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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Buy the Craig ‘The Rage’ Book
Hello One Life Left listeners.
It’s cold outside. It’s dark. Soon it will be Christmas, and you know what that means. Greedy family members with their hands out, expecting you to give them something because of a coincidence of genetics. A few pointless skeins of DNA, and I’m obliged to buy you a basket of ‘smellies’ from Body Shop?
F-off Nan.
This Christmas you have another option. Fulfil your familial present-buying obligation while simultaneously extending a contemptuous middle finger to the gift-recipient by purchasing a copy of ’64 Bits of Pain’. That is my book.
Featuring old classics and new poems exclusive to the book, never recorded because they are so incendiary they literally cannot be spoken out loud.
Go here and it can be yours.
Contact me personally for a personalised copy, marked with my blood and / or semen.
ANNvestigating gaming rehab
Anyone who’s listened to this week’s show (btw, don’t I sound really great?) will be up to speed with the Gaming Addiction Treated in Rehab Clinic news. If not, here’s the low down: gaming addiction has been treated in a rehab clinic.
But with a story this big, we won’t just leave it there! Think of all the gamers barely able to prize their withered hands from their SingStar mics, desperate to make that call and book themselves into Broadway Lodge, scared to even consider it because actually they have no idea how much it bloody well costs. Don’t worry game addicts! The industry’s leading ANNvestigator is here for you!
So how much does it cost? £1000 a week is what it costs. That is an all inclusive deal, but still, £1000! And they recommend a 4-8 week stay. £4000! £8000!
If you think you’ve got a problem One Life Left would recommend switching off your computer or unplugging your console, or, if you really like playing games that much, just keep playing. You can always spend the money you’d save on this. Gross!
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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One Life Left iPhone Review App
Listen up, Eurogamer! You’re not the only ones with fancy-schmancy mobile phone technology. Well, not for long, anyway. Mockup courtesy of OLL listener Steve Shaw. Can someone actually make this, please?
One Life Left — s05e14 — #110 — Boys Own
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.
Direct link to podcast MP3 is here.
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
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