flipping brilliant - #627

This week we're effing bee, part of the global hype machine, remastering AND remaking and most definitely nuanced. We discuss Selfridges London going all in on GTA6, the Steam approval problematically slow process, the White House "borrowing" Zelda imagery and EA making a stir with their back catalogue. ResonanceFM, the home of our radio show, is putting on loads of fundraising events that you should definitely check out. You can get more info on them HERE! If you're listening to this before Friday 13th November then THERE IS STILL TIME TO GET TO OUR NEXT MARAOKE SHOW!!! Funnily enough it's on Friday 13th November, it's Maraoke's 15th birthday and it's at Loading Bar in Stoke Newington. You can get your tickets HERE! Are you a member of the band CHVRCHΞS and do you still listen to our show? Or maybe you just want to tell us what you have planned for the GTA6 launch! Or both! Or neither?! Write to us anyway at [email protected] or slide into our Discord and have a natter with us there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Website Linkhttps://www.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Synth RidersIs This Seat Taken?The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we have holibobs reports, Zelda's midnight Argos bash, Valve admitting visibility problems on Steam, AI in game development, AAA games mistreating early access, GTA6 plans, a vanity projects update and a transparent handheld?! I just can't see it... All in your latest podcast edition of the One Life Left radio show! If you go to the "Maraoke Everything Link!" down below, you will find your way to the NEW Maraoke website! Also - Friday 13th November is our next Maraoke AND it's also Maraoke's 15th birthday so you have to go!! It's at Loading Bar in Stoke Newington and you can get your tickets HERE! Have you ever been to any midnight game launches? Were you ever interviewed by either Simon or Ste at one in London many years ago? If so can you tell us all about it at [email protected] or join our Discord and tell us about it on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Website Linkhttps://www.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4Queen's DomainSynth Riders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You know the situation: you've just shopped your friends/colleagues to your bosses and have been gifted with a glorious free hour all to yourselves but don't know how to spend it? Well, worry no more because listening to the podcast edition of the longest running video game radio show (in the English language) is the answer! That's us, by the way: One Life Left. This week we have questionable Facebook connections, next gen price madness, Activision "top games" claim, ESA go after pirates, a Super Mario 64 mystery is finally revealed and GTA 6 will be able to get some awards, maybe, so we can all relax now! Ste also checks out a new twist on an old RPG (it's Daggerfall and a vid can be seen HERE) and Simon previews Call of Duty on his Switch with his Japanese friend. Friday 13th November could be lucky for you and is the date you should, by now, know off by heart as being set for the next Maraoke event at Loading Bar in Stoke Newington. We promise not to close the venue and run off with your money! Get your tickets HERE! We're off next week so you have bags of time to get some letters to us at [email protected] or join our Discord and contact us there. Link below! We're not sponsored by Amazon in any way but might be open to negotiations, Jeff! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link (possibly still broken!)http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure The Daggerfall MMO link!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0LWKKO12M Reviews: Order of the Sinking StarStar Wars: Galactic Racer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You know the old adage: Wait ages for one Super Special Guest and then two arrive at once! Well, dear listeners, today we do indeed have TWO SSGs! We're joined in this episode by Matthew and Luke from Gilded Rune Games telling us all about life as a small indie dev company and Dupery, their latest game which is out tomorrow/Thursday 15th October! We also chat about the Gamestop PS markup, the lack of GTA 6 on Switch, Kotick coming "back" and a 2 year old game already becoming unplayable. Plus this episode find out the game that Ste once thought was terrible but grew to love and we have a new website! Same old URL, sparkly new design... Maraoke? Maraoke! Friday 13th November at Loading Bar in Stoke Newington is the place it's at! Grab your tickets HERE! Come on, buck up your ideas and get us some letters! Send them to us at [email protected] or hop into our Discord and write to us us there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link (possibly still broken!)http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: AmbidextroShape of DreamsOrder of the Sinking Star Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the longest running Celebrity Traitors radio show (podcast edition)! Only joking... or am I?!? This week we have Dan Houser avoiding GTA 6, RAM shortages continue, 8-bit handhelds delayed, OLL listeners battle via the medium of letters, AI game remixes and our intrepid hosts go and meet up with Dominik Diamond! Friday 13th November is still the next date for Maraoke that I'm pushing on here and it's at Loading Bar in Stoke Newington. Get your tickets HERE! Superb work on the letters front this week, listeners! Get into another fight with each other and send letters to us at [email protected] or join our Discord and provide filler/content for us there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link (possibly still broken!)http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: The Witcher III: Wild Hunt - RemasteredNo Man's SkyThe Jackbox Survey ScrambleFibbage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, dearest listeners, we have life being too short to grind in Final Fantasy VII Revelation, Sony taking payments through their controllers, Rockstar peddle collector's editions without games and the war of football games continues! We also cover the recent Game Anglia Direct 2026 and ponder will GTA 6 change everything?!? MARAOKE IS GETTING A REBOOT!!! Well, OK, Ste says "relaunch" during this episode but I've gone for a more "gaming" term which is possibly, technically, incorrect but I'm sticking with it. Anyway, Friday 13th November is the potentially lucky day and it's at Loading Bar in Stoke Newington down in that there London! You will want to get tickets from this link HERE! One letter does not a mailbag fill, dear listeners!!! Please write some more letters to us at [email protected] or you could always join our Discord and drop a line for us on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link (possibly still broken!)http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33A Plague Tale: Requiem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we have Ste encouraging bad behaviour, Simon having a wee next to someone famous, WD40 seemingly working and then not, crunch time (again), the GTA 6 soundtrack, God of War "not exciting", Nighthawks "not filth" and a grown adult man lets his child wrack up a huge debt on his company credit card. Yep. Oh, it's video game related, though. You can't chuck a stone in here without hitting an OLL Vanity Project at the moment and we launch one of them LIVE on this very episode! Please do check out our Discord for links, updates, scores, bragging etc. Link below! Keep sending in those letters, please! Hurl them in our direction at [email protected] or join our Discord to drop a line on there. Link, as already mentioned, is below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link (possibly still broken!)http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Block Words Astro Bot LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Leap Year Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to another episode of the podcast edition of One Life Left, the world's longest running radio show about video games (in the English language)! This week Mark Cerny personally congratulates Simon and Ste might be on a list but never mind that - we have an SSG! We're joined by Luke Caspar Pearson, Associate Professor and Co-Director of Cinematic and Videogame Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He's here to talk about his new book "Videogame Architecture: Building Virtual Spaces" - a book so big that it won't even fit on an Ikea Kallax shelf! (Other shelving systems are available). Other topics this week include the recent Nintendo Direct, Tetris vs Trump, Resident Evil movie comedy cuts and a Skyrim X Ikea mashup. Another Ikea mention?! Do we want sponsorship from them?? Six years! Six years I've been writing these! You'd think I'd be better at it by now! A letter is like a creative part of your very soul and we want you to feed them to us!! That's right, feed your souls to us at [email protected] or join our Discord and leave some tasty letters for us to consume on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link (possibly still broken!)http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: PlayStation PortalMarvel's Spider-Man 2Astro BotSelacoPhonopolis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The new season of One Life Left starts here! Don't know who we are?? Well, we're only the world's longest running video game radio show in the English language, that's what! This is the podcast edition of said radio show. Hello! Don't let the fact that we have 618 previous episodes (not including specials) behind us scare you. Jump aboard! The main things to remember are it's the hope that kills you, it's always never F-Zero, fewer not less and 7/10 is the only review score. Your hosts are Ste Curran and Simon Byron. Simon's mic is usually better than in this episode and it will be sorted. I am the Undercaretaker, a shadowy figure who mostly writes nonsense that sometimes touches on things that actually happened in the show. With that in mind, a link to the OLL Discord is HERE. Please don't try to scam us. This week our intrepid hosts talk about their Summer arcade experiences, Deal!, eclipses, GTA6 (of course!), Xbox capping the cloud, how Sonic gets away with using guns (and what else he could possibly now get up to...), Sony/Digital/"own" vs "licence" continuing shenanigans and the Lego PlayStation! We also talk about gamescom 2026 (yes it is all lower case) and, of course, Maraoke! Speaking of Maraoke: Reading this before Friday 11th September 2026? Got any plans for Friday 11th September 2026? No? Well you do now! Come to Maraoke at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, LONDON at 7pm and JOIN US! Find out more details HERE! Do you want a refund despite the fact that you're getting this for free? Or want to write us a letter in case there's a chance of winning a prize, or just out of the goodness of your heart?!? Well then send something to us at [email protected] or join our Discord and leave us a letter and/or chat to us there! Link above AND below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link (possibly still broken!)http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion RemasteredThe Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium TalesPlayStation PortalMarvel's Spider-Man 2Shoe it All! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

...For Summer! It's End of Term but rather than watch films in our own clothes all day while the teachers neck vodkas in the staff room we decided we'd smack one more episode out of the park for YOU! So this week we briefly gloss over the football, despite EA being right again, and discuss yet more physical media axing shenanigans (that GameStop doesn't care about), CoD lobby 'banter', a Mii return, The Charles Cecil Patented Sleep Technique and what exactly is a Tōkon, Gillen?? There's also Summer Holiday plans, definitely not a review of Pragmata but you do get a brief review of Develop:Brighton, using Wiki to read the plots of things we can't be bothered to watch/play/read/continue with (if it's not already been called this then I'm starting here: WikiSkipping!), Andy Burnham's plans for gaming and, AND, a load of your blooming lovely letters!! Thank you, all! So, yes, it's now the Summer Holidays and you'll have to amuse yourselves until we return in September but please don't be strangers! You can still write letters/send e-postcards to us at [email protected] or keep in touch with us and other OLL listeners on our Discord! Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link (possibly still broken!)http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The OLL Discord Link!https://discord.gg/pdtGYvFx8r The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Mindset GO! Link!https://mindset.game/ Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Mario Tennis Fever Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices