GameEngineStart Podcast

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Get your bi-weekly dose of haberdash from our internet habershery, mainly concerning video games.  Join Euan and Calum, two brothers on a quest to pour large amounts of video game discussion into your beautiful ear holes. We talk about what we are playing, the media coverage of video games and other random musings on life.

  1. 5D AGO

    GameEngineStart Podcast - Don't Marry Your Second Cousin

    I swear to go I'll get Euan to stop talking about his base building game for perverts one day. I promise. We Played... Euan played yet more Arknights: Endfield, and moving quickly on talks about the return to teen based drama in a university setting with Life is Strange: Reunion Calum talks about late game Marathon. It's all terrifying and stress inducing and awesome. Timestamps 00:03:45 - The 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) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

    1h 26m

  2. MAR 10

    GameEngineStart Podcast - Who Gave Tangrowth a PHD?

    Just like the undying Shells of Tau Ceti IV, this podcast will keep coming back. We Played... Calum talks "Pokémon Crossing" in Pokopia, and discusses the arrival of a legend to Team Rainbow with Solid Snake in Rainbow 6: Siege Euan talks best in class of the genre in Resident Evil: Requiem and solves murder most foul in The Séance of Blake Manor The ins and outs of the new extraction shooter 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) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

    1h 28m

  3. FEB 17

    GameEngineStart Podcast - Big Ratts Tyerell Fan

    It's the first post of 2026 and so as is customary, we recount everything we were doing while not on the air. We Played...Euan talks surviving an apocalypse in The Last Caretaker and yet more conveyer belts (now featuring anime women) in Arknights: EndfieldCalum 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 GoddessTimestamps00:05:28 - The Last Caretaker00:11:20 - Arknights: Endfield00:39:31 - FFXIV Raids00:41:30 - Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 200:49:17 - Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess00:57:05 - News - Wolfenstein 3 is happening, something we kinda knew but it's worth confirming00:57:41 - News - Blizzard announced a bunch of things throughout their IPs01:01:38 - 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 202601:22:22 - 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) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

    1h 26m

  4. JAN 28

    GameEngineStart Podcast - Game of the Year 2025 Fireside Chat

    It's the end of another year, so it's time to give the world our top 5 best of 2025. Timestamps00:04:31 - Calum Almost #500:07:00 - Calum #500:14:22 - Euan #500:21:21 - Calum #400:32:12 - Euan #400:41:28 - Calum #200:54:55 - Euan #300:59:55 - Euan #201:07:29 - Calum #101:27:05 - Euan #101:45:38 - Honourable Mentions01:58:12 - Starting 2026Intro 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

    2h 3m

  5. 12/09/2025

    GameEngineStart Podcast - Not A Lightsaber

    The last pod of the year before game of the year discussions, so largely just trying to close the year out. Let's wrap up before 2026 and GTA6 definitely comes out and dominates. We Played...Euan returns to stompy robots in Phantom Brigade 2.0 and delves into long awaited horrors in RoutineCalum navigates a lawless frontier in Destiny 2: Renegades and can't stop smoking in RV There Yet?Timestamps00:03:28 - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle00:06:27 - Phantom Brigade00:12:25 - Routine00:21:01 - Dispatch00:28:23 - Citizen Sleeper 200:35:31 - Destiny 2: Renegades00:59:57 - Hitman + Diablo 401:01:46 - 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 year01:14:40 - 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 & HousekeepingIntro 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

    1h 23m

  6. 11/11/2025

    GameEngineStart Podcast - Outlawing Taxis

    We return after a personal break and it looks like the year is slowing down. We Played...Euan talks more Diablo IVCalum gives his overview from Lumiose City (and Pokemon in general) while discussing Pokemon Legends ZAWe both join the millions of other people gushing over Ad-Hoc's DispatchTimestamps00:04:05 - Diablo 400:10:51 - Silent Hill f00:15:31 - Pokemon Legends ZA00:35:41 - Hades 200:37:52 - Dispatch01:00:33 - Other End of Year Games01:02:46 - 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 & HousekeepingIntro 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 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

    1h 15m

  7. 10/07/2025

    GameEngineStart Podcast - Scarecrows

    The shadow of many looms over us and Euan is continuing to play Diablo 4. We Played...As said, Euan can't stop with the Diablo 4 and plays the actual new release of Silent Hill F Calum talks about the anticipated sequel to one of the best games ever made, Hades II We're both in our 30s and played Fortnite for Daft Punk. I'm as upset about this fact as you Timestamps00:01:37 - 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) All Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

    1h 35m

  8. 09/23/2025

    GameEngineStart Podcast - Electric Win God Fist

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

    1h 46m
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Get your bi-weekly dose of haberdash from our internet habershery, mainly concerning video games.  Join Euan and Calum, two brothers on a quest to pour large amounts of video game discussion into your beautiful ear holes. We talk about what we are playing, the media coverage of video games and other random musings on life.

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  • Creator
    GameEngineStart
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2026
  • Episodes
    275
  • Rating
    Explicit
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