One Life Left (Pickaxe)

No, that was Bruce Wayne! Remember the song? No? I'm old... and kids are taking over the world already! Maybe it's for the best. We had a good run. Maybe. Anyway, we're back with more video game news and chat. No SSG again this week but we're working on it. Meanwhile, get your letters/emails in! Send them to team@onelifeleft.com to be read out and discussed on a future episode! Stay safe and well, dear listeners! Cheerio! Team OLL x Reviews: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/immortals-fenyx-rising https://store.steampowered.com/app/1384820/Psychocat_The_Door/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229060/Dungeon_and_Puzzles/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/944710/TurnTack/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1451120/Sunlight/ Tracklist: In The Sprawl by Klamm https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/in-the-sprawl Happy New Year 2021 by 8-BITchintendo https://chipmusic.org/8-BITchintendo/music/happy-new-year-2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Stop me when you're interested..."  Welcome to another jam-packed episode of One Life Left, podcast edition of the world's longest running video game related radio show! With exclusive podcast-only intro! This week one of Simon's Dads gets accosted by yobbos, Ste goes to Finland, the Microsoft/Bethesda showcase gets extensive coverage and Hideo Kojima speaks live on the show! "Exclusive". It's a bumper, practically 'stream of consciousness', news section on top of the regular letters and reviews that you know and love! A quick reminder there is another Maraoke event hitting Loading Peckham this very Friday 17th June! Maybe! Keep an eye on the event page for updates - link below! We're off next week thanks to Simon's sister getting married (congrats Simon's sister!!) but please do keep your letters coming in! Did anyone really like Flashback? Write in and tell us at team@onelifeleft.com Veteran listeners - what were your favourite past episodes that you think new listeners should check out while we're off?? Pop over to our Discord channel and let us know your thoughts on there! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Server Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk Maraoke Event Link!: https://www.facebook.com/events/581430199993045/ Resonance FM Link!: https://www.resonancefm.com/ Reviews: God of War Insight Knotwords Grappledog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome once again, dear listeners, to the podcast edition of the World's Longest Running Video Game Related Radio Show: One Life Left! This week we recorded the show live on our Discord server and sounded at least 1% sexier thanks to performing to a crowd. In amongst the news, letters and reviews we had Simon surviving a trip to IKEA to buy a new desk, Ste being fine with not buying the new Atari Lego, Ubisoft cancelling lots and how you'll have to move house and change your whole identity if there's ever a security breach anywhere. The show also briefly turns into Hot UK Deals and we have Simon's Live Fast Five - Games With User Generated Content (that's UGC for the cool kids). Maraoke returns to Bristol! But be quick or you'll miss it as the date is this Thursday 28th July!! The link for all the details is below... Do you like pre-order discounts? What are your thoughts on possible future One Life Left merch?? Write to us and let us know at team@onelifeleft.com or throw yourselves at our Discord channel and leave a letter there. You can also catch us recording the show on our Discord channel on Sunday evenings at 7pm BST, unless otherwise stated or something just doesn't work - link below! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Server Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk Maraoke Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/singmaraoke Maraoke Event Link! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maraoke-returns-to-bristol-tickets-377739046657 Reviews: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Ghostwire: Tokyo The Quarry Stray Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello and welcome once again to One Life Left, dear listeners. This week we learn how to avoid disappointing review scores, development crunch and people being mean to you on the internet in one easy step! Maybe! We also have a Super Special Ann Scantlebury feature: Rowan & Ann's Video Game Cinema Review! Plus there's all the usual news, letters and reviews that you know and love! Meanwhile, we're off for a few weeks so we expect LOADS of letters from you to work through when we get back! Have you ever had an email get stuck in the OLL spam folder? Ever slept on a video game developer's floor? If so then tell us all about it at team@onelifeleft.com, or drop in to our Discord channel to ask us your video game related question and/or pose your musing there - link below. Stay safe while we're gone, dear listeners, and we'll be back soon! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Server Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk Resonance FM Link!: https://www.resonancefm.com/ Reviews: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games What The Golf? MarineVerse Cup Elden Ring Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

War? Huh? What is it good for? Giving videogame podcasts an easy introduction when they're a bit stuck for ideas. And now it's a good idea for a card game. We had Ivar and Gundi in from 1939 Games to talk about Kards (with a K), a card game based on World War II. It allows alliances to be made across the divide, and friendship is always the main aim of One Life Left. Just ask Keith Stuart and Simon Parkinson for proof. Ivar and Gundi told us how 1939 Games was started, how easy is it to get a grant from the Icelandic government, and what it was like moving from CCP Games to 1939 Games. Kards has been in early access since April, but will be officially launched in February. It's going to have a physical card version as well as a computer one. It was a super full studio this week as Ann didn't have secret work to do, Simon wasn't doing secret work in Tenerife and Ste didn't have to lecture any sleeping students. We also tried to work out the mysteries of the University of Chichester, remembered how good looking the Bitmap Brothers were, and clarified how comfy Everyman cinemas were. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/KARDSccg https://twitter.com/1939GAMES https://www.kards.com/ https://blog.counter-strike.net/ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maraoke-christmas-party-tickets-82942185309 Reviews: https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/fifa/fifa-20 https://www.minionmastersthegame.com/ https://rival-games.com/tot/ https://www.ea.com/games/peggle/peggle-blast https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/marvels-spider-man-ps4/ https://noitagame.com/ https://www.capybaragames.com/Grindstone/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1076880/Air_Marty/ Tracklist: Tsuwami - After Dark https://chipmusic.org/Tsuwami/music/after-dark Shirobon - On The Run https://shirobon.bandcamp.com/album/dimensions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If there's one thing that One Life Left knows our readers like then it's EXCLUSIVES. And if there are two things they like then they are EXCLUSIVES about the colours of games. We use our interviewing skills to get this information out of Mike Bithell from Bossa Studios, along with using our social media skills to see what our listeners who don't work or sleep with him think about Mike as a person. As well as this there are two new features, Ella Lavelle takes over the youngest correspondent mantle and Q Games' Ariel Angelotti tells us about the differences between Japanese and Western gamers. If you have any questions for Ariel then send them to her on twitter @arielotti. We also have a 3D special as Derek Williams, Duncan Timiney and the doyouinverts all contribute in their own excellent ways. One more thing, we proclaim Simon Parkin as a Judas in this episode. Sometimes we regret things that are said live on air and remove them from the podcast. Please note that we kept the Simon Parkin bit in. Cheerio! Team OLL x Tracklist: Lonely Tunes - Don't Be Afraid Of Being Alonethe doyouinverts - Unleash The Simulated Family Jredd featuring Groovemaster 303 - Volt City Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Team OLL managed to get approval from our HR director to go and record a show from the floor of this year’s Nordic Game Jam, which was held in Copenhagen between 20 April and 23 April. So, as Resonance locked us out of the studio this week because of the bank holiday, we decided to release an episode from the first day of the Jam. Enjoy! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/NordicGameJam https://nordicgamejam.org/ Tracklist: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Journey http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/journey 2. Israel Junior - Spring Song http://chipmusic.org/Israel+Junior/music/spring-song 3. Vincentizghra - Mergefusion http://chipmusic.org/vincentizghra/music/mergefusion 4. YERZMYEY - Agartha http://chipmusic.org/YERZMYEY/music/agartha 5. VCMG - Swashbuckler Saga http://chipmusic.org/VCMG/music/swashbuckler-saga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ste's back! Hurray! Finally the team is back together and nothing will ever split us up again! Unless Ste goes on a radio show by himself and Simon then books an interview with Medium Wave's Five Live (remembering to invite Ann for protection) thereby causing a massive split and possibly putting the Christmas party in doubt. But those chain of events will never happen would they? Well, they could, but the Christmas Party would never get cancelled (tickets still available at http://oll.eventbrite.com!). Luckily we had some experts in the world of tearing apart previously strong structures/teams with our Super-Special Guests from Media Molecule, Michelle Ducker and Christophe Villedieu. They tell us all about their new game on the Vita, Tearaway*, but more importantly they tell us all about their secret treehouse. Which probably isn't so secret now they've spoken about it on the radio. We reveal how the Assassin's Creed movie is likely to start, get confused about if there are still motion controlled coin-ops at the Trocadero, get further confused about the right number of sharks to guard an XBone and get really confused about Ann's accents. At least Sega Badawi, Doctor Avatar and Craig 'the Rage' McLelland brought some sense to the show. Oh, wait, the opposite of that (in a good way, natch). And we get the EXCLUSIVE review of Twitter! Yes, hear it and weep Polygon! Who cares about the PS4 where there are social networks to review? Cheerio!Team OLL x * Our Caretaker was upset to find out that this isn't a sequel to Tearaway Thomas for the Amiga. Links:http://oll.eventbrite.comhttp://twitter.com/MediaMoleculehttps://twitter.com/michyboohttps://twitter.com/monsterplantTrack list:1. J-Peg - Unisonhttp://chipmusic.org/j-peg/music/unison2. Ktaettz - Dream Slayer Themehttp://chipmusic.org/kraettz/music/dream-slayer-theme3. National Broadcast Network - A Split Second of Anarchyhttp://chipmusic.org/nationalbroadcastnetwork/music/a-split-second-of-anarchy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After last week's chastening / celebratory debacle, a humbled team return determined to do justice to the One Life Left 'brand'. That means a mix of videogame chat, friendly sniping and a very special gaming guest. We're number one! Well, he is.     Who? Miles Jacobsen, Footballer Manager's gaffer, who gives some inspirational team talk, tells us how we can kill PC gaming and, typically, attempts to flaunt our review policy.    Also:    ++ Reviews, news, gossip and EXCLUSIVE information about the seque   ++ Information about the One Life Left Christmas Party (17th December!)   ++ A brilliant new track by the doyouinverts   One Life Left will be away next Monday (Ste's in Lyon) but back the week after when we'll have more information about the party and all kinds of other stuff. We're sure. We haven't exactly worked it out yet. Ten days is AGES away.   In the meantime, email us, say hi on Twitter, spread the word about the show and we'll add you to our special LOYAL LISTENER lists, etc.   love you,   Team OLL xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re back to our usual podcasting schedule so from now on until the Caretaker’s next holiday (or our next holiday) you can expect a new episode to download at some random point on a Wednesday. This week we had David Nadal from Eden Games as a Skype Super-Special Guest to talk about driving games and in particular Gear Club, which is to shortly come out on Switch. We try to find out how driving games have changed since Eden was founded in 1998, what players want from a driving simulator and if Gear Club has the most important car as a playable option: a blue Ford Focus. In the show we announce that the tickets for our Christmas party have been delayed, but they’re on sale now. Which is a terribly confusing sentence. Anyway, if you want to come to our Christmas party and see if Father Keithmas will give you a present then click on the Eventbrite link at the bottom. We also try to work out if No Man’s Sky is indie, which of the team would like a cat VR game, how popular Simon is on YouTube and if Radio Five Live listen to us for inspiration. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/edengames_ https://www.facebook.com/events/1870461506601750/permalink/1870461559935078/ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/one-life-left-2017-christmas-party-tickets-39828228303 Tracklist: 1. lamsorz - Shade Storms https://chipmusic.org/lamsorz/music/shadestorm 2. Klamm - Trauma https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/trauma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time again for another episode of One Life Left! On this week's episode we learn about the Simon Byron Diet, Ste's past review score shenanigans and the Pied Piper of Walworth amongst other things! Plus all the regular news, letters and reviews... Do we not entertain you?!  Meanwhile, Maraoke is going primetime with its next outing being up against Ant & Dec on a Saturday night! Saturday 21st May to be exact so put that date on your calendars and check out the link below for updates! Please send us more of your letters! What are your video game related hopes and dreams, dear listeners?! Let us know them all by emailing team@onelifeleft.com. You can also join our Discord channel to say hello to us, join in the chat with other listeners and leave correspondence there as well - link below. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Server Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Updates Link!: https://www.facebook.com/singmaraoke Simon's Other Podcast Link!: https://open.spotify.com/show/4dE3a4n3s0yXS9iMyf0H43?si=280367cb0baa4685&nd=1 Resonance FM Link!: https://www.resonancefm.com/ Reviews: Formula Retro Racing Untitled Goose Game Elden Ring Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello dear listeners and welcome to another episode of One Life Left! This week we wrestle with the new reality that is GAME stores. Not just for buying games in anymore, no, but also cosplaying ducks and gaming glasses! We also finally find out about Simon's new job at Yogscast - learn about the arms, fingers and pies therein! Then there's all the usual news, reviews and listener's letters! Speaking of which - you're a listener! Why not write in with a question or general observation?! Slide onto our Discord server (link below) and drop a letter in there or chuck an email at us at team@onelifeleft.com !! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Channel Invite Link!!! https://discord.gg/pgTSzpgfcD Reviews: Metro Exodus Webbed Road 96 Button City Demeo Tracklist: Trayectoria a Pluton by Ray_N https://chipmusic.org/Ray_N/music/trayectoria-a-pluton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Ann missing at the beginning of the show and no Super-Special Guest booked, the lads took full opportunity to talk about football and if computer referees are better than computer-assisted human referees. It was actually more philosophical that it seems when we've written it down. However, Ann eventually showed up which gave us the opportunity to interview her about the latest developments at her work, without her actually telling us what her work is. We didn't even get to find out the colour. Luckily, Ann had provided us with the latest videogame news for the start of the show, albeit with a massive chunk of news missing. Ste started the show with wet headphones, Simon was starting to move across to his summer wardrobe, and he also provided us with very specific Switch travel gaming tips. We also found out what Damo is up to, who Ann's favourite Eurogamer is, and worked out how much money Alex Fleetwood owes us. Finally we've found a way to monetise. Monetise means blackmail right? Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://gamesdonequick.com/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8836241/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4911525/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1427215/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5545055/ Reviews: https://harrypotterwizardsunite.com/ https://www.devolverdigital.com/games/my-friend-pedro https://finalfantasyxii.square-enix-games.com/home/?lang=gb https://198xthegame.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1050520/Super_Pig_X/ Tracklist: CoolBecky - Dead Birds https://chipmusic.org/Mark87/music/dead-birds Outaspaceman - how can this be? https://chipmusic.org/outaspaceman/music/how-can-this-be Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It was the night before Halloween and all spooky things were going on in the studio which was affecting the jingles. Or maybe Ste was in Finland, which meant Simon was operating the desk and muffed it up. No. It’s definitely the first of those two options. Spooky right? What wasn’t spooky was our Super-Special Guest (or our ability to segue between topics). We got Jupiter Hadley on the show to talk about streaming indie games, her website indiegamejams.com which - no! but yes! - keeps track of all indie game jams, why she started streaming videogames and if a jam is better if it’s faster. Jupiter is nominated for a Golden Joystick and you could have voted when the show first aired, but it’s another unfortunate casualty of the Caretaker’s holiday. Sorry Jupiter. As Super Mario Odyssey had just come out, Simon may have gone slightly overboard with the song selection in this episode. Was it worth it? You’ll find out in the reviews. Ann did a football joke, despite having jet lag from playing Mario when the clocks changed, we worked out the least scariest game, announced a Jack Attridge game and found out what Jupiter would do in an empty home. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/Jupiter_Hadley http://www.indiegamejams.com/ Tracklist: 1. The Super Mario Players feat.Kate Davis - Jump Up, Super Star! Itunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/jump-up-super-star-single/id1295624919?app=itunes Web version - https://supermario.nintendo.com/ 2. Mario - Just Dance 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39L-M5nhx6Y 3. Super Mario RPG/DjjD/Jehm Faulking - Tricky Labyrinth https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03617 4. Super Smash Bros/WillRock - Smash and Burn https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03608 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 4. Presented by Ste Curran, Ann Scantlebury and (eventually) Jenn Frank, sitting opposite Gamasutra colleague Christian Nutt and special guests Greg Rice (Double Fine), Patrick Hackett (Double Fine), Bennett Foddy (QWOP, GIRP, Pole Riders), Matthew Luhn (Pixar), Ben Liu (Pocket Gems), Daniel Cook (Spry Fox), and Anna Marsh (Lady Shotgun). One Life Left's relentless schedule continues with another special show, recorded live on Thursday lunchtime at GDC2013 from our temporary home at the foot of the North Hall escalators in San Francisco's Moscone Center. Topics include how to stay motivated, the creative process in big and small studios, cross-media pollination, mobile gaming, life / work balance, and some more brainstorming around our hug-game "concept". It's midway through the conference, we're losing our voices - our minds have somewhat gone too - but we'll get through this together, team, and continue regret nothing except the limited number of hours in every brilliant day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s a full team this week, but Simon is poorly so it’s more of a team 2.5. Except we had Jack Attridge on as a Super-Special Guest which boosted us up to 3.5. He was on to talk about Erica, which is also the name of his newest game. Or is it a movie? We try to work out the differences between the two. More importantly, is it a lean back or a lean forward experience? Even more importantly, what does Jack’s Mum think about Erica? We tried to work out if we were a family, checked what we were collectively subscribed to, and did an investigation into if piracy was still popular. Simon undid one button too many on his shirts and Jack told us that he was on the BAFTA jury for best narrative game. Oh the stories he could tell! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/JacksFlavour https://languagedrops.com/ https://www.bandainamco-am.co.uk/machine-sales/deluxe-games/space-invaders-frenzy/ Reviews: http://www.mediocre.se/pinout/ https://supermegabaseball.com/ https://ripstone.com/game/snooker19/ https://buy.mutantyearzero.com/ http://diceydungeons.com/ https://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear2/ http://popcannibal.com/kindwords/ Tracklist: Tsuwami - Battle Music https://chipmusic.org/Tsuwami/music/battle-music Going Ham - Secret Man https://chipmusic.org/GoingHam/music/secret-man Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After the longest break in OLL history, the team are back! Well, two of us are - Get well soon, Ann! Recorded from the comfort of our own homes, amongst other things we ponder why Eastenders tried to ignore covid, how good a deal the new Xbox is and how much money we'll spend on Nintendo with the upcoming release of "Super Mario 3D - (Almost) All (of the) Stars"! Not forgetting Simon's magic laptop cover. Covid-19, the lockdown and coping in a "new normal" world can't keep us down! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.twitch.tv/stecurran https://www.twitch.tv/singmaraoke/ Reviews: https://www.quanticdream.com/en/detroit-become-human https://www.iceberg-games.com/radical-relocation/ https://tombraider.square-enix-games.com/en-gb https://www.spinchthegame.com/ https://supermegabaseball.com/ https://pgatour.2k.com/ http://www.curve-digital.com/en-us/games/featured/49/hotshot-racing/ http://paradisekiller.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285160/Depanneur_Nocturne/ Tracklist: Lost Cat by Feral https://chipmusic.org/Feryl/music/lost-cat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We start this episode having to say goodbye to an unsung member of Team OLL. One who has played an integral part in numerous episodes and we're not sure if we'll ever be the same again. Farewell Ann's nose stud (unless she's found you again). However, we decided against making this episode a memorial to the memory of the stud and instead chose to ask this week's Super-Special Guest Read Only Memory's Darren Wallabout his own piercings. Oh, and we asked him about ROM's new book about the Sega Megadrive which was written by the fifth-placed loser of the Journalist's Journalist award at this year's GMAs. Or Keith Stuart as he is commonly known. We tried to find out who is the subject of the next book that Darren is working on, but instead got annoyed at the acknowledgment section in Keith's book. Ann found out about a different type of STI, Simon got annoyed with public transport and Ste got confused about where ducklings live. We also debated the sexiness of Bitmap Brother Eric Matthews and had features from Sega Badawi and Super Roger World. Make sure to come and sing with us at GameCity if you're there or if you can't make it then come to our Christmas Party which we'll confirm next week. Maybe. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://twitter.com/romalerts http://Readonlymemory.vg Track list: 1. Volt 44 - Night Of The Living Dead http://chipmusic.org/volt+44/music/night-of-the-living-dead-lsdj 2. Mister Beep - Slowing Down The Chaos http://chipmusic.org/mister+beep/music/slowing-down-the-chaos-zx48 3. Syobonaction - Lilos http://chipmusic.org/syobonaction/music/lilos 4. Groovemaster 303 - Pump It http://chipmusic.org/groovemaster303/music/pump-it-scratchin-the-vinyl-remix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s difficult when you have a decision to make and both options are fantastic. On one hand we all had an invite back to Lewis Schaffer’s where we would have discussed how great both of our shows are and possibly someone would have understood Simon’s t-shirt reference. On the other hand we had a show to make and produce. And if we didn’t make the show would Lewis have invited us to his place? Luckily there was an additional factor to bear in mind when making our decision as videogame legend Mev Dinc was on the show. We covered loads of topics from the 8 bit computers up to the present day, but it was good to find out the easiest way to port Enduro Racer from the Spectrum to the Amstrad, how/why First Samurai was possibly the most pirated game on the Amiga and what it was like to be one of the main people to make Ubisoft the success it is today. We also found out that Ste has come up with some merch ideas (which might mean we finally have a chance of monetising our brand), Ann went on a walk (but forgot to play Pokemon Go) and Simon might not need to put his Wii U in the canal. Our GDC Marioke was advertised at the end of this show, but it’s already sold out so the news was a bit out of date (kind of like Sega Badawi’s Local News). Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://Twitter.com/mevdinc https://Twitter.com/pixelagestudios http://pixelagestudios.com/ https://twitter.com/LewisSchaffer Track list: 1. ATKstat - Pressure http://chipmusic.org/ATKstat/music/pressure-lsdj-demo 2. Chrome Cobra - How Cobra Got His Groove Back http://chipmusic.org/Chrome+Cobra/music/how-cobra-got-his-groove-back Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's not a new season of One Life Left if at least one of us can't make it to the second episode. And Scanters was very happy to take the hit for the team this episode to go boozing on the way to Oslo. It's a hard life being head of HR and News for Europe's leading videogame radio programme. Ann was so on top with her HRing this week by managing to arrange a news-reading substitute, although he did let her down slightly by having a bit of a Network moment. True newsreaders would never do that. Frederico Fasce from ETT was this week's Super-Special Guest. He gave a very good reason as to why he wouldn't be able to attend our next Marioke event, which meant that we were prepared to ask him about Game Happens - the Italian gaming event he runs with his girlfriend - and the work that he does for ETT. As a result we confirmed how intelligent we were and also learnt about how games are useful in psychological testing (we'd have needed more than an hour for us to do that one). We move into a fascinating sphere of audio adventures by giving a commentary about an old issue of Edge (warning: contains Nokia N-Gage news) and also got Simon's hot take on the toys to life market, which in turn led to us uncovering a whole new market to move into. And you get some Local News too. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/kurai Tracklist: 1. 0b111 - OreoMilkshake_1989 http://chipmusic.org/0b111/music/oreomilkshake_1989 2. Tuxic - 1st Round http://chipmusic.org/Tuxic/music/1st-round Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

So here it is: One Life Left's final show from GDC. Against all odds the team have made it through six shows without any truly mortifying incidents. As long as they only have a couple of guests today things should be fi... Oh God. Deep breath: Dwight Okahara and Chris Olander from Insomniac kick things off and explain GDC from the positions of newbie and veteran. Outsider artist Michael Frederickson talks all about the brilliant KanyeZone.com. Journalist / Creator multiclassers Brandon Sheffield and Simon Parkin tell us about the best things they've seen at GDC this year. Popcap's Production Director Joe McDonagh lets us know about personal boundaries and inappropriate touching. Lord of HTML5 Darius Kazemi talks about the Pirate Kart, while One Life Left listener Ian fills in our performance sheet (are we bigger or smaller in real life?). Elliot Trinidad explains what it's like to try to stealth-demo an indiegame (in this case Pop Pop Battle J). Jon Blow talks about The Witness and his starring role in a new movie. Steve Jackson pops by for a chat at the very last, while the very final words fall to -- who else? -- Martin Hollis. We had the best time. Thanks for listening. We've been One Life Left and you've been very patient. See you next year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

And lo it did come to pass, dear listeners, that One Life Left didst finally get a Super Special Guest! Yep, you read that right: This week we have an SSG! And, no, it's not just Phil again! On this very episode we have none other than Sam Collins from UKIE joining us in the (virtual) studio to talk about Access November and the Guildford Games Festival amongst other things. We also bet all our money on Argentina to win World Cup 2022 thanks to EA, find out what not to stick in a toaster and discover Simon can no longer be bothered with Skyrim! Plus there's more from Alice Curran: Game Designer At Large and an impromptu Simon Byron's Fast Five - Games That Came Out Of Guildford! Have you ever been beaten by a button masher? Have you been a button mashee?? Confess your greatest gaming sins to us and repent! Repent! Or just ask us any old question at team@onelifeleft.com or amble over to our Discord server where you can chat with like-minded One Life Left listeners and post a question there. Link below! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Server Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The OLL Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/onelifeleft The Maraoke Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/singmaraoke The UKIE Link!: https://ukie.org.uk/ Raise The Game Link!: https://raisethegame.com/ Guildford Games Festival Link!: https://guildford.games/ Reviews: Marvel Snap Sonic Frontiers Flutter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re easing ourselves into GDC week with a low-key hotel room recording, but there is nothing low-key about our brilliant guests. Adriel Wallick fills us in on how Train Jam went, Rami Ismail from Vlambeer talks to us about his talks this year, Unity’s Kerry Turner tells us what it’s like being on a booth. We’re also joined by The New Yorker’s Simon Parkin, Shailesh Prabhu from Cape,  Mediocre’s Henrik Johansson, and Runa Haukland and Henriette Myrlund from Splash Jam. If that’s us at low-key, imagine where we’ll be by the end of the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s another Bank Holiday Monday so that means it’s time to check back into the Nordic Game Jam and see how things progressed since our last episode. The main issue is that 24 hours had passed since our last Game Jam episode so (in theory) people should have slept. We tried our best to find out the best and worst places to sleep at a Game Jam and also tried to see if snoring had affected any games created. Luckily we managed to find lots of people who were on our previous episode so we got to see how their ideas (and teams) had changed and also got to speak to someone from the most exotic country attending. We also came up with an idea for a Game Jam that we thought of two weeks ago, but was two weeks after this episode was recorded. On both times we appear to think it’s a new idea that we’ve had. This is what Game Jams can do to you. Look in our links section below to see all the games that were created from the Jam. They’re all excellent. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/nordicgamejam https://itch.io/jam/ngj17 https://nordicgamejam.org/ Track list: 1. m0n0deaf - k0ng0 http://chipmusic.org/m0n0deaf/music/k0ng0 2. amateur lsdj - grounded http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/grounded 3. Eduard - Lights of Shanghai http://chipmusic.org/Eduard/music/lights-of-shanghai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As is standard with the second episode after a break One Life Left is an Ann down. But if you're the HR director what is the correct process for sick leave? How long do you talk about it on air? And how do you cover radio's best videogame news reader? The answer to that last question is how Ann feels: poorly. Our Super-Special Guest were actually Guests as we welcomed James Parker and Tony Gowland into the studio. After we anointed them as The Last Shadow Puppets of Videogames we spoke to them about Binaries, which is coming out on consoles after being a big hit on the PC. We asked them how Binaries has changed on its transition to the consoles, the problems with setting a difficulty level and also how Lemmings 2: The Tribes helped shape the new version. After a break Sega Badawi returned with the latest local news and we have (sit down for this) a new feature. Rob provided us with his confessions of a part time gamer, hopefully our lack of replying to his email last week won't stop him from sending more features in. We tried to clarify if Guy Cocker is on The List, spoke about prizes that we had won and prepared ourselves for GMA disappointment (at a whole new level of GMA disappointment). Cheerio! Team OLL x Edit: https://Twitter.com/gameswriting https://Twitter.com/freakyzoid Track list: 1. Toaster Pastries - Jeb Don't Mind http://chipmusic.org/toasterpastries/music/jeb-dont-mind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to another podcast edition of the longest running video game related radio show! This week we explain darkness to children, see Kieron Gillen as a Sim torturer, discuss the art of high-level samhousery and "OLL Staff" handle the GTA6 leak! Plus more news, listener's letters and reviews. Meanwhile, in Nintendo's ongoing vendetta with Ste, there's still no new F-Zero. We also have a report on last week's Maraoke and news of a Super Special Maraoke in Leamington Spa on October 7th in support of One Special Day - links for further info are below! The next Maraoke after that will be on October 15th at Loading, Peckham, and the third Saturday of each month going forward. To infinity. Maybe. Maraoke! Do you want to take legal action against us for some reason? Maybe just want to ask us a video game related question? If so then please fire all correspondence to us at team@onelifeleft.com or drop us a line on our Discord server! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Server Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk OLL Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/onelifeleft Maraoke Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/singmaraoke One Special Day Link!: https://onespecialday.org.uk/ One Special Day Maraoke Link!: https://happeningnext.com/event/one-special-day-maraoke-karaoke-eid4snx1kve7k1 Reviews: Easy Come Easy Golf Alba: A Wildlife Adventure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One thing we've learnt from TV Talent Shows is that the journey is important. And this week's guest, Kerry Turner, had a very special journey to get here. By which we mean that she nearly ended up at Portsmouth. Luckily she made the right connection and we got to talk to her about Make Play Code and how teaching women how to code is a lot like The Ring or like making a skirt. It sounded so good that Ste and Simon had to come up with some cunning plans. We had GameUnder and Sega Badawi providing some features with a new Super-Special Guest Reviewer making his debut. Not only that but we turned Pip into a tv star, started our own awards ceremony and decided on how big Ann wanted her blanket. And we didn't really mention the GMAs. They just don't deserve being in our house. But they know what they can do to improve things for next year. Cheerio!Team OLL x Links:https://twitter.com/MakePlayCodehttps://twitter.com/reallyfancyhttp://www.makeplaycode.com/ Track list:1. Gepsjors - Nessyhttp://chipmusic.org/gepsjors/music/nessy2. Klamm - Heroquesthttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/heroquest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You can tell there's a problem from the very start. Only five episodes into the new season and the team have reverted to the old theme. Something's gone wrong. But what? Or who? And what happens next?   Find out in this week's exciting episode of (sometimes partially) videogame radio show One Life Left.   Also in #125:   ++ A barely-thought-through pitch for a videogame is made and softly rejected   ++ A challenge is set for next week's OLL (and there's a theme for the letter's section too)   ++ It's difficult to remember, really. It was all a bit frantic   Music this episode from J8b!t and DEADBEATBLAST. And AN Other, too. Any help?   One Life Left is at The Big Chill this Saturday. I know, we're surprised, too. Find us at the Swap Meet area on the Friday and Saturday.    As usual, follow us on Twitter, tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and email us.   See you Monday for the last OLL for a few weeks.   Team OLL xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello listeners. Ste here, because Undertaker Phil's computer has stopped working. In this episode: two old men talk about videogames. That's basically it but if you need more detail I've got you: Ste's clothing choice surprises Simon, Charlesbot yells the news over some slightly too loud audio, Animal Crossing causes emotional and financial problems, Simon's new feature returns (it needs a name) and there's one (ONE) letter from the ever-dependable Chris Conroy. We need more letters. Send us a letter.  Discord link: http://hello.onelifeleft.com (there's a link to Ste's new game in there, but we don't talk about that on the show) OK. That's everything. I'm serious about the letters and we also need a name for Simon's feature AND suggestions for things to do in Tokyo, which is fast approaching. You've got a lot on your to-do list but thanks for listening. We love you. See you soon xoxo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Right, the Caretaker stayed a lot later at work than expected today so this intro is going to be missing the (attempts at) jokes that you usually receive. There was no Simon this week or at our Christmas Party and Ann couldn’t be bothered to do any news, so we reviewed 2017 and Si Park’s review of 2017. Expect the CD of Resonance FM tunes to become a major part of the show in 2018. We also gave the definitive list of iPad games which we shall type here for posterity: Getting Over It Anything by Zac Gage Picross Galaxy Reigns: Her Majesty Anything by Simogo Anything by Mediocre Games Space Team Desktop Dungeon Any Synthesiser simulators Cheerio and Merry Christmas! Team OLL x Links: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2017/dec/10/best-video-games-of-2017-observer-critics-review Tracklist: 1. The Emu - Foodman in Duckland https://chipmusic.org/The+Emu/music/foodman-in-duckland 2. Shizundeiru Chip - Sabertooth https://chipmusic.org/shizundeiru_chip/music/sabertooth 3. METRO - Codename: Sailor V https://chipmusic.org/METRO/music/codename-sailor-v-nec-pc-88-ost---stage-1-1-city-streets-by-metro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left has always been a firm believer in helping the little guy out. It's why we've always applauded (quietly) when the GMA judges decided to give their podcast/radio show award those teams that aren't on FM. So we felt that having Holly and Kate from Toku Podcast on as our Super-Special Guests would be a good idea. We were wrong. They obviously hadn't learnt that if you wanted to become a success like Mike Bithell or the New Yorker's Simon 'Parkinson' Parkin then you needed to show us respect. Therefore this episode is a textbook example of how to ruin your career. (Although we're not sure if it's ours or theirs that is ruined) And the show started off started off so well. Simon took the risk of doing the show without headphones, Ste found a CD of filler music and Ann was recovering from having two roasts in one day. Then it went wrong. Ann started to tell a very sexy news story that rapidly turned out to be not particularly sexy - especially once Ste added in a contribution from Gogglebox. Then we interviewed Holly and Kate and it went worse. We learnt that you can never trust Keith Stuart - tabloid journalist - and Ann got scammed by a videogame that turned her to drink. We did have contributions from GameUnder and Sega Badawi and we had a round up of what happened at our last Marioke. Which reminds us that next month's Marioke is on 14/05, rather than the third Thursday, so you've got less time to get your lyrics sent in. Cheerio! Team OLL x Track list: 1. Mister Beep - Hornets Assault http://chipmusic.org/mister+beep/music/hornets-assault-1-bit-chiptune 2. Please Lose Battle - Eleven O'Clock http://chipmusic.org/pleaselosebattle/music/eleven-oclock Links https://twitter.com/nielsen_holly https://twitter.com/hownottodraw https://twitter.com/toku_podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It takes a lot to be someone that Mike Bithell wouldn't be prepared to kiss. This week's Super-Special Guest - Tony Gowland from Ant Workshop - is just that person. Could it be because Tony has managed to make a game with a genuinely interesting idea and that has made Mike jealous? If anyone knows anything about jealously it's definitely One Life Left. If there were no jealousy in this business then we'd have a lot more GMA awards. Anyway, Tony's game is called Binaries, it's out on the 4th April and he was only too happy to tell us the main colours of the game. And in Binaries knowing the colours is actually a key factor in the gameplay. Honestly, it's like our apparently stupid questions are actually incredibly clever. We also found out why Tony changed the name of the game and what's it's like to be championed by Mike Bithell. John Life Left tried monetising his feature whilst Sega Badawi still did his purely for the benefit of news. In addition Ste gave some useful advice on running a Kickstarter, as well as doing a little rap. There was Jonathan Blow chat, a further update on our GDC Marioke Party (and what to do if you missed out on a ticket, but still want to come) and a quick mention of our Pre-GDC Marioke that's on this Friday. Cheerio!Team OLL x Links:http://store.steampowered.com/app/435800/http://playbinaries.comhttps://twitter.com/FreakyZoidhttps://twitter.com/antworkshop Track list:1. Garvalf- Mere Hiverhttp://chipmusic.org/garvalf/music/mre-hiver2. Cyan Coloneels - Without Any Fuss, The Stars Went Outhttp://chipmusic.org/cyancoloneels/music/without-any-fuss-the-stars-went-out Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello! It's show time once again! And this show is hangry. Or Simon is, at least. This week we have a Past Guest Postmortem, Steam breaks records again, Sony drive a car, Altec Lansing guess things, Valve clamp down on AI, there's something about Suicide Squad and Ste gets a new controller. One Life Left: Consistently consistent since 2006! Meanwhile there's another Maraoke! It's on Monday 22nd January at Pocket Gamer in London and you can get tickets from here: https://lu.ma/34n830m9 Tickets are limited so don't think about it, do it! Have you got any virtual studio recommendations for us? Do you know what the Rabbit R1 does?? Or are you happy to wildly speculate, at least? If so then fire your missives in our direction at team@onelifeleft.com. Or slide into our Discord and drop us a note on there. Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Reviews: Sifu Creed: Rise to Glory Baldur's Gate 3 The Exit 8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello dear listeners. We're back, once again, like the proverbial Renegade Master! This week we hear about Ste's holiday to Croatia, Simon reveals the sexiest game on Steam and The Internet gets cross over Mario. We also have a "podcast exclusive" Reboot Develop Blue moment, Nintendo bans boobs and we wonder if there's any real reason to play FIFA for more than 7 minutes! Plus the only video game related news, letters and reviews you'll ever need. This week. Meanwhile, has Charles Cecil ever emerged from the sea before you? Is it safe to talk about? Let us know about it here at team@onelifeleft.com or hop into our Discord channel and leave some correspondence there. Stay a while. Stay forever! Link below! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Server Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The OLL Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/onelifeleft The Maraoke Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/singmaraoke Reviews: Dome Keeper Foretales Lego Bricktales Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome, dearest listeners, to another podcast edition of the World's Longest Running Video Game Radio Show! Another SSG free episode but there's lots of news and gaming related chat along with the usual letters, reviews and tunes! Why not write in and join our esteemed and exclusive "Correspondent's Club"?!  OK, it's not a club as such but you get your name to appear in a fancy colour on our Discord server (currently green...) Contact us at team@onelifeleft.com or drop us a line on Discord (link below)! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/pgTSzpgfcD Reviews: Nier: Automata Mario Kart 8 Bus Stop in the Fog Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion 100 Hidden Cats Tracklist: 終点 by Heosphoros: https://chipmusic.org/Heosphoros/music/12406 Ghost Town (cover version) by Alex Lane: https://chipmusic.org/Alex+Lane/music/ghost-town Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello again, dear listeners! No SSG this week but, alongside all the usual video game related news and chat, we find out about the wettest feeling video game Ste has ever played along with depressing MySpace realisations and Simon's addiction to reruns of The Chase! Meanwhile, what is the most robust piece of gaming hardware that you've ever owned? Let us know at team@onelifeleft.com along with any other general letters you wish to send us! Don't forget that we have another online Maraoke this coming Friday, February 26th at 8pm GMT - we'd love to see you all there! Info links are below along with the (still working) link to the OLL Discord server! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://discord.gg/sP3Gu25Wmp https://www.twitch.tv/singmaraoke Maraoke Event Facebook Page Reviews: Minit Fun Racer Ultimate ADOM: Caverns of Chaos VideoHole: Episode 1 Tracklist: Floating by Hide Your Tigers https://chipmusic.org/Hide+Your+Tigers/music/floating-lsdj Glimmer by Feryl https://chipmusic.org/Feryl/music/glimmer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The full team is back this week and no substitutions were allowed this week. Ann fancied a day off, but she knew that people depend on her for her in depth video game news that you can't get anywhere else. Except perhaps Europegamer (although they never end their news stories on an incredibly funny joke). There was also no Super-Special Guest so this allowed the team to look at the biggest gaming stories in more detail. Which were mostly about us, obviously. Not only did we go through last week's Videogame Karaoke but we also announced that there will be another Videogame Karaoke at Not'num GameCity along with lots of Videogame based drink. Keep Thursday October 25th free. Unless you're Ann and tell everyone (incorrectly) that it was the Wednesday. Another big story is that City of Heroes is still closing and being fans of the underdogs (especially if they are also fans of us and send us songs to play on the show) we put our name behind the campaign to keep it open. We fully expect NCSoft to reverse their decision pretty soon since our announcement. We also try to see how the Government decides how a videogame is British. And get pretty confused. So business as usual then. Luckily Derek Williams and Doctor Avatar still know what they are doing and provide us with more top quality features.  