GameEngineStart Podcast

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 De...

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 a...

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/o...

One of us stayed up till 3am before recording this. See if you can figure out which! We Played... Euan talks programming but Starcraft in Desynced, a gumshoe animated hero for new ages with Mouse: PI for Hire and the much anticipated cyberpunk sidescroller Replaced Calum talks Pokémon Champions , and explains the basics of professional Pokémon. Timestamps 00:07:37 - Life is Strange: Reunion 00:09:...

I swear to go I'll get Euan to stop talking about his base building game for perverts one day. I promise. We Played... Euan played yet more Arknights: Endfield, and moving quickly on talks about the return to teen based drama in a university setting with Life is Strange: Reunion Calum talks about late game Marathon . It's all terrifying and stress inducing and awesome. Timestamps 00:03:45 - The La...

Just like the undying Shells of Tau Ceti IV, this podcast will keep coming back. We Played... Calum talks "Pokémon Crossing" in Pokopia, and discusses the arrival of a legend to Team Rainbow with Solid Snake in Rainbow 6: Siege Euan talks best in class of the genre in Resident Evil: Requiem and solves murder most foul in The Séance of Blake Manor The ins and outs of the new extraction shooter Mara...

It's the first post of 2026 and so as is customary, we recount everything we were doing while not on the air. We Played... Euan talks surviving an apocalypse in The Last Caretaker and yet more conveyer belts (now featuring anime women) in Arknights: Endfield Calum takes to the streets of Seattle's cursed underground with Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 and enjoys the Yokai infested mountains...

It's the end of another year, so it's time to give the world our top 5 best of 2025. Timestamps 00:04:31 - Calum Almost #5 00:07:00 - Calum #5 00:14:22 - Euan #5 00:21:21 - Calum #4 00:32:12 - Euan #4 00:41:28 - Calum #2 00:54:55 - Euan #3 00:59:55 - Euan #2 01:07:29 - Calum #1 01:27:05 - Euan #1 01:45:38 - Honourable Mentions 01:58:12 - Starting 2026 Intro Music -  There It Is -  Kevin MacLeod (i...

The last pod of the year before game of the year discussions, so largely just trying to close the year out. Let's wrap up before 2026 and GTA6 definitely comes out and dominates. We Played... Euan returns to stompy robots in Phantom Brigade 2.0 and delves into long awaited horrors in Routine Calum navigates a lawless frontier in Destiny 2: Renegades and can't stop smoking in RV There Yet? Timestam...

We return after a personal break and it looks like the year is slowing down. We Played... Euan talks more Diablo IV Calum gives his overview from Lumiose City (and Pokemon in general) while discussing Pokemon Legends ZA We both join the millions of other people gushing over Ad-Hoc's Dispatch Timestamps 00:04:05 - Diablo 4 00:10:51 - Silent Hill f 00:15:31 - Pokemon Legends ZA 00:35:41 - Hades 2 00...

The shadow of many looms over us and Euan is continuing to play Diablo 4. We Played... As said, Euan can't stop with the Diablo 4 and plays the actual new release of Silent Hill F Calum talks about the anticipated sequel to one of the best games ever made, Hades II We're both in our 30s and played Fortnite for Daft Punk. I'm as upset about this fact as you Timestamps 00:01:37 - Diablo 4 00:23:04 -...

00:08:40 - Diablo 4 00:28:54 - Chronos 00:53:08 - 2XKO 01:24:35 - News - Firaxis is the latest company to let people go. 01:28:38 - News - Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will no longer lock some vampire families behind launch DLC, and instead will launch separate DLC later. 01:29:38 - News - Randy Pitchford is tweeting through it again . Joy. 01:39:12 - Upcoming & Housekeeping Intro Music -...

We took a long break, but now we're back with all you'd expect from us. We Played... Euan gives his final thoughts on Death Stranding 2 after seeing the credits roll. Calum have a bumper crop of Grounded 2, Dawn of War: Definitive Edition and hot game of the moment Peak , which is, as the kids say, peak. We both discuss interesting psychological thriller Dead Take , and it's incredible performance...

It's time for a new Destiny 2 expansion. God help us all for the discussion that was had. Spoiler Warning We talk pretty explictly about the story of the new Destiny 2 expansion, Edge of Fate, between 0:44:08 and 0:49:09. We say so before hand, but if you are worried the timestamps below should help you skip it. We Played... Euan tries 'new Zach' in Kaizen: A Factory Story, a new Zachntronics game...

A new Kojima has been released, and so new Kojima must be discussed. We Played... Euan plays follow-up story DLC Still Wakes the Deep: Siren's Rest and the new madness from Hideo Kojima Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Calum deals with the grim dark 41st millenium in Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader Timestamps 00:03:19 - Still Wakes the Deep: Siren's Rest 00:07:29 - Death Stranding 2 00:25:39 - Rainbow...

Summer Games Fest has come and gone and this podcast is only an hour. That should say something about the show this year. We Played... We talk about a few of the things that stood out at Summer Games Fest , which is a pretty small list Calum gets into why Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is such an interesting announcement, and has early thoughts on the Switch 2 Euan has been playing with plant machin...

As the dawn of the Switch 2 approaches, our heroes find themselves playing non-Nintendo products both old and new! We Played... Euan discusses further VR adventures with Defector & Wanderer, and reflects back on some old Blendo Games hits with  Quadrilateral Cowboy Calum briefly talks Warhammer 40k CRPG Rogue Trader and the new release of the season Doom: The Dark Ages Timestamps 00:01:24 - The Sw...

Its just turned May and we are already on our third GOTY candidate. Also, it's one we might actually agree on! We Played... It's been a rough week for games media, so we start the podcast with some reminiscing on the good old days of Giant Bomb and mourn the passing of the institution that was Polygon. We found Room 46 in Blue Prince , and Euan spend some in the deep south in South of Midnight We...

Blue Prince has caused some differing opinions on the show this week. It's an interesting discussion but I worry about the outcomes... We Played... Euan talks about the new game from Paradise Killer developers Promise Mascot Agency and wonders if the series can be saved in  Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 We both talk all things Blue Prince and it gets in depth and interesting. Calum gives a bri...

If you're listening to this podcast, I hope you're maximising your sleep and you're on your eighth bottle of sparkling water by now... We Played... Calum does a check in with Monster Hunter Wilds and is in full preparation mode for the next raid tier in Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail Euan also wraps up Citizen Sleeper 2 and Split Fiction, and talking ins and outs of Contractors: Exfil Timestamps 00:1...

After a two week break for two big games the two host return to (read as two) talk about them. Two. We Played... Calum has played both rather large games of the past month in Obsidian's latest Avowed and continuing culling of ancient enemies in Monster Hunter Wilds Euan returns to teen type in Lost Records and gives a brief overview of Split Fiction. More to follow. Timestamps 00:01:28 - Avowed 00...

It's 2025 and we emerge from our winter hibernations. Turns out all we did was play video games. Funny how that works. We Played... Euan has been stuck in the virtual world with Contractors: Exfil. He also tries to go to the stars in the highly anticipated Citizen Sleeper 2 Calum played newest Atlus offering Metaphor: ReFantazio, the same game 90% of people were playing over winter Marvel Rivals,...

It is the time of year to put another log on the fire, grab your drink of choice, and listen to us talk about our favourite games of the year. Or in one case spend 20 minutes just quoting it. Timestamps 00:06:13 - Euan - #5 00:10:44 - Calum - #5 00:17:42 - Euan - #4 00:24:13 - Calum - #4 00:34:06 - Euan - #3 00:43:54 - Calum - #3 & #2 00:56:21 - Euan - #2 01:10:09 - Calum - #1 01:24:48 - Euan - #1...

The world has conspired so that we both got a game from a series we love in one week, so it's a long one. We Played... After months of discourse, Calum digs into Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and seems to like it a lot. Life is Strange: Double Exposure takes Euan into his Pacific North West feelings, even though this installment takes place in Vermont. Remember, "sad teen" is a genre not a time perio...

Nostalgia is a double edged sword, make sure your not falling for it. Also some quirky hardware with a crank. Real hard swings this episode. We Played... Silent HIll 2 is a foundational game for Euan, so his time with the Bloober Team remake is complicated. Awful delivery companies aside, Calum finally got a Playdate . It seems cool! We realised we had never talked about the joy of Astro Bot , so...