That’s 13 tracks of wonderful exclusive (and inclusive hopefully) video game music to enjoy.

Here’s some quotes from the One Life Left team. About it:

“Where’s the track from Muse then, Derek? Other than that easily worth an unbeatable 7/10″ – Simon Byron

“I like the way the CD spins, it makes me feel dizzy.” – Ann Scantlebury

“This is even more musical than our celebrated Videogame Karaoke.” said a perturbed Ste before adding “Whoa! Whoa! Stop putting words in my mouth.”

Here’s a reminder of what it sounds like:

Here’s a bit more info on the artists:

01.  Blue Hearts – Devil’s Blue Eyed Son
The Blue Hearts are a Brighton based ‘Neon Rock’ group whose style is highly influenced by the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone. This track was inspired by Red Dead Redemption
thebluehearts.co.uk

02. Derek Williams – Let’s Play Video Games
A special bonus track as it’s the only one we have rights to distribute from the first cd. See final track for artist details.

03.  Last Miles of Galaxy – Malfunction
The musical project created to raise awareness of the unfortunate explorers who disappeared whilst traversing our galaxy in the year 2233 and the one man rumoured to survive. Or so we’re given to believe.
Lastmilesofgalaxy.co.uk

04. Manda Rin - Typeface (Chip Shop Remix)
Formerly of indie pop group Bis, Manda is now a solo artist in her own right. This is an exclusive
remix of a track from her debut album My Dna
planetmanda.com

05.   H Pizzle - Rambo Ravine
AKA Kevin Barrett who grew up with the soundtracks of NES games. Since discovering how to create 8 bit music he’s been creating music within the spirit of Konami and Capcom games of the era. 8bc.org/members/hpizzle

06.  Bearcraft – Hero Man Gets to the Castle (Tomorrow’s Dad Remix)
The Electro Indie project of Dicky Moore, which here combines a folk themes and 80s gaming – Our hero gets to the castle battles minions defeats the final boss and gets the maiden. The debut album Yestreen is available on hottwerk records.

Bearcraft music

07.  Decktonic - Zora Mode
The project of Christian Montoya, musician and DJ whose use of the Korg DS10 results in ‘dance floor rocking’ dance music. This track takes inspiration from the Legend of Zelda series of games. thisisdecktonic.com

08. Weird Gear – Black 7
A psych meets detroit techno three piece who play their synthesisers completely live with no sequencing. Black 7 is the story of a supercomputer trying to take over the world
Weirgear Myspace

09. Supreme Ultimate Fist – Knife Trance (One Knife Left mix)
The musical alter ego of Steven Poole, the acclaimed author of Trigger Happy – The Inner Life of Video Games and Unspeak. This is a remix done specially for this compilation.

supremeultimatefist.com

10.  Euan Lynn – Riot
Describes himself as “Like the Ramones dying a futuristic death” and utilises a gameboy in the
creation his reggae-indie-punk chiptunes.
facebook.com/euanlynn

11. Vile Electrodes – Fatal Error
A london based three piece synthpop act with a love of analogue synthesisers and fetish fash­ion. This is an exclusive new track only available on this compilation.

Vile Electrodes on Soundcloud

12.  Downstate - Quiet Thought Process
A skinny british geek currently living in Shanghai who makes humble electronic warblings with a laptop, some half broken Casios, homemade pedals and a glockenspiel. This track previously appeared on an episode of One Life Left but has been specially tweaked for this CD.

bandcamp.com/downstate

13.  Derek Williams – Game Over
Regular contributor to One Life Left since the show’s very beginnings, his Free Market Economy feature comments on the games market whilst backed with a new music creation each week. This track was inspired by failure in Halo.

facebook.com/freemarketeconomy

It’s our last show ever of the year on Monday, so what better way to celebrate it than with carols played on recorders.

The catch? We can’t play recorders. But we’re hoping a new iOS title ‘My Note Games‘ can teach us. In an hour. Whilst we also “do” the show, which we’re not capable of doing even when we are just doing it.

We’ll be joined by the makers of the game, who have pledged to get us Silent Nighting like the nerd recorder-playing equivalent of Bond.

What can possible go wrong?

Tune in live, Monday night, 7:00pm 104.4 Resonance FM for carol-crash radio.

Okay so this doesn’t have a precise release date yet but I’d estimate a release around 15th of December. I know that’s leaving it a bit late but there have been a few technical difficulties along the way. Hopefully it will be out earlier. I’m putting this up to let you know what’s going to be on the CD. I’ll release some audio samples of it over the next couple of weeks.

As mentioned on the show this is a compilation of music inspired by video games but not specifically video game sounding. This is not a chiptune compilation, though such a style is undoubtedly going to make an appearance. I have indeed cast the net far and wide to include some brilliant artists. I’m quite excited to have The Blue Hearts on here with a track inspired by Red Dead Redemption. It’s a full on Ennio Morricone spaghetti western soundtrack song and not what you’d normally expect to be associated with video games, showing that their influence is not genre restricted.

Also exciting is that we have an exclusive remix of a track by Manda Rin, formerly of scottish indie popsters Bis. But really I love every track on this CD and I’m truly grateful to everyone who agreed to take part. It has taken around a year to collate them all and as you all undoubtedly know I had to stop producing FME features for a while to ensure everything came together properly. The results have been very much worth it. As much as I have been very tempted to go on about every track and how brilliant it is I’d better stop and just give a few more details about the product.

Here’s the full track listing for you:

1. The Devil’s Blue Eyed Son – The Bluehearts
2. Golden Axe - Gyratory System
3. Malfunction – Last Miles of Galaxy
4. Typeface (Chip Shop Mix) - Manda Rin
5. Zora Mode - Decktronic
6. Black 7 – Weird Gear
7. Riot - Euan Lynn
8. Knife Trance (One Knife Left Mix) - Supreme Ultimate Fist
9. Fatal Error - Vile Electrodes
10. Rambo Ravine - H Pizzle
11. Hero Man Gets to the Castle (Tomorrow’s Dad Mix) - Bearcraft
12. Quiet Thought Process - Downstate
13. Game Over – Derek Williams

Remember the previous compilation is still available for almost nothing and you can hear samples from it here

Keep checking by the blog for more details on the CD

That’s all for now

-Derek

Anyway I’m mainly here to update you all with the final part of my A Christmas Carol Market Economy trilogy. Many of you at the party were eager to know how it all ended.

Download part 3 here

And if you need a recap, here’s the earlier parts:

Download part 2 here
Download part 1 here

And as a special Christmas bonus, here’s a couple of other Christmas related FME productions. The second one being a particular favourite of mine.

Download the first Christmas Market Economy here

Download Christmas Market Economy 2 here

And remember any unwanted games I’ll be happy to take off your hands for free. Oh and to any of you who wanted details of buying CDs of my music just email me at derek at onelifeleft.com for details.

Merry christmas!

10. Competitions Involving Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach

Hardly anyone bothered entering. This further proves I’m worthless and unwanted. No one understands me. I’m probably the least liked feature of OLL. I’m going to go cut myself.

09. Splinter Cell – Xbox £2.99

I like this game lots. It’s all about hiding in dark places. It reminds me of all the dark places within my soul. You can feel Sam Fisher’s inner despair at killing all those terrorists. He has to kill them, it’s his job but you know he has to feel sad that someone has died.

08. Need For Speed Underground - PS2 £4.99

Takes place all at night. Vampires come out at night too. It would be totally cool to be a vampire. To stay forever young and live outside of society’s rules. You’d get to be totally free and it wouldn’t matter that everyone hates you because you’re like so much more awesome. Though you live forever and stuff. But that might make life a bit poring. You’d probably get depressed and probably drive a stake through your own heart after a while.

07. Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge – PS2 £6.99

Never mind hot wheels. Hot Topic is what you want. Have you seen the awesome stuff they have on their website?  I bet My Bloody Valentine shop there.  They have the most awesome lipstick colours too.

06. Medal of Honour European Assault – PS2 £9.99

I’m bored of that whole emo gimmick. It was perhaps not a terribly clever or original idea. Still that’s never stopped me before. All my words are secondhand and useless in the face of this. But I digress. I’m still constantly amazed that the terrible terrible Medal of Honour games sell for so much money. Older gamers tend to like them most but they seem to sell to pretty much everyone anyway. I wonder what I’ll get for Vanguard..

05. Burnout Paradise – Xbox 360 £15

A fine game with lots of fun. A worthy investment considering how much potential fun there is on offer in its online world. Quite a lot of downloadable content to get from first off though. Hence them releasing that updated version. I wonder how many people are now driving around in the Delorean from Back to the Future now..

04. Mirror’s Edge – Xbox 360 £17

I’m still playing myself. I still like it. But I’m still faced with the problem that I can’t play it for that long before it makes me feel very ill. It is incredibly frustrating though when you don’t know where to go and it just points up. Unlike some people, I find it often works best when it’s slow. Taking your time and puzzling it out as to how to get to different places. But then it goes and throws time limits in sometimes. I play it without shooting people because I’m soft.

03. Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts – Xbox 360 £25

It’s not a seller from the stall though I did get asked for it once this week. They wouldn’t have bought it though. I know these things. You get to know your customers and this one was clearly a useless timewaster. I had intended to give this game another go with it being rated so highly. I just found it a bit annoying first time. It’ll come in again in the future when it’s worth less. Or worthless.

02. Left4Dead - Xbox 360 £32.99

An online sale admittedly but it sold fast and I don’t see this around much. And it’s not that new out. I tried playing it last night, not realising that it was an FPS. I can cope with Mirror’s Edge because it’s mostly open spaces and I can often take it slow. This seems to feature fairly faced paced rushing about in enclosed spaces. To start with anyway. This is guaranteed to make me feel very ill very quickly. Why does it take so long to load things though? It took ages to load to the menu. Far longer than a lot of games. It’s unusual to see such progress bars these days. Wish I could play it and see what it is that’s making everyone, including OLL superguests, love it so much.

01. Samurai Warriors 2 Empires – Xbox 360 £9,000

That’s the estimated worth of the game of course. It’s been totally gobbling up my free time. It’s exciting and tactical and just generally brilliant. You should really get it if you know what’s good for you.

So that’s it. You’ve still got time to enter the D&D compo. I’ve got two left! Do I have to start offering money as well or something? PLEASE GET THEM AWAY FROM MY STALL!!

10. X-Files – Playstation £5

It’s one which has often been lurking around just outside the chart. It’s a game that often goes on the old Playstation. I don’t really know why though as it’s quite rubbish. But then there’s not many reviews around for these days now. Playstation is just yet another retro console now. It often gets returned amid claims of it not working but in actual fact it’s just that they’re stuck one of the many ridiculous and obtuse puzzles in the game.

9. Final Fight Streetwise - PS2 £6.99

Why on earth would someone want this disgrace to a once great arcade game? The customer informed me that it has a ‘great story’ too. Fool. Even the original didn’t have a great story. Admittedly you don’t get many walk-along beat em ups these days. But when you do they’re all rubbish. This is a rubbish beat-em-up given made even worse by being made all gangsta/urban/street. Ugh. It disgusts me. So much in fact I decided I didn’t want anyone to actually have it and pretended it got lost. Instead I made him buy..

8. Resident Evil 4 – PS2 £10

Always worth having in. I always buy it when it’s offered but I never seem to have more than two copies in stock at any one time. This version was the special tin edition. Like that makes much difference. I bet the tin is a size just slightly too big to fit in a DVD rack or something. Or maybe slightly too small. Like HD DVD and Blu-Ray. Grrr.

7. The Punisher – PC £10

The game so shockingly violent they had to make the torture scenes black and white. Hmm. Yes well that really helps doesn’t it. So it’s okay to cut people up and twist their arms off and stuff just so long as it’s not in colour. Maybe it hurts less in black & white or something so it’s not so bad. I’ll have to try it next time I get an awkward customer.

6. Surf’s Up – Wii £15

Undoubtedly parent buying for absent child situation. Absent at time of purchase anyway. While I haven’t played it, I’m sure it’s a mixture of tedious ‘party game’ modes and tedious inept platforming which is just enough to keep the kids amused I guess. Lokit da funny pengwins!

5. Tiger Woods 09 – Xbox 360 £22.49

I can’t get rid of them from the stall but it goes online. I’ve had it on the stall at £19.99 for around 6 months now but no interest. They used to be all the rage in the PS2 era. But then if you’ve been playing the same game on the same courses for all this time, it’s bound to lose some appeal. After all, the actual golf courses don’t get yearly updates do they? Or do they? I don’t know I don’t watch golf so don’t ask me.

4.  Motorstorm Pacific Rift - PS3 £28.92

Which is a bit odd as I only listed it for sale online at £24.99. Still I’m not complaining. I knew I had to get rid of this quick. It’s not a really major racing game and thus it’s a shelf sitter. Motorstorm didn’t do so well and no one has been asking me for the sequel. Did ANYONE ask for a sequel?

3. Improved Weather

It’s not quite as cold as it was. Therefor my working conditions are less hostile. I’m still haivng several pints of coffee to keep warm though. Sadly my stall can’t support the power requirements of any electric heaters. It just trips the power all time.

2. Samurai Warriors 2 Empires – 360 £2,000

It’s not quite Dynasty Warriors 6 or Samurai Warriors 2 but it’s still pretty great. The extra strategic elements are great stuff but there are certain unfortunate problems with the main battle system. The unreliable nature of base output making it hard to find somewhere to regain health. Most of the time it’s only dropped by defeated officers. Still building up a small force into one that can conquer all of Japan is terribly exciting, especially now there’s added little bits like getting your officers to do a tea ceremony together and.. (Snip! – Ste)

1. Competitions involving Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach!

I have five copies of Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach MMORPG to give away. It’s the deluxe version but without a box and also without any figures. So it’s more a slightly above average version than deluxe. It’s got a pretty map with it and you’ll get 30 days free play but after that it’s going to cost you about £9 a month.

So if you want to get yourself a copy tell me what would be the best competition idea for a Dungeons and Dragons Stormreach giveaway. Best five answers get a copy.

10.  Zelda – Link’s Awakening (Gameboy £6.99)

Despite having been re-released about five thousand times with almost as many suffixes as a Street Fighter 2 variant that’s married a Tom Clancy game, it’s still a seller for decent money. I also happen to be pretty much the only person left in Doncaster with any stock of such retro games. As such I can pretty much get away with charging what I want. As I clearly have here. £7 for an ancient black + white gameboy game? Snigger.

09. Need For Speed Pro Street (PS2 £8)

Was up for £9.99 but the customer only had £8 on them. It was another brutal cold start to the day and it looks like it was going to be pretty quiet. It had sat on the shelf a while. Why not take the £8 that was all he had on him. So he said. To me it looked like he had much more on him. Like clothes and stuff! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

08. Something (on a console probably £ and Pence undoubtedly)

I really should have done this chart at work where I have it actually there in front of me what I’ve sold rather than doing it from memory. But I was busy with things this morning and the internet was playing up. So I’m having to do all this from home. Right now I’m just waiting for QI to come on at 9. I like QI. It is most amusing. There’s an interactive DVD game of it. I bet it’s rubbish.

07. Three Dreamcast Games – Racing Simulation/MSR/Tomb Raider Last Revelation £10

Technically it shouldn’t be this high in the charts but I remembered selling them earlier today and selling Dreamcast games always gives you that warm feeling inside. To know there’s still someone out there cherishing that lovely little console, poor thing. How could people not see the delights of that beautiful little machine. So what if the up to 10 billion players claim wasn’t exactly true. It would have been true if everyone had bought a Dreamcast. And everyone had an internet connection for it. And there was an infinite amount of money around to pay for the immense phone bills. These games aren’t exactly the best example of quality on the machine but consider it an entry level to get onto bigger and better things (Isn’t that what Escom said about putting Whizz and Pinball Magic in with the Amiga except that only served to kill it? – Amiga Power). Actually maybe I’m just like some dodgy drug dealer selling ecstacy mixed with rat poison or something. Shame on me.

06. Cooking Mama – Wii £15

The Wii has continued to sell a few games reasonably well since Christmas. It’s still doing vastly better than the PS3. I sold at least two Wii games for over £15 with customers just asking to buy said game. Maybe a Wii is for life and not just to be left abandonned in a dark cupboard until your gran comes round to beat you at Wii Bowling again and you to then sulk in a corner all afternoon moaning about how it’s obviously geared to compensate for people with lower skill so it was obviously much harder for you.

05. Zelda Twilight Princess – Wii £25

It’s typical Nintendo sales patterns again. Zelda/Mario/Pokemon. That stuff just never seems to drop in price. I might have only sold one copy of this but I could probably have sold 15 or more. It’s supposed to be one of the weakest of the Zelda series despite looking more realistically pretty than the cartoony Wind Waker which angered all the fanboys because they didn’t want to be seen playing a game that was for kids. Oh the irony..

04. Grand Theft Auto Ivy - Xbox 360 £?

Must be a new release or something as it’s here on requests alone. If I’ve been asked for it once today then I’ve er.. been asked for it once today but it was actually about 3 times this morning I was asked for it. Might be Rockstar’s biggest hit yet considering the number of people after it. Strange thing is, the only new GTA I know if is supposed to be the Mail Bait that is Chinatown Wars on the DS. The internet doesn’t seem to know anything about it either. Very odd.

03. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (Xbox £15)

Sold two in about an hour. It’s always pretty bankable. You have to wait a bit sometimes but you can guarantee at least £15 for it. It’s pretty rare after all. And it works on the 360. I wonder if the people who are buying it are ones who had it but hated IV or they bought IV and wanted more. No I don’t. All I care is I get their money from them. Who am I kidding?
02. Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360 £32.99)

I had this for about two weeks before christmas but no one was interested. I swapped it in for something like Far Cry 2 I think. I didn’t want to do a free swap on it but the custmer demanded it and eventually I decided that this one would be the better seller. Could have been FIFA 09 actually. Does it really matter? WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT TO YOU?? LEAVE ME ALONE!! IT WAS AGES AGO!!

01. Rock Band 2 - Xbox 360 £Varies depending on if you buy instruments with it or not

Dynasty Warriors is on holiday. I miss it. Rock Band 2 has made many improvements over the first one in terms of its organisation and allowing for more party fun but it can’t fill that void that Dynasty Warriors leaves.  Come back soon!

And that’s it for this week, a little later than usual perhaps but it’s here. Hopefully I’ll be a little bit less busy next friday morning and can give you what you want. And I’ll do another chart run down. Oh ho!

10. Loco Roco 2 – PSP £19.99

Golly gosh, I know it’s the season of goodwill and all that but when you’re faced with utter cretins like this customer it’s hard to keep it up. Firstly they weren’t entirely sure of the difference between a game and a console and certainly not much clue as to which they already owned. So I had some form an identity parade to see if they could spot the likely suspects. Seemingly they had a few ds machines and a wii. They decided they quite fancied a PSP though. Clearly they were not just cretins but the typical overindulgent ones who would rather spend money on frivolities than well anything else really. But I digress. Frequently. Not only did they want a PSP but they wanted a game for it appropriate for their daughter of age eleven. A quick rummage through the waste bin in the stall later I found Loco Roco 2 among the miriad football and driving simulators. “Looks a bit too kiddy-like.” Good grief. It’s bloody marvelous game and what’s more it’s going to appeal to an eleven year old girl especially! It’s cute! It’s got platforms! It’s got singing things! It’s looks lovely and it plays great. Buy it you cretins! So I beat them over the head with it so they took it to make me stop. Thankfully though they won’t regret it. What the hell would be more appropriate for their daughter? Oh sorry I forgot, this is Doncaster so obvious GTA is more the sort of thing. Sigh..

9. Far Cry 2 – Xbox 360 £25

I’ve got plenty of these in on the PS3. But like most PS3 games they serve more as decoration than actually saleable items. However I can’t seem to keep it in stock on the 360. There’s clearly problems for the PS3 market if I can’t even shift the games at christmas. It’s funny though they do seem to come in a lot. I’m often buying PS3 games in. I just don’t sell them. Sure I have a fairly low selection but I’ve plenty of ‘top’ titles. Quantum of Solace, Far Cry 2, GTA IV. They just won’t move. Sorry that’s not true. I’m running out of space a bit so I tend to overlap them on the shelf then when I happen to knock the shelf they all come tumbling down like things which come tumbling down because they’ve been unsteadily overlapped on a shelf.

8. DS Lite Consoles £80

Yes they are selling but not for so much money as was expected. Those who invested heavily in them at the start of the year will undoubtedly be a bit sad they don’t have the fortune they anticipated. I’ve still got a few in stock but they seem pretty plentiful everywhere. Same with the Wii. Maybe it’s the ‘credit crunch christmas’ that means people haven’t got much money to spend. Maybe it’s just greater availablility and greater market saturation now. I don’t know. But what I do know is I’m fully in control, on a roll, fat as rolypoly and on the whole you think that I’m a threat cause I never make a teacher’s pet.. sorry came over all Betty Boo for a moment there. Must be all that rapping I’ve done lately.

7. Need for Speed Underground 2 - PS2 £4.99

One of the most successful of the NFS series. Most wanted would probably take that crown though. This one has sat at around £5-8 for a long long time. I’ve had lots of them in stock but I’m down to my last one. I quite liked the first of the series in a way but this sequel never attracted my attention. I think it’s something to do with the combination of colours on the cover being less pretty. I think there was some more free roaming elements to this one which is what customers say they like about it. I think Midnight Club got there first but the first couple of installments of that game seem particularly shocking. That is to say they’re rubbish. They improved it a bit with the third one apart from the whole setting it at night so you can’t actually see where you’re driving and can never tell where the corners are. Which is never a good thing. In real life too.

6. Call of Duty 3 - Xbox 360 £12.99

These days if your game says Call of Duty anywhere on the box, it’s going to sell lots. It’s COD4 which did it. They were always consistent sellers on the PS2 though. But now they seem to have become the ‘industry standard’ even more than Medal of Honour. Speaking of which, MOH has been absent for quite a while now. COD is managing yearly updates but MOH seems to have vanished since Airborne. Airborne never saw the success of the earlier games. I’ve sold countless copies of Frontline and Rising Sun. Mainly to old men who were either in the war or like to pretend they were. I can just imagine them playing them with their grandchildren “Ahh it’s just like I remember it. We were dug in just outside Lyon fighting off those Nazi scum. Hard times..” “But Grandad weren’t you just 8 years old at the time?”

5. Fifa 08 - PS2 £7.99

Still selling. Just. Actually it’s selling better than I thought it was. I’m down to my last copy in stock. And turned one away the other day thinking I’d got loads of them in stock. Silly. One great thing about the old product is that you can get it in really cheap so your profit margin can be even more obscene than a Jonathan Ross phone call! Ah Ah ah! Satire! (Well it might have been a couple of months ago – Everyone)

4. Fifa 02 - PS2 £2.99

It’s funny in a way but when they start to get really old they suddenly become collector’s items. At this point they were little more than glorified PS1 games and hadn’t started to utilise more PS2 specific er things. Whatever they might be. People do like to collect the older versions though. It’s amazing how dated the cover looks now. It’s 7 years since release and it looks positively ancient. But then as I recall things changed for 2003 which was widely reported as one of the first good FIFAs. For the first time it gave the player a bit of a challenge. But then 04 returned to bog standard FIFA. The cover style remained pretty much the same from 03 to 05 but 06 looked quite different so that’s probably going to look dated in time. 07 probably has some of the ugliest cover art a FIFA has ever seen. I hate that one.

3. Battle of Europe Add-On for IL2 Sturmovik - PC CD £29.99

I sold a PC game! Even better I sold a PC Game Expansion Pack! FOR MORE THAN THE FULL GAME! Incredible. On Amazon of course. But who would have thought a PC expansion pack could achieve so much money. I’ve always heard good reports about IL2. Isn’t it coming to 360 soon or something? The last combat flight game I played at length was the spiffy Secret Weapons Over Normandy on the Xbox. Sure it wasn’t realistic but it was a heck of a lot of fun. Neeeeroooowwnnng dakka dakkka dakka boom! Shame the lead character was called Jack Chase. Might as well call him Brett Hero or something.

2. Need for Speed Undercover – Xbox 360 £27.50

Despite being available for £20 online it sells well from the stall. I’ve actually sold two and averaged the price there. First one I sold for £25. But it went too fast so I put the price up for the next one I got in. Though the customer did actually ask me for Los Angeles Undercover. Managing to cunningly combine the suffixes of both major street racing game franchise releases into one delightfully incorrect whole. There’s going to be tears this christmas when these games are played. By all accounts Undercover is a horrible horrible mess of a game. The TV advert shows graphics that are ‘representative of game footage’. Well yes. Of the cut scenes maybe. There’s no way you can possibly control your car appropriately from the angles displayed. Nor will the action ever be that exciting. Nor will it move so smoothly. It’ll serve them right of course for wanting something so terrible in the first place. Just because it’s christmas doesn’t mean it’s not a time to learn harsh lessons.

1. Dynasty Band (Preview release)

In which you take down the evil yellow turban rebellion then restore the Han Dynasty by forming a ancient Chinese band. Features Flute, zither and shamisen controllers. Also features Xbox Vision/Playstation Eye functionality to rate your dancing to Diao Chan’s instructions.

So there we have it. That’s it for this year. And what a year it has been. It’s been er.. well. Pretty much like every other year actually. Nothing particularly remarkable. It’s been all right. Most of my gaming fun was on the DS personally. Though Rock Band was particularly good. GTAIV failed to really ignite things though it’s been hard to get this christmas and shot up from £15 second hand to £25. The biggest seller of the year has still been COD4. That game has legs. As they say. So the saying goes. But I’ve seen more broken hearts Than you can count the bullets in gears of war, o h what do I know,
there’s gotta be so much I don’t know.  I wanna do great things,  I don’t wanna compromise…

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

To: derek@onelifeleft

Subject: where’s the chart?

it’s saturday and there’s still no chart up on the site. what’s going off?

s.

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From: derek@onelifeleft

To: ste@onelieft

Subject: Re: where’s the chart?

Yeah sorr y sste. Im rrelly not v well rright now. In bed last ffew days withfflu and still shhaking quite alot due to temp.Nnot been at wwork eithr soicn’t say whats beennse lling.

-Derr ek

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From: ste@onelifeleft

To: derek@oneliefleft

Subject: Re: Re: where’s the chart?

oh wouldn’t it be nice if we all could just quit working as soon as we got the sniffles. how about you get that chart up on the site now. remember we’ve got new features coming next year.

s.

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From: derek@onelifeleft

To: ste@oneliefleft

Subject: Re: Re: Re: where’s the chart?

Ouhch. I thoughtt you wweer meantt to be bbbe the nnice one Ste. Givve mme aaabb break while I’mm iilll ll yyyes? Iit’s chcristms aftter all.

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From: ste@onelifeleft

To: derek@onelifeleft

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: where’s the chart?

just in case I didn’t make myself clear, find a way to write this week’s chart or the NEW FEATURES next year will mean there is not enough time for old features, specifically yours.

s.

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From: derek@onelifeleft

To: ste@onelifeleft

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: where’s the chart?

IT’S OKAY STE. I FOUND THE MEDICINE CABINET I TOOK A COUPLE OF PILLS THEY MADE ME FEEL A BIT BETTER SO I TOOK THEM ALL AND NOW I FEEL A LOT BETTER IN FACT I THINK IM FLOATING AND AND IM REALLY LIKE HAPPY AND COOL AND STUFF AND ITS GREAT AND THAT SO HERES THAT CHARGGT THEN

10 SORE THROAT – STARTS EARLY AND LINGERS BUT DOESNT DO THAT MUCH DAMAGE SO IS REALLY ANNOYING

9. VOMITING – ITS SUCH A PHYSICAL STRAIN AND SO MESSY

8. DRY WRETCHING – ITS LIKE VOMITING BUT NOT AS MESSY SO BETTER

7. SLEEPLESS NIGHTS – SO TIRED NEXT DAY BUT AT LEAST BED IS COMFY

6. DIZZY SPELLS – FALLING OVER IS RUBBISH BUT SPINNING ROOMS SOMETIMES FUNNY

5. FEVER – HORRIBLE STATES OF MINDS ARE BADS BUT HALUCINATIONS HAVE INTERESTING GRAFIXXX

4. RUNNING NOSE – GIVES NOSE NICE CHEERY RED GLOW LIEK RUDOLPH LOL

3. DOTING NURSES – HELLLOOOO NURSE

2. MEDICINE CABINETS – MANY PILLS = HAPPY+++

1. GOING TOWARDS THE LIGHT – HELLO GRANDMA AND GRANDAD I HAVENT SeEEN YOou INaageES