One Life Left's Podcast

Team OLL are back from their summer holiday in Cologne. What happened? How are preparations for the One Laugh Left comedy night going? And has Ann managed to Get Vaizey? Find out here!       Also in this episode:   ++ Ste considers the 3DS, remains confused   ++ Derek considers the length of games, remains unsure   ++ Craig the Rage considers you, remains sexy   Music in this episode from 4mat, Smiletron and Euan Lynn.    Send us letters, stalk us on Twitter. Apologies for the podcasting delay and we'll see you Monday evening 7pm on Resonance 104.4FM or later in the week right here.   xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Knock knock! Who's there? It's the One Life Left team, doing some early groundwork for their One Laugh Left comedy evening at Nottingham! The One Life Left team who? Exactly.       Don't worry, it gets better. A bit better.   Also in this episode: no, actually no idea about that, either. Since we recorded it a few weeks ago and it has been SOME TIME, you'll have to find out yourself and please, please accept my huge apologies this is late. First there was the whole ankle thing (possibly explained in this episode, I forget) and then our host was being all not-worky.   Ignore the warnings at the end of the show because they're out of date now. We will be back for real (and on a normal schedule) from next Monday. Letters, tweets and features to the usual address, please.   Ste + Team OLL xxx 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/ad

"No Future!" sang some pop group, once, and maybe they were singing about OLL #124, where Wired.co.uk's News Editor Duncan Geere joins the team to talk about what happens next. What happens next? The same thing as last time, apparently, but in 3D!!!!! OMG.   Also on #124:   ++ Ste begins the show in a bit of a mood and talks about videogames far too much   ++ Ann promises to do an Ann Art for next week. You might have to remind her   ++ Simon holds OLL's first ever live Twitter competition. You really should be following us   Music from Device, Coda + Cancel and -- apparently -- "Ant1", although I'm still struggling with that. All help appreciated.   You can also help us out by:   Telling you friends Posting on forums Following and tweeting about us Sending us things in the post Behaving pleasantly on public transport   See you on Monday!   Team OLL xxx 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. 

With ex-ex-exclusives galore and freelance journalist Daniel Nye as our first guest of the season, Episode Two is the hottest show we've recorded for a long time. Literally, not figuratively; it's like a sauna in the Resonance FM studio, and every bit as sexy.   ie Not at all. Still, the episode features:   ++ Ann making a good joke   ++ The unresolved introduction of a David Soul LP*   ++ Daniel's (doomed, but completely noble) efforts to try and engage Ste and Simon with intellectual games chat   Music from Little Scale, .hnz and Fighter X.    Email us: team@onelifeleft.com or follow us on Twitter (@onelifeleft). Letters totally appreciated (perhaps we need a weekly topic -- maybe the topic this week should be 'what should our weekly topic be?'). Would be contributors can pitch ideas to that address too, we're always listening.   See you next Monday (or Thursday for the podcaster listeners).     Ste, Simon and Ann xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello. We're back.   Discussed in Episode 1 of Season 6:   ++ Where we've been   ++ What we're going to do next   ++ Videogames (a bit)   Wanted for Episode 2:   ++ Letters about anything (to team@onelifeleft)   ++ Suggestions for things to do at Nottingham GameCity   ++ People to tell people about us, because we've been away     Excellent music this episode from the brilliant Knuckle Joe and Downstate.    Oh, and hi. It's good to be back. We're sorry it has been so long. If you enjoy One Life Left, please let people know because we rely on word of mouth for listener figures, which are currently at zero. We're back properly now for the forseeable future (we cannot see further than 23 weeks ahead) so we'll see you next week.    In the meantime, follow us on twitter at @onelifeleft (you can follow our individual accounts at @steishere, @scanters and @byronicman if you want more personal nonsense).    See you!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the last of our Half-Minute Hero-inspired news sections. Five stories, super-fast: it's everything you need to know about the last seven days of gaming. Although one is already out of date. Curse this modern world. But enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the third of our Half-Minute Hero news "bites". If enough of you request, we'll issue the last line at normal speed, so you can set it as your ringtone. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bong! It's the familiar chime of news, but in an unfamiliar setting: welcome to Half-Minute Hero news number two. Five stories, delivered at breathtaking speed, but with the sort of rubbish jokes you've come to if not love then certainly expect. Tune in same time, same day next week as our journey to newsmageddon continues. See you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello! And welcome to the first of four bite-size news features, crafted in celebration of Half-Minute Hero as we try to cram the week's news into 30 seconds. We fail. These podcasts are available on the Rising Star Games Hoshi website (http.//www.risingstargames.com/hoshi), but delivered to OLL iTunes subscribers as a special treat for the ears. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

