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This episode, dear listeners, we find out the latest chapter in The Life Of Simon's Steam Deck - what you hear might shock you! Also, yes, I might've thrown the word "Zelda" into the title to see if it affects download numbers BUT we do a deep dive into the latest Zelda game and why it may or may not be for YOU. Or just what Simon and Ste think, anyway.  Meanwhile, we discover Simon only has two hands, Ste can't be hurt anymore, Yuji Naka plays The Escapists for research purposes (maybe) and The Lord of the Rings must always have TM at the end (possibly) but Gollum is still bad. No, really. He's an evil character with no real redemptive arc. He just goes along with things and destroys the ring accidentally through his own desire to own it! What do you mean you didn't know that? The book is 68-9 years old and the last movie came out almost 20 years ago, it's not a spoiler anymore! Next you'll be saying you never knew Rosebud was a sled and the cake was a lie! Ah, who am I kidding - nobody reads this anyway!

From Simon's trampolining skills and Fast Five Favourite Golf Games to Ste's love of cricket and impending trip to Wembley to see Stockport County FC, this is very much The Sport Episode! Apart from when it's a Zelda Episode... and a Sinden Lightgun Episode... But still mainly Sport. Welcome to One Life Left, a radio show/podcast about video games! To prove that we also discuss a game price push back, Zelda selling 10million units in 3 days, Disney tweaking Speedstorm, "exclusive" details from the upcoming 2023 PlayStation Showcase, backseat gaming and Mortal Kombat Discord Discourse. Ste also goes tops off in the exclusive podcast intro. We spoil you!  Tell us your thoughts about Kingdoms of Wanderlust! Write in with your questions, observations and/or musings to team@onelifeleft.com or join our Discord and leave 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/ Sinden L

Welcome once again, dearest listeners, to another episode of One Life Left. A video game radio show and "home" of Mortal Kombat news! This week we talk about a new game about 80's puppet sensation Terrahawks' main baddie, Zelda, there's MTV Awards shenanigans, Asus has a Steam Deck rival, Simon builds a terrifying trampoline terrifyingly and, yes, the MS/Activision deal is still crawling along. It just won't go away. Like COVID! Which reminds me... this is the 100th episode since the first "Lockdown" edition!! Wow... how far we've come, eh listeners?!  Meanwhile we have an SSG in the form of James Parker from Ground Shatter, here to talk about Fights in Tight Spaces coming to Playstation and Switch, fact checking Mortal Kombat news and DLC teasing, amongst many other things...  There's also another Maraoke coming up on Saturday 20th May at Sub Zero in That London. All the deets at the link below! Do you think the MS/Activision saga will ever end?! Write in and let us know at team@onelifeleft.com or roll ac

The original 15 minutes of this episode was so hilarious, so gut-punchingly incendiary and close to the bone that MI5 burst through all our doors, closed the whole thing down and made us start again from scratch. At gunpoint. Like anyone would believe that Ste could forget to press the record button after 17 years of doing this?! Ha! We're just too edgy and dangerous for The Man! Welcome to the latest episode of One Life Left - video game related radio show, podcast and the cool kid all your parents warned you about. Yeah.  This week's Super Special Guest is Tony Gowland, here to talk about upcoming game Dungeon Golf, public playtests, solving the Rubik's Cube and The King! We also deal with Phil Spencer admitting defeat, upcoming RPG Street Fighter 6 aiming for 10 million sales, Respawn apologising for Jedi's acting badly and Karl Urban plays Mortal Kombat 2... or something. Then there's more news, letters, reviews and general edginess than you can shake a stick at.  Have you been sent emails with "flesh"

Welcome, dear listeners, to another episode of One Life Left, the podcast edition of the video game radio show that is occasionally actually about video games! This week we even have a Super Special Guest: (almost veteran) Steve Hollis from Noisy Head Games! Here to talk about Beyond the Long Night (out now!) and the fact that he won at Easter this year with his Super Special Egg that included chunky dinosaurs! We also have Sega going angry birdwatching, cheese straw inflation, Super Mario & Nintendo troll Maraoke and Charlesbot v1.0 speaks elvish for YOU for FREE!! Meanwhile, find out where the cheapest place to pre-order Tears of the Kingdom is. The answer will astonish you! Who, me? Being click-baity?! Never...  Tickets for our next Maraoke event are already available and we're not even out of April yet! It's on Saturday 20th May at Sub-Zero - link down below! Should we put Ste on a Performance Improvement Plan? Have you ever met Cliff Bleszinski?? Have you got another video game based question and/or m

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 sen

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 team@onelifeleft.com or join

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 tri

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

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 team@

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 team@onelifeleft.com or pop across to our Discord server and leave a messag

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 team@onelifeleft.com 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/ Revie

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 team@onelifeleft.com 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

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 team@onelifeleft.com 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.ba

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 team@onelifeleft.com or drop us a letter in our Discord server. Link below! Cheerio, Team OLL x Links: The OLL E

Ho, ho and, indeed, ho, dear listeners! Welcome to the last One Life Left of the year. Snow and freezing temperatures are no match for us! This week we find out that the latest in the neverending Microsoft/Activision saga sees MS making Xbox smaller, who the Game Award's biggest winners were, a new game related Lego Minifig is spotted in the wild plus a World Cup 2022 update: it will definitely be one of the remaining teams who win. We also have a GOTY breakdown and Alice Curran: Game Designer At Large gives us her top 10 games of the 2022! Our Super Special Guest this week is Stuart Maine from Well Played Games who talks about his 26 years in games dev, working with Andy McNab, his book on first person shooters (link below!) and what colour his next games will be. Meanwhile, in our Exclusive Podcast Intro, we talk about what we're doing over the Xmas holidays and try to name what's on Stuart's shelves! Phil the Undercaretaker has definitely not overdubbed himself on this bit due to the audio file going won

Welcome, welcome, once again, to another podcast episode of One Life Left. This week, blow me down with a feather, we have yet another Super Special Guest! Aesir Interactive's Alice Ruppert joins us to talk about horses! Not just any old horses, though. It's all about horses in gaming, of course! We learn about bad horse implementation, what to look for in game horses and find out which game really doesn't prioritise their horses! The answer may surprise you... Plus, amongst many other things, we talk about Simon's adventures in rollercoastering, The Callisto Protocol DLC shenanigans, Jingle Jam 2022 and Nolan Bushnell's little Pong turns 50! We then stick a cherry on top with another game from Alice Curran: Game Designer At Large! Next episode is our last ever episode. This year. So keep an eye on our Discord server at around 7pm on Sunday 11th December if you want to join us live. Meanwhile, do you have unfeasibly large headphones? Or want to tell us about your first Pong experience? Then write to us at t

Welcome to another episode of One Life Left, dear listeners! This week's Super Special Guest (yes, we have one!!) is Sos Sosowski, talking about McPixel, making bad video games and working with Devolver! We also predict football scores (which will be history by the time you read/listen to this...), wonder why Square Enix Montreal are closing games, demand more death animations and ponder flying boats. There's also another glorious new game design from Alice Curran: Game Designer At Large! Meanwhile, send us a letter! You know you want to... ask us anything! Fire them to us at team@onelifeleft.com or post a question on our Discord server as well as getting involved in some video game and show related banter. Link below! Cheerio! Team OLL x Links: The OLL Discord Server Link!: https://discord.gg/nzcMpvbCpk The OLL Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/onelifeleft The Maraoke Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/singmaraoke Sos Sosowski Twitter Link!: https://twitter.com/Sosowski McPixel 3 Link!: https://www.m

Welcome to this week's episode, dear listeners! The second episode on the run with an SSG! Can we hit the magic number 3?! You'll just have to find out next week... Our Super Special Guest this episode is old friend & contributor of the show Adam Avatar who, amongst talking about award winning past features on the show, tells us what he's getting up to nowadays and what shoes he wears when he's doing it! We also have some hot laptop action, learn about One Life Left protocols whilst also breaking them, discover all second worlds must be "desert" and that Scalper Bots are getting bored with the PS5 (and don't even seem to be bothered about Taylor Swift tickets...) We also have another hot new game from Alice Curran: Game Designer At Large, gain some insight into video game sales from Simon and get an update on Ste's Maraoke globetrotting. Have I mentioned the podcast also has an exclusive intro that never gets broadcast on the radio?? We spoil you. Do you wear shoes? Have you ever been involved in a lengthy

And lo it did come to pass, dear listeners, that One Life Left didst finally get a Super Special Guest! Yep, you read that right: This week we have an SSG! And, no, it's not just Phil again! On this very episode we have none other than Sam Collins from UKIE joining us in the (virtual) studio to talk about Access November and the Guildford Games Festival amongst other things. We also bet all our money on Argentina to win World Cup 2022 thanks to EA, find out what not to stick in a toaster and discover Simon can no longer be bothered with Skyrim! Plus there's more from Alice Curran: Game Designer At Large and an impromptu Simon Byron's Fast Five - Games That Came Out Of Guildford! Have you ever been beaten by a button masher? Have you been a button mashee?? Confess your greatest gaming sins to us and repent! Repent! Or just ask us any old question at team@onelifeleft.com or amble over to our Discord server where you can chat with like-minded One Life Left listeners and post a question there. Link below! Cheer