John Christmas - #598

You better watch out, you better not cry, You better not pout, I'm telling you why... John Christmas is coming to tooooooooown! See?! It fits! This week we're wearing our gaudiest Xmas jumpers and talking Game Awards, Stranger MS Flight Sim Things, Xbox almost being 25 and Skyrim being out. Again. For the bulk of our last show of the year, though, we discuss our, and YOUR, games of 2025! Do you agree with our choices? Write in or join our Discord and let us know... If you're listening/reading this before Friday 19th December then THERE'S STILL TIME TO GET A TICKET FOR XMAS MARAOKE!!! Funnily enough it's on Friday 19th December at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London and tickets are available here: https://luma.com/jw1avrwi We'll be back in the New Year at some point. Write and let us know what John Christmas or Mr Presents brings you on the big day at [email protected] or ride a sleigh into our Discord and drop a letter on there. Link below! Happy Holidays and All The Best for '26! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ 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 OLL Games of 2025: Blue PrincePromise Mascot AgencyMany Nights a WhisperDespeloteThe Roottrees are DeadExpelled!Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Baby StepsDid I forget any? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we discuss the Black Friday sales results, the Monster Hunter Wilds director asking players to have another go, "learning" from Kojima, post Postal post AI post (I dunno...) and Something Something The Old Republic. There's also a Minecraft guide for parents and there's that game that Simon can't talk about. As promised in the show, here is a link to someone else not talking about the same game: https://auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11/05/igf-games-i-want-to-talk-about-2026/ It's Xmas Maraoke, that also doubles as our One Life Left Xmas Party, on Friday 19th December at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London. There are no Maraoke's planned for a while after this one so please come along or, if you can't, then encourage someone else to come in your place! Tickets are available here: https://luma.com/jw1avrwi It's your last chance to get a letter broadcast in 2025!! Maybe tell us what your top 5 games for 2025 are! Hurry up and tell us at [email protected] or hop onto our Discord and leave a letter there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind WakerTomb Raider: Definitive EditionAssassins Creed Shadows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dedication. Dedication. Dedicaaatioooon! That’s what you need. If you wanna be the best, and you wanna beat the rest. Oo-ooh dedication's what you need! Look, World Records is mentioned in this show and that got the theme tune to Record Breakers stuck in my head so I'm just sharing the joy/pain (delete as required)... Anyway, this week we have Valve banning horses, Crocs are Xbox, TimeSplitters Rewind finally enters Early Access while GoldenEye (devs) does/do word games, Vampire Survivors branch out and Lara Croft has more World Records than Ste! We also shoutout to Jingle Jam 2025, report back on Maraoke from last week and announce that our Xmas Maraoke is on Friday 19th December at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London. Tickets are available here: https://luma.com/jw1avrwi How much do you think Simon has spent on buying Skyrim since it first came out? Write in and tell us what you think to [email protected] or join our Discord to drop a letter on there AND get exclusive looks at whatever games Ste is making. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: MLB The Show 25TUNICLEGO Party!The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to another episode of the One Life Left RADIO SHOW: Podcast Edition!! No SSG this week but we do find out why Ste's neighbour has slapped an harassment order on him despite his new game and national newspaper fame while Simon has a second birthday LIKE ROYALTY! But, maybe, without all the controversies... Meanwhile Valve unveil new hardware that isn't spherical, worst games of 2025 are revealed, inconsistencies of the games industry are discussed and what exactly is a Silent Hill? DON'T FORGET!!! We have another Maraoke this week, well, this week as this episode goes live... Friday 21st November at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London. Tickets available here: https://luma.com/kuk1yz28 Keep sending in those letters to [email protected] or join our Discord to read breaking news before it's even breaking and pop a letter on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: G'AIM'ELUMiNES ariseWitchy BusinessTrash Goblin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Because, in life, that's all it ever really boils down to: fruit or vegetable? Trust me. This week there's drama at Rockstar x2, Switch 2 (still) sells a lot and Remake Vs Remaster... FIIIIIIGHT! Meanwhile Simon reads a book and Ste goes national (with maybe a little bit of 6-7ing on the side) before the boys have a brief disagreement over the length of the show! AND learn the origin of The Undercaretaker! Dun dun duuuun!! THERE'S ANOTHER MARAOKE COMING UP!!! Make sure you get along to this one and take a friend because it's a duet special. Or, make a friend there and sing a duet with them! Or just sing a regular song, I don't think duets are mandatory... Anyway, it's on Friday 21st November at Loading Bar, Stoke Newington, London, and you can get your tickets here: https://luma.com/kuk1yz28 Please do keep those letters rolling in to [email protected] or pop along to our Discord and drop us a line on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Star Wars Outlaws: DLCTrails in the Sky 1st ChapterStrange JigsawsFear the SpotlightIs This Seat Taken? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode finally gets released despite Bezos' best attempts to take us down last week! Today we have next Xbox speculation, Atari bring their competition back from the dead, McD x SF and Waze goes Sonic. We also have Simon breaking down the "grey" market and Ste accidentally getting involved with spies. Keep those letters rolling into us at [email protected] or join our Discord and leave a letter for us on there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Baby StepsThe DrifterPigmentsPromise Mascot Agency Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello and welcome to another episode of One Life Left! There's no super special guest this week but there's still LOTS of good stuff including the Switch 2 selling loads, MS denying that stores are ditching Xbox, Nintendo sparking Pikmin speculation and the majority of US gamers don't buy many games - according to some stats! We also have Simon reporting back from IndieDevDay 2025 in Barcelona, despite eating a dodgy burger, Ste reporting on last week's Maraoke, game dev struggles, auteurs in game dev and good games journalism and is it all connected?!? No, not the dodgy burger but all the other stuff. Maybe. The letters have been brilliant recently so PLEASE keep them coming to [email protected] or hop over into our Discord and drop us a letter there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Baby StepsCloverPitIs This Seat Taken?Star Wars Outlaws: Wildcard DLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dan Marshall put out a call and we answered that call for this week Dan joins us as our SSG! He's here talking all things Earth Must Die including influences , rubbing shoulders with comedians and dealing with Ste's puritanical Steam feed! We also have the MS Game Pass price hike, Lego Gameboys, Amazon Spring clean their game service yet again and Charlesbot writes a K-pop song! There's still time for YOU to get tickets for our next Maraoke event on Friday 10th October at Loading Bar, N16 0PH. Get them here: https://maraoke.com/booknow We are loving these letters! PLEASE keep them coming to [email protected] or join our Discord and drop a letter for us there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Baby Steps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Had this episode been released closer to Halloween, and/or I been a braver person, I would've given it the title "Grave Reads" because this week our Super Special Guest is none other than Sam Read-Graves, creator of the ONLY trolley problem themed video game worth YOUR time, funnily enough called Trolley Problem Inc. Sam is here to talk about development of his new game Task Time as well as how to not blow the budget when going to GDC. He's probably also very happy that I'm a wimp and decided not to go with my initial episode title. Meanwhile we have confessions, EA buyouts, GDC renames and Nintendo pop-ups! The Pickaxe Week 2025 edition of One Life Left IS still available HERE for those of you so inclined to check it out! The next Maraoke event is on Friday 10th October at Loading Bar, N16 0PH. You'll be wanting to buy your tickets here: https://maraoke.com/booknow PLEASE send more letters to [email protected] or pop into our friendly Discord and leave us a letter there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Star Wars OutlawsSuper Mario OdysseyUnfair FlipsCrash Bandicoot N. Sane TrilogySpyro Reignited Trilogy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bosched it is a new technical term invented by Ste and we want everyone to start using this until we start to hear it everywhere. Write in and give us some ideas as to the finer points of what it actually means. Meanwhile, this episode, we have Team OLL going on a ramble, Borderlands 4 hiccups, Lenovo Legion being too popular, fans resurrecting The Crew, EA release another footie game and Sega are still taking digs at Nintendo all these years on... If you are bothering to read this then, yep, the OLL appearance on the Yogscast Twitch channel for Pickaxe Week 2025 was... yesterday! However, until it disappears you can still catch it as a "recent broadcast" on Twitch HERE (and I might get the all clear to turn it into a bonus episode in future - I think it was quite a good show, anyway!) Don't forget we have a Maraoke event in October and you can get your tickets here: https://maraoke.com/booknow Thank you for all the letters this week, they were BRILLIANT!! The only thing is that we need more letters for next week, then the week after and the week after that. What I'm saying is PLEASE keep them coming!! Send your letters to [email protected] or join our Discord and drop them in the mailbag there. Link below! TTFN,Team OLL x Links: The OLL Everything Link!http://hello.onelifeleft.com/ The Maraoke Everything Link!https://hello.maraoke.com Block Words Link!https://blockwords.app/ The Shure link!https://tag.gs/OneLifeLeft_Shure Reviews: Super Mario Odyssey Sonic X Shadow Generations Mindset Go! TikTok effect house Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices