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It's the 10 year anniversary of Tony Gowland's first appearance on One Life Left so, to celebrate, our Super Special Guest this week is none other than 'Seasoned Game Dev' Leo Tan!!! He's here to talk about working with Flaming Fowl Studios on new game Konfronto, his game dev process, using community feedback and also his abs! Charlesbot covers Sony's recent State of Play, Jaffe using an 'F' bomb, the Virtual Boy does some more stuff and some bloke called Ste Curran has yet another game out! Meanwhile we also discover what Ste got for his birthday (Battery Daddy!) and why Simon has never done anything new ever again. Ben the Caretaker put everyone to shame by being the only listener to write in to us this episode. Shocking! Make sure this doesn't happen again by writing a letter to us at team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord, check out our Vanity Projects and then leave a letter for us on there! Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke

It's the week leading up to Ste's birthday, dear listeners, and everything is amazing, not bang average for a February at all! On this episode we have Epic is Xbox (maybe), Valve have a hardware hiccup, Nintendo Labo gets a new lease of life and game devs get knighted! Meanwhile Simon plays with Thor and writes an open letter to the games industry and Ste gives the world a hot lap - HOT LAP 1982 that is! (link below) Don't forget it's Ste's Birthday Maraoke on lucky Friday 13th February at Loading Bar in Stoke Newington, London. Get your tickets HERE! WRITE. LETTERS. TO. US. PLEASE!!! Will Hot Lap be Ste's name when he joins the GLADIATORS!? Let us know what you think at team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord and drop a letter for us on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/O

It's the big '600' but it doesn't matter because the show turns 20 YEARS OLD in April!!! If those huge numbers put you off then this is only episode 14 of our 26th 'season'. There. That's nice. This week we cover the recent Pocket Gamer Connects in London plus a Google project kills rival's shares, a fan-made PS handheld makes folk wonder what might happen if Sony did another, Switch Dispatch censorship shenanigans, the Virtual Boy returns to give you headaches again and Sony patent a customisable touchscreen controller - but would it survive being thrown around in anger?!? Ste also tells us about his latest games: Stackword and Every Word Search! And while you're here, why not check out the Resonance FM 2026 fundraiser HERE! Please do. They're great! Of course there's another Maraoke coming up as well!! When? Friday 13th February at Loading Bar in Stoke Newington, London. Grab your tickets HERE! Do you throw your game controllers around in anger? Have you sold a 3DS recently and, if so, did it make you

Happy New Year, dear listeners, and welcome to the first show of our 20th year of One Life Left! We start the year by having to deal with Ste's neighbour having some noisy work done at their bathroom, attempting to sabotage the recording of the show! Who could that neighbour be and what exactly were they having done?! Write in and let us know... Meanwhile we do actually talk about some video game shenanigans including Sony patenting a ghost, Baldur's Gate 3 still avoiding the Switch 2, Kojima doing hardware and some Splitgate stuff. We also discuss our 2026 gaming hopes and dreams to try and avoid the horrors of the real world! How would you celebrate a 20th anniversary?? Write and let us know to team@onelifeleft.com or slide into our Discord and pop a letter on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link! https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shu

You better watch out, you better not cry, You better not pout, I'm telling you why... John Christmas is coming to tooooooooown! See?! It fits! This week we're wearing our gaudiest Xmas jumpers and talking Game Awards, Stranger MS Flight Sim Things, Xbox almost being 25 and Skyrim being out. Again. For the bulk of our last show of the year, though, we discuss our, and YOUR, games of 2025! Do you agree with our choices? Write in or join our Discord and let us know... If you're listening/reading this before Friday 19th December then THERE'S STILL TIME TO GET A TICKET FOR XMAS MARAOKE!!! Funnily enough it's on Friday 19th December at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London and tickets are available here: https://luma.com/jw1avrwi We'll be back in the New Year at some point. Write and let us know what John Christmas or Mr Presents brings you on the big day at team@onelifeleft.com or ride a sleigh into our Discord and drop a letter on there. Link below! Happy Holidays and All The Best for '26! TTFN,Team OLL x

This week we discuss the Black Friday sales results, the Monster Hunter Wilds director asking players to have another go, "learning" from Kojima, post Postal post AI post (I dunno...) and Something Something The Old Republic. There's also a Minecraft guide for parents and there's that game that Simon can't talk about. As promised in the show, here is a link to someone else not talking about the same game: https://auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11/05/igf-games-i-want-to-talk-about-2026/ It's Xmas Maraoke, that also doubles as our One Life Left Xmas Party, on Friday 19th December at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London. There are no Maraoke's planned for a while after this one so please come along or, if you can't, then encourage someone else to come in your place! Tickets are available here: https://luma.com/jw1avrwi It's your last chance to get a letter broadcast in 2025!! Maybe tell us what your top 5 games for 2025 are! Hurry up and tell us at team@onelifeleft.com or hop onto our Discord and leave a letter the