So this is it, then, the final episode of our award-winning fifth season. We all knew it was coming, especially Ann, who can count. Sing along to the theme, grab a handkerchief, say your goodbyes: it's going to be emotional, that's for sure.    In episode #120 of San Antonio's favourite videogame radio show: ++ Figuratively billions of features from all our favourite contributors, including special season-closing songs from Derek Williams and The Doyouinverts ++ Steven Poole reveals the three rules every good troll must follow ++ Season 5 ends :( But don't worry, because we'll be back soon. There'll be bits and bobs on the podcast feed in the meantime, and do keep listening to Resonance because it's excellent. We'll see you in March. Bango! Team OLL xx PS: Music on #120 was from the brilliant little scale and Derris-Kharlan. Find them, like so much of the music we play, at 8bitcollective.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  It's the penultimate episode of Season 5. That comes right before the Ultimate episode of Season 5, which means, as a warm-up act, this One Life Left has quite a lot to do. Does it do it? Find out inside.    Also in #119:   ++ Two guests -- an OLL veteran, and an OLL newcomer   ++ News on Ste's contribution to the Global Game Jam 2010   ++ And Craig The Rage returns, albeit in a slightly muted form   In fact, sorry about the overall sound quality today, which is partly because we didn't soundcheck, but mostly down to a problem with the Resonance recording device thingy. And sorry for the delay. There was an actual power cut while I was uploading last night. I have never had a power cut before. Funny how these things happen just as Eurogamer start a podcast, isn't it?     Music on #119:   4Mat - Matryoshka Smiletron - BRKtime   See you next week!   Team OLL xxx   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up on this week's description of this week's One Life Left: a hastily written paragraph describing the content of episode #118 of Africa's favourite gaming radio show*. Apologies this is somewhat late. Will explain on the show next week (it's nothing really exciting, just something else Ste's been working on). Episode one hundred and eighteen of One Life Left features the following content: ++ Reviews Editor Taliah, who recently turned nine, discussing boyfriends ++ Our consider response to Eurogamer's new podcast ++ Lots of framing, just like this See you next week. (Still looking for a web designer / webmaster. Enquiries to the show's address, please.) Team OLL xx *Possibly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Life Left returns! New episode! New decade! New resolutions, to be polite and professional and considerate to copresenters, broken straight away! Happy New Year! It's 2010 and hey, we live in the future. A future where: ++ Halo appears on the PS3, ++ It's acceptable to discuss the abilities of Ron Jeremy on a videogame radio show, ++ and Music videos featuring rain are always the best. The future, ladies and gentlemen, is now. Apparently our shows are going to be in the national radio archives or some such now. Our ancestors are going to be mortified. Music on #117: Spoon by Coda, Helium Stare by Downstate and The World Can't End Today, It's Already Tomorrow In Australia by Rhodo4. See you next week! Team OLL xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the week of the OLL Christmas Party, which means it's the last episode of the show before christmas. So no guest this week, just the team reflecting on a magical year of adventures, awards, and typical incompetence. Bango! Also in #116: ++ Ste returns from 10 days of drinking, manages to just about hold things together ++ Simon loses it in the letters section ++ Ann comes up with a new catchphrase Music in Episode 20 (OMG, only four left for the season!) all comes from Overclocked Remix, who celebrated their 10th anniversary recently. Happy birthday! One last thing: come to the Christmas Party. You'll regret it if you don't. love, Team OLL xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode #118 of One Life Left brings the gang back together: Ste's back from Venice and Simon's back from a fact-finding mission to Gamespot. Ann hasn't been anywhere, but that doesn't stop her delivering a world exclusive from nowhere in the letters section... This week they're joined by another special guest. It's one of the secret rulers of the games industry: Steve Owen from Gamespress. Press, you see? Press and gang. Press gang! Right. Rather than spoiling the rest of the episode, which features a bonus Craig the Rage that wasn't in the live show, here are three things you should remember to do in December: 1) Come to our Christmas party 2) Come to our Christmas party 3) Come to our Christmas party. We'll see you there. Music in #114 from the Depreciation Guild. Find us on Twitter / Facebook. Oh, and tell your friends! See you next week. Team OLL xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lesser radio shows might think twice about podcasting an regretful hour of bickering, giggling and general idiocy (factual AND behavioural). But One Life Left sees it as an opportunity: this week’s mistake is next week’s hour long apology. Onwards! Also : ++ First details of the Christmas Party, which is on Friday 18th December in London. PLEASE COME. We have a venue and booze and everything ++ Microsoft’s Dan Maher neatly dances past all kinds of journalistic traps set by the cocksure One Life Left ex-ex-exclusive hunting team ++ One Life Left, you’re stupid! Farmville wasn’t made by PlayFish. Please write in and tell us that some more. You know the address Two covers for music this episode: Hot ‘n Cold [Katy Perry] – Mudkipz The Fear [Lily Allen] – Bit the Medusa Ste is away for a week taking a partially-earned holiday , but Simon and Ann will be back next week, presumably with the apologies music on a loop. See you then! Team OLL xxx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Warning: the following episode of One Life Left contains Biological / Historical terms some people may find offensive. Listener discretion is advised. As a dedicated listener to One Life Left you'll know we often go to great lengths to secure exclusives. In this case not just by having two Nintendo representatives as special guests on the show (Wii HD confirmed???) but by going back in time and getting Ste to Creatively Direct a game that's just been announced for Xbox Live and allowing Ann to give ask him ex-ex-exclusively about it. What game? Chime. Chime is the first game from One Big Game, a charity initiative led by tall, handsome ex-Guerilla guy Martin de Ronde. The idea is that a developer donates a game and some production time, is backed by donations from whatever other organisations publishing that game would require (QA, audio support, and so on) and all the proceeds from sales of the game go to charity. In this case the developer is Zoe Mode, the games studio where Ste is Creative Director. Thi

Back in the studio after a midweek adventure to Nottingham GameCity. What happened? Who's missing? Was there an after party? And what happens next? Find out in this week's episode of One Life Left. Oh, and we talk about videogames, too. In #110: -- Nottingham GameCity postmortem, ie seven minutes of black holes and revelations. -- Why Ann's excited about being under 30 -- A grasping, fruitless search for the right word to describe all-male elf-on-elf action (suggestions?) Also reviews, features, music and more. Music in #110: I bid Ye Farewell by AndyExpandy. Do feel free to add us to Twitter / on Facebook / email us (especially important) / call us / send us videogames etc. We'll be back next week with a full team and special guest. See you! 2/3 of Team OLL xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices