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Gaming podcasts for cool dudes
LewieP
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This is a thread about Gaming podcasts.
It is inspired by my recent discovery of One Life Left. They are relaunching tonight, hosted by Eurogamer. These guys started off doing an FM radio show, but now are going to be podcasting live (I have absolutely no idea how that works...). They all speak with British accents, which you yanks all seem to love, and they are very funny and entertaining.
The show starts at 8pm GMT, which is a different time in different places... (if someone translates it for me I will edit this) but will still be hosted for listening afterwards. You guys should all check it out.
I also listen to the Penny-Arcade podcast whenever they come up, it's really cool to hear Gabe and Tycho discussing the creation of a comic, and just talk in general. These are posted on the Penny-Arcade homepage whenever they record one. I'm sure you guys have heard of the comic.
The 1up Games For Windows podcast is quite fun, they are very tangential, if you like that kind of thing. Obviously focused on PC games, but cover other topics like the industry in general. Best enjoyed with a nice glass of Single Malt.
Platformers.net is a great little podcast, started out on these very forums, depending on how long you've been here you might recognise a bunch of the names, and a few of them still post here (and I bet more of them lurk). They really manage to keep the balance between indie and professional. I tried to appear as a guest once, but technical difficulties prevented me. The site is much more than just a podcast now as well, lots of great news and opinion-pieces. It's very community based and always looking for contributions, so if you want a soapbox to shout from, head here.
Game Theory is incredibly intelligent. Very industry based (great for business geeks like me) and they always have fantastic guests. Great at cutting through the bullshit of press releases, and getting to the heart of the goings on of the games industry.
What other Podcasts do you guys listen to regularly?
It is inspired by my recent discovery of One Life Left. They are relaunching tonight, hosted by Eurogamer. These guys started off doing an FM radio show, but now are going to be podcasting live (I have absolutely no idea how that works...). They all speak with British accents, which you yanks all seem to love, and they are very funny and entertaining.
Dear Eurogamer Readers,
Hi! Thanks for having us. We are excited.
And we will start by stating the obvious: One Life Left isn't for everyone.
We think some of you will love it, join in, become part of our team. That would be great. More on that later. But if videogames are your life, are absolutely everything to you, if you scowl and spit at those who take the name in vain, it is likely you will hate us. That's fine too! See, the thing is: we do not take gaming very seriously. We love videogames! We really do. We have been living with them for a very long time and we also know that, as well as being beautiful and thrilling and addictive and all kinds of wonderful, they are more often than not crazy-stupid. So is the games industry that produces them. And so are we, so our show is stupid too.
But that's OK! There are lots and lots of game podcasts that are tough, hardcore gaming men sat around a desktop microphone gossiping about this week's biggest gaming rumours, that promise hard facts and definitive reviews. We're not one of those. We have news, reviews, features and music, but really we're a radio show about videogames that mostly talks about anything but. Audio dieticians might suggest you take One Life Left in addition to something else to maintain a healthy life balance. We'd suggest you listen to us and, if you can digest what you hear, join us.
If you're already a listener, hello again. It's good to see you. Nothing is going to change: same old us, same old format, same old jokes. If you're starting right now here is a guide to the things you need to know:
One Life Left is presented by three people.
Ste Curran makes games. He is Creative Director at Zoe Mode, a games developer in Brighton currently working on several unannounced next-generation console games. He used to be Editor-at-Large of Edge Magazine.
Simon Byron promotes games. He is a Director at Barrington Harvey, an important PR agency who do PR for lots of important videogames. He used to be Editor of Amiga magazine 'The One'.
Ann Scantlebury ignores games. She is a student at Goldsmiths in London. She has barely any interest in games at all! Although she played Forza quite recently. And expressed some disgust at Viva Piñata.
One Life Left also features guests, interviews and phonecalls with whoever we fancy chatting to that week.