Dedication. Dedication. Dedicaaatioooon! That’s what you need. If you wanna be the best, and you wanna beat the rest. Oo-ooh dedication's what you need! Look, World Records is mentioned in this show and that got the theme tune to Record Breakers stuck in my head so I'm just sharing the joy/pain (delete as required)... Anyway, this week we have Valve banning horses, Crocs are Xbox, TimeSplitters Rewind finally enters Early Access while GoldenEye (devs) does/do word games, Vampire Survivors branch out and Lara Croft has more World Records than Ste! We also shoutout to Jingle Jam 2025, report back on Maraoke from last week and announce that our Xmas Maraoke is on Friday 19th December at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London. Tickets are available here: https://luma.com/jw1avrwi How much do you think Simon has spent on buying Skyrim since it first came out? Write in and tell us what you think to team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord to drop a letter on there AND get exclusive looks at whatever games Ste is

Welcome to another episode of the One Life Left RADIO SHOW: Podcast Edition!! No SSG this week but we do find out why Ste's neighbour has slapped an harassment order on him despite his new game and national newspaper fame while Simon has a second birthday LIKE ROYALTY! But, maybe, without all the controversies... Meanwhile Valve unveil new hardware that isn't spherical, worst games of 2025 are revealed, inconsistencies of the games industry are discussed and what exactly is a Silent Hill? DON'T FORGET!!! We have another Maraoke this week, well, this week as this episode goes live... Friday 21st November at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London. Tickets available here: https://luma.com/kuk1yz28 Keep sending in those letters to team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord to read breaking news before it's even breaking and pop a letter on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!h

Because, in life, that's all it ever really boils down to: fruit or vegetable? Trust me. This week there's drama at Rockstar x2, Switch 2 (still) sells a lot and Remake Vs Remaster... FIIIIIIGHT! Meanwhile Simon reads a book and Ste goes national (with maybe a little bit of 6-7ing on the side) before the boys have a brief disagreement over the length of the show! AND learn the origin of The Undercaretaker! Dun dun duuuun!! THERE'S ANOTHER MARAOKE COMING UP!!! Make sure you get along to this one and take a friend because it's a duet special. Or, make a friend there and sing a duet with them! Or just sing a regular song, I don't think duets are mandatory... Anyway, it's on Friday 21st November at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London, and you can get your tickets here: https://luma.com/kuk1yz28 Please do keep those letters rolling in to team@onelifeleft.com or pop along to our Discord and drop us a line on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

This episode finally gets released despite Bezos' best attempts to take us down last week! Today we have next Xbox speculation, Atari bring their competition back from the dead, McD x SF and Waze goes Sonic. We also have Simon breaking down the "grey" market and Ste accidentally getting involved with spies. Keep those letters rolling into us at team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord and leave a letter for us on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Baby StepsThe DrifterPigmentsPromise Mascot Agency Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello and welcome to another episode of One Life Left! There's no super special guest this week but there's still LOTS of good stuff including the Switch 2 selling loads, MS denying that stores are ditching Xbox, Nintendo sparking Pikmin speculation and the majority of US gamers don't buy many games - according to some stats! We also have Simon reporting back from IndieDevDay 2025 in Barcelona, despite eating a dodgy burger, Ste reporting on last week's Maraoke, game dev struggles, auteurs in game dev and good games journalism and is it all connected?!? No, not the dodgy burger but all the other stuff. Maybe. The letters have been brilliant recently so PLEASE keep them coming to team@onelifeleft.com or hop over into our Discord and drop us a letter there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews:

Dan Marshall put out a call and we answered that call for this week Dan joins us as our SSG! He's here talking all things Earth Must Die including influences , rubbing shoulders with comedians and dealing with Ste's puritanical Steam feed! We also have the MS Game Pass price hike, Lego Gameboys, Amazon Spring clean their game service yet again and Charlesbot writes a K-pop song! There's still time for YOU to get tickets for our next Maraoke event on Friday 10th October at Loading Bar, N16 0PH. Get them here: https://maraoke.com/booknow We are loving these letters! PLEASE keep them coming to team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord and drop a letter for us there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Baby Steps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Had this episode been released closer to Halloween, and/or I been a braver person, I would've given it the title "Grave Reads" because this week our Super Special Guest is none other than Sam Read-Graves, creator of the ONLY trolley problem themed video game worth YOUR time, funnily enough called Trolley Problem Inc. Sam is here to talk about development of his new game Task Time as well as how to not blow the budget when going to GDC. He's probably also very happy that I'm a wimp and decided not to go with my initial episode title. Meanwhile we have confessions, EA buyouts, GDC renames and Nintendo pop-ups! The Pickaxe Week 2025 edition of One Life Left IS still available HERE for those of you so inclined to check it out! The next Maraoke event is on Friday 10th October at Loading Bar, N16 0PH. You'll be wanting to buy your tickets here: https://maraoke.com/booknow PLEASE send more letters to team@onelifeleft.com or pop into our friendly Discord and leave us a letter there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL

Bosched it is a new technical term invented by Ste and we want everyone to start using this until we start to hear it everywhere. Write in and give us some ideas as to the finer points of what it actually means. Meanwhile, this episode, we have Team OLL going on a ramble, Borderlands 4 hiccups, Lenovo Legion being too popular, fans resurrecting The Crew, EA release another footie game and Sega are still taking digs at Nintendo all these years on... If you are bothering to read this then, yep, the OLL appearance on the Yogscast Twitch channel for Pickaxe Week 2025 was... yesterday! However, until it disappears you can still catch it as a "recent broadcast" on Twitch HERE (and I might get the all clear to turn it into a bonus episode in future - I think it was quite a good show, anyway!) Don't forget we have a Maraoke event in October and you can get your tickets here: https://maraoke.com/booknow Thank you for all the letters this week, they were BRILLIANT!! The only thing is that we need more letters for n

In this episode we have Simon spying on other podcasts, a Nintendo Direct dissect, US Patent Gaming Mechanic Shenanigans, game release timing faux pas and Acclaim is the name of the game. Again. We also have a Maraoke report and news of the NEXT event in October, tickets for which can be purchased here: https://maraoke.com/booknow Is the moon falling? Do you play games in cars?? How DO Venn diagrams work??? SEND US LETTERS!!!! Seriously. Please. We have two shows next week and need ideas of what to do so fire us your suggestions at team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord tell us there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Nintendo Switch 2Mindset Go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello! Welcome back to Season 26 of the world's longest running video game radio show (in the English language) podcast edition! In this week's "new term" special we cover Silksong breaking the internet, GTAAAAA6, speed vs cost vs Star Wars Outlaws on the Switch 2 and a Lego Mega Drive controller that you can't buy (easily). We also have bugs that can only be seen when you're not looking for them and a summer holiday report, including gamescom shenanigans. THERE IS A MARAOKE THIS WEEK!! On Friday 12th September at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington. Please come along if you can, tickets are available here: https://luma.com/dc5a6sp9 What job would you be doing if you weren't working in video games? Write in and tell us at team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord and let us know there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeL

Hello! By the time you read these notes (does anyone?!) I will already be on holiday and, as I still have to pack(!) these notes will be 'short' and 'sweet'! This week we're 'joined' by SSG Ste Curran! Here to finally name the secret game he's been mentioning for ages whilst inventing a whole new games genre (sub-genre?) and to generally co-host the show! Speaking of games! Here are some very important links that I'm contractually obligated to post: Simon's upcoming game releases:The Royal Writ (I've played this and it is very good!)Monster Mop UpSte's upcoming game releases:Mindset GO! (no link yet, sorry folks. Coming soon!) Beyond that there's also something about cruising for Disney princesses, some news, reviews and a letter about some bloke called Simski Byrite coming back to haunt Simon (link to relevant article might appear on our Discord but it is on the internet for anyone interested to search for...) Hope you have a great summer holiday and please do send your digital postcards and general tom

Named in honour of Simon's darting triumph, welcome to this week's podcast edition of the One Life Left radio show, dear listeners! This week we are joined by Super Special Guest Richie Shoemaker, games magazine editor extraordinaire, here to talk about new project Debug++ plus PCZone, MCV and A Certain Type of Game. We also review our time at Develop: Brighton last week which, of course, included Maraoke! Are you Liam Delahunty? What have you done since June 1997?? Let us know at team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord and surprise us. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: HITMAN World of AssassinationPilotwings 64Super Mario StrikersElite Dangerous Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Content warning: This week there is blood. There may also be some gore but that's all down to how good/bad your imagination is. In this week's episode Simon gives out sound financial advice that could help fund your gaming addicition and Ste tries to cut off his own finger - not on air! We also cover Gamepass being under fire yet again, Hideo Kojima wants to go into orbit, AI uh oh, Nintendo Direct speculation and DK Bananza dev revealed... There is also GTA6. There are also "exclusives". Make of that what you will. What are the greatest lengths you've gone to to save money on a video game? And who has to update Bang Man!?? Let us know at team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord and let us know on there. Link below! Life can be difficult, is often cruel and, sometimes, far too short. Be sure to take at least 10 minutes to do something that makes you smile this week, dear listeners. This one's for you, Ellie. Bottoms. TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The

Content warning: There was some swearing in this episode. Don't worry, it has been replaced by BLEEEEEEPs but I'm giving you a heads up now so that your imagination doesn't run too wild upon hearing those BLEEEEEEPs. I've kept the un-BLEEEEEEPed version in case anyone wants to pay good money for such filth in future. Also, apologies for any mouse-clicks and chair-squeaking that could be heard on recent episodes. I'll start the rumour now: I add those noises in to hide the fact that the show has been entirely done by AI for the past, I dunno, 5 years? Yeah, go with that. Anyway, welcome to our Glastonbury 2025 coverage episode! This week our intrepid hosts tackle the Xbox multiplatform strategy, PEAK selling millions, dbrand's Switch 2 blunder, Netflix culling games and a potential Black Flag remake. There's also a plan for Japan, Randy Pitchford speaks, Barcode Battler gets the briefest of mentions, Simon plays Switch 2 with other Dads in a park and Ste reveals his love of toilet roll. Sorry. The boys also