Cheerio! Team OLL x  Links: http://www.savecoh.com Tracklist: 1. Klamm - Coffee Turbo http://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/coffee-turbo  2. YERZMYEY - Fifteen Colours http://chipmusic.org/yerzmyey/music/fifteen-colours-ym-ay-chip  3. Curt the Camera Guy Arndt - I Want My City Back http://www.savecoh.com 4. Jredd - Transcend http://chipmusic.org/jredd/music/transcend  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last week’s theme was ‘Platforms’. You can listen to Episode 4 here.   Next week’s theme is ‘Physics’. The three games chosen for dissection by NC this week are: 1. Thrust (Jeremy Smith, 1986) Play it here. http://joncom.be/experiments/thrust/play/   2. Peggle (Sukhbir Sidhu / Brian Rothstein, 2007) You can find this on most formats now -- the PC version is here (http://www.popcap.com/games/peggle/pc) but the iPod version comes recommended too.    3. GIRP (and QWOP) (Dr. Bennett Foddy, 2011) Play it here: http://www.foddy.net/   Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we’ll see you back here for the podcast. Team NC xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The mystery of the missing stamps is still ongoing. Or, for the returning Ann, it starts today. Given the recent announcement of a price rise this means that the absent package will be worth 8.5 percent more at the end of the month than it did when they were first sent. If we don't find them by the end of the year they will be likely worth millions. We tried to work out if Switches were stereotyped, didn't try to work out what the plural of a Switch is, Ann forgot and then remembered a very good joke, and Simon got a bit upset about the Geforce Now. We also learnt about a cross promotion that Angry Birds was doing, but given it was Angry Birds maybe we should have said it was a very cross promotion. Clever wording we know, cheers. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.gdconf.com/ https://twitter.com/SingMaraoke/status/1232681780412604417 Reviews: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tint/id1451786388 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213550/Devils_Kiss/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060600/Lair_of_the_Clockwork_God/ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/DRAGON-QUEST-XI-S-Echoes-of-an-Elusive-Age-Definitive-Edition-1514406.html# https://www.skookum-arts.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1033220/The_Amazing_Shrinking_Giraffe/ Tracklist: 1. Dante's dmg- 2020 https://chipmusic.org/9-Heart/music/gelegenheitsmusik-lsdj 2. Dumbug (UK) - Wonky https://chipmusic.org/Dumbug+%28UK%29/music/wonky-[nanoloop27wip] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the third OLL Golld and haven't we come far over these three episodes? Well, we've been on holiday so we've gone far but we're not sure if that counts. Either way you're guaranteed some excellent features in this episode as Raina goes to Funspot, Odds On gives tips and Chiara is still trying to get out of rural Japan. Exciting right? This episode contains features from the episodes originally aired on 12/06/2006 and 19/06/2006. God, we were so young then :( Cheerio!Team OLL x Tracklist: 12/06/2006 - Ms. Snacman12/06/2006 - Craig 'the Rage' McClelland12/06/2006 - Raina Lee12/06/2006 - Professor Game/Doctor Watch12/06/2006 - Odds On OD12/06/2006 - Chiara19/06/2006 - Professor Game/Doctor Watch19/06/2006 - Craig 'the Rage' McClelland19/06/2006 - Raina Lee19/06/2006 - Odds On OD19/06/2006 - Chiara19/06/2006 - Derek Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Well, dear listeners, did you invest in Gamestop? Are you listening to us from your new yacht in the Bahamas? Did anyone really understand what the heck was going on?! Will you buy all the Zelda games that will inevitably get re-released on Zelda's upcoming 35th anniversary?? We tackle all this and more in this week's, non-SSG, episode! We also mention our friendly Discord server - a link to that is below! Please do send your letters in to us at team@onelifeleft.com. We promise we don't bite. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Server! Reviews: Everspace 2 Star Wars Squadrons Polybius Google Earth VR Tracklist: Bodiless Exultation by Klamm https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/bodiless-exultation Bonus Theme by Chiplex https://chipmusic.org/Chiplex/music/bonus-theme Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left vs Gamasutra GDC2015 Show #3   Recorded live from the Moscone's North Hall in San Francisco, live at GDC 2015, and featuring some NSFW industrial language.   Presented by Simon Byron, Ste Curran, Cara Ellison and (briefly) Christian Nutt, with very special guests:   John Walker (RPS) Frank Cifaldi (Other Ocean) Michael Consoli (Cartwheel Games) Chris Zukowski (Wizard Golf) Bennett Foddy (foddy.net) Trent Kusters (League of Geeks) Forrest Dowling (The Molasses Flood) John Ingold (Inkle) Joseph Humfrey (Inkle) Hannah Flynn (Failbetter) Alexis Kennedy (Failbetter) Rupert Meghnot (Burnout Game Ventures) Oscar Clark (Unity)   ONE AGAIN, THIS PODCAST CONTAINS QUITE A BIT OF SWEARING / CURSING. Apologies in advance. Our bleep button was broken.   s   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a mini break for Easter, where we only ate Mini Eggs and Mini Milks, One Life Left is back! Ste had managed to break an egg exactly in half, Ann went outside and Simon helped gamify Easter and also met our thirteenth listener. Ann managed to break an exclusive, which is that she's highly likely to be a major character in the new Grand Theft Auto film that's coming out. Apparently only one third of the cinema seats will be available at the beginning of the film, which the rest of the cinema being unlocked as the film goes one. Our Super-Special Guest this week was Nitrome’s Aaron Steed. He told us all the gossip about Quinn's beginner Netrunner tournament (or BeQuinner tournament if you will) and how you identify which Flash games will work well on mobile. We also found out what are the main problems in creating a rogue like and how good we are at making Aaron forget the names of other good rogue likes. GameUnder provided more evidence of the corruption in videogames whilst Sega Badawi provided his Local News too late for the live show so we had to insert it into the podcast. We received some post in our pigeon hole that wasn't actually as exciting that we thought would be and we started a beef with Radio 4. Oh and if you read this on Wednesday 15/04 then come to #THIRDSDAY on Thursday 16/04! Simon won’t be there which might just be the incentive you need to attend. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/st33d http://www.redrogue.net/ http://www.nitrome.com/ http://robotacid.com/ Track listing; 1. AtariTufty- Beeper X http://chipmusic.org/ataritufty/music/beeper-x 2. Hurri Gameboy - Astro http://chipmusic.org/hurrigameboy/music/astro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello dearest listeners! This week Baldur's Gate 3 wins awards, the Silent Hill 2 remake trailer isn't good, we get an OG Tomb Raider game warning, Xbox hardware won't vanish and the Switch 2 gets delayed (maybe). Also Ste is not making a massively multiplayer game. Did we mention it would be cool if you could help Resonance FM by donating to them? Well the link to their 2024 Fundraiser is below! Do you know which game Ste is alluding to? Where were you in 1996?? Do you know how to play craps?! Then let us know at team@onelifeleft.com. Or join our "exclusive" Discord server where the party never stops! Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ The ResonanceFM Fundraiser Link!: https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/fundraiser-events-2024 Reviews: Far Cry Primal Plateup! Elden Ring EA Sports FC Islands of Insight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a break for Easter, the One Life Left team is back! And then going on holiday the week after due to May day. And maybe the week after that. It’s what you expect from us: Poor quantity over poor quality. But anyway, this week’s episode saw Ann play real life Neko Atsume, Ste talked specs-y to us, and Simon made throwing a stick even more fun than it already is. We also had more Red Hot Boscombe Chat, worked out the optimum amount of people to play Towerfall with, and read out some classic emails. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.owlfield.com/pf/escape-room-frequency/ https://www.katanazero.com/ http://www.cupheadgame.com/ http://pipepushparadise.com/ http://yankaispeak.com/ https://www.humblebundle.com/store/forager Tracklist: Saulc12 - Pixellated Memory https://chipmusic.org/saulc12/music/pixellated-memory Amateur LSDJ - Path Least Traveled https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/path-least-traveled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome once again, dear listeners, to another episode of One Life Left. This week we are joined by Super Special Guest Johan Toresson from Raw Fury, here to talk about pillow fighting world records, how to get into parties and to tell us how better at gaming his children are than ours, amongst other things! We also find out where Simon keeps his radiator, hear about Ste's Metal Gear Solid ambivalence and discover Blizzard is a Green Tea Bitch, allegedly. Maybe. We also debut a NEW feature, "My Perfect Console", as well as filling your ears with more gaming news, reviews and a letter... Meanwhile, have you ever squirted orange juice on something "for reasons"? What was your greatest public act of defiance?? Write in and let us know, as well as asking us any questions you might have, at team@onelifeleft.com or skip across to our Super Special Discord server and leave us a letter there. Link below! Cheerio, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Raw Fury Link!: https://rawfury.com/ Johan Toresson Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/jtoresson Reviews: Sport Story Hades Evil West Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s just the lads tonight as Ann had a migraine. And being a kind, trusting team at One Life Left we take her at her word and don’t try to work out where else she could be - at least for the first half-hour anyway. We also failed to have a Super-Special Guest in the studio. But luckily that meant we could talk to David Heslop about videogame tv via Skype. David told us how difficult it is to get videogames on television (usually through a SCART lead or HDMI cable) and how frustrating that is considering the many opportunities that games offer children’s tv. Normally Ann being away causes issues with the news, but luckily Ann came to the rescue. There was also a bit of Parkinson chat, Simon told us what it’s like to be a big deal on Twitter and Ste nearly broke his NDA. Ouch. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/dtHeslop Tracklist: 1. Hide Your Tigers - Decaying Tigers http://chipmusic.org/Hide+Your+Tigers/music/decaying-tigers-lsdj 2. Enders Crusade - Xenocide http://chipmusic.org/Enders+Crusade/music/xenocide 3. Shintarou Music - Hanging http://chipmusic.org/ShintarouMusic/music/hanging Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the last show before Christmas Ste and Simon gave to me A real, live, talking SSG! That's right, dear listeners! You've been good this year, mostly, so you get an SSG in the form of Andrew Smith from Spilt Milk Studios, here to talk all about Trash Goblin, amongst other things! There's also Game Awards "excitement", vegan gangsters, a zombie MMO that might not be an MMO (and definitely isn't now), Sega takes ages going back to old games, we play a quick game of Steam Top Trumps and Fortnite ramps up their attempt at world domination. All in this bumper Christmas issue of One Life Left! Maraoke did Jingle Jam!! If you missed it, that's OK coz the lovely folks at Yogscast have put it on their YouTube channel - all 2 hours and 44 minutes of it! Link is below... There may also still be time for you to get a ticket for the Maraoke Xmas Party 2023, happening on Saturday 16th December at Loading Peckham, here: maraoke.com/xmas Will our mailbag be as full as Santa's sack by the time we return?? We'd like to think so but we'll be realistic as we all know Santa only comes once a year! Please send your letters to us at team@onelifeleft.com. Or join us and other listeners on our Discord and leave a letter on there. Link below! Hope you have a good Xmas and all the best for 2024! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ The Jingle Jam 2023 Maraoke Stream Link!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oli6lNT6c2c (WARNING: Contains swears, mainly from Ste) The Maraoke Twitch Link!: https://www.twitch.tv/singmaraoke (may be in use for the Xmas Party) The Trash Goblin Link!: https://www.trashgoblingame.com/ Reviews: LEGO Fortnite A Highland Song Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew Born of Bread Baldur's Gate 3 Super Mario Bros. Wonder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome once again to another episode of the One Life Left podcast! This week we have games making Ste poorly, Simon goes to EGX, hackers do hacking, kittens cause minor distraction, Joe Cornish's tv/radio hosting advice, Chris Conroy hangs around in Regent's Park, Molyneux uh oh and All The Mechanics! Plus the MS/Activision 100 Year Saga IS FINALLY OVER!!!! Possibly. Until something else happens. It's a bumper show! There's also more of that new feature from Simon that doesn't officially have a name yet (ClickMate?) so I'll continue to unimaginatively call it Simon Swipes Right. We've got more of that. We asked and you delivered but we need more letters, please. MORE!! We crave your interaction via the medium of the written word!!! Deliver them lovingly to us at team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord! You can leave us a letter there as well. Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Reviews: Assassin's Creed Mirage Subpar Pool Beneath The Six Cocoon Bang on Balls: Chronicles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week's show we have John and Simon from Olli Olli developers Roll 7. Luckily for them we forgot to go on about the Superbowl, which we were going to hilariously rename the SuperbOLL, and thinking about it probably wasn't going to work over the airwaves. We also forgot to mention our great idea to mash up OlliOlli and The Stanley Parable to make the Stan and Ollie Parables, which would detail the black and white adventures of one thin man and one fat man in a horn factory.We did manage to ask them about working with Sony, what it's like annoying Dan Marshall (more to see if they found it different to how we find it), the colour of their new game but neglected to mention how much it would cost to use our likenesses for an OLLiOLLi spin off. Ah well. Scanters got recognised as a Twitter celebrity, gave hair and nightlife advice and the Team all decided that killing children was wrong.As usual Sega Badawi provided some local news, but Science Officer and Super Roger World made their welcome returns. We also learn about how to control games using your brain waves, try an experiment and probably fail at it. It's what we do best.And if you can please contribute to the Resonance FM fundraiser. They're an excellent station to work with and they'll be really freaked out that we just wrote nice things about them. Next week will be a telethon but on the radio so a radithon? Either way, it'll be fantastic so tune in.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/Roll_7http://resonancefm.com/newsTrack list:1. Mister Beep - Hypervelocity Starshttp://chipmusic.org/mister+beep/music/hypervelocity-stars2. Monomania - Bluehttp://chipmusic.org/monomania/music/blue3. Legacy - Rade (under the stars)http://chipmusic.org/legacy/music/rade---under-the-stars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to another episode of One Life Left! No SSG this week but we learn this important lesson: "If you do something that people like, do nothing else ever again!" Something worth having a look at is the Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid - link below - that is chock full of wonderful games at an amazing price: At the time of writing it includes 1019 games all for $5!! It's currently raised just under $563k and has 2.5 days left to run so check it out. Meanwhile, do you have any E3 speculation, dear listeners? Let us know on our Discord server (link below) or at team@onelifeleft.com !! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Channel Invite Link!!! https://discord.gg/pgTSzpgfcD The Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid: https://itch.io/b/902/indie-bundle-for-palestinian-aid Reviews: Resident Evil Village Sludge Life The Magnificent Trufflepigs Tracklist: Courtesy by chipzel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6atL8AwzKc February Fool by YQN: https://chipmusic.org/YQN/music/february-fool Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The full team is finally back and we're not going anywhere. Except for Ann, who is going to Oslo in the near future. And Ste will probably have to do another talk somewhere far away. Oh, and Simon's train will most likely get delayed at some point. But Simon The Intern In The Corner will still be here for you. And this week you also have Kirsten and Jon from Sidekick Books! They explain to us what it's like doing Videogame poetry (Craig will never tell us), how to do two player poetry and how Kieron Gillen was ahead of us (again). You'll enjoy their poetry even if Ste got slightly competitive in proving it wasn't as good as Marioke. Sega Badawi has some local news and Derek Williams takes us by the hand and leads us through the streets of Doncaster. Where he'll show us something that'll make us change our minds. Oh! And we officially announce the date of our Christmas party. But not the location. Or the price of the tickets. Or the Super-Special Guests! So keep Friday 19th December free and be somewhere in London. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://www.drfulminare.com/index.php https://twitter.com/SidekickBooks https://twitter.com/KofTheTriffids https://twitter.com/gojonstonego http://Terrorbird.bandcamp.com Track list: 1. Hurrigameboy - Eyes Closed Fingers Crossed http://chipmusic.org/hurrigameboy/music/eyes-closed-fingers-crossed 2. Fantastic Mr Lenix - Hoax Town http://chipmusic.org/fantasticmrlenix/music/hoax-town 3. Brother Android - Wells Branch Park, Evening http://chipmusic.org/brother+android/music/wells-branch-park-evening Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We start the episode a little confused. So confused that Ste mentions how it’s our first show together for a few weeks, er, except we were all together last week. Ste did have an excuse in that Team OLL got together over the week to once again give the gift of Marioke to Nordic Game. Apart from Simon who decided Belgium was much better, which it would have been but he failed to go to Ghent or Bobbejaanland. Anyway, after last week’s lack of an SSG we went overboard by getting a guest who had just flown in from America - and boy were his arms tired! It was Glenn Gregory from ID@Xbox, which is the main route to getting your indie game onto to Xbox platform. We bombarded him with questions that he actually gave a straight answer to like: Is there still a place for traditional indie games? What does Ann need to do to promote her indie game that she hasn’t made yet? And: How many games have been released on the ID service? This last one wasn’t a question we asked, but we did find out the answer in the show. One other thing that means Glenn will always be a Friend Of The Show is that he managed to give Ann and Ste the opportunity to audition to be a Sugababe. Were either of us successful? We may never know. We also had some Local News, had a joke stolen by time-travelling television people and realised we’re getting old. What a bummer of an ending. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/ID_Xbox http://www.bobbejaanland.be/ Tracklist: 1. Veenomn – Big Boofer http://chipmusic.org/veenomn/music/big-boofer 2. amateurlsdj - Stellar http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/stellar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last week we had a Marioke event at GameCity. It involved lots of drinking and singing. Nothing unusual there. But we've not seen Ann since, and some sources are saying that she ended up in Japan. Is she going to be the new Kojima? As Ann was missing, we needed to make sure that her replacement was completely ethical and - most importantly - a man. So we got GameUnder, renegade gamer and former president of Electronic Arts to come in and do the news. We also got Henry Hoffman from Fiddlesticks and the most stylish man in games in as a Super-Special Guest. He told us his origin story, his new game Hue, his experimental VR game Aboard The Looking Glass and made an EXCLUSIVE! announcement that he probably shouldn't have made and we shouldn't be mentioning in CAPITAL LETTERS. Sorry. We're also sorry that there won't be a show next week, it's all Ste's fault for going to India. Oh, and we're sorry for the spoilers that GameUnder might do during his news. While we're at it, sorry for mentioning TFI Friday during the show. We won't apologise for Sega Badawi, although some of his puns this week do get a little close to the edge. Cheerio!Team OLL x Links:https://twitter.com/HenryHoffmanhttps://twitter.com/mrjjlean Tracklist:1. MotionRide - 99 Lives Lefthttp://chipmusic.org/motionride/music/99-lives-left2. Lamer Pinky - Way To Unityhttp://chipmusic.org/lamer+pinky/music/way-to-unity3. Klamm - Icebreakerhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/icebreaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Never let it be said that One Life Left is not prepared for all emergencies and when your resident News Fox is ill, then that's a pretty big emergency. Luckily substitute News Fox Harjeet managed to slip into Ann's poorly shoes successfully. But where would Harjeet copy the news from? Would it be from Ann's favourite Eurogamer or would she look further afield? As well as Derek Williams promoting himself and the welcome return of burglar-chasing Craig 'the Rage' McClelland and his Twelve Ages of Craig, we also have two new features with Our Game (literally a new feature in the writer's case) and Matt and Steve's Amazing Week. And don't forget the announcement of our secret project for the year. With a line-up like that how could we fail? Well, Ste and Simon are still presenting so it's highly likely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is it, dear listeners - the LAST SHOW EVER (this season)! And what a belter we have for you this week... we have Simon throwing a ball over a house (see our Discord for unquestionable proof), rebuilding Gameboys, Charlesbot plays Hunt the Pikachu with Wifebot, Microsoft might finally be killing the "Gamepass Ultimate Upgrade Hack", Nintendo DS charger difficulties, Ste goes to the PC Zone 30th Birthday bash and The Adventures of TV John (which is arguably better than the last two Indiana Jones films put together). Plus all the usual video game related news, letters and reviews! Meanwhile, did Simon call Ste 'Steve'? This is the end of season cliffhanger that everyone will be discussing all through summer! Fire your letters to us at team@onelifeleft.com or hop onto our Discord and leave a letter for us there, as well as joining in the chat with other like-minded listeners! Letters may/may not win a prize, you never know! Link below! And now it's time to put the boys back in their box for their long summer rest. Say "bye bye, Bainsy"... "bye bye, Steve"... We hope you all have a great summer, dear listeners. See you in September. TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Reviews: The Last of Us Trials Rising Planet of Lana Baldur's Gate 3 Delta V Rings of Saturn Goobies Backpack Hero Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steeled by a night of Moriarty-inspired karaoke the team spent the first lunchtime of GDC broadcasting live from the show floor in a thoroughfare dominated by wild-eyed men on the hunt for free T-shirts. Amazing guests, stupid chat, impromptu tangents and classic chiptunes: it's One Life Left, dropping the show LIVE from GDC 2012. Actually, it's a bit of a day of dropping: Bennett Foddy (GIRP, QWOP) drops his coffee, and Paulina Bozek (Singstar, Closet Swap) considers dropping some clothing. Julian Merceron (Square Enix) drops rumours, Zach Gage (Spell Tower, Bit Pilot) drops names, and Jan Plass (NYU Associate Prof / Games for Change) drops some academic science. Martin Hollis (Goldeneye, new romantic) does not drop down drunk but there's always that chance, while Warren Spector (etc.) just drops by as if hanging out with lifetime achievement award recipients is the most natural thing in the world. Which, at GDC, it is. The second episode of One Life Left: Live at GDC will be uploaded tomorrow! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode we're joined by Gamesbrief's Nicholas Lovell, who has just written a book on How To Publish A Game. Intrigued? Intimidated? Don't worry; highbrow discussion falls to lowbrow gossip pretty soon, including one especially salacious item involving Mark 'Unreal' Rein and a baby.   Also in episode #123, which we really should have done something special for but we didn't remember:   ++ Ann learns something about Hello Games   ++ Simon instigates a new Listener Recruitment Programme   ++ Ste (eventually) recalls how alcohol brought about what might be the worst decision in One Life Left's history   Talking of which, Simon's at Nottingham Game City nights tomorrow, so if you have a moment go and see him.   Music in #123 from Anamanaguchi, Smiletron and Grilly. Please do tell your friends / blogs / followers / whatevers about One Life Left, because we depend on word of mouth for warmth and comfort. We'll be back live on Monday at 7pm, or you can wait for the podcast to come out on Thursday.    See you then.   Team OLL  xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We know, you're upset that Lulzsec have disbanded. But this world just isn't big enough for both them and One Life Left to be around in. What we're trying to say is we're back, Back, BACK! With a new website, a new scoring system and some new features. Well, two out of three isn't that bad. Or is it one out of three? In this week's episode we also speak to our super-special guest Adam Marsh from www.16bits.co.uk about how to pick up strange men on trains using a 3DS. Occasionally we mention his website, but as it's about games we keep it to a safe minimum. Other subjects we touch on are Ste and Ann's superhero alter-egos, people spotting Derek live on the show, the perils of finding a replacement for Taliah and Simon's strange hand gestures. So another game-centric episode in other words. Also feel free to contact us via the usual address if you would like to contribute to the show, or just send us a letter if you want. Cheerio! Team OLL Tracklist: VCMG - Caffeine Pirates with Paper Hats - Halo Yerzmyey - Critical Error Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ann is back from being Big In Japannnnn because she drank all of their alcohol. This meant that we've had the full team back in the studio for the first time in ages. It also meant that Ste didn't have to worry about trying to figure out who would do the news. Although he didn't really have much time to worry about it last week if we think about it. Our Super-Special Guest this week was our third most famous guest ever. This obviously means that he has as little to do with videogames as possible, and is not Simon Parkinson or K-Stew (they're still fighting it out down at the bottom). Oh, we'd probably say who he actually is at this point. It's Iain Morris, co-creator of The Inbetweeners. We found out how videogames helped inspire The Inbetweeners, if mentioning Pro Evo Soccer on a TV show gets you any freebies and what it's like to break Ricky Gervais' back (presumably it made him humble). Ann told us that she was learning to drive, Ste scared all his cats away on Neko Atsume, Simon learnt that his son had some strange choice of phrases and Sega Badawi somehow managed to do some local news. Oh, and our Christmas party was announced for Friday 18/12, look for the details on Facebook (link in our, er, links section below). We'll tell you where to get tickets as soon as we can be bothered to set it up. Cheerio!Team OLL x Links:https://twitter.com/iainkevanmorrishttps://www.facebook.com/events/887560988005771/ Track list:1. Klamm - Phoenixhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/phoenix2. Justbeenwarpzoned - Veni Vidi Vicihttp://chipmusic.org/justbeenwarpzoned/music/veni-vidi-vici Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s show sees our very handsome hosts struggle to maintain their usual award-winning radio standards but it’s still the best thing you’ll hear on the Internet this week. They talk about loads of stuff, offering the best opinions and comments on everything of interest. Indeed, if you were in dire need of an essay on videogames you could simply hand in a transcript and you’d get an A* or equivalent.  (NB: the person that usually writes this stuff is on holiday, but presumably this is the sort of stuff he writes.)   Reviews: ·         V Rising: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1604030/V_Rising/ ·         Final Fantasy VII Remastered: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/final-fantasy-vii-remake-intergrade ·         And whatever Ste talked about, I wasn't really listening Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's day three at GDC, and now the expo's properly underway it's time to find out if this VR stuff is any good. Luckily we've got a small army of super-special guests to help us work that out. Guests include Tommy Refenes from Team Meat, Ryan Burrell, educator Kerry Turner, Lee Perry, Robin-Yann Storm, FourbitFriday’s Tyriq Plummer, Jake Birkett from Grey Alien Games, Luuk van Aggelen and Bram Simonis from Pillow Games, Katie Goode of Triangular pixels and Gamasutra columnist Katherine Cross. Cheerio! Team OLL x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oh my God we're back again. You could argue that last week we said we were back, but this is the proper launch of season 8. It must be because Derek Williams is back with a new Free Market Economy. And not only is Derek back, but we have a Super Special-Guest on the show in the form of Kanye Zone's Michael Frederickson. Admittedly he was on the show about five episodes back, but by our calculations (and our long break) that means it was around October 2011. Why not go on Michael's game and try to make it a dime day? Ann gives us one of her best jokes ever, see if your opinion matches with hers. She and Michael also give us first-hand knowledge of the Hitman advert controversy, whilst Ste tells us of a big secret in the world of Tetris. Cheerio!Team OLL x Links:http://twitter.com/#!/mfredericksonhttp://www.kanyezone.comhttp://soundcloud.com/derekfme Playlist:Kubbi - Juggernaut (http://chipmusic.org/kubbi/music/juggernaut)nonfinite - If Desperation Was Enough (http://chipmusic.org/nonfinite/music/if-desperation-was-enough)mo. - Uncharted Worlds - Mass Effect Cover (http://chipmusic.org/mo./music/uncharted-worlds---mass-effect-cover)Girl Posse - Climax - Usher Cover (http://chipmusic.org/girl+posse/music/usher-climax-girl-posse-rmx) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's not very often that all of Team OLL gets to meet up outside of the Resonance FM studio, so when we do you know it's going to be memorable. Except that Ste apparently forgot everything that happened at Ann's birthday party over the weekend. Listen to this week's show to hear him slowly piece together the unbelievable chain of events. Oh, but we do meet together every Third Thursday of the month to do Marioke, and the main enabler of this was this week's SSSG. We had James from the Loading bar in to go through our yearly Marioke appraisal. He also talked about the development of the Loading Bar, his favourite cocktail and made a request for a new Marioke song (that might have already been written between the show going out and this podcast being uploaded). Sega Badawi was the only contributor this week so we had to rely on Simon telling us how he single handedly got Nintendo back into profit, Ste telling us about how KP will single handedly bring England cricket back to the top and Ann telling us what makes a cake not a cake. The answer to the latter point is when it's a jar, obv. Cheerio! Team OLL x Tracklist 1. 0b111 - Hallucinogenix http://chipmusic.org/0b111/music/hallucinogenix 2. Sparky Rogers - Sound Inferno http://chipmusic.org/sparkyrogers/music/sound-inferno-sonic-rush-remix 3. Klamm - Vortex http://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/vortex Links: http://twitter.com/drinkrelaxplay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Back in May 2013, we went over to the country of Nordic to see their amazing games conference. And also to be taught that there is no such country as Nordic. It could be for this reason that we had to do the first show from a slaughterhouse. And even worse: with Parko.But don't despair! We had some good guests on too! Joachim explains his game Flowstorm, Oscar Clark and Chris James drop in too. Ste then goes missing, just as we hear from Petri and Martin about Sexy Hiking and their meditative space strategy game Rymdkapsel.Tom 'Cheese Doodles' Betts tells us about Sir/Madam You Are Being Hunted and how it is best to abbreviate it. Lau from the Copenhagen Games Collective organises us as well as the Indie Gaming Night (and introduces Ann to the game of Spin The Bottle). And we end the show by talking to Emma the COO/Producer/Magician of Nordic Games who reveals the secrets of how to make a great games conference without being kicked out of the magic circle.Links:http://www.flowstormgame.com/https://twitter.com/Athanateushttp://legendarium.mymiddleearth.com/2013/06/01/design-for-gaming-an-interview-with-i-o-interactive-lead-level-designer-chris-james/http://rymdkapsel.com/https://twitter.com/TomNullpointerhttp://www.big-robot.com/2012/03/12/sir-you-are-being-hunted/https://mobile.twitter.com/LauKorsgaardhttp://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Wii-U-download-software/Spin-the-Bottle-Bumpie-s-Party-764238.htmlhttps://twitter.com/daughtaofdasnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a wonderful time at the Slush Play conference in Iceland, Ste successfully made it back to the studio. Ann didn't and neither did Ste's top. Unfortunately Simon was also going through sports jet lag due to the baseball and also because of him 'be'ing Alex Hunter. Yes, it's hard to believe but a game has finally knocked Star Wars Battlefront off. Perhaps it'll be joining Simon's Wii at the bottom of the canal before too long. Our Super-Special Guest is James Long, who created a game that is Top Secret. It is based on Edward Snowden and the events leading up to him releasing his leaks. Perhaps we've said too much just by having James on our show, but we think we can tell you that it is a real time email game where you react to actual emails that were sent out at the time. And we provide clear evidence that you can monetise your brand on One Life Left through Simon, sorry 'Alex', buying the game on air. And, if we haven't made it clear enough, the game's name is Top Secret. We also had some Confessions of a Part-Time Gamer, a bit of Local News and an Ann Investigates From Iceland. Well, maybe not the last one but we're going to pretend we did in our next show just to check if Ann listens to the show and reads this bit. Although going by our news section this week we probably shouldn't annoy her too much. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://playtopsecret.com/ https://twitter.com/jamestyro Track list: 1. REDACTED 2. Garvalf - Deux Saisons http://chipmusic.org/garvalf/music/deux-saisons 3. Veenomn - Wake up! http://chipmusic.org/veenomn/music/wake-up! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's not often we have someone on the show who started in videogames around the same time as Simon, usually because they've seen Simon with his top off so often that they refuse to be near him again, but SSG Steve Boxer is a man who is prepared to take that risk. We ask him what it is like to work under a leader/dessert eater like Keith Stuart at the Guardian and the difficulties that were had working under a maker of rudie magazines*. We also told an ENTIRELY HYPOTHETICAL story about Keith Stuart's GTA5 interview. And at least Steve had somewhere to go after the show as he had been invited to the Codblopsii event. All we had to do was to watch Ste walk around London in his Stockport County kit muttering to himself about Taylor Swift and Westfield. Come on PRs, invite us to your new launch parties, we're totally prepared to sell ourselves for some tiny hamburgers and sixty dollars. And that's to share between us. Cheerio! Team OLL x  * We're trying to not attract the attentions of work filters. Links: https://twitter.com/realsteveboxer http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2012/nov/12/grand-theft-auto-v-preview-gta-5 Tracklist: 1. Switch-On - Old Abandoned Cave http://chipmusic.org/switch-on/music/old-abandoned-cave 2. Indiaton - spooked http://chipmusic.org/spooked/music/indiaton  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the Team went into the studio they took a moment to do a quick roll call. Ste - check. Ann - check. CD with the theme tune on - definitely check. Simon - Simon? Anyone? Simon? Apparently Simon was in Tenerife, but it was unclear if this had been cleared with HR. If you tune in next week this mystery will definitely be solved (assuming we remember it). There was also no Super-Special Guest this week which meant Ste and Ann could talk about the most important subject in videogames over the past seven days which as we all know was: What was the most boring thing we have done recently? We tried to work out if Ann had AR glasses, were fully entranced by Ste's Noita chat, and nearly went back on our letter ruling from last week. But we didn't. Team OLL has made a unanimous decision and we will stick with it, even if it affects our content levels. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Horror https://noitagame.com/ Reviews: https://www.thebradwellconspiracy.com/ https://www.ea.com/games/peggle/peggle-blast https://www.capybaragames.com/Grindstone/ https://spryfox.com/our-games/alphabear2/ https://sociablesoccer.com/ http://guildlings.com/ Tracklist: Gala - OPL2 + Reverb https://chipmusic.org/Gala/music/opl2--reverb Feryl - mahjong https://chipmusic.org/Feryl/music/mahjong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fresh from last week's debate regarding the future of virtual reality systems, we substituted an ill Scanters for a fit Ste in order to continue the conversation. We also got Brynley Gibson in as a Super-Special Guest to pass on his knowledge from working on the Playstation VR. As one of the leading lights in Sony's London Studio he had lots to tell us, apart from anything that we could claim as an EXCLUSIVE. With Ann off ill, and million dollar journalist/substitute newsreader Cara Ellison being busy in Scotland we had to rely on Ste for our news. Listen in to find out if he has learnt anything from eleven seasons of listening to Ann. GameUnder continues his sterling undercover work at EA and Sega Badawi gives us the latest local news. We also find out how to induce motion sickness in people, discuss the Elite Dangerous purchase flow chart and work out if today's kids like Back To The Future. Cheerio!Team OLL x Links:https://twitter.com/brynleygibsonhttps://twitter.com/LondonStudioHQ Track list:1. PSS270 - Plastic Humanshttp://chipmusic.org/pss-270/music/plastic-humans-yamaha-pss-512. Chunter - We take the Futurehttp://chipmusic.org/chunter/music/we-make-the-future-daisy-bell-version3. Jerkemy - Substrate Independencehttp://chipmusic.org/jerkemy/music/substrate-independence4. Justbeenwarpzoned - The Bastille of the Socially Awkward Teenagerhttp://chipmusic.org/justbeenwarpzoned/music/the-bastille-of-the-socially-awkward-teenager Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Team OLL is on a creative streak with season eleven. After last week's discovery of #networking, Ste decided to invent a new catchphrase. That he had been shouting to us constantly for the past ten seasons but we finally noticed that he was there. Also, those of you who write fanfic about us may be interested to know that one of Team OLL is having a sleepover at another's house. It will disappoint Stimon worshippers though. This week's Super-Special Guest was Phil Robb from Turtle Rock Studios. We were the final stop on his world wide promotional tour so naturally we offered him a good rub down. After such a good start to the interview we then confused him about how we pronounce 'exception', he spoiled Left 4 Dead 2 for you and we found out what his co-operative and competitive shooter Evolve is going to be like. But does he swear? In terms of features we had Sega Badawi, the second installment of Game Under and a returning contributor who isn't Derek Williams. Ste also realised that we could perhaps monetise our reviews, but then forgets about it and we also remembered to do some work on the official One Life Left game (which is to raise money for the excellent Resonance FM). Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/FilRobb https://www.turtlerockstudios.com/ http://fundraiser.resonance.fm/ Track listing: 1. Uncle Bibby - Repeep http://chipmusic.org/unclebibby/music/repeep-nanoloop-ios 2. Fearofdark - Love Sickness http://chipmusic.org/fearofdark/music/lovesickness-[2a03] 3. Motionride - 2d Glitch http://chipmusic.org/motionride/music/2d-glitch-[edm-chiptune] 4. Mills DJ - Abuse http://chipmusic.org/mills+dj/music/mills-dj---abuse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First off, we owe an apology to Simon. Last week we accused him of sabotaging our show, but now we've had the time to think it was probably of our our rivals for the GMAs. Especially since we've been the victims of further skulduggery which made us delay uploading this week's podcast. It couldn't have been fellow GMA nominee and last week's guest Jane Douglas could it? No, almost certainly not. We do have another super-special guest presenter this week in Noodlefruit's Ron Festejo. Will he recognise us after four years away? Probably, once we start making errors. At least he helps us fix broken Nintendo. And there's our amazing contributors Derek Williams, Doctor Avatar, Ariel Angelotti and Craig 'the Rage' McLelland. So it's another episode of the excellent GMA nominated gaming radio show. And it's on the super-excellent FM radio, not crackly medium wave! Cheerio!Team OLL x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

(Who, who, who, who?) There’s no Ste this week. After literally getting out of his sick bed to dj at Ann’s wedding celebration he then literally went back to his sick bed. This meant that Simon was in charge of the studio so there could be problem with the wrong jingles being played. Luckily our Super-Special Guest that we’d booked ages ago wouldn’t let us down right? We activated the ESSSG (Emergency Skype Super-Special Guest) beacon and Denki’s Gary Penn answered the call. He had a haircut especially for the show but it would also get an outing for his big interview with Jonathan Smith this week’s Develop Conference. Denki had been working on Crackdown 3, but have recently been taking the opportunity to test a few new game ideas out. One of which has come to fruition as Autonauts, which you can download for free on itch.io. We also spoke to Gary about working on magazines (which involved the Mario coin sound needing to be used), how making games helps you learn about ropes and which pubs he went to in Bath. There was also confirmation on the official OLL Style Guide pronunciation of itch.io and Ann got married! And it was Engineer Week this week at Resonance FM. Thanks to our excellent engineers, we literally couldn’t do the show without you. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://denki.itch.io/autonauts https://twitter.com/garypenn Tracklist: 1. Gigatron - Bubble Bobble Theme https://www.amigaremix.com/files/2730/Gigatron_-_Bubble_Bobble_Title.mp3 2. Pinozulp - Gods (Into The Antanifull) https://www.amigaremix.com/files/3061/pinozulpo_-_Gods_-_Into_the_antanifull.mp3 3. Captain MoreGain - Return To Monkey Island https://www.amigaremix.com/files/3101/Captain_MoreGain_-_Return_To_Monkey_Island_Theme.mp3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss different games that incorporate a single theme. This week's theme is 'Curiosity'. Players: Aiofe - https://twitter.com/AoifeLockhartCara - https://twitter.com/Carachan1Daria - https://twitter.com/DariasaurGav - https://twitter.com/cymrogav Playlist: 1. Amazing Alex:iphone - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/amazing-alex-free/id549771710?mt=8android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rovio.amazingalex.trial&hl=en 2. Proteus:http://www.visitproteus.com/ 3. Space Engine:http://spaceengine.org/  4. P Moulinex's Curiosity:iphone - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/curiosity-whats-inside-cube/id557549271?mt=8android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pm22cans.curiosity&hl=en 5. Furiosity:http://bartbonte.com/furiosity/ Tracklist: 1. National Broadcast Network - 7 Billion Voltshttp://chipmusic.org/nationalbroadcastnetwork/music/7-billion-volts 2. Hutsvoid - Snow Over Snowhttp://chipmusic.org/hutsvoid/music/snow-over-snow 3. Sleepy Time Jesse - Meeting The Forest Elderhttp://chipmusic.org/sleepytimejesse/music/meeting-the-forest-elder---book-of-samuel Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we’ll see you back here for the podcast. We'll announce next week's games on Twitter/Facebook/Google+. Team NCxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recorded on the evening of the 17th of March 2014, live from the 32nd floor of the Parc 55 hotel, One Life Left presents the first of its GDC 2014 shows. Hosted by Curran, Byron and Scantlebury, and starring Kris Graft (Gamasutra EIC), Adriel Wallick (Train Jam, msminotaur.com), Zoe Quinn (beesgo.biz), Leigh Alexander (Independent Woman pt II), Andy Schatz (Pocketwatch Games), Matt Boch (Harmonix), Jaime Woo (Gamergamp), Rami Ismail (Vlambeer), Michael Frederickson (Otter Spice Productions), Matthew Woodward (CCP Games).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we approach December it becomes time for it to not only be tops on, but for double tops on along with hats and scarves. This week’s Super-Special Guest Teddy Dief held no truck with popular opinion and tried to go tops off from the very beginning of the show. He had flown into London to represent Square Enix Montréal in his role as Creative Director and we took the opportunity to ask what it was like working on AAA titles again after previously working on the indie title Hyper Light Drifter and also being in academia. Teddy also told us about an online crane game that sounds really interesting, an EXCLUSIVE reveal about a game that he’s working on, who he tells taxi drivers that he works for and we tell him how he could use that information to his advantage. One Life Left: always looking to use a system to their benefit. Or to push Phil Fish over. One of the two. We found out how many moons Ste has, how happy Simon is with Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Ann had to do some live editing of the news due to font troubles. What we didn’t find out is how we can get our show on Spotify. We’re missing out on literally fractions of pennies as a result of this. If only we hadn’t worn out our Caretaker during One Life Left Week. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/TeddyDief http://www.teddydief.com/ Tracklist: 1. Warefaire - Heros And Hauntings https://chipmusic.org/warefaire/music/heros-and-hauntings 2. Sypher1590 - Oui Sí Waves https://chipmusic.org/sypher1590/music/oui-s-waves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, dear listeners! We're back, after a week away, did you miss us?? No SSG this week but there's plenty of news to digest plus we learn a little about Ste's throbbing new arcade cabinet from Bitcade along with ploughing through loads of your letters! There's also hints of the first 'in person' Maraoke since before the apocalypse! July 23rd is the date for your diaries at an as yet unknown location! Keep an eye on the Twitter feed for details, link below. Meanwhile please do continue to bombard us with your letters! Either join the Discord server and post a letter there or hit us up on team@onelifeleft.com !! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Channel Invite Link!!! https://discord.gg/pgTSzpgfcD Maraoke Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/SingMaraoke Reviews: Days Gone Ynglet Tracklist: "Build That Wall (Zia's Theme)" from the Bastion Original Soundtrack. Composed by Darren Korb. Lyrics by Darren Korb. Vocals by Ashley Barrett. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SZee4YZX8 "Apotheosis" from the Journey soundtrack. Composed by Austin Wintory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNgvc6c6Cc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's literally a two man crew in the studio this week as Ann was away doing work stuff. And whilst Simon was back from Tenerife he sounded a little distant at the beginning. Luckily this meant that Ste could use this space to develop his range of videogame journalist impressions in his latest attempt to become Rory Bremner. Rory B-REM-ner, if you will, and you probably won't. We found out what Simon had been doing in Tenerife, Ste moved into the world of triple-A games, and we took the opportunity to literally settle some old scores. Clever wording we know, cheers. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://lovenikki.world/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Me-Mike-Yarwood/dp/0352398302 https://noitagame.com/ Reviews: https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/jedi-fallen-order https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch/Luigi-s-Mansion-3-1437312.html Tracklist: Klamm - Magical Sounds https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/magical-sounds M.E.B. - Top Gear Remix https://chipmusic.org/M.E.B/music/top-gear-remix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re back! And as usual for us coming back for a new season, we’re not on next week. We also don’t have a Super-Special Guest, Super-Special Simon or the Super-Special reviews theme. So normal service has resumed. We are also proud to announce that One Life Left is GDPR compliant, which famous person an Italian Ste looks like and that Ann has forgotten her headphone and hairdo preferences. There’s also a review of how Marioke has taken over the world and we tell you all how great Now Play This was. Not only that you get to find out if our partners are snorers or not. As we said, normal service has resumed. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lY1GXTu5M http://nowplaythis.net/ Track list: 1. ada Mills - prelude (NES) https://chipmusic.org/adaMills/music/prelude-nes 2. Lognes - Artificial Intelligence Assistant https://chipmusic.org/Lognes/music/fish-out-of-water 3. Justbeenwarpzoned - Ignorance https://chipmusic.org/Justbeenwarpzoned/music/ignorance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left vs Gamasutra GDC2015 Show #4   Recorded live from the Moscone's North Hall in San Francisco at GDC2015   Presented by Ste Curran, Cara Ellison and Kris Graft, with very special guests:   Kate Edwards (IGDA) Runa Haukland (Hamar Game Collective) Chris Gomez (Writer and Game Designer) Thomas Bidaux (ICO Partners) Matt Boch (Harmonix) Robert Yang (NYU) Tom Vian (SFB Games) Tadhg Kelly (Has a new book) Richard LeMarchand (ALL OUR THOUGHTS, ALL THE TIME)   That's it for 2015. See you next year! Or keep listening, because we do something (a bit) like this every week. Subscribe to One Life Left here: http://bit.ly/OLLtunes   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a break for the Easter holidays and to go to Denmark, we’re back! And, as usual for when we have a break for a holiday, we’ve left a member of Team OLL in another country. And our Super-Special Guest had a very apt name for this week’s presenting team with Stephane (Ste + Ann) Ferrandiz from Gamevil making his first appearance on the show. He was here to talk about War of Crown, which has all the best bits of Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics, but none of the bad bits. It’s also has real time PVP so we tried to find out how easy that is to do (presumably we’re thinking of doing it in Marioke). We also spoke about Snooker, came up with a cheap way to make a mini NES and Ann told us about her massive bruise that happened at the Nordic Game Jam. It’s been a difficult two weeks. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/GAMEVIL http://gamevil.com/ Track list: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Equestrian http://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/equestrian 2. DEgITx - Remember Your Name http://chipmusic.org/DEgITx/music/degitx---remember-your-name 3. Leave Luck To Hell - Pheonix Down Syndrome http://chipmusic.org/leavelucktohell/music/pheonix-down-syndrome Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left is well known for keeping its promises. Managing to brand a certain day of the week for our karaoke event? DELIVERED. Making a superstar of Mike Bithell? DELIVERED. Promising not to mention 'that thing' we all know about Simon 'Parko' Parkin on air? DELIVERED. So when we promised that Georg Backer would come on the first episode of our tenth season and he'd bring along his PA then you knew there would be only one all caps word we'd write: DELIVERED.Not only did we talk about Georg and Keith's new festival - Radius Festival - and how it will cope being placed against OLL Thirdsday, but we heard about Georg's dream location for a festival. And soon regretted hearing about his dreams. As usual we told Keith what to say to senior figures in the games industry when he'll meet them at E3, something which has made him reach the high levels he is currently reaching. And Ann got ejected by her chair. Which was the one Keith was meant to be using.We got Sega Badawi detailing the latest local news. And also Doctor Avatar made an appearance. He is now an official Doctor which we think means that Parko can get 'that thing' looked at. Congratulations Doctor Avatar. Good luck Parko.And being the first episode of a new season we came up with a task for the season. This one even sounds like we might even be able to achieve it. Although you'll probably all regret that this is the case.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/RadiusFestivalhttp://www.radiusfestival.com/https://twitter.com/keefstuarthttps://twitter.com/georgbackerTrack list:1. MotionRide - Zeero Two Threehttp://chipmusic.org/motionride/music/zeero-two-three2. Kubi - Polarityhttp://chipmusic.org/kubbi/music/polarity-teslagrad-ost-remix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The full team is back in the studio for the second week in a row, so that should mean that we had no issues with playing jingles correct? Assuming that the Caretaker made the edits that needed doing then the answer is yes. Our Super-Special Guest was the games designer and writer-for-hire of Little Mix fanfic Holly Gramazio. She clarified some points of order that related to our first episode of this season as she part-curates the amazing Now Play This festival and runs design superstar company Matheson Marcault - our favourite gaming company with the initials MM (at least until Media Molecule are on the show). We find out all about Holly’s new Kickstarter project Art Cards, which cards were rejected from Art Cards, whether people prefer to be Arty or to Party, and what border control think of her job. Ann brought her backpack into the studio and also found a great loophole for doing E3 news that she should have implemented twelve years ago. Simon has a new purchase that he hasn’t opened yet and jointly proclaimed his love for Kingdom Hearts with Ste. We also found out why Ste has an Android phone. The answer probably won’t shock you. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/hollygramazio https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1334173917/art-deck-a-collaborative-drawing-game https://twitter.com/mathmarcault https://twitter.com/nowplaythese Tracklist: 1. Klamm - The Door into the Summer https://chipmusic.org/Klamm/music/the-door-into-the-summer 2. Amateur LSDJ - Naval https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/naval Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recorded on the afternoon of the 21st of March 2014, live from the Moscone Center with shattered voices and weary hearts, One Life Left presents OLL vs Gamasutra Show #5: FIVE STARS. Hosted by @byronicman, @steishere and @scanters, with a jovial @krisgraft fully representing the Gamasutra side of things, and starring Benedict Fritz (Dudeski), David Laskey (Tetrapulse), Adriaan de Jongh (Game Oven), Teddy Diefenbach & Alex Preston (Heart Machine), Nels Anderson (Campo Santo), Tadhg Kelly (Ouya), Rami Ismail (Vlambeer, still), Cindy Au (Kickstarter) and Steve Gaynor (Fullbright). Music from Rade (Under The Stars), Mister Beep (Hypervelocity Stars), Ocean Palace (Key of the Exiles), Brink (Aurora Borealis). That's it for GDC 2014. We had the best time, and huge thanks to everyone at the conference and at Gamasutra for continuing to tolerate us. We'll be back on our regular Monday night schedule shortly, so do subscribe on iTunes to keep up (http://bit.ly/OLLtunes) -- until then you can find us at @onelifeleft on Twitter, and intermittently on twitch.tv/onelifeleftTV. See you soon!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the final show of 2010! A time to draw upon everything we've learnt this year and celebrate what a great / terrible year it's been for videogames (which? Help us out). A time, too, to reflect on our personal triumphs and disasters and to produce one more: former or latter, it's One Life Left #138.       In this Episode (which has far more to do with parties than games):   ++ Ste and Simon return from three days of drinking at All Tomorrows Parties, stumbling croak-voiced through the episode, guided by Ann and her celebratory mince pies   ++ Simon interviews Edgar Wright! That is actually true. The mince pies thing is true too, but still.   ++ Ann recalls the best news stories of the year and invents a new party game to do with numbers! She genuinely saves this episode.    Good on her. And good on you, too, for listening to us in 2010. We've had a wonderful time and are totally grateful for all your letters, tweets, comments and downloads. We'll thank you properly at our CHRISTMAS PARTY, which is this Saturday in London. Please come. Facebook link is here:   http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168101953222531&index=1   We'll see you there. Happy Christmas, New Year and everything else,   Ste, Simon and Ann xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You know it's going to be a great episode of One Life Left if at least one of Team OLL starts the episode with a damp groin. And boy oh boy do we have a damp groin for you! (Shouldn't that be 'great episode'? - Ed) Ann has passed her driving test and we've persuaded her to become the next Mike Bithell. She's already become a bit upset with Kotaku so she's well on the way to achieving that goal. Our Super-Special Guest this week was Sean Cleaver from the world of freelance journalism and Hertfordshire. We asked him what it was like to cover E3 from the UK and interrogated him about why we weren't included in the guest list of content creators and influencers that attended the EA play event. We also tried to find out if Peter Moore still has his GTA tattoo, which got The Caretaker confused as he thought he was currently coach at Notts CCC. Sean is also planning on producing a gaming version of the (nngh) 5Live show Fighting Talk, which should be excellent providing one of Team OLL is on it every week. Marioke is on tomorrow (providing you read this the day before Marioke is on), but there isn't a London one in July as we're going to have it in Brighton instead. Tickets will be available from Eventbrite tomorrow (providing etc.) and will be a fiver, unless you buy them on the door in which case they'll be a sixer. We also heard from Sega Badawi, Simon told us some toilet tales and we came up with an excellent business idea. Standard Monday innit. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/cleaverslips Track list: 1. Killed at School - Untitled - Bit.ripper http://chipmusic.org/killedatschool/music/untitled---bitripper 2. Impulses - Pressure http://chipmusic.org/Impulses/music/pressure 3. Ceres - Chiptuner http://chipmusic.org/C%C3%A9r%C3%A8s%3B/music/chiptuner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bonjour! Welcome to a very French One Life Left, or at least a very French first few seconds for no reason that we can determine. Any ideas why Ann's gone Gallic? Emails to the usual address. We'd love some letters next week... Also on the show: ++ Special guest, GMA Lady-in-Chief Caroline Miller gives OLL the once over before the commiseration ceremony at the end of the month ++ A Zumba-d out Derek Williams makes a special appeal for musicians to lend him a helping hand ++ The team spend a whole song trying to find a rhyme for 'Virgin' And the usual features, news, reviews and chat. Music this week courtesy of Je Mappelle, Fantomenk, MisfitChris and Victory Road. Tune in on Monday for a new episode or bide your sweet time for another podcast next week. It takes an awful lot to get it up for you these days, you know (no offence). Hopefully we'll manage to get next week's episode on the internet before our beloved Fluffer / Caretaker returns from his much deserved break...  Until then, Team OLL xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a bit wibbly-wobbly chronology-wonology. It was recorded last week, when we thought that it was Resonance FM's Fund Raising Week but then we realised it was the week after so we didn't mention it anymore. However it is now Resonance FM's Fund Raising Week so we hope that you are now giving all you possibly can to the excellent radio station that literally makes us more than a podcast. The other reason this podcast was a bit late was that the Caretaker was in Prague on a works conference #networking which meant that Ste was meant to be uploading this episode last week. However, being the incredibly clever person that he is, the fact that the actual fundraising show has been retconned into making it look like there was a proper reason for him not doing it. Internal misunderstandings aside, it was a great show this week. Last week. Whatever. Ann stayed at Simon's for streaming fun and Ste watched the Superbowl, had jingle problems and kept his scarf on indoors. And we had Emily Gera, senior news reporter at Polygon, on as a Super-Special Guest! We found out what it has been like working at Polygon from the very beginning, what Emily misses from the old days of videogame magazines and how she is going to bring it back. More importantly we ask hard-hitting questions (from our listeners) about Pot Noodles. As well as all this we had our usual features which were: Sega Badawi, Game Under, Ann talking about Going Around, Ste talking about Spelunky and Non-Intern Simon talking about BangMan!. This is also the final show featuring Intern Simon that we've podcasted. He's been a great help in making sure that Ann has included all the important news in her reports and we've enjoyed having him in the studio. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://fundraiser.resonance.fm/ https://Twitter.com/twitgera Track list: 1. Doomsberry - Aeroplanespaceships http://chipmusic.org/doomsberry/music/aeroplanespaceships 2. Lauk Metaals - Are You OK http://chipmusic.org/laukmetaals/music/___are-you-ok___ 3. Jakim (feat. Wing) - Attractor http://chipmusic.org/jakim/music/attractor-feat-wing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the worst people to be is an enabler. To allow someone to become the worst that they can possibly be. One such person is today's Super-Special Guest, Marvel artist Jamie McKelvie. If it weren't for Jamie's great skills as an artist then Kieron Gillen wouldn't have been given the opportunity to see how it would actually look like if he got off with himself. Jamie helped create the monster that the comic world is still having to deal with to this day.What else happened this week? We tried to help Dan Marshall with his running, we started the process of changing our name to Xbox One Life Left in order to get sponsorship (but got worried about a potential rival console/website) and Ste and Simon reviewed the PS4 and how it will affect litter in videogames.On this episode we had features from Sega Badawi and Science Officer. We also managed to get confirmation from Jamie that OLLStudios obtained the official license for the Young Avengers videogame, Simon got pins put in his back and got his Monkey Island memories slightly mixed up and Ann started to learn a whole lotta history.This episode also contains our final mention of the Christmas party as a future event. The current timetable is doors open at 6.30pm (tickets available on the door for £12), free bar starts at 7.00pm, 7.45pm is Secret Santa feat. the Guardian, 8.30pm P-Ann-to, 9.00pm Videogame Karaoke, 11.30pm CLOSE, 11.31pm+ AFTER PARTY.Cheerio!Team OLL xLinks:https://twitter.com/mckelviehttp://storify.com/steishere/two-friends-and-the-purpose-of-snapchathttp://oll.eventbrite.comTrack list:1. Klamm - Solar Riderhttp://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/solar-rider2. Jredd - Galactic Smash (feat. Toni Leys)http://chipmusic.org/jredd/music/galactic-smash-featuring-toni-leys3. Rez - Unreal Superhero 3http://chipmusic.org/rez/music/unreal-superhero-34. VCMG - Golden Lonely http://chipmusic.org/vcmg/music/golden-lonely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Super-Special Guest this week, but we did have Simon ‘Two Mics' Byron in the studio which we weren't expecting, and neither was he. But why was he in the studio, and did it have anything to do with Ann's big news story? We planned an OLL Road Trip/Roadshow, but I wasn't invited so I'm not really that bothered about it. In fact I was accused of being the OLL Super-Spreader, which I could be offended by, but I think it's the OLL equivalent of the Tiswas Phantom Flan Flinger so I'm taking it as a compliment. We also found out which of the team had been inappropriate at work, worked out if a car was cosmetic, and decided if we were on the side of Netflix or Chooseco. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://discord.gg/6bzswZM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson https://www.coopinnovations.co.uk/games/spaceteamvr/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6baUgSXXpaY Reviews: https://jeremycouillard.itch.io/jef https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lifeslide/id1472966619 Simon's Handheld https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Cannonball https://louisrigaud.itch.io/iris-and-the-giant Tracklist: 1. Amateur LSDJ - Resilience https://chipmusic.org/amateurlsdj/music/resilience 2. Lakitunes - End Of The Day https://chipmusic.org/Lakitunes/music/end-of-the-day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to yet another episode of One Life Left, dear listeners. This is the episode recorded and released on radio before, and the podcast released after, Simon's debut stream on the Twitch!! We also have the Maraoke Christmas Party report, where all went splendidly despite not having a Secret Santa, for Covid related reasons... Thanks to all who made it, and to all who have taken part over the past year! Elsewhere we have the usual news, reviews and letter. Yep, just the one letter this week - from an eager chap who is bound to go far - but with only one more episode to go this year, and before we hit the big time next year, get your letters in posthaste before we're flooded with them! Did you see Simon on your Twitch viewing platform of choice? Write in and let us know what you thought!! Ask us anything! Emails can be sent to us at team@onelifeleft.com or drop us a line on our Discord server - link below! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Channel Invite Link: https://discord.gg/pgTSzpgfcD Reviews: Hotwheels Unleashed Below the Ocean Mario Kart 8 Tracklist: Lofi Chiptune Beat by Tsuwami: https://chipmusic.org/Tsuwami/music/lofi-chiptune-beat The Exclusive Annual Forest Animal Winter Party by ScanianWolf: https://chipmusic.org/ScanianWolf/music/the-exclusive-annual-forest-animal-winter-party Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apologies for the delay in releasing this episode - our Caretaker was at a team build in Doncaster. Unfortunately Derek Williams wasn’t providing the after-dinner entertainment but there’s always next time. Simon was finally back in the country and on the show after a world tour that took in Toronto, Great Yarmouth and Greece and also a flight that was delayed 27 hours. Luckily this meant that Simon had plenty of opportunities to play the Switch in various locations and with different people, including ex-contributors Taliah and Dexter. So without an SSG we decided to discuss the Switch in more detail. Do we think it will change the videogame world? Or how it will change the tea break at cricket matches? And can we persuade Ann to buy her own Switch? We also found out if Ann passed her driving test, the first line of Ste’s Nordic Game talk and Simon’s cunning plan for his Playstation. Sega Badawi managed to find a non-election story and we had a good idea for a Game Jam. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/two-complaints-bring-planned-video-game-cafe-one-life-left-before-norwich-city-council-licensing-committee-1-5018784 Tracklist: 1. Kal – On My Own http://chipmusic.org/Kal/music/kal---on-my-own-[sgb-mix] 2. Ocean Palace – Zero Leaf http://chipmusic.org/ocean+palace/music/zero-leaf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've had no complaints about last week's best of episode (not even from Parko - we must be doing something wrong) so we'll stick with it again. This week we've got the features from the episodes broadcast on 22/05/2006, 29/05/2006 and 05/06/2006. It's the same contributors as last week except we also have Chiara making her debut. We sent her to Japan to become One Life Left's Japanese Contributor but Ann got the tickets mixed up so she never actually got to Tokyo. Whatever happened to Chiara? We kind of forgot, we hope she's ok :( Anyway, hopefully you'll enjoy hearing Odds On OD make predictions about the Wii, Raina Lee talking about her blossoming love-life, Doctor Watch's camping and Ms. Snacman cooking. And there's Derek and Craig showing that even six years back they were as amazing as they are now. Is that a compliment or are we saying they've showed no signs of improvement? It was meant as a compliment. Unless Parko thinks we're writing about him again, in which case it definitely wasn't. Cheerio!Team OLL x Tracklist:22/05/2006 - Ms. Snacman22/05/2006 - Craig 'the Rage' McClelland22/05/2006 - Chiara22/05/2006 - Derek Williams29/05/2006 - Ms. Snacman29/05/2006 - Craig 'the Rage' McClelland29/05/2006 - Chiara29/05/2006 - Raina Lee29/05/2006 - Odds On OD29/05/2006 - Professor Game/Doctor Watch29/05/2006 - Derek Williams05/06/2006 - Ms. Snacman05/06/2006 - Craig 'the Rage' McClelland05/06/2006 - Raina Lee05/06/2006 - Professor Game/Doctor Watch05/06/2006 - Odds On OD05/06/2006 - Derek Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another Ann absence this week, which would normally mean that Simon and Ste start buying video game equipment that they don't need, but this time they took to opportunity to learn something about themselves. Which was mostly their middle names. Ann did manage to write some news which Simon read out, but he did point out that no jokes were included. Unless there were and Simon was news-shaming Ann. Or maybe Ann just improvs the jokes as she's reading the news out? This week we had the very prepared Nicholas Lovell on as our Super-Special Guest. He was in to talk about his new book - the Pyramid of Games Design - which is aimed at people who make videogames, those who are trying to switch to service-based games, and anyone starting in the industry. He told us how you get people to become superfans of your games, how many layers a game needs, and if losing the narrative in videogames is a Good Thing. But to be honest, we were a little disappointed that Team OLL wasn't acknowledged in Nicholas' previous book The Curve (which invented FIFA's Ultimate Team mode). Surely this would be rectified in his new book? We also found out that Ste has been spying on Mrs Graham, how easy it is to put on a bandana (Hi D Perry), if P Moulinex invented Fortnite, how Ste tells the temperature, and Simon couldn't remember. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/nicholaslovell https://twitter.com/gamesbrief https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pyramid-Game-Design-Designing-Producing/dp/1138298891/ https://www.games4eu.com/ Tracklist: 1. Imaginary - Transfer Student https://chipmusic.org/Imaginary/music/transfer-student 2. Nakayama Ramo - Sticky and Stringy https://chipmusic.org/Nakayama_Ramo/music/sticky--stringy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No special studio guest this episode which means the One Life Left team can forgo politeness and professionalism and just be themselves. What does THAT mean? Pointless pop culture chat, fractious behaviour and the smallest bits of videogame gossip / insight, apparently. It's episode 11!       (Insight? Yes, OK, let's go with that and see if anyone calls us out.)   Also in Episode 11:   ++ ALL NEW EX EX EX EXCLUSIVE material from The Doyouinverts!    ++ News on OLL's half-hearted Resonance co   ++ A robot comedian   Also music from Copy, L-Tron and Electric Children.   Tickets are now SOLD OUT for the preview show at The Blue Posts on the 23rd. If you want to attend your best shot is to email the address in the show and we'll put you on a waiting list. If you turn up we'll do our best to squeeze you in the room but no guarantees. You can totally drink with us afterwards, though.    Please do add us on Twitter, tell people about the show and generally perform the services of the marketing budget we wish we had.    OH. And send us letters! We love your letters.   See you next Monday,   Team OLL xxx     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sad news this week (cue the music from The Incredible Hulk) as someone announces his (or her) (hopefully temporary) retirement from the show (The title gives it away you idiot - ed). The aftershocks of this announcement will be felt for some time, or until Ste finds a way to fill in the spare three minutes. Away from news that will bring a tear to a glass eye, we have a super-special guest in the form of Nick Cowen, who shows us how freelance journalism works as he not only works in the clean, pristine world of FM radio, but also is prepared to get dirty in the disgusting world of medium wave. Brrr. There's a bumper letters section that we have to split into two sections. Listen to see if you won a copy of Dark Souls or if you were insulted by Ste when he was drunk. Not a huge amount of features, but the ever reliable Derek and the reliably Week A Wiki Wah-Wah-ing Duncan are more than capable of keeping you entertained. We hope. Cheerio! Team OLL x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're still trying to solve the mystery that is sweeping the gaming world: Where did Marioke disappear to in July? And furthermore: When is it being held in August? Hopefully we'll get a little closer to the truth in this week's episode. Oh, and we did talk quite a bit about Her Story too, which made sense as this week's Super-Special Guest was its designer Sam Barlow. He came up on the sleeper from Portsmouth to tell us all about the game. Except for the plot. But hopefully you will understand from this episode that Her Story is a different type of game. The type of game that Simon dislikes, so what will he think of Her Story? Away from Her Story we found out that Simon looked a little different, Ann was beach body ready and Ste met some men on the Internet. Sega Badawi and GameUnder provided us with some features and we got onto the hot, hot topic of fans in consoles. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: https://twitter.com/mrsambarlow http://www.herstorygame.com/ Track list: 1. Klamm - Rise http://chipmusic.org/klamm/music/rise 2. Kuro - Before It Ends http://chipmusic.org/kuro/music/before-it-ends 3. MilLs DJ - Reunited http://chipmusic.org/mills+dj/music/mills-dj---reunited 4. Brink - It Is What It Is http://chipmusic.org/brink/music/it-is-what-it-is-1-bit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We'll admit it, losing the GMA this year hit us hard. People take loss in different ways and we decided to imagine it was a happier time. Say three years ago when people actually liked us enough to give us awards. Or send in letters. One person who still likes us is Paul Kercal, our Super-Special Guest for this week's episode. He cheered us up by doing some amazing drawings on his numerous tablets, which we'll be uploading to the website soon. It was also interesting to hear how he first met Simon, which may have been the first 'first meeting of Simon' story that could actually be broadcast on the radio. But how did Ann first meet Ste? The truth (as imagined by Simon) will be heard in this episode. There's also a birthday shout-out to Friend of the Show Leigh Alexander who will also be attending our Videogame Karaoke that is happening this Thursday at 9pm in Nottingham (as long as you're reading this before the event has started). It all adds up to another excellent episode of One Life Left! Well, apart from losing the GMAs again. That bit really sucked. Links: http://www.londonexpo.com/ https://twitter.com/Kercal http://kercal.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/events/286532451447022/ http://gamecity2012.sched.org/event/352cecd4037888edcc2e43f37fc83433#.UHxIpMXA-h0 Tracklist: 1. Zeropass - Bound to Nothing http://chipmusic.org/zeropass/music/bound-to-nothing  2. The VIRUS Empire - Proximity Defense http://chipmusic.org/the+virus+empire/music/proximity-defense 3. skyhaunt - Ghost Night Festival http://chipmusic.org/skyhaunt/music/ghost-night-festival  4. Les Incoiffables - Mayuko Takata http://chipmusic.org/les+incoiffables/music/mayuko-takata Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a new year so it's time for a new look Team OLL! Well maybe not but Ann was ill on Monday so we had to come up a solution that didn't involve Sega Badawi. Luckily we found one in the Million Dollar Journalist (TM) Cara Ellison who was linking up live to the studio from Paris. She provided us with Le News Du Gaming, coped well with the slight lag in connection and told us how amazing Paris is. Stay amazing Paris. However, despite Cara being both Super and Special she was not this week's Super-Special Guest. That honour went to Ben Maltz-Jones who works for voice over specialists OM UK. He told us how difficult it is doing voices for videogames, spoke a little about the Game of Thrones Telltale game and we tried to get him to tell us examples of bad voice overs in videogames in an attempt to get him blackballed from the industry. We also found out what it's like having Christmas in Ramsay Street, workshopped some Cockney rhyming slang and discovered the official French nickname for Batman. There was a feature from a demoted Sega Badawi and we unveiled the OLL Project For 2015. Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: http://twitter.com/omuk_london http://twitter.com/v_ben http://twitter.com/caraellison Track list: 1. nitro pulse - Hydro Beast http://chipmusic.org/nitro+pulse/music/hydro-bst- 2. Ninten Kwon Do - Close Your Eyes, Listen, Now Dance http://chipmusic.org/ninten+kwon+do/music/close-your-eyes--listen--now-dance- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left is a radio show about videogames. Prepare to die! This week the team talk about Dark Souls. Prepare to die! They recall the EG Expo and the party afterwards. Prepare to die! They remember how they behaved. Prepare to die, inwardly, on-air. SORRY EVERYONE. Also in this episode: ++ The longest news story in OLL history! ++ A somewhat laborious analogy for the difficulty in Dark Souls which will only work for people familiar with early 2000s UK pop, i.e. Ste and Ann and other Popjustice veterans ++ An EXCLUSIVE Sabrepulse track! Sort of. It might be exclusive. Let's say it's exclusive Also more brilliant music, reviews and some fabulous features including the last of the current batch from game designer Ella. Join OLL in thanking and congratulating her. We hope she'll be back for Season 8... This is the final week without our caretaker so expect a better description and more timely podcast next week. It can't come soon enough, frankly. Real work is exhausting! Until then, Team OLL xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices