One Life Left

The final one of three OLL's that almost never were brings a new adventure: how can they do a show with no features, no music, no themes and a broken Mac? We join the broadcast at 7pm with The Bike Show's sassy salsa muffling abject panic in the Resonance FM studio:       Also this week:   + The OBE discussion moves on with a look at what we can learn from the games industry professionals already...

Welcome to the second part of catch-up trilogy! With Simon excused from duty, the episode from the 17th of January has a different tone to most episodes of One Life Left. Ste and Ann actually talk about games! I know. Imagine. Or better yet, listen.   Once you've listened please let us know what the episode was about? It has been ages and we can't bear to listen just in case it's unlistenable. Tha...

One Life Left shows are like buses. They're noisy, difficult to control, dangerous to cyclists and they have very little to do with videogames. No, wait, that's not right...       Isn't it something to do with how you wait ages for one and then (potentially) three come along at once? Like:   1) This episode, which was lost for two weeks before Ste managed to locate the memory card (which came peri...

It's the final show of 2010! A time to draw upon everything we've learnt this year and celebrate what a great / terrible year it's been for videogames (which? Help us out). A time, too, to reflect on our personal triumphs and disasters and to produce one more: former or latter, it's One Life Left #138.       In this Episode (which has far more to do with parties than games):   ++ Ste and Simon ret...

The call back, a popular comedic device the team learnt about while studying for their sets at Nottingham Game City, involves 'calling back' to a subject you've already discussed with the audience. Howzat relevant? Because, with their videogame standup out of the way, the team can concentrate on something else they don't know how to do. Cricket!     More call backs in Episode #136:   ++ The thorny...

No time for explanation as we're rushing out RIGHT THIS MOMENT to record episode 17, which says more about our scheduling than it does about the quality of this episode of One Life Left. Sorry! It's full of stuff about games except mostly not about games, although there really is some stuff about games this time.   Including: ++ Ste talks about Game Connection at Lyon ++ Simon talks about X Factor...

After last week's chastening / celebratory debacle, a humbled team return determined to do justice to the One Life Left 'brand'. That means a mix of videogame chat, friendly sniping and a very special gaming guest. We're number one! Well, he is.     Who? Miles Jacobsen, Footballer Manager's gaffer, who gives some inspirational team talk, tells us how we can kill PC gaming and, typically, attempts...

With their commitments clear for the forseeable future, the demob-happy One Life Left team collectively exhale. For an hour. Injokes, indulgence and intermittent attempts at professionalism, it's an episode that almost never was and probably shouldn't be. Hm.      Srsly. We almost didn't podcast this; it was going to be a 'lost episode' that the publishers would release long after we'd split up in...

Excuse the brevity, lateness and general incompetence, but we're Writing this in a hotel four hours before we go on stage for One Laugh Left. So we sort of have other things on our mind. E.g. Being funny / avoiding bottles.     In this episode:   ++ Nigel Taylor, who is anything but nasty, joins us to talk about stand-up comedy, how it goes write and how ours could go wrong   ++ Other things that...

As One Life Left moves closer to its videogame stand-up comedy debut, the team are joined by Actual Real Life Comic Catie Wilkins, who explains to the team what being on stage under pressure to be funny is really like. Turns out it's genuinely no laughing matter.   Ulp. Also this episode (which is the last before the team lose the right to call themselves OFFICIAL BEST BROADCASTERS, incidentally):...

No special studio guest this episode which means the One Life Left team can forgo politeness and professionalism and just be themselves. What does THAT mean? Pointless pop culture chat, fractious behaviour and the smallest bits of videogame gossip / insight, apparently. It's episode 11!       (Insight? Yes, OK, let's go with that and see if anyone calls us out.)   Also in Episode 11:   ++ ALL NEW...

Let's put videogames to one side for a moment, as if we didn't do that enough already. With under four weeks to go until the One Life Left team's latest public humiliation it's time to get serious. About comedy.    With that in mind, please welcome Radio 4 comedy producer and very special guest Tilusha to the studio.   Also:   ++ Videogame features, including Derek Williams!   ++ Chiptune music, i...

Stop us if you've heard this one before, but musical guests are like buses. You don't have one for 128 episodes and then two come along at once. What? You've heard if before? And it doesn't really work as a joke? Oh God.     No worries, still plenty of time.    On this week's show:   ++ One Life Left welcomes 8-bit superstars Sabrepulse and Natty to the studio. They chat! They bleep! They play the...

  In which, with their comedy gig still far enough away for the whole thing to seem funny, the team are joined by Curve Studios' Ed Fear for the usual mix of somewhat game-related stuff and nonsense.     Also in this episode:   ++ Ann 'interrogates' Ed to find out some exclusive game news for the show   ++ The return of Ann Art and all the sketchiness that entails   ++ A brilliant new feature and...

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, Sm...

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, pl...

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...

"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...

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...

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'...

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 Down...

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

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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/adchoi...

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 podc...