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Ann Life Left, much like a total lunar eclipse, does not happen often. And when it does you'd better make sure you're around to see it live, because releasing it as a podcast will usually take in excess of a week. That's how a lunar eclipse works, right? It's all worth it though, because here she is - the Scanters' Party Quiz edition! Two teams. Some ill-conceived quiz formatting. Questions about videogames that are probably correct. BUZZERS AND BELLS. Super big thanks to Ed, Claire, Simon and Hannah for being the teams. They really were good teams (although, without giving anything away, one was better than the other). See you next time Ste and Simon go on a naked fishing holiday together! Ann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We know, you're upset that Lulzsec have disbanded. But this world just isn't big enough for both them and One Life Left to be around in. What we're trying to say is we're back, Back, BACK! With a new website, a new scoring system and some new features. Well, two out of three isn't that bad. Or is it one out of three? In this week's episode we also speak to our super-special guest Adam Marsh from www.16bits.co.uk about how to pick up strange men on trains using a 3DS. Occasionally we mention his website, but as it's about games we keep it to a safe minimum. Other subjects we touch on are Ste and Ann's superhero alter-egos, people spotting Derek live on the show, the perils of finding a replacement for Taliah and Simon's strange hand gestures. So another game-centric episode in other words. Also feel free to contact us via the usual address if you would like to contribute to the show, or just send us a letter if you want. Cheerio! Team OLL Tracklist: VCMG - Caffeine Pirates with Paper Hats

E3 2011 is three weeks away. Or is it? Join Simon, Ann and games industry luminaries Michael French (editor-in-chief, MCV) and Nicholas Lovell (director, Gamesbrief.com) as they: * Talk about E3s gone by. Learn all about the time Simon heard actual gunshots, the cost of EA's screen, and whether a $7billion party is a good idea * Spoil E3 2011 by revealing what will be announced. We go there so you don't have to go there. * Forget to properly credit the music tracks, most of which are from 8BC or YouTube. Next week, Ste will be back from the pub to present another OLL spin-off. Or is it Ann Life Left? I don't think we ever got to the bottom of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last week’s theme was 'Building'. You can listen to Episode 6 here. This is the last episode of No Continues for the forseeable future. Thank you for your feedback and for enduring our experiment. There'll be news on One Life Left's return very soon. Watch our Twitter feed for more information. love, Team OLL / NC xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last week’s theme was 'Physics'. You can listen to Episode 5 here.   Next week’s theme is ‘Building’. The three games chosen for dissection by NC this week are: 1. Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov, 1984) Play it everywhere. I mean, come on. http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2376198867 or http://www.freetetris.org/   2. Bridge Builder (Chronic Logic, 2000) All kinds of versions available here. http://www.chroniclogic.com/main.htm   3. Minecraft (Markus Persson, 2009) Play it here: http://www.minecraft.net/   Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we’ll see you back here for the podcast. Team NC xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last week’s theme was ‘Platforms’. You can listen to Episode 4 here.   Next week’s theme is ‘Physics’. The three games chosen for dissection by NC this week are: 1. Thrust (Jeremy Smith, 1986) Play it here. http://joncom.be/experiments/thrust/play/   2. Peggle (Sukhbir Sidhu / Brian Rothstein, 2007) You can find this on most formats now -- the PC version is here (http://www.popcap.com/games/peggle/pc) but the iPod version comes recommended too.    3. GIRP (and QWOP) (Dr. Bennett Foddy, 2011) Play it here: http://www.foddy.net/   Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we’ll see you back here for the podcast. Team NC xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last week’s theme was ‘Simulation’. You can listen to Episode 3 here. Next week’s theme is ‘Platforms’. The three games chosen for dissection by NC this week are: 1. Chuckie Egg (A&F Software, 1983) Play it here: http://www.repton3.co.uk/ 2. Super Mario World (Nintendo, 1990) Best played on the SNES, of course, but you'll be able to emulate it with no problem (assuming you own the original, of course, or whatever the spurious piracy-enabling reason du jour is). There are remakes and reissues available for the Game Boy Advance, Wii and GameCube, so I'd favour those if you can't find the original cartridge. 3. Knytt Stories (Nifflas, 2007) Play it here: http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt+Stories Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we’ll see you back here for the podcast. Team NCxx Learn more about

No Continues is One Life Left’s off-season weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last week’s theme was ‘Adventure’. You can listen to episode 2 here*.   Next week’s theme is ‘Simulation’. Ignore what we said at the end of Episode 2, because the three games chosen for dissection by NC this week are:   1. Populous (Bullfrog, 1989)   NOTE: THIS REPLACES CIVILISATION / OPENCIV.   Not easy. There's a Master System version online here, but the best way is to follow these instructions.   2. Sim City (Maxis, 1989)   Playable online via this link (only works in Internet Explorer) or through DOSbox emulation by downloading here. There are also iPhone / Android versions; since we're talking about the art of building a city rather than anything relating to the original version, those will suffice.     3. Photopia (Peter Favaro, 1986)   Play it here.   Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday e

No Continues is One Life Left's off-season Weekly book / game club. Each week the team discuss three different games that incorporate a single theme. Last week's theme was 'Mazes'. You can listen to episode 1 here.   Next week's theme is 'Adventure'. The three games chosen for dissection by NC this week are:   1. The Legend of Zelda (NES, 1986) Play it here.   2. The Secret of Monkey Island (LucasArts, 1990) PC version available through Steam, iPhone / iPod Touch   3. Photopia (Adam Cadre, 1998) Play it here.   Play, listen and contribute to the show live on Resonance 104.4FM at 7pm on Monday evening, or we'll see you back here for the podcast.   Team NC xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the very last episode of Season 6 and that means the team, typically, are in a boistrous, last-day-of-school mood. Which is fortunate because they've only got one pre-recorded feature and an hour of airtime to fill. So, videogames, eh? What're they all about? And etc. Spring Break!   Also in #144:   ++ Lots of pre-GDC chat. How accurate were our predictions? Did we even predict anything, or just giggle a lot?    ++ OLL retrofuturespective discussion: a bit of looking backwards, a dash of looking forwards. Do we have any plans? What are those plans? Oh.   ++ Some news, some reviews, some OBE-chat. You know the drill. It's been a long season. And a fun one, right? Right? Right?   And that's it. One Life Left will be back in April. But keep your ears on Resonance 104.4FM and your eye on this feed because we'll be doing other things in between.   love,   Team OLL   PS If you want to contribute to the new series of OLL get in touch.   PPS See you soon! Love you xxxxx Learn more about your a

Ste's back and it's his birthday -- twenty-one again, etc. But more importantly, perhaps, it's Valentines day which means the One Life Left studio is full of love. For videogames? Well, some of them...     Also in this episode:   ++ Ste finds out about plans for the fifth anniversary party   ++ Ste finds out what Simon and Ann talked about last week   ++ Ste finds out why he shouldn't let the other two run the show for a week   Of course, the positive thing about episode #142 was that it appeared, albeit HIDEOUSLY TAGGED, on the internet less that 24 hours after recording. This is not the case here, obviously. Sorry! But it won't be a problem for Season 7. More details to follow...   See you on Monday for the final show of the year.   love,   Team OLL xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wait! Check your calendars. Is it a Thursday? No. A Friday? Nope. SaturdaySundayWednesday? Sorry. Maybe it’s Monday at 7:00pm and you are listening live? Then how comes you’re on a bus or a train or running a run or something? Yep, as a sort-of apology for our recent lack of podcasting urgency, we present yesterday’s show. If you touch it you will see it is still warm. So, in our penultimate penultimate show of this series: STE! Banished from the studio for being too damn sexy! SIMON and ANN! Host! LEO TAN! Returns. Fine music is played, members of the games industry who have been honoured by the Queen are threatened with extreme physical violence, and we have four EXCELLENT features. It is an okay show. 7/10. Hey, we’re not here next week – but please don’t let that stop you from writing us words, We’ve had few suggestions on how to further our OBE/MBE/C3PO aspirations, so get cracking on those.And if you can't think of anything, write us a letter anyway - we will literally be giving away T-shirts o

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 honoured by HRH The Best Queen Ever   + OH MY GOD WHAT DO WE DO EVERYTHING'S BROKEN   + A review section manfully steered by Simon as Ste tries to put out bits of the studio that are (metaphorically???) on fire   Audio levels are a bit of a mess, particularly during the reviews section. As always we've tried to fix it in post production but it's not the best. Apologies for that.   Next week: Simon and Ann do the show on their own. Probably for the best.   See you soon!   Team OLL xx PS I said this last week, and the week before that, but it deserves repeating for a second time: PLEASE remember to

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. That would be awkward.   Things we remember:   1) Some chat about the new OBE adventure.   2) ... Music? Features? More Taliah?   3) That's it.   See you shortly for part 3, which was a ludicrous nightmare for all kinds of reasons. But definitely fun.   love,   Team OLL xxx   PS I said this last week but it deserves repeating: PLEASE remember to follow us on Twitter / Facebook / tell your friends / etc. We rely on word of mouth for publicity. WE NEED YOU AND CHERISH EVERY PIECE OF HELP YOU GIVE US. Thank you, thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 perilously close to the washing machine)...   2) Last week's episode, which didn't record (because we had to borrow one from Resonance, which turned out not to work) but we're hoping for a bootleg copy tomorrow...   and 3) Tomorrow's episode, which you can hear live on Resonance 104.4FM or streamed at www.resonancefm.com at 7pm. Normally we'd tell you to wait for the podcast, but, etc.   We'll be addressing our 'timing' 'issues' in Season 6*,    In this episode, the first of the trilogy, please find some minor amount of videogame discussion alongside One Life Left's plans for 2011 and lots of brilliant musi

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 return from three days of drinking at All Tomorrows Parties, stumbling croak-voiced through the episode, guided by Ann and her celebratory mince pies   ++ Simon interviews Edgar Wright! That is actually true. The mince pies thing is true too, but still.   ++ Ann recalls the best news stories of the year and invents a new party game to do with numbers! She genuinely saves this episode.    Good on her. And good on you, too, for listening to us in 2010. We've had a wonderful time and are totally grateful for all your letters, tweets, comments and downloads. We'll thank you properly at our CHRISTMAS PARTY, which

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 issue of the lateness of the podcast pops up again. At least it's out in the same week this time. Sorry, listener(s).   ++ Once again we claim we're going to riff on something AND NEVER DO. I think we must have done that at least a dozen times across the last five years. Still, at least it gives you something to write in about, right?   ++ We also threw a fake rock-star-style hissy fit at Resonance before the show started because The Bike Show was hosting a live caller and we like to pretend they get treated better than we do. Which frankly they probably should, but that's not the point, because they don't.

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 ++ Ann talks. Just generally, she talks The name of the episode implies we would like you to send us post. That is still true. We would also like you to come to our Christmas Party. Invite inside the show, or on Facebook, or on our Twitter, etc. Come to our Christmas Party! love Team OLL xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 to flaunt our review policy.    Also:    ++ Reviews, news, gossip and EXCLUSIVE information about the seque   ++ Information about the One Life Left Christmas Party (17th December!)   ++ A brilliant new track by the doyouinverts   One Life Left will be away next Monday (Ste's in Lyon) but back the week after when we'll have more information about the party and all kinds of other stuff. We're sure. We haven't exactly worked it out yet. Ten days is AGES away.   In the meantime, email us, say hi on Twitter, spread the word about the show and we'll add you to our special LOYAL LISTENER lists, etc.   love

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 an attempt to cash in on Simon's notoriety. The other option was to put it up as late in the day as possible, ie on the Monday of the next episode, which is what's happening.   Please find enclosed one episode of One Life Left, featuring Leo Tan, some amazing music, excellent contributions from Derek and Duncan, and us. Being idiots.   Tune in to Resonance 104.4FM tonight at 7pm to hear a better one. Promise.   Team OLL xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices