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 Last Caretaker
• 00:06:20 - Endfield
• 00:10:54 - Life is Strange
• 00:28:45 - Marathon
  • The review we quoted - https://www.gamerguides.com/marathon/reviews/punching-below-its-weight
• 01:00:00 - News - DLSS 5 is awful, but the memes are good.
• 01:09:07 - News - Epic Games laid off 1000 people, because of a "Fortnite downturn"
• 01:12:18 - News - Street Fighter 6's Alex has an... interesting... conclusion to his story mode.
• 01:23:04 - 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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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 Marathon are discussed, and it's larger impact on the genre.

Timestamps

• 00:06:29 - Pokopia
• 00:20:47 - Solid Snake in Rainbow 6: Siege
• 00:32:49 - Marathon
• 01:01:25 - Resident Evil: Requiem
• 01:05:29 - The Séance at Blake Manor
• 01:12:58 - News - We talk Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond leaving XBox, what it means for the platform, and the rough shape of the next Xbox hardware.
• 01:20:40 - News - Calum shares what happened during the Pokemon announcement stream.
• 01:22:48 - 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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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 of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

Timestamps

• 00:05:28 - The Last Caretaker
• 00:11:20 - Arknights: Endfield
• 00:39:31 - FFXIV Raids
• 00:41:30 - Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2
• 00:49:17 - Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
• 00:57:05 - News - Wolfenstein 3 is happening, something we kinda knew but it's worth confirming
• 00:57:41 - News - Blizzard announced a bunch of things throughout their IPs
• 01:01:38 - News - Ever noticed that people playing violent games in Nintendo trailers are really bad at it? There might be a reason.
• 01:03:15 - News - Sony had their first State of Play of 2026
• 01:22:22 - 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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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 (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 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?

Timestamps

• 00:03:28 - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• 00:06:27 - Phantom Brigade
• 00:12:25 - Routine
• 00:21:01 - Dispatch
• 00:28:23 - Citizen Sleeper 2
• 00:35:31 - Destiny 2: Renegades
• 00:59:57 - Hitman + Diablo 4
• 01:01:46 - News - Valve are bringing back the Steam Machine, a small SteamOS box that is 5x times more powerful than the Steam Deck.
• 01:09:06 - News - A community team are trying to make Concord playable again, and have ran a game on their own servers.
• 01:10:04 - News - As part of the current lawsuit between Krafton and ex heads of Unknown Worlds, it was shown that the Krafton CEO allegedly asked ChatGPT how to avoid paying them.
• 01:13:27 - News - This article from Aftermath about Ubisoft doing more stupid shit with AI is my favourite headline of the year
• 01:14:40 - News - If you follow games press you will have heard about art game Horses, we go over what's happening with it's removal from now 3 online stores.
• 01:20:24 - 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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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
• 00:37:52 - Dispatch
• 01:00:33 - Other End of Year Games
• 01:02:46 - Rockstar have delayed GTA6 again, and also fired a number of employees that were in the process of discussing unionisation.
• 01:07:23 - EA has gone private and been sold to a consortium that includes Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushners venture capital firm.
• 01:11:27 - 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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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 - Hades 2

00:53:50 - Silent Hill f

01:21:16 - Fortnite

01:27:07 - 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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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 - 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 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 performances.

Timestamps

• 00:04:29 - Death Stranding 2
• 00:12:19 - Dead Take
• 00:19:09 - Is This Seat Taken?
• 00:22:23 - Peak
• 00:27:25 - Dawn of War Remaster
• 00:30:00 - Grounded 2 Early Access
• 00:33:13 - News - Gamescom ONL
• 00:46:53 - News - Tencent Horizon
• 00:49:38 - News - VTM 2
• 00:56:08 - 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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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 by not Zachtronics, Astra Logical (featuring Zach). He also continues discussion of Death Stranding 2
• You know it. You love it. It's Calum's time to talk about the new Destiny Expansion Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate

Timestamps

• 00:04:13 - Kaizen: A Factory Story
• 00:07:51 - Death Stranding 2
• 00:39:27 - Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate
• 00:44:08 - Destiny 2 Spoilers
• 00:49:14 - Destiny 2 Spoilers End
• 01:16:54 - Death Stranding 2 Audio Issues
• 01:19:28 - News - FBC: Firebreak has not launched to great reception, but Remedy are hoping that a major rework coming in September will improve things
• 01:21:34 - News - Off The Grid is a meh Battle Royal game with horrible vibes and actual NFTs, and a bunch of outlets ran sponsored posts about it
• 01:25:36 - News - Three execs from Subnautica 2 developers Unknown Worlds are suing their publisher Krafton after they believe the EA launch of the game was delayed to avoid paying a $250 million bonus.
• 01:30:18 - 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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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 6: Siege
• 00:28:07 - Rogue Trader
• 00:49:29 - News - Med students are using 8BitDo controllers to aid with exam revision, and it seems to have just naturally grown.
• 00:51:40 - News - Nintendo have locked down the USB-C port on the Switch 2, seemingly to try and stop 3rd party peripherals
• 00:53:53 - News - Microsoft have laid off another 9000 employees, mostly in the XBox division and across their studios.
• 00:59:12 - News - Redditors found undeclared use of generative AI in The Alters, and people are not happy
• 01:08:20 - 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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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 machinery in Roadcraft, and having an existential crisis as to why he likes it so much.

Timestamps

• 00:00:49 - Summer Games Fest
• 00:12:59 - Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls
• 00:25:48 - Roadcraft
• 00:36:37 - The Alters
• 00:37:21 - Switch 2
• 00:52:17 - News - Marathon has been delayed indefinitely, seemingly due to a mixed reception from the Alpha and the stolen art direction controversy.
• 00:58:09 - 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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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 Switch 2 Is Almost Here
• 00:12:26 - Defector & Wanderer
• 00:20:00 - Quadrilateral Cowboy
• 00:24:19 - Rogue Trader
• 00:26:33 - Helldivers 2
• 00:28:46 - Doom: The Dark Ages
• 00:41:13 - News - Fortnite added a Darth Vader AI that can talk to you, which went as well as you would expect
• 00:56:26 - News - Theoretically we talk about the GTA 6 trailer, but actually we just talk about expectations for the game.
• 01:08:15 - News - Randy Pitchford keeps saying dumb shit.
• 01:12:23 - 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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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 spend a long time talking about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a game there is as much to talk about as there is attempts at trying to spell it.

Timestamps

• 00:00:57 - Giant Bomb & Polygon
• 00:27:40 - Blue Prince
• 00:33:41 - South of Midnight
• 00:37:33 -Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• 01:28:04 - News - We have a final GTA 6 release date, and it's next year
• 01:31:03 - News - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is making such a splash that even Emmanuel Macron was posting about it
• 01:33:52 - News - Insiders are claiming that Valve has a version of Half Life 3 is playable from end to end.
• 01:36:52 - 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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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 brief glimpse once again into Final Fantasy 14 Savage Raiding

Timestamps

• 00:05:47 - Promise Mascot Agency
• 00:08:48 - Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2
• 00:24:40 - Blue Prince
• 00:54:19 - FFXVI Savage Raiding
• 01:04:15 - News - Bungie finally revealed Marathon, an extraction shooter with stunning art direction and some pretty big unanswered questions.
• 01:06:53 - News - Nintendo finally showed us the Switch 2, in an unfortunate maelstrom of world news.
• 01:13:07 - News - Respawn and ex-XCOM devs are making a Star Wars turn based strategy game.
• 01:19:22 - 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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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

• 00:12:30 - Monster Hunter: Wilds
• 00:14:19 - FF14
• 00:20:25 - Citizen Sleeper 2
• 00:21:56 - Contractors: Exfil
• 00:30:00 - Split Fiction
• 00:37:06 - News: AI ARK trailer
• 00:41:07 - PSA: Great Humble Bundle
• 00:42:04 - News: Nintendo Stream
• 00:50:30 - 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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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
• 00:17:23 - Minor Pillars of Eternity Spoilers
• 00:27:16 - Minor Avowed Side Quest Spoilers
• 00:37:03 - Lost Records
• 01:00:00 - Monster Hunter: Wilds
• 01:17:30 - Split Fiction
• 01:26:38 - News - Unity announced a number of layoffs, and are focusing on "Live Services and AI" as one of their tenants moving forward
• 01:27:46 - News - Phil Spencer said some really dumb shit about AI
• 01:32:51 - News - Asynchronous multiplayer Resident Evil spin off Re:Verse is shutting down as it has "served its original, celebratory purpose"
• 01:36:01 - 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)

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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, and is very ill in the head and this returned to Warframe

Timestamps

• 00:09:32 - IXION
• 00:11:02 - Contractors: Exfil
• 00:38:11 - Metaphor: ReFantazio
• 00:44:30 - Dishonoured 2
• 00:54:34 - Marvel: Rivals
• 01:05:58 - Warframe
• 01:22:14 - Citizen Sleeper 2
• 01:30:23 - We have a half announcement for the Switch 2, and it sure looks like a Switch.
• 01:33:43 - The next Destiny 2 episode is shipping with so much missing voice acting due to the SAG AFTRA actors strike that it has subtitles on by default to cover it.

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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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
• 01:46:20 - Runners Up
• 01:56:52 - Looking to 2025

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 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 period.

Timestamps

• 00:05:55 - Euan Game Catchup
• 00:09:31 - Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• 01:00:31 - Life is Strange: Double Exposure
• 01:36:15 - News - Sony decided that the "best path forward" for Concord is to close the studio completely
• 01:37:47 - News - 343 Industries is now Halo Studios, and are pivoting to Unreal Engine for the future games.
• 01:38:35 - News - The mobile Animal Crossing game is getting one more year of updates, and if you want access to it then it's going to cost you $20.
• 01:44:52 - News - Another month, another Destiny 2 controversy, this time with the community sleuthing out a bug with their drop rates.
• 01:59:39 - Housekeeping & 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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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 we remedy that.
   

Timestamps

• 00:03:31 - Euans Random Games
• 00:06:07 - Silent Hill 2
• 00:54:49 - Playdate
• 01:09:20 - Astro Bot
• 01:24:07 - News - What is happening over at Ubisoft?
• 01:33:53 - 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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We Played...

• Calum talks now real video game Deadlock. We all thought it was a secret, but it was just a MOBA
• Euan talks about the seemingly perfectly average Star Wars Outlaws

Timestamps

• 00:02:00 - Sony announced a £700 PlayStation Pro
• 00:11:48 - Concord has been taken offline after less than a month
• 00:20:39 - Former head of Sony Europe says industry layoffs aren't caused by greed, and people should "figure out how to get through it"
• 00:23:51 - Deadlock
• 00:45:17 - Star Wars Outlaws
• 00:59:51 - Space Marine 2
• 01:01:40 - 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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We Played...

• Euan investigates some sci-fi murders with mixed results in No One Wants To Die
• Calum conquers his demons, namely the new Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raids, and experiences some retro Morrowind vibes in Dread Delusion
• We both finally got to experience Thank Goodness You're Here, and it's every bit as good as we were hoping for

Timestamps

• 00:01:10 - Deathlock is being played by 20,000 people, but has never been officially announced or even acknowledged. Also we talk about that Verge article, and how people who don't understand what journalism is lost their minds.
• 00:15:05 - No One Wants To Die
• 00:26:25 - Thank Goodness You're Here
• 00:35:46 - FFXIV Savage Raid
• 00:44:38 - Dread Delusion
• 00:54:03 - News - PSVR2 looks like it's in trouble, with not a lot of new games and now $200 off in a fire sale
• 00:56:56 - News - Silent Hill: Ascension, the awful "interactive" TV show, won an Emmy!?
• 00:59:16 - News - Tango Gameworks, one of the many studios killed by Microsoft, appears to have been saved by South Korean publisher Krafton
• 01:06:35 - News - Bungie had another round of layoffs, bringing the future of Destiny into real question. Also the CEO bought a  lot of cars. Unrelated I'm sure.
• 01:18:29 - 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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We Played...

• Calum plays hot new release Elden Ring. This is a lie but he hasn't heard anyone talk about this game, so it's worth a go. This was also a lie.
• Euan forgets reality for one of a virtual kind with Contractors Showdown and Ghosts of Tabor
• We both tried The First Decendant. It's alright. That's it, that's all we have to say

Timestamps

• 00:02:08 - Elden Ring
• 00:22:47 - Contractors Showdown
• 00:39:30 - Ghosts of Tabor
• 00:46:18 - The First Decendents
• 00:49:35 - FFXIV Raid
• 00:50:43 - 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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We Played...

• Calum explores the latest Final Fantasy 14 expansion, Dawntrail
• Euan does what every Scottish person has to consider at one point in their life, and decides to work on an oil rig in Still Wakes the Deep

Timestamps

• 00:02:02 - FFIVX: Dawntrail
• 00:21:43 - Dragon Age: Inquisition
• 00:22:51 - Still Wakes the Deep
• 00:34:33 - Still Wakes the Deep - Spoiler Start
• 00:41:41 - Still Wakes the Deep - Spoiler End
• 00:41:50 - News - Cities Skylines 2 had to patch out landlords
• 00:46:31 - 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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We Played...

• We talk about the things we care about from Summer Games Fest, including the new Dragon Age, slow female vocal covers in trailers, and many other smaller items.
• Calum takes up his mantle of Destiny editor and goes in depth to Destiny 2: The Final Shape.
• Euan talks about Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, a much anticipated sequel for him.

Timestamps

• 00:02:22 - SGF: The Dragon Age: The Veilguard: The Trailer
• 00:12:24 - SGF: Trailers and their Slow Music Covers
• 00:23:06 - SGF: South of Midnight and Souls-likes
• 00:27:23 - SGF: More From the Xbox Showcase
• 00:30:00 - SGF: Euan's Sad Teen Hour
• 00:35:42 - SGF: The Dragon Age Cinematic Universe
• 00:42:15 - SGF: The Actual SGF Show
• 00:58:51 - Euan bought a Quest 3
• 01:08:02 - Destiny 2: The Final Shape
• 01:42:08 - Hellblade 2
• 01:56:39 - Upcoming & Housekeeping

Break Music -The Complex - 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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NOTE - We talk about minor spoilers from Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, we are explicit when we are about to start, and there is a timestamp in the podcast description.

We Played...

• We both played XDefiant, and had a surprisingly long conversation about the current state of the FPS genre.
• Euan plays a pile of puzzlers with The Excavation of Hobs Barrow and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.
• Calum plays the latest Playstation PC port Ghosts of Tsushima.
   

Timestamps

• 00:02:44 - XDefiant
• 00:25:45 - Onward Mercenaries
• 00:28:01 - Hellblade
• 00:30:41 - The Excavation of Hobs Barrow
• 00:38:29 - Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• 00:46:24 - Lorelei Spoilers Start
• 00:50:27 - Lorelei Spoilers End
• 00:51:33 - Ghosts of Tsushima PC
• 01:01:18 - News - Ubisoft have cancelled the F2P spin off of The Division. I hope the third instalment actually makes it out.
• 01:02:17 - News - Jake Solomon, the game designer behind the XCOM reboot has a new studio, and is trying his hand at a new genre. Ready for The Sims with half cover?
• 01:08:39 - Calum was at a Stardew Valley Concert
• 01:10:29 - News - Leaks have started around Valves next game, taking bits of Overwatch, DOTA and TF2
• 01:12:06 - News - Neil Druckman, perpetual man with opinions, thinks AI is actually great. He's wrong.
• 01:17:30 - 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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We Played...

• Euan plays the unexplainable Indika and the very explainable cat sim Little Kitty, Big City
• Calum substitutes his lack of raiding with raiding roguelike Rabbit and Steel and "anime Monster Hunter" Granblue Fantasy Relink

Timestamps

• 00:02:00 - Little Kitty, Big City
• 00:04:19 - Saints Row
• 00:06:52 - Indika
• 00:15:16 - Rabbit and Steel
• 00:19:38 - Granblue Fantasy: Relink
• 00:36:19 - News - In order to capitalize on the success of the Fallout series, Bethesda decided to catastrophically break Fallout 4.
• 00:40:47 - News - Nintendo just tweeted it out, and have confirmed that the follow up to the Switch is coming this fiscal year.
• 00:42:46 - News - Sony managed to destroy massive amount of goodwill behind Helldivers 2 by trying to enforce a PSN link on PC. They have now backed down from this idea.
• 00:50:20 - News - The industry takes another massive hit, as Microsoft shutters more studios, including Tango Gameworks and Prey developers Arkane Austin. You should play Prey.
• 01:11:50 - News - Someone has put together a bot that plays Tekken 8 by just pressing kick as Eddie Gordo, and it appears to be winning.
• 01:17:22 - News - Destiny 2 continues to make more changes in advance of Final Shape.
• 01:22:20 - News - Did you know that Hellblade 2 is out next week? Microsoft wants you to know that it hasn't forgot either.
• 01:25:45 - 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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We Played..

• Euan plays tarot based story telling game The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood and slasher inspired puzzle narrative game Killer Frequency
• Calum talks all things Dragons Dogma 2. That's all.

Timestamps

• 00:06:20 - The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
• 00:11:31 - Killer Frequency
• 00:16:32 - Dragon’s Dogma 2
• 00:41:58 - Minor Dragon’s Dogma 2 Quest Spoilers
• 00:53:29 - News - Apex Hack
• 00:59:46 - News - Kotaku Pivot
• 01:03:42 - News - GW3?
• 01:09:04 - Upcoming & Wrap Up
• 01:09:36 - Secret News - Destiny 2

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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Editors Note: We realised later that the Helldivers 2 GM is actually named Joel. Too late to change the title now.

Intermission Music

The Woods - Wilbert Roget, II - Pacific Drive: Official Game Soundtrack

Steam | Epic Games Store

We Played...

• Euan rumbles around a messed up Pacific North-West in Pacific Drive, an early GOTY candidate.
• Calum is in the early stages of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, and has a bunch of things he can't talk about.
• We both have put a bunch of time into Helldivers, and we talk about how it might be the first game in a long time to do live service right.

Timestamps

• 00:02:05 - Hospital Chat
• 00:19:40 - Helldivers 2 & Live Service
• 00:40:00 - Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
• 00:47:20 - Destiny 2 Hoverboards
• 00:52:26 - Music Break
• 00:54:20 - Pacific Drive and its save system.
• 01:20:45 - News - Akira Toyama passed away at 68, and leaves behind a legacy that touched a lot of people
• 01:22:25 - News - The remaster of the first three Tomb Raider games had some strange inconsistencies between the Steam and EGS versions
• 01:24:45 - News - Rooster Teeth shuts down after more than 20 years, because their new corporate overlords said "Nah"
• 01:26:36 - News - After a less than impressive showing by Suicide Squad, a live service game, Warner Bros are doubling down on live service games.
• 01:28:52 - News - EA CEO Andrew Wilson just went off to fantasy land about his perceived impressions of what AI can do.
• 01:32:46 - News - The wingnut gamers are at it again, constructing a conspiracy theory against narrative consulting shop Sweet Baby Inc.
• 01:33:51 - 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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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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Spoiler Warning

We spoil some of the Tekken 8 story mode in this episode (1:00:00 -> 1:07:17). Timestamps are below if you want to avoid it.

We Played...

• Euan talks life after Yakuza in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and is saddened once again by Konami's decisions in Silent Hill: A Short Message
• Calum low parries his own anxiety to try and learn what the fuck Tekken 8 is all about.

Timestamps

• 00:14:08 - Lethal Company
• 00:18:58 - Max Payne 3
• 00:23:14 - Yakuza
• 00:44:29 - Tekken 8
• 01:00:00 - Tekken 8: Spoilers
• 01:07:17 - Tekken 8: Spoilers End
• 01:15:43 - Silent Hill: TSM
• 01:36:53 - Upcoming Games & 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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We Played...

• Euan talks about the co-op perspective of Baldur's Gate 3, and the atrocity that is Silent Hill: Ascension.
• Calum briefly discusses the Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Playtest, more to follow in December when the game releases in full.
• We both dicuss our continuing amazement at Alan Wake 2

Timestamps

• 00:01:17 - Black Friday & Buying a Laptop in 2023
• 00:10:57 - Alan Wake 2
• 00:18:25 - Baldur's Gate 3
• 00:42:56 - Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Playtest
• 00:51:17 - Silent Hill: Ascension
• 01:15:29 - News - Hades is coming to mobile via Netflix
• 01:16:47 - News - The internet has bullied Rockstar enough where they are showing the first trailer for GTA6 in December
• 01:18:06 - News - The Glory Society, the studio from the developers of Night in the Woods, is closing due to members serious health issues.
• 01:19:48 - News - We talk at length about the direction that different parts of the industry are taking with live service games, and their relation to the Bungie Layoffs
• 01:41:13 - 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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Music Break - Background Music (Loop) - Migfus20 (freesound.org)

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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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Music

Intermission Music

The Crystal Bot - Arnaud Roy - Endless Dungeon (Original Game Soundtrack)

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We Played...

• We both discuss the conversion of old nanomachines to the nanomachines running on current gen platforms in Metal Gear Solid Collection Vol 1, continuing adventures in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and multi-genre cross-over a-thon, Endless Dungeon
• Euan dicusses his brief beginnings with Alan Wake 2, expect more to come

Timestamps

• 00:09:59 - Metal Gear Solid Collection Vol 1
• 00:42:51 - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
• 00:46:31 - Endless Dungeon
• 00:55:08 - Music Break
• 00:56:31 - Steam Demo Fest
• 00:59:20 - Alan Wake 2
• 01:19:57 - The International
• 01:24:46 - News - EA FC, previously FIFA, has had a patch that stopped players from running with the ball in their hands. Kind of a key feature of the sport.
• 01:26:20 - News - Disney Dreamlight Valley will no longer be free to play when it leaves Early Access in December.
• 01:30:59 - 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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Intermission Music

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

Steam

We Played...

• 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

Timestamps

• 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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Intermission Music

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

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We Played...

• 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.

Timestamps

• 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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Intermission Music

DA PEOPLE - Hideki Naganuma - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Soundtrack

We Played...

• 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

Timestamps

• 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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We Played...

• 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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Music

Intermission Music

No Exit - scntfc - Oxenfree II: Lost Signals OST

Bandcamp

We Played...

• 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

Timestamps

• 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 Played...

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

Timestamps

• 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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We Played...

• 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.

Timestamps

• 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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We Played...

• 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!

Timestamps

• 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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Music

Intermission Music

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

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We Played...

• 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

Timestamps

• 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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We Played…

• 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.

Timestamps…

• 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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We Played…

• Euan played a variety of smaller games, including Drop: System Breach, Dredge, A Little To The Left
• Calum has a Destiny 2 Catchup as the seasonal story ends and talks massive changes to DOTA 2 (yes he’s playing DOTA 2 again)

Timestamps…

• 0:02:14 – Euan’s Catch-up
• 0:05:44 – Pistol Whip, and Borderlands OST
• 0:07:57 – Dredge
• 0:12:43 – Resident Evil 4 + More Remakes
• 0:21:00 – Destiny 2 Check-in
• 0:27:26 – DOTA2 & the new patch
• 0:33:28 – News – Someone has ported Jedi Outcast to VR, and it looks great.
• 0:37:03 – News – Jedi Survivor is a big game, and you might need a download even with the disc version
• 0:38:42 – News – Niantic are taking their Pokemon GO formula and trying again with Monster Hunter
• 0:40:37 – News – The Division 2 is still going strong, and we got details of two new titles in the series.
• 0:44:26 – News – Troubled developers of Dark and Darker are asking people to torrent their Alpha since they arn’t allowed on Steam.
• 0:48:08 – News – Scared of deep water? Horizon: Forbidden West has you covered
• 0:50:09 – News – Microsoft are removing their “share to Twitter” functionality, since they are saying no to the huge new cost of the API
• 0:54:15 – News – Indie horror hit Iron Lung is being made into a movie, directed by and starring Markiplier.
• 0:55:59 – News – Footage came out of Unrecord, an incredibly realistic looking game from the perspective of a police body cam
• 1:03:12 – Housekeeping & Upcoming

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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Intermission Music

Photosynthetic Skin – Amos Roddy – Citizen Sleeper (Original Soundtrack)

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We Played…

• Calum played in the weekend limited Diablo 4 Beta.
• Euan played maze building PvP game Meet Your Maker by the creators of Dead by Daylight
• We both played Resident Evil 4 Remake. As much as we enjoyed the original, it has been a very long time.

Timestamps…

• 00:09:01 – Diablo 4 Beta
• 00:30:13 – Meet Your Maker
• 00:50:15 – Music Interlude
• 00:51:46 – Resident Evil 4
• 01:16:23 – Deliver Us Mars, Dredge, Hitman is good
• 01:20:09 – News – There is a Persona 5 mobile game coming, but it’s coming from a predominantly gatcha studio so…
• 01:21:01 – News – Sega put out a Sonic murder mystery visual novel, and it’s apparently the best Sonic game in years.
• 01:21:37 – News – Epic have launched a very powerful editor and a new Creative mode for Fortnite, but the profit sharing model is kinda wild.
• 01:25:49 – News – Multiversus is leaving open beta by going to sleep for a year, with no purchase refunds
• 01:28:36 – News – E3 has officially been cancelled for this year, now the real question is if this is the death knell of the show
• 01:38:20 – Upcoming Games
• 01:42:40 – Our Technical Issues

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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Spoiler Warning – We talk about the story of Destiny 2: Lightfall between 16:24 and 22:33.

Intermission Music

Calling Upon Bravery – Eddie Marianukroh – Chained Echoes (Original Game Soundtrack)

Bandcamp

We Played…

• Calum talks Destiny 2: Lightfall, the latest expansion. That’s it, that’s all he talks about
• Euan talks mech based XCOM-like Phantom Brigade

Timestamps…

• 4:22 – Destiny 2: Lightfall
• 16:24 – Destiny 2: Lightfall Story Spoilers
• 22:33 – Destiny 2: Lightfall Story Spoilers End
• 1:12:30 – Music Break
• 1:15:23 – Phantom Brigade
• 1:38:55 – News – Paradox announced a bunch of things, including a Sims competitor
• 1:41:06 – News – The Suicide Squad gameplay might have been recieved so badly they have delayed it again
• 1:42:09 – News – Capcom showed off their lineup, and gave more details on the Resident Evil 4 remake
• 1:43:40 – News – A whole bunch of games have shut down so far this year, and it’s only March
• 1:46:22 – News – Sony continue to raise issues with the Microsoft Activision merger

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 Played…

• It’s 2008 again as Euan plays the Dead Space remake, gets in some cel shaded music action in Hifi Rush, and deals with the baffling experience that is Atomic Heart.
• When not prepping to spend the next few weeks in a Destiny 2 hole with the new expansion, Calum has been putting time into modern retro JRPG Chained Echos

Timestamps…

• 1:49 – Dead Space
• 12:20 – Hifi Rush
• 15:52 – Atomic Heart
• 28:02 – Destiny 2 Lightfall Preperation
• 31:27 – Chained Echos
• 46:08 – News – Ubisoft has delayed Skull & Bones for the millionth time, as well as cancelling 3 games that we don’t know about
• 49:54 – News – Activision Blizzard continue to be real wierd by requiring everyone to come back into the office, as well as making wild salary claims around their management.
• 53:55 – News – There was a Playstation State of Play, and we all collectively hmmmed at Suicide Squad
• 55:28 – News – Apparently your Xbox is now woke, since it’s started doing updates and downloads when renewable energy is more available. Sigh.
• 58:11 – News – Nintendo is not going to be at E3, the last of the big three to confirm they will not be there in an official capacity.
• 1:02:25 – 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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Spoiler Warning

We were pretty good at calling out when we are going to talk about endings and the like, but maybe don’t give a huge amount of notice. You have been warned.

Timestamps…

• Sifu – 0:02:29
• Hardspace: Shipbreaker – 0:07:39
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 0:15:09
• We Are OFK – 0:23:29
• God of War: Ragnarok – 0:27:59
• IXION – 0:48:47
• Citizen Sleeper – 0:56:25
• Neon White – 1:14:42
• Some Good Soundtracks – 1:23:53
• Pentiment – 1:26:53
• Honourable Mentions – 1:46:30
• Destiny 2 in 2022 – 1:56:55
• The Year of the Steam Deck – 2:05:58
• The Final Year of Giving Fromsoft a Chance – 2:07:04
• The Award for Only Game I returned This – 2:09:37
• The Dumbest News Story of the Year – 2:10:05
• Some Games Are Not For You – 2:11:10
• A Eulogy for Zachtronic – 2:16:46
• Looking Forward – 2:18:08

Intro & Outro Music – Jazzy Abstract Beat – Coma-Media (pixabay.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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Intermission Music

Cloud Nine – Machine Girl – Neon White OST 1 – The Wicked Heart

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We Played…

• We wrap up The Game Awards and all the announcements there in
• We both catch up on our god killing progress in God of War Ragnarok
• Calum prevents a chaos incursion in Warhammer 40k: Darktide and becomes best friends with marvel heros in Marvel’s Midnight Suns

Timestamps…

• 2:14 – 2023 is already looking stacked
• 4:25 – The Game Awards
  • CORRECTION – Euan said that Elden Ring won Best Narrative, he meant to say nominated.
• 36:46 – Euan caught up on a bunch of games
• 37:22 – Ixion
• 42:45 – Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• 54:22 – Music Break
• 56:32 – Midnight Suns
• 1:28:24 – News – Yuki Naka has been arrested again for insider trading
• 1:29:55 – News – Microsoft announce a commitment to bring Call of Duty to Switch and Steam for at least 10 years
• 1:31:51 – News – The director of Days Gone believes that ‘woke reviewers’ are the reason for it’s midding critical reception.
• 1:37:36 – News – Nintendo have shut down a Super Smash Brothers Melee tournament in it’s final stages, and the TOs believe that there was some shady business happening around it.
• 1:49:52 – GOTY plans, what were playing over the holiday, site stuff.

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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Intermission Music

Ember’s Wake – Amos Roddy – Citizen Sleeper

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We Played…

• Euan plays PS1 style sci-fi thriller Signalis
• Calum plays the “perfectly 6/7 out of 10” Harvestella and tells us the story of attending the Scottish Esports League
• We both become gods once again in God of War: Ragnarok

Timestamps…

• 0:30 – Holy crap it’s almost December
• 1:33 – Signalis
• 9:26 – Shadows of Rose – Resident Evil Village DLC
• 11:19 – SSX3
• 16:09 – Harvestella
• 37:52 – NIKKE
• 44:37 – Music Break
• 48:22 – God of War: Ragnarök
• 1:14:23 – News – Immortality hit iOS and is, surprisingly, uncut and in it’s original form.
• 1:16:28 – News – The UK Treasury launched a Discord, and proceeded to get trolled intensely.
• 1:20:44 – News – The back and forth between composer Mick Gordon and id Software continues, with Gordon dropping hard evidence, and id claiming they have their own.
• 1:23:34 – News – Yuji Naka, creator of Sonic and Balan Wonderworld, was arrested for insider trading.
• 1:26:34 – News – The PSVR2 is coming out February 22nd for £529.99. Ouch.
• 1:30:31 – Calum shares his experience at the Scottish Esports League
• 1:40:25 – Upcoming Releases, Site Stuff and Wrap Up

Credits...

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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Intermission Music

Customer Service – Eli Rainsberry – Wilmot’s Warehouse OST

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We Played…

• Calum talks professional DOTA with TI Final, and plays yet another card game in Marvel Snap, and is really presently surprised.
• Euan checks the rat tech in A Plague Tale: Requiem, and takes a look at dystopian point-and-click turn based RPG (too many genres) Sunday Gold

Timestamps…

• 2:14 – Andor is great god damn show
• 5:41 – The Mandalorian Spoilers
• 12:56 – DOTA 2: The International
• 21:32 – A Plague Tale: Requiem
• 33:25 – Sunday Gold
• 44:37 – Music Break
• 47:09 – Marvel Snap
• 1:11:23 – News – Konami are throwing a bunch of studios at a bunch of new Silent Hill games and seeing what happens
• 1:30:29 – News – The physical disc versions of Modern Warfare have barely anything on them, and still require a 150Gb download to use.
• 1:36:48 – Upcoming Releases, Site Stuff and 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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Intermission Music

Murky Brew – Alberto Sueri and Johnny Moutzouris – Eville OST

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Also we talk about Brandon Acker before the break, and you should go check out his YouTube channel

We Played…

• Calum played stuff on a Steam Deck. Various games, of varying quality, just had a grand old time.
• Euan solves puzzles in Egression and hates solving puzzles in Scorn.

Timestamps…

• 0:47 – Ordering a Xmas tree in October
• 3:20 – Calum got his Steam Deck, and started wildy throwing games at it.
• 21:11 – Egression
• 23:46 – Scorn
• 46:39 – Music Intermission
• 50:28 – Warhammer 40K: Darktide Closed Beta Impressions
• 55:52 – News – Google Stadia is no more, and you can actually get a refund
• 1:00:23 – News – The voice behind Bayonetta spoke out how the actual reason she isn’t in the third game is that they offered her a tiny paycheck for the role, and Hideki Kamiya blocks everyone on Twitter
• 1:07:34 – News – The launch of Overwatch 2 was a trashfire, and the game itself is not living up to expectations.
• 1:22:59 – Releases Coming Soon, Site Housekeeping and 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 Played…

• Euan finishes We Are OFK, and ventures into some modern nostalgia with Return to Monkey Island
• Calum is preparing to get a Steam Deck and keeps busy in Guild Wars 2 when not continuing doing Savage Raids in Final Fantasy XIV

Timestamps…

• 0:46 – Guild Wars 2 is still a franchise
• 4:30 – What’s Out in October
• 8:40 – We Are OFK
• 13:09 – Rollerdrome
• 14:33 – Crimesight
• 17:50 – Return to Monkey Island
• 33:54 – Calum is getting a Steam Deck
• 40:37 – FFXIV Savage Raids Continue
• 41:43 – Guild Wars 2 is a chill game. Apparently.
• 45:18 – News – The “live service” Halo Infinite doesn’t appear to be that “live”
• 50:04 – News – CDPR confirmed Cyberpunk 2077’s first expansion, (probably) out next year
• 52:06 – News – The GTAVI Leak has been both facinating and depressing to watch play out.

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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Intermission Music

The Disaster of Passion – AISHA & Arc System Works – GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK VOL.1

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We Played…

• Euan played tiny platformer Tinykin and the latest Sam Barlow epic Immortality
• Calum goes in-depth of the ins and outs of Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raiding  

Timestamps…

• 2:11 – Hey, people are actually listening to this!
• 8:07 – Tinykin
• 14:52 – Immortality
• 46:37 – Music Break
• 52:09 – Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raids
• 1:41:16 – Site Stuff and 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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Calum wasn’t available, so Euan has drafted in friend of the site, and narrative game connoisseur, Vaida to talk about the world of The Eye, the incredible characters we meet there, and just how well this game uses mechanics from tabletop games to add to the storytelling.

This is a spoilercast, so we talk openly about the events of the plot of Citizen Sleeper and it’s first expansion. If you have not played the game yet it’s highly recommended that you go do that and then come back for this conversation 

Citizen Sleeper is out now for PC (Steam, GOG, Epic), Game Pass, and Switch right now. The first free update is also out now, with two more updates coming in October and 2023.

Vaida can be found on Twitter @underskinnyhrt and their games can be played at https://vaidap.itch.io/. 

Intro / Outro Music – Density – Citizen Sleeper (Original Soundtrack) – Amos Roddy

Bandcamp | Steam | GOG | Apple Music

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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Intermission Music

Follow/Unfollow – OFK – We Are OFK E.P.

We Played…

• Calum writes this part of the post so he gets to type such sentences as “Euan plays a new ‘sad teen game'” We Are OFK, and talks about old favorites GTFO and Boneworks with Metal Gear Solid mods
• Calum plays out his wrestler fantasy in Rumbleverse and starts a cult (in a video game please don’t ban me) with Cult of the Lamb

Timestamps…

• 1:25 – Euan got COVID
• 13:55 – We Are OFK
• 21:34 – Boneworks MGS1 Mod
• 23:52 – A quick GTFO story
• 30:29 – Rumbleverse
• 41:36 – Cult of the Lamb
• 59:32 – Music Break
• 1:02:40 – News – Calum runs down the first in-person EVO in a few years.
• 1:13:34 – News – There is a new Tales from the Borderlands out in October and we forgot it existed. Might be for the best.
• 1:15:24 – News – Activision Blizzard are at it again, looking very much like they are taking designs from artists and putting them into CoD with no credit or recompense.
• 1:17:17 – News – The Embracer Group continues to embrace, this time with the entire Lord of the Rings franchise.

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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NOTE - There are mild spoilers for the ending of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 during the discussions of Xenoblade Chronicles 3. There is a warning before hand.

Intermission Music

Blueprint For A Slow Machine – 65daysofstatic – No Man’s Sky- Music For An Infinite Universe

Amazon

We Played…

• Euan plays hit cat sim Stray. As father to two cats, this is unsurprising
• Calum starts a 100+ hour journey into Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and it starts a lot better than the other ones!
• We both played No Man’s Sky again for the upteenth time. Marketing really makes that game look cool ok?  

Timestamps…

• 1:15 – The Fringe is slowly encroaching
• 5:27 – Podcast housekeeping
• 6:11 – Audio transcription with our accents is sometimes great
• 7:54 – No Mans Sky
• 12:00 – Stray
• 25:59 – Tunic, and difficulty options as accessibility
• 28:55 – Bear & Breakfast
• 34:29 – Xenoblade Chronicles 3
• 59:54 – Music Break
• 1:03:04 – Steam are enforcing cleaner game images on their store
• 1:06:11 – VRChat has added anti-cheat tech which has broken most important mods for the game, including accessibility and enhanced avatar functionality.
• 1:14:47 – The Sims 4 got it next big update, and added rapid aging and incest accidentally.
• 1:19:04 – Just months after it’s announcement, the Knights of the Old Republic remake has been put on indefinite hold.
• 1:25:02 – The NeiR fanbase has been in turmoil as someone apparently discovered a totally unknown area in NeiR: Automata
• 1:29:41 – Wrap-up, Site Planning.  

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 Played...

• Euan plays space thriller Deliver Us The Moon, adorable adventure Tunic and, of course, the latest and last Zachtronics joint, Last Call BBS.
• Calum wishes he could break the actual sun, and instead settles for more Monster Hunter: Sunbreak and watches teens get murdered in video game format in The Quarry

Timestamps...

• 0:30 - Holy crap it's warm
• 9:10 - Deliver Us The Moon
• 12:55 - Last Call BBS
• 16:39 - Steam Deck
• 29:18 - Monster Hunter: Sunbreak
• 31:19 - Fall Guys
• 33:29 - The Quarry
• 57:51 - Music Break
• 59:26 - The Blade Runner remaster is a mess, both in implementation and distribution
• 1:04:45 - No surprises, but a recently announced "Web3" consoles is saying a lot of words and promises that don't make sense
• 1:07:19 - A game dev at the Brazil International Games Festival pulled the greatest bait and switch, changing his talk from "The Future of Game Design" to "Why NFTs are a nightmare" almost immediately.
• 1:08:38 - Ubisoft continues to make bizarre decisions by (temporarily) delisting AC: Liberation and saying it would be removed from Steam libraries.
• 1:12:25 - Unity CEO John Ricitiello had a string of dumb comments trying to backtrack on calling developers who don't use their new monetizing tech "fucking idiots".

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)

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We Played...

• Euan took the hit for the site and played Elden Ring. A long conversation ensues.
• Calum hunts continually bigger beasts in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak and selects and makes his first pick in DNF Duel.
• We both played the fantastic Neon White and Euan gets mad Calum keeps beating him.

Timestamps...

• 0:00 - Public transport can get strange.
• 4:39 - The Fringe is coming
• 11:24 - Elden Ring
• 48:34 - Monster Hunter: Rise Sunbreak DLC
• 51:05 - DNF Duel
• 1:12:10 - Music Break
• 1:15:18 - Neon White
• 1:49:54 - 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) 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

Timestamps...

• 1:22 - Mask assholes exist in Europe too
• 8:12 - Summer Game Fest
• 20:47 - Future Games Show
• 25:20 - Xbox & Bethesda, and a lot about Starfield
• 1:09:11 - PC Gaming Show
• 1:15:40 - Round up, Capcom, What's out 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) 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

We Played...

• Euan plays a lot with Citizen Sleeper, Furi, Card Shark and Hunt: Showdown. All at the same time! (not really)
• Calum hints opinions of Songs of Conquest to be expanded later, and does some vampire killing with Vampire the Masquerade: Blood Hunt

Timestamps...

• 0:30 - Microphone Chat, ASMR and ambient noise
• 8:14 - Citizen Sleeper
• 11:20 - Half Life: Alyx Workshop support
• 15:20 - Furi
• 17:30 - Hunt Showdown
• 21:56 - Card Shark
• 25:00 - Songs of Conquest
• 29:26 - Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Hunt
• 47:17 - Music Break
• 50:11 - News - GameStop decide to get into NFTs as the market collapses
• 55:50 - News - Norman Reedus just straight up said that Death Stranding 2 is happening
• 59:14 - News - A bunch of potentially Silent Hill related images leaked and then were immediately taken down
• 1:09:08 - News - Now the terrible cloud version of Kingdom Hearts for Switch will tell you not to play it.
• 1:16:30 - News - EA might be queuing themselves up for a purchase
• 1:21:23 - News - Head of PlayStation Jim Ryan put out the worst email ever about abortion rights, his cats, and then potentially threatened a bunch of his studios?
• 1:36:04 - Outro, what we are playing, site stuff.

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

We Played...

• Euan talks to the voice in his head in Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, shoots xenos in Aliens: Fireteam Elite and rolls dice in a strange new VN way in Citizen Sleeper
• Calum talks about F1, apparently?

Timestamps...

• 0:00 - Celebrating 30 with Taco Bell
• 1:40 - Game Tumbleweed
• 3:12 - Diablo Immortal, and why people cheat at games
• 8:56 - Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
• 11:08 - Aliens: Fireteam Elite
• 15:46 - Citizen Sleeper
• 27:11 - F1. No Seriously.
• 41:39 - News - Yuji Naka says Balan Wonderworld was unfinished, and he didn't contribute to the last six months.
• 44:35 - News - Games are getting pulled from the iOS store cause they havnt been updated, despite being "done".
• 47:11 - News - XBox Live had an outage that appears to still be persisting, bad enough where people can't start their digital games.
• 49:16 - News - Square Enix have sold a bunch of big name IPs and studios to the Embracer Group

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

We Played...

• Euan becomes a ghost hunter in Ghostwire: Tokyo and looks for answers in Norco
• Calum stands on his soapbox and has a lot of things to say about the Dragon Age series
• We both started brick based comedy-fest Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Timestamps...

• 3:56 - Go get vaccinated
• 11:18 - Horizon: Forbidden West
• 12:29 - Ghostwire: Tokyo
• 28:29 - Dragon Age
• 48:43 - Music Interlude
• 51:36 - Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• 59:23 - Norco
• 1:11:47 - Out of nowhere, Kingdom Hearts 4 was announced.
• 1:20:33 - The FTC are not happy about Kotick getting any money from the Microsoft aquisition
• 1:21:51 - The Ubisoft NFTs for Ghost Recon Breakpoint are no longer being sold, and are now officially worthless.
• 1:23:43 - Breath of the Wild 2 has been delayed to 2023
• 1:25:14 - Sony announce their Game Pass-esque PlayStation Plus Premium, with games from every flavour of PlayStation in both streaming and download.

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

We Played...

• Euan continues to play Horizon: Forbidden West and plays to type in cyberpunk narrative character action game ANNO: Mutationem
• Calum continues his first Fromsoft game Sekiro and gushes over new Destiny 2 raid, Vow of the Disciple

Timestamps...

• 1:53 - Early Morning Podcast Issues
• 4:07 - Horizon: Forbidden West
• 8:14 - ANNO: Mutationem
• 16:25 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
• 19:21 - Yeah we're probably going to end up playing Elden Ring
• 28:09 - Destiny 2 Vow of the Disciple
• 53:38 - Music Break
• 56:19 - News - Playstation State of Play
• 1:01:22 - News - Square Enix is bad at judging "failed" games
• 1:10:01 - News - ID@Xbox
• 1:18:28 - News - Street Fighter 6s low effort logo
• 1:19:31 - News - Epic bought Bandcamp
• 1:20:52 - News - Bungie are making some quick tweaks to the new weapon crafting
• 1:22:16 - News - Until Dawn devs announced a new game due in the summer
• 1:23:28 - News - Haven got a cool "couples" update which let you mix and max male and female presenting versions of both characters.
• 1:26:52 - What's coming soon?
• 1:32:19 - Anyone want to pay for Calum to go to the Star Wars Disney hotel for content?

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

We Played...

• Euan explores and is perplexed by the imapct of the story in Horizon: Forbidden West
• Calum talks at length about the good and bad in Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
• Euan dicusses the SteamFest Demos

Timestamps...

• 0:30 - This is an Elden Ring free podcast
• 3:36 - Horizon: Forbidden West
• 43:56 - Music Interlude
• 45:46 - Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
• 1:46:33 - Neon White and Ixion Demos

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

We Played...

• Calum martial arts some fools in Sifu, and confirms that he's pretty good at Final Fantasy XIV
• After messing with Apex for the first time in 6 months, Euan does some rhythm action John Woo in Pistol Whip, then pilots a steampunk mech with no manual both in and out of VR with Nauticrawl and A Rogue Escape

Timestamps...

• 3:24 - Sifu
• 22:50 - Sifu Reviews and Critisism
  • The Verge article we talk about can be found here
• 28:52 - Apex Legends Season 11
• 32:31 - Pistol Whip
• 35:33 - Nauticrawl & A Rogue Escape
• 39:33 - Musical Interlude
• 42:08 - Lost Ark...kinda...
• 46:30 - Calum is good at FFXIV
• 53:26 - Sekiro
• 57:32 - News - Lego Star Wars has a release date, and TT Games sounds like a terrible place to work
• 1:01:57 - News - Ubisoft says that people just don't understand why NFTs are good for them.
• 1:07:43 - News - Team17 announces and then almost immediately retracts their Worms based NFTs
• 1:17:35 - News - Nintendo Directs continue to bring joy to the world, and also Mouthful Mode.

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

We ran a different format this year partially because we felt like it, partially because (as you will hear) we couldn't really fill out our normal categories with the games we had in front of us. Instead we just hit record and talked about what we liked and what we didn't, as well as the happenings in the industry.

There is a podcast version of this video available in our normal podcast feed, search GameEngineStart wherever you get your podcasts.

If you missed Part 1, you should go check that out first.

Music - Jazzy Abstract Beat - Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/music/beats-jazzy-abstract-beat-11254/)

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

We ran a different format this year partially because we felt like it, partially because (as you will hear) we couldn't really fill out our normal categories with the games we had in front of us. Instead we just hit record and talked about what we liked and what we didn't, as well as the happenings in the industry.

There is a podcast version of this video available in our normal podcast feed, search GameEngineStart wherever you get your podcasts.

Part 2 coming soon.

Music - Jazzy Abstract Beat - Coma-Media (https://pixabay.com/music/beats-jazzy-abstract-beat-11254/)

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

We Played...

• Euan played space co-op shooter The Anacrusis and chucks heavy objects in first person in Hitman 3 VR.
• Calum talks in depth about the dynamics of high level raiding in Final Fantasy 14 - Endwalker
• We both played fake (but should be real) e-sport Windjammers 2 and shoot off about Guardians of the Galaxy

Timestamps...

• 2:19 - Post Trauma
• 2:59 - BPM: Bullets Per Minute
• 3:25 - Hitman 3 VR
• 7:27 - The Anacrusis
• 10:54 - Game Pass and Game Reviews
• 15:22 - Final Fantasy XIV Savage Raids
• 35:08 - Windjammers 2
• 35:39 - Guardians of the Galaxy
• 55:27 - News - Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard for $68.9m
• 1:23:30 - News - Playstation provide details on their next VR Headset.
• 1:26:26 - News - Cricket 22 embroiled in a dick-pic scandal.

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

We Played...

• Euam finished SPG (that's shread playing game) Artful Escape and checks out Enigma Machine. He also attempts to play Oxenfree, but it does not go well.
• Calum talks new Apex Legends season content.

Timestamps...

• 3:14 - We are very tired
• 5:26 - Local COVID Updates
• 13:45 - The Artful Escape
• 18:19 - Oxenfree might be busted on PC?
• 20:59 - Phasmophobia in VR hurts.
• 22:57 - The Enigma Machine
• 26:42 - Apex Legends
• 34:12 - Music Intermission
• 36:40 - News - FFXIV Endwalker is delayed
• 48:04 - News - Steam Deck and Playdate are also delayed into next year
• 51:01 - News - Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 are also also delayed into * checks notes * 2023?!
• 55:29 - News - Microsoft are making much needed improvements to the Xbox App for PC
• 57:33 - News - The Nintendo Switch Online Pass Expansion is making people very very unhappy.
• 1:01:43 - News - MercurySteam left a bunch of developers out of the credits for Metroid Dread, saying that's just how the system works. Youch.
• 1:05:27 - News - Eurogamer ran possibly the best interview in games journalism as they grilled a head of EA FIFA about lootboxes. Everyone should read this.
• 1:11:51 - News - The long rumoured GTA Trilogy "Definitive Edition" appears to be pretty definitively terrible.
• 1:19:50 - End of year plans.

