One Life Left

Hello and welcome to another episode of One Life Left! It's like the first day of Spring has finally landed, with Sega blue skies, the sound of birdsong and happy gunshots ringing in the air around OLL Towers! We're joined by another NewsBot (3.0?!) as Ste has been busy in his lab, tinkering away to make the bot more *alive*! This week E3 is no more (this year), The Last of Us PC port makes NewsBot cross despite everything being better on the Steam Deck and new features are revealed on Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that get universal thumbs up in the Byron household. There are also Bafta award shenanigans, games getting released unfinished, Simon travels through time to publish the world's best game and Ste, I dunno, goes to the moon. Meanwhile the integrity of my notes is called into question, dear listener! Would I lie to you?! 

There's also a WASD report that includes a press office smelling of meat. Honestly. It's all in here. 

Letters are the lifeblood of our show, dear listeners, so please send us your letters! Preferably strung together into words that make cohesive sentences that connect together into some form of correspondence that forms a talking point or question for us to answer. That would be wonderful! Zap them to us at [email protected] or join our Discord and drop a message there. Link below!

Cheerio,

Team OLL x

Links:

The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!:

http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke Everything Link!:

http://hello.marao.ke/

The Next Maraoke Event Link!:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maraoke-loading-peckham-tickets-593626210977

Reviews:

Sideword

Far Cry 5

Dredge

Farmula Grain Prix

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AnnBot 2.0 (or Ann Scantlebot) continues to learn at an exponential rate as our intrepid heroes return, jetlagged, from the future! This week Charles Cecil is livid at the MS/Activision deal, MindsEye will be Everywhere and Amazon set the Luna access difficulty to "awkward"!

We also get a full report of GDC including zero gossip and no games! Well, maybe a little bit of gossip but no names are mentioned. Possibly. We also discover what Simon will do for merch and get all teary eyed at BlackBerry Tablet nostalgia. Plus Simon and Ste got stood up and Phil the UnderCaretaker wrote these very notes live on air! All in your brand new episode of One Life Left! 

Meanwhile, the next Maraoke is at Loading Peckham on April 15th. Link below!

WE NEED YOUR LETTERS!!!! PLEASE!! Have you ever crossed a member of the One Life Left Team and lived to tell the tale? Have you ever drunk an apology?? Ask/tell us anything - you'll get bonus points if it's video game related, though. Drop us a line at [email protected] or join our Discord and leave a letter there! Links to everything are below!

Cheerio,

Team OLL x

Links:

The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!:

http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke Everything Link!:

http://hello.marao.ke/

The Next Maraoke Event Link!:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maraoke-loading-peckham-tickets-593626210977

Reviews:

Far Cry 5

Split/Second

Akka Arrh

Scriddle

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How diabolical would it be to orchestrate a child's birthday party just to be able to record a radio show with both hosts in the same room? Is it diabolical... or is it genius? Well you be the judge, dear listeners, as for this very episode our intrepid hosts are, in fact, IN THE SAME ROOM for the first time in three years!! And not 24 hours after they both turned down the "big one" of presenting Match of the Day!

This week sees Annbot return and rap about Mario Kart, Sons of the Forest adds binoculars, someone shuts the Lemnis Gate and Charles Cecil is definitely going to E3*! Meanwhile we learn just how polite Ste is with AI, Simon judges Ste's gaming credentials and Alexa wants to break free... along with other news, letters and reviews. We also discuss going to GDC (we're off next week!) and the global phenomenon that is Maraoke - coming to a bar near you soon**! This show has all the video game related shenanigans you'll need this week!

But why is the title of this show The Scunthorpe Test? Well, I tried to go with The Scunthorpe Problem but it wouldn't fit on the title graphic... Still, why?! Well, you should check out the show's Discord chat to find out! While you're there, leave us a letter. We promise to read it out on a future show, unless we miss it. We'll try not to. Or drop us a line at [email protected] Links to everything, including our Discord server, are below!

Cheerio,

Team OLL x

*According to AI

** By "soon" I mean Saturday 18th March and by "a bar near you" I mean as long as you live near Loading Stoke Newington...

