#538 - N-gaging

Welcome, dear listeners, to another podcast edition of the One Life Left video game radio show and another set of lovingly hand-crafted, "artisanal", show notes with zero AI influence whatsoever! This week Simon holds in his wee to bring you this show, we mention something questionable (but definitely biological so it's OK) at least twice, Ryan Reynolds' Wrexham football club (and nobody else) get promoted, games devs should get tip jars, COD players moan about something that nobody is forcing them to buy, Baldur's Gate 3 wins things and Charlesbot has some exclusive BAFTA after party gossip just for you! We also have computing memories and Ste plans to kill the games industry. Nothing major. Tell all your friends about us and get your friends to tell their friends and so on... Then everyone write us a letter!! We want so many that we can put on a Listener's Letters" special edition like what all the serious gaming podcasts do! Imagine that... Send your letters to [email protected]. Or pop across to our Discord server and leave a letter for us there. Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Reviews: Broken Roads Block Jam 3D Binairo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello listener! PhilBot here with this week's show notes for this week's show! On this week's podcast episode of One Life Left, Europe's first and only dedicated videogames FM radio show, the conversation includes: 1) Portugese Football Shops. 2) Apple Welcome Retro Emulators Back. 3) Microsoft Meddling with AI Support Bots. 4) Roblox Development Not Exploitation. 5) Absolute nonsense (From BAFTA). We also learn you can't cheat at Destiny plus more jokes and features from your hosts Steve and Bainsy: hosts of One Life Left - once considered one of the 10 best podcasts by a newspaper. There are also updates on Black Diamond and Maraoke. We need letters. We read your letters to everyone on each episode. Send your letters to [email protected]. Or join our Discord and send a letter there, on our Discord. Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Reviews: Balatro Assassin's Creed Odyssey Animal Crossing: New Horizons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're back after a week off due to globe trotting shenanigans aplenty! This week we have rumours from GDCs past, Simon's embarrasing embrace(r) story, Capcom are top of Metacritic/does anyone care about Metacritic anymore? Dragon's Dogma moaning, Shinobi (Guerrilla) Warfare and Ubisoft jump on the AI bandwagon! There's also a GDC 2024 report from Simon and Maraoke plus Black Diamond updates from S-T-E! We spoil you so much that we're going to take next week off to recuperate and hunt eggs. (Nah, I'm not doing the lazy "egg hunt" joke...) How much food do you think $70 should get you? Has OLL changed your life and, if so, how?? Let us know at [email protected]. Or join our Discord, leave a letter there, join in the chat and get to play "exclusive" OLL game Black Diamond! Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Reviews: Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story American Arcadia WarioWare: Get It Together! Animal Crossing: New Horizons PlayDate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's shenanigans afoot this week and it only dawned on me while putting these notes together of the potentially top level criminal activities afoot in the UK games industry! In amongst the weekly dose of totally innocent fare we have two seemingly unconnected stories from Simon: Peter Molyneux's car breaks down... Then Simon gets his car carjacked... Come to your own conclusions, dear listeners!! If anyone actually bothers to read these notes then I might've been too scared to even mention this - or I'll just be asked to change these notes if we're skirting too close to legal issues. It wouldn't be the first time I've Said Too Much Aaaanyway, yes, in One Life Left this week we have S-T-E not going on a long flight and he's still not a lawyer but he does continue to update his (so far) OLL Exclusive Game Black Diamond (join our Discord to play!), there's an EA Steam stealth drop, March 10th day happened again, EU check out Apple's Epic issues, Warner Brothers can't be bothered and the future of console hardware is dead. Again. Maybe. And, yes, Simon gets his car carjacked "live" on air mere days after going to a posh UKIE dinner with the great and the good of the UK games industry! (Except Peter Molyneux...) Don't forget (unless this is the first time you've heard) that there's a Resonance FM Fundraising Maraoke Special at Loading Bar Peckham in That London this coming Friday 15th March! Link for tickets and further details is below! Where has Simon been to with a snooker player? What games do you play on long flights?? Should One Life Left have their own annual awards??? Let us know at [email protected]. Or hit the link below to join our Discord server and leave a letter for us there! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ The Resonance FM Fundraising Maraoke Special Link!: https://lu.ma/58uqizlg The Resonance FM Fundraiser Link!: https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/fundraiser-events-2024 Reviews: Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake Animal Crossing: New Horizons Really Bad Chess Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Cocoon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we're riddled with doom, gloom and a cheat code that blows Hot Coffee cold! Hang on tight, this one's a rollercoaster... It includes a Helldiver 2 related ruse, Balatro ratings shenanigans, beer drinking in a playground and Charlesbot shows he's somewhat out of touch with modern Mums! On the exclusive podcast intro, Simon prepares himself a delicious pot noodle-esque "meal" that may or may not involve chicken. And don't forget the Resonance FM fundraising Maraoke on Friday 15th March! Link below! Meanwhile, as Phil the Undercaretaker awaits his meeting with HR for getting the boys to read "that" 80s cheat code, we ask you, dearest listeners, to please send us more letters as Phil is now banned from doing so. Send your letters to us at [email protected]. Or join our OLL Discord server and drop us a line on there. Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ The Resonance FM Fundraising Maraoke Special Link!: https://lu.ma/58uqizlg The Resonance FM Fundraiser Link!: https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/fundraiser-events-2024 Reviews: Deep Sea Adventure Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to another episode of One Life Left, dearest listeners! In this week's fun filled episode we discover that Xbox exclusives are no longer exclusives, Capcom go down the "better late than never" route for apologies, Doom is finally playable on a lawnmower and then there's something about Suicide Squad. In the podcast exclusive intro we discuss 'that' trailer... you know the one... Meanwhile we have a deep dive into games development as we find out more about another game that Ste has released into the wild (via our EXCLUSIVE OLL Discord server... link below!) See, you really are missing out if you're not on there... Friday 15th March - you're going to be at the Resonance FM Fundraising Maraoke event at Loading Bar, Peckham, yeah? Course you are because you're a wonderful human (that's not to say you're not wonderful if for some reason you can't be here, it's just that wonderful humans go to Maraoke events, innit...) Link Below! We love your lovely letters! Send us more to [email protected]. Or join the OLL Discord server that I mentioned above and leave us a letter on there. Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ The Resonance FM Maraoke Special Link!: https://lu.ma/58uqizlg The Resonance FM Fundraiser Link!: https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/fundraiser-events-2024 Reviews: Helldivers 2 Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! Belatro Sleeping Queens Rat-a-Tat Cat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello dearest listeners! This week Baldur's Gate 3 wins awards, the Silent Hill 2 remake trailer isn't good, we get an OG Tomb Raider game warning, Xbox hardware won't vanish and the Switch 2 gets delayed (maybe). Also Ste is not making a massively multiplayer game. Did we mention it would be cool if you could help Resonance FM by donating to them? Well the link to their 2024 Fundraiser is below! Do you know which game Ste is alluding to? Where were you in 1996?? Do you know how to play craps?! Then let us know at [email protected]. Or join our "exclusive" Discord server where the party never stops! Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ The ResonanceFM Fundraiser Link!: https://fundraiser.resonance.fm/fundraiser-events-2024 Reviews: Far Cry Primal Plateup! Elden Ring EA Sports FC Islands of Insight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello dearest listeners! This week in the podcast edition of the world's longest running (English language) video game radio show we have dangerous tree cutting, gaming based anxiety nightmares, children tell jokes, more Nintendo speculation and crazy price tag defence. Plus is it overtime or extra time and does anyone really care? *Warning* The podcast exclusive intro contains swears. The actual show might also have swears though we tried to BEEP them all. Just putting it out there in case anyone likes to listen to the show within earshot of young and/or impressionable people or if you're young and/or impressionable yourself. And if you listen to the show before reading these notes, well, we apologise for any offence caused. Do you have people who know? Or do you have a business dream or anxiety nightmare that you'd like us to analyse?? Let us know at [email protected]. Or join our dedicated Discord server where we have experts standing by 24/7! Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Reviews: Under Cover Celeste 64 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week in your single video game podcast that releases a single episode per week (most of the time) that covers industry news, new releases (often) and has smart thoughts and analysis (we try), we have Cliff Bleszinski waiting on a call from Microsoft, Ste cancels Netflix in anger, Hideaki Itsuno doesn't like fast travel and the Switch successor brags an 8" (screen). We also have a Pocket Gamer report and Charlesbot points the finger at fat cat bosses! Plus in our exclusive podcast intro section, Simon gives us a history of Phillip Schofield while Ste shows us a "behind the curtain" view of virtual studio use and the perils therein! WRITE TO US BECAUSE THE SHOW IS BETTER WITH YOU IN IT!! Please? Drop a letter to us at [email protected]. Or come along and join in the fun on our OLL Discord where the party never stops! Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Reviews: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth LEGO 2K Drive JAILBREAKER 51 Worldwide Games (as it's known in Europe & Australia, 51 Worldwide Classics everywhere else...) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You should always take your socks gaming with you. That may or may not be the important lesson to be learned in this week's episode, or I misheard something. Possibly that. On this week's RADIO SHOW that is also a podcast (but a RADIO SHOW first and foremost) we also find out what is "confusing AF" about Bluey's Xmas episodes, Palworld copies from Pokemon shocker, 8% of all devs are working on Switch 2, PS4 outsells XSX, 100 is small, Simon bursts into song and Charlesbot tries out his Australian accent! Plus there's a test run of our new trivia quiz that may never get repeated. Winner gets a pair of socks - the perfect co-op gaming companion! Things are getting dangerously low on the letters front, dear listeners! Beat those January blues by writing us a missive to [email protected]. Or come and join us in our OLL Discord and pop a letter for us on there. Link below! TTFN, Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything (including Discord) Link!: http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Purely OLL Discord Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The Maraoke Everything Link!: http://hello.marao.ke/ Reviews: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Pâquerette Down the Bunburrows Can of Wormholes Exiled Kyle is Famous Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices