One Life Left — s05e24 — #120 — No Chickens
Be brave, because this is it, 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.
PPS: Download the MP3 here.
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One Life Left — s05e23 — #119 — Deaf Jam
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
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One Life Left — s05e22 — #118 — Framing It
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.)
Download the podcast MP3 here.
Team OLL
xx
*Possibly.
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One Life Left — s05e21 — #117 — Ribs Out
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.
Download the podcast MP3 directly here.
See you next week!
Team OLL
xx
PS: We’re actively looking for someone to help us run the OLL website. A ‘webmaster’, if you will. If that’s you, get in touch.
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One Life Left — s05e20 — #116 — Bango
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 all comes from Overclocked Remix, who celebrated their 10th anniversary recently. Happy birthday!
Direct link to the episode mp3 here.
One last thing: come to the Christmas Party. You’ll regret it if you don’t.
love,
Team OLL
xxx
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One Life Left — s05e19 — #115 — MCs Three
Look, it sounds a bit like MCV, which is where industry gatekeeper and this week’s superguest Michael French works. He’s editor-in-chief, no less: making him, literally, the man in charge of the games industry’s news. Marvel as we give him the customary OLL grilling, and manage to glean literally none of his secrets.
Elsewhere it’s business as usual. We’ve features, chat, a joke (of sorts), music and no Ste: he’s drinking in a holiday camp once again. We secretly suspect he’s a Redcoat . And when we say “secretly” we now mean publicly. No Ste means horrific desk errors, due to a the schoolboy one of not actually numbering the tracks on the CD. Our Twitter Poll encouraged us to leave the mistakes in. Blame the listeners, not the broadcasters. You know Chris Moyles records his shows a month in advance, don’t you?
Hey, write us: We love your letters. But if that’s not enough, we sometimes reward those who take the time to correspond with free things – this week, we have PSP Minis D-Cube Planet and Circles as prizes, thanks to the kindness of developer GameShastra. And as we – or Michael – call it: these can soon be enjoyed on the PS3. It would have been another One Life Left EX-EX-EX-excusive if the podcast had been up on time.
Next week: the team reunite, for our last show of the year. And most importantly, the last show before the OLL Christmas knees-up (Friday December 18th, from 5:00pm, with a live show at 8:00pm. The Blue Posts, Rupert Street, Soho). It will be literally unbroadcastable: hear it while you can.
See you soon.
Lots of love
Team@OneLifeLeft.com
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One Life Left — s05e18 — #114 — Press Gang
Episode #114 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.
It’s on Friday 18th December, at The Blue Posts in Rupert St, Soho. It’ll be the last show of the year and 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.
Here’s the direct link to the MP3.
Team OLL
xxx
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One Life Left – S05e17 – #113 – Special ish
Ann: check. Simon: check. Super-special-guest Neil Long, editor Official Nintendo Magazine: check. Ste: …
Yeah, dad’s away this week, so it’s happy fun party time at OLL Towers, with a special celebration in aid of the 50th issue of ONM, in “shops” now.
Bottles of Blue Nun are downed, cigarettes are smoked out through the toilet window and a couple are discovered upstairs amongst the coats. CALL YELLOW PAGES TO TIDY UP!
Aside from a record – and show – breaking two desk errors, it’s actually business as usual at One Life Left. There are only two songs, mind, so fans of The Killers will have to wait until next week, when we *think* Ste is off again.
Write us: team@onelifeleft.com
Bye! Bye! Bye!
PLAY IT HERE: OLL_s05e17.mp3
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One Life Left — s05e16 — #112 — On the Fence
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
Here’s the direct link to the MP3.
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
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One Life Left — s05e15 — #111 — Biology and History
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. This week Ste had to do interviews with the press which left him a bit rattled by misquotes and even worse) misnaming. You could call it karma; Simon and Ann call it AMMUNITION.
Also in One Life Left One One One:
++ Rob and Rob from Nintendo chat about new Mario, new Zelda and the Wii’s virginity
++ OLL are generally furious at Activision for not getting invited to the Modern Warfare 2 party
++ Ann doesn’t seem like herself. She’s probably distracted by the play she’s in at the moment, right?
Music (uncredited in the show thanks to incompetence, genuine apologies):
The Grand Scheme by RushJet1
French Whores by misfitchris
Download the MP3 directly here.
See you next week!
Team OLL
xxx
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