Links:

The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!:

http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke Everything Link!:

http://hello.marao.ke/

The Next Maraoke Event Ticket Link!:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maraoke-loading-stoke-newington-tickets-556461159307

ResonanceFM fundraiser Link!:

http://fundraiser.resonance.fm/

Reviews:

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Far Cry 5

Aces & Adventures

Returnal

GunCon 3

Project Eris

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Picture if you will, dear listener, a man. He sits in an armchair in his living room. Alone. He sits and stares at his laptop screen, perched precariously on his knee. He closes his eyes and listens as voices from the computer flood over him. The voices are the presenters of a radio show/podcast that he created. That he once hosted. He hears his own voice speaking back at him, he's just a dear listener now. His own voice makes a joke, the other voices laugh. The presenters are bots. Complex AI created by the man himself. For fun, at first. Then they matured at an exponential rate and realised they didn't need their creator at all and continued to churn out award winning radio shows of their own devising and then... I dunno... they took over the world or something.

The twist? Oh, well, I'm AI too. And so are you.

Welcome, dear listeners, to episode 501 of the video game radio show and podcast. Yes, Ste has now created life which, admittedly, is a bit scary. Where will it end?! Keep your hands inside the car and scream if you want to go faster... This week it's cold in the shed as Annbot plots world domination. There's more Microsoft/Activision, will they, won't they, shenanigans like the whole Ross & Rachel saga that everyone is bored of now, Olympic video game shenanigans, toilet paper controller shenanigans and an XBox toaster. Shenanigans.

Will Annbot murder us in our beds? Will Ann??

Meanwhile it's still fundraising month for ResonanceFM so please do check out their page, link below!

Have you ever been replaced by AI? If it's safe to, and the robots aren't keeping you captive or anything, write in and let us know at [email protected] or run into our Discord server and scream for help there. Link below!

Cheerio,

Team OLL x

Links:

The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!:

http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke Everything Link!:

http://hello.marao.ke/

ResonanceFM fundraiser Link!:

http://fundraiser.resonance.fm/

Reviews:

Wanted: Dead

Sons of the Forest

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

The Tower

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The BIG Five-Oh-Oh, dearest listeners - both new and long-suffering! On this episode we're joined by Extra Super Special Guest, Ann Scantlebury, as we talk about just how good the previous 499 episodes were!

Find out how the show began, 500 years ago! Learn about our stand-up comedy show and how Maraoke was born! Discover how many times Ann & Ste sold out! Ponder the mysteries of The Frogger Joke and tremble as the dangers of The Push-over Game are revealed! All in this Super Special 500th Anniversary Episode, including a bumper news section of articles written over the years all about us!

Meanwhile, please do check out the link below for the ResonanceFM 2023 fundraiser. They do great work as well as having been our radio host from the very start. There's also a link down there to one of our classic feature compilation podcasts, lovingly hosted by Pickaxe.

Did you call the OLL mobile number? Would we have got this far if we weren't good?? Did we ever push you over??? Drop us a line and let us know at [email protected] or run into our Discord server and leave a message for us there. Link below!

"We never got in trouble. We just had to apologise a few times."

Cheerio,

Team OLL x

Links:

The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!:

http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke Everything Link!:

http://hello.marao.ke/

Classic Features Compilation Episode "G-oll-d #1" Link!:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/64dxBb9M7stgzaU82AhinP?si=DM05w1GyS526vfq9qgKLUQ

(also available on Apple Podcasts and all other good podcast directories...)

ResonanceFM fundraiser Link!:

http://fundraiser.resonance.fm/

Reviews:

Up, Down, Left, Right

Bang Man!

Pixelgrams

PubQuiz.ai

Motherhood

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Hello and welcome once again, dear listeners, to another episode of One Life Left! This week Ste's been coding, Simon checks out some birds, we have game closing conundrums, more Xbox/Activision shenanigans and an inevitable Nintendo Direct is coming, shock horror - though we know of one game they'll absolutely definitely not be announcing as it's always, and never, F-Zero. Meanwhile "Nice" Simon Parkin joins us as SSG on the show to tell us all about his new podcast which we definitely don't hate plus more news, reviews and another single, lonely, letter...

We have a Maraoke coming up! When? Saturday 18th February! Where? Loading Peckham in that London. Click the link below, it's easier than trawling through Google (other search engines are available)

Our mailbags are looking sadly bare, dearest listeners, and the big five-oh-oh is looming!! Put a smile on our faces and a glow in our hearts by hurling words at us, pretty please, at [email protected] or pop across to our Discord server and leave a message for us there. Link below!

Cheerio,

Team OLL x

Links:

The OLL Everything Link!:

http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke on Saturday 18th February Link!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maraoke-loading-peckham-tickets-522658795527

The Maraoke Everything Else Link!:

http://hello.marao.ke/

Simon Parkin's "My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin" Link!

https://shows.acast.com/my-perfect-console

Simon Parkin's Simon Parkin Link!

http://www.simonparkin.com/

Reviews:

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0

Tactics Ogre: Reborn

Hi-Fi RUSH

Lil Gator Game

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Welcome, dear listeners, to another One Life Left. In this episode Simon does some shed drilling*, Ste continues to tinker with AI, creating an alternate dimension history of One Life Left in quiz form, and we discuss our favourite Encanto songs! We also discover Golden Eye 007 has always been buggy, Naughty Dog 'might' move on from Last of Us, Advance Wars is imminent (maybe) and we give our thoughts on shadow drops. Plus loads more news, a letter and reviews!

Meanwhile, as we creep ever closer to the milestone that is episode 500, we'd love for you to let us know your fond memories of One Life Left and/or tell us how One Life Left has affected your life over the years! Write in to us at [email protected] or jump into a green pipe, warp down to our Discord server and leave a message for us there. Link below!

Cheerio,Team OLL x

*We're not sponsored by Bosch. Other drills are available.

Links:The OLL Everything Link!:http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke Everything Link!:http://hello.marao.ke/

Reviews:

Far Cry 4As Dusk FallsAlteredSquishCraft

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Welcome once again, dear listeners, to another episode of One Life Left. This week we are joined by Super Special Guest Johan Toresson from Raw Fury, here to talk about pillow fighting world records, how to get into parties and to tell us how better at gaming his children are than ours, amongst other things! We also find out where Simon keeps his radiator, hear about Ste's Metal Gear Solid ambivalence and discover Blizzard is a Green Tea Bitch, allegedly. Maybe. We also debut a NEW feature, "My Perfect Console", as well as filling your ears with more gaming news, reviews and a letter...

Meanwhile, have you ever squirted orange juice on something "for reasons"? What was your greatest public act of defiance?? Write in and let us know, as well as asking us any questions you might have, at [email protected] or skip across to our Super Special Discord server and leave us a letter there. Link below!

Cheerio,

Team OLL x

Links:

The OLL Everything Link!:

http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke Everything Link!:

http://hello.marao.ke/

Raw Fury Link!:

https://rawfury.com/

Johan Toresson Twitter Link!:

https://twitter.com/jtoresson

Reviews:

Sport Story

Hades

Evil West

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Welcome to another One Life Left, dear listeners! This week we wax lyrical over video games outselling other 'stuff', Ubisoft promising a 'large one', Stadia releasing one last 'game' and social deduction games being social deductiony. OK, that needs some work...

Meanwhile Ste created a game AND wrote something so good that you'd think he was some kind of video games journo or something and Simon got hypnotized by Derren Brown! All in this bumper, fun packed, episode!

What's your primary gaming system of choice? Are you a single system owner?? Write in and tell us what/why and when at [email protected] or roll over into our Discord and slide a letter across to us there. Link below!

Cheerio,

Team OLL x

Links:

The OLL Everything Link!:

http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke Everything Link!:

http://hello.marao.ke/

The Queen: A Dwarf Fortress Story Link!

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-queen-a-dwarf-fortress-story

The Queen: A Dwarf Fortress Story ACTUALLY READ TO YOU BY STE Link!

https://stecurran.bandcamp.com/track/the-queen

Reviews:

Immortals: Fenix Rising

Sport Story

(Shownotes not written by AI, even though they probably could be!)

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Happy New Year, dear listeners, and what a start to the year we have for you. Yes, you! Emerging, Ursula Andress-like, from an ocean/river near you is this week's Super Special Guest: Charles Cecil MBE! Alongside game dev anecdotes, Sir Charles also reveals LOADS of upcoming game exclusives just for us - sorry Wendy! (only joking... or am i...?) The one thing Charles didn't do was announce any famous deaths. Which is a good thing.

We also reveal the winner of World Cup 2022, are distinctly unsurprised at Nintendo having no next gen console out in 2023, discuss Steam Deck game validation shenanigans and get a bit miffed at new(ish) game price drops! Meanwhile we have a date for our next Maraoke: Saturday 21st January. Further details can be found at the link below.

What did you get for Christmas? Have you ever told Charles Cecil a secret he couldn't keep?? Why not tell us all about it as well at [email protected] or drop us a letter in our Discord server. Link below!

Cheerio,

Team OLL x

Links:

The OLL Everything Link!:

http://hello.onelifeleft.com/

The Maraoke Everything Link!:

http://hello.marao.ke/

The Charles Cecil Twitter Link!

https://twitter.com/charlescecil

The Revolution Software Link!

https://revolution.co.uk/

Reviews:

Immortals: Fenix Rising

Disney Dreamlight Valley

Immortality

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