe both continue to faun over Big Walk and discuss the many positives of tactics in a far off galaxy in Star Wars: Zero CompanyTimestamps00:04:45 - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots00:10:52 - Ready or Not00:16:35 - Big Walk00:21:08 - Star Wars: Zero Company00:40:14 - Escape Simulator 2 VR00:40:57 - News - Just as we talk about how great Zero Company is, we find that 80% of the team were furloughed a few weeks before launch00:44:02 - News - Did you buy a PlayStation during the period where tariffs were active? Sorry your not getting that back00:49:01 - News - Sony are continuing to get blowback from their "no disc" policy that they will be rolling out eventually.00:55:34 - News - Turns out people are using slurs in Counter-Strike 2. Like a LOT01:03:05 - News - Watching non UK games writers discover that we actually do have pre-pay electricity units is very funny01:08:55 - Grand Theft Auto VI pre-release hype01:30:45 - Upcoming and 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)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Life gets in the way, but we return to talk about what we've been up to with video games and the like! We Played... Euan deals with the result of microplastics with Tides of Tomorrow, and remembers the good days of the internet (incorrectly) with Broken Reality 2000 Calum goes on a journey in Big Walk and has an unstoppable grindfest with Grandblue Fantasy Relink: Endless Ragnarok Timestamps 00:09:26 - New Diablo 4 Season 00:12:25 - Tides of Tomorrow 00:23:06 - Broken Reality 2000 00:35:14 - Esoteric Ebb 00:36:21 - Big Walk 00:43:25 - Minor Big Walk Puzzle Spoilers 00:50:09 - Grandblue Fantasy Relink: Endless Ragnarok 01:03:58 - News - Marvel Tōkon seems to have had an extremely rocky launch on PC 01:12:47 - Sovereign Tower 01:14:35 - 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)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

It's been a while. I hope you are all ready for extensive chat of boys. We Played... Euan discusses several Steam Next Fest offerings with About Fishing and Iron Nest and has a chill time stacking shelves in inKombini Calum has very little to say on Esoteric Ebb. More to follow at a later date Timestamps 00:04:48 - About Fishing Demo 00:07:21 - Iron Nest Demo 00:12:07 - Vultures: Scavengers of Death 00:14:31 - inKombini 00:16:27 - Diablo 4 00:18:23 - Final Fantasy XVI 00:19:12 - Esoteric Ebb 00:21:15 - News - Summer Games Fest happened. 00:31:07 - News - Yakuza devs RGG new game Stranger than Fiction is bringing back Tupac for the cast, and people have feelings about that 00:32:40 - News - The community around hot boy gatcha Love and Deepspace have been fighting a holy war over the new hot werewolf boy 00:48:43 - News - Tim Sweeny is an idiot 00:50:20 - News - Sony have announced that from January 2028 they will no longer be putting out games on Bluray. 01:01:16 - News - Valve announced Steam Machine prices, and they are not great. 01:03:58 - 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)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

I'm not going to take the easy joke and do a "the name's podcast, video game podcast" here. I'm not doing it. We Played... Euan continues running for loot in hell with Diablo 4 enters the Dark Pictures archives with Directive 8020 and begins Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. More to come from that. Calum caved and bought into the early access of Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era. We all knew he would. We both discuss 007: First Light and if IO Interactive can really pull off a more directed single player game. Spoilers, they absolutely can. Timestamps 00:10:12 - Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred 00:19:21 - Directive 8020 00:29:06 - Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight 00:32:55 - HOMAM 00:50:52 - 007: First Light 01:09:48 - Bungie is releasing the last content update for Destiny 2 on June 9th, so we talk about the long history of the series, and what could happen next with the studio. 01:31:54 - Localization team Hilltop works are releasing a patch for incredibly niche PS1 title Kowloon's Gate, and it sounds like it was a nightmare to work on. 01:33:28 - Steam Deck prices are rising substantially, because AI is screwing us all over. 01:36:33 - Upcoming and 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)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Welcome back to the sad teen zone. We arrive here frequently, so enjoy your stay! We Played... Euan has a bumper stock of video game discussions. New demons to kill in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred. Old school sad teens in the finale of Life is Strange: Reunion. New school sad teens (featuring music) in Mixtape, and a classic Zachtronics-like to round off the selection in UVS Nirmana Calum roots and/or toots his way through paranormal deserts with Far Far West and looks to the past with Final Fantasy 16 Timestamps 00:03:35 - Final Fantasy XVI 00:04:32 - Far Far West 00:12:56 - Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred 00:30:38 - Life is Strange: Reunion 00:36:17 - Mixtape 00:49:45 - UVS Nirmana 00:54:05 - Shapez 2 1.0 00:56:41 - News - Sony is not only seeing a drop in PS5 sales after the price hike, they haven't seen a return on investment with Bungie yet 01:02:28 - News - The CEO of Monument Valley developer UsTwo hates that their employees want things like "job security" and "pensions" 01:06:24 - Calum shares some genuinely exciting news from the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest, in his continual effort to get Euan to play the game 01:30:01 - 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)All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0