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

We Played...

• Euan played a Bunch of Demos and focuses on Pony Island developers new deckbuilder GameDec. Yes that was a weird sentence to write
• Calum reverts to type in playing CCG Legends of Runeterra and has to see what the deal with Genshin Impact is and leads to a wider discussion of the "Gatcha" genre

Timestamps...

• 2:55 - Game of the Year Starts Early
• 10:29 - Euan played a load of demos
• 15:59 - No-one Lives Under The Lighthouse
• 18:05 - Gamedec
• 30:39 - Music Interlude
• 34:34 - Legends of Runeterra
• 49:50 - Genshin Impact

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

We Played...

• Euan plays former Skyrime mod turned strange mystery game The Forgotten City and gets in touch with his inner sad teen yet again in Life is Strange: True Colors
• Calum bought a PS5 and played Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart to completion
• We both played Deathloop, then played Deathloop, then played Deathloop, then played Deathloop, then played Deathloop, then played Deathloop (it's a very clever joke i`m sure you've never seen anywhere else)

Timestamps...

• 3:44 - The Forgotten City
• 8:19 - Life is Strange: True Colors
• 23:57 - Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart & Purchasing a PS5
• 33:28 - Deathloop
• 1:04:47 - Music Intermission
• 1:06:45 - News - The Skyrim "treasure fox" is real. Kind of.
• 1:10:03 - News - Ever popped off so hard you've literally popped a joint?
• 1:12:28 - News - The PlayStation showcased some big new announcements.
• 1:32:09 - News - We remembered that we hadn't talked about Gamecom, specifically DokeV. So we did that.

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

NOTE - This podcast discusses the story and ending of Twelve Minutes between 41:05 - 46:48. If that's something you care about, skip that section.

We Played...

• Euan talks about a pair of disappointing games in Recompile and Twelve Minutes
• Calum discusses latest advancements in both looting and shooting in Destiny 2: Season of the Lost

Timestamps...

• 0:39 - Live Playstation 5 "Unboxing"
• 14:17 - Recompile
• 29:29 - Twelve Minutes (Spoiler Free)
• 41:05 - Twelve Minutes (Spoilers)
• 46:48 - Destiny 2: Season of the Lost
• 1:04:09 - Musical Intermission
• 1:05:47 - Exactly two minutes of Evangelion Discussion
• 1:07:41 - News - Sony announced the next big Playstation showcase, September 9th
• 1:08:38 - News - Bungie announce and detail the next big Destiny 2 expansion
• 1:13:55 - News - Sony announce, and then back off on the idea, that Horizon: Forbidden West will have no PS4 to PS5 upgrade path outside the $100+ editions of the game.
• 1:22:53 - News - Steam's blanket 2 hour return policy has forced a single person developer to stop making games, after losing so much money on people returning the game, which they enjoyed.
• 1:29:26 - News - Activision announced the next Call of Duty game while keeping their logo away from the entire announcement, like they might be trying to distance their cash cow from recent lawsuits and reporting.
• 1:32:47 - News - Two heads of Naughty Dog, a studio with reports of bad culture and bad crunch, justify their crunch facilitating business practices, and wave away unionisation as a potential solution.
• 1:38:07 - News - Employees of Unity express unease with the companies opaque military and government contract division, CEO says "leave if you don't like it".

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

We Played...

• Euan plays bizarre styled horror/narrative game Mundaun, gives us his occasional VR Update, and talks about how PC game pass is totally broken
• Calum give an Apex Legends Season 10 review and talks about a true indie gem in Death's Door

Timestamps...

• 1:24 - The Olympics
• 21:05 - Mundaun
• 28:21 - VR Update (Contractors, The Secret of Retropolis, Maskmaker)
• 32:43 - The Game Pass Ecosystem is Broken, Cross Play is strange.
• 43:30 - New Apex Legends Season
• 56:20 - Music Break
• 57:53 - Deaths Door
• 1:08:03 - News - Playstation 5 Beta Firmware supports M2 drives, they are extortionate.
• 1:11:13 - News - Nintendo's profits are down, but it's only cause Animal Crossing did gangbusters.
• 1:12:28 - News - Xsolla fired 150 based on big data from their work interactions, and that's not even the worst bit.
• 1:20:51 - News - Activison Blizzard had their investor call in the wake of the abysmal workplace culture reporting and a lawsuit. It went kind of how you expected it to. Horrifyingly.

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

We Played...

• Euan played Gears of War 5, for reasons, and is floored by The Last Stop. He can't really explain why. Just trust him
• Calum goes back to the MOBA genre with Pokemon Unite
• We both played Boomerang X. The shooter both impressed and confused at the same time.

Timestamps...

• 13:45 - Gears 5
• 21:45 - Last Stop
• 44:24 - Pokemon Unite
• 1:13:00 - MUSIC BREAK
• 1:15:30 - Boomerang X
• 1:32:42 - News - Someone leaked British military secrets to complain a developer wasn't doing their job right
• 1:40:45 - News - EA Play live happened, and the biggest thing was a Dead Space remake
• 1:46:02 - News - DigitalFoundry confirmed reports that removing DRM from RE:Village fixes the PC performance issues.
• 1:49:33 - News - The state of California sued Activision Blizzard for widespread harassment of women and says that they are in "violation of state civil rights"
• 1:54:16 - News - Valve announces the Steam Deck, a handheld Linux based console that plays the whole Steam library, and Steam explodes when pre-orders start
• 2:20:16 - News - A mass migration of disgruntled WoW players to Final Fantasy XIV has caused some tension in the community.

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

Timestamps...

• 4:41 - Summer Games Fest Kickoff
• 15:49 - Ubisoft
• 26:07 - Xbox & Bethesda
• 40:13 - Square Enix
• 47:43 - Sam Barlow's New Game + Euan has played every Silent Hill Game
• 51:46 - Capcom
• 53:43 - Nintendo
• 1:07:56 - The Twitch Co-Streaming Disaster (a.k.a. The DMCA Process has Totally Broken Twitch).

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

We Played...

• Euan deals with trains in Metro Exodus and Necromunda: Hired Gun, and tries to get away with stylish murder in Overboard!
• Calum finished Mass Effect 2 for the billionth time, and has a dodge-brawl in Knockout City

Timestamps...

• 6:58 - Metro Exodus
• 9:28 - Necromunda: Hired Gun
• 22:47 - Overboard!
• 30:35 - Mass Effect 2
• 41:02 - Knockout City
• 58:29 - Musical Interlude
• 1:00:58 - News - E3 Is Happening
• 1:06:21 - News - Want a PS3 version of Gears 3?
• 1:08:03 - News - The PS5 will be profitable in June.
• 1:10:59 - News - FFVII Integrade has a ridiculous save transfer system, like apparently every PS4 to PS5 game.
• 1:14:38 - News - It looks like Sony may have forced Gearbox to exclude Playstation for its Borderlands 3 Cross Play plans.
• 1:17:47 - News - Far Cry 6 is just "asking questions", it's not political. Apparently.

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

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) 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

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) 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

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) 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

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) 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

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

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

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)