Sometimes it is no one! Sometimes it is someone very important, like Tom or Ellie or someone very important. It is rarely anyone particularly super-crucial to that week's news - we just talk to people we like who like games. Essentially we have filtered the videogame industry so you don't have to.
Talking of which. We have lots of regular contributors who produce tiny two-minute features. Many of One Life Left's feature producers are secret games industry superstars in disguise. Guessing who they are is part of the fun.
Currently on the One Life Left Feature rotation roster:
Free Market Economy:
Derek Williams, a market trader from Doncaster, provides One Life Left's equivalent of a chart rundown. He plays synthpop and explains what business has been like on his stall this week.
A Pint of Rice Wine and a Packet of Octopus Please:
Ray Silvergun works in Tokyo for a well-known Japanese developer. Every episode Ray teaches you a Japanese word with working examples drawn from daily frustrations.
Craig 'The Rage' McClelland:
Furious poet McClelland reads from his one of his many videogame anthologies, each a punchy, rhythmic work on the nature of play.
Taliah:
Seven-year-old Taliah reviews Nintendo games because Nintendo games are for kids.
You'll also learn to love Ann Fiction, the doyouinverts, Simon Byron's PR Tips, David McCarthy, Odds On O'D's Gaming Tips, The Top 5, One Listener Left and maybe even the fabled 'Uncle Charles, Uncle Charles Is Gaming Cool Yet?' There are dozens more on hold and new ones waiting in the wings. You will get to hear them in time if you stay with us. Or maybe you can be one.
You make the show as much as we do.
See, the big thing, maybe the biggest thing about One Life Left is that we rely on listener contributions: letters, emails, MP3s and (soon, hopefully) Skype-in phonecalls. The show is full of in-jokes but they all include you.
So again: hello! We are One Life Left and we would love it if you could join us. We might see you later today and if you miss that, you can always find us (and recordings of the shows) on our website.
See you!
Ste, Simon and Ann
The show starts at 8pm GMT, which is a different time in different places... (if someone translates it for me I will edit this) but will still be hosted for listening afterwards. You guys should all check it out.
I also listen to the Penny-Arcade podcast whenever they come up, it's really cool to hear Gabe and Tycho discussing the creation of a comic, and just talk in general. These are posted on the Penny-Arcade homepage whenever they record one. I'm sure you guys have heard of the comic.
The 1up Games For Windows podcast is quite fun, they are very tangential, if you like that kind of thing. Obviously focused on PC games, but cover other topics like the industry in general. Best enjoyed with a nice glass of Single Malt.
Platformers.net is a great little podcast, started out on these very forums, depending on how long you've been here you might recognise a bunch of the names, and a few of them still post here (and I bet more of them lurk). They really manage to keep the balance between indie and professional. I tried to appear as a guest once, but technical difficulties prevented me. The site is much more than just a podcast now as well, lots of great news and opinion-pieces. It's very community based and always looking for contributions, so if you want a soapbox to shout from, head here.
Game Theory is incredibly intelligent. Very industry based (great for business geeks like me) and they always have fantastic guests. Great at cutting through the bullshit of press releases, and getting to the heart of the goings on of the games industry.
What other Podcasts do you guys listen to regularly?
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Shockingly I've NEVER listened to a single podcast.
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It is every Tuesday at 8pm for the foreseeable future, but you can listen back to it any time afterwards (although it obviously won't be live...)
This would be a great 'cast to pop your cherry with.
edit: hosted by, but not their own.. I'll still give that a shot. I lost interest in 1UP Yours lately, so need something.
My favorite podcasts are definitely in the 1UP stable; both 1UP Yours and GFW Radio are fantastic, with the edge given to GFW Radio (97.5, The Brodeo). EGM Live is hit or miss... mostly miss for me.
I find myself rather amused by the new Arrow Pointing Down podcast, but mainly because it's got Jeff Gerstmann, Alex Navarro and Ryan Davis in a room with absolutely no oversight and that amuses me greatly. Topics include a 20 minute discussion of Gatorade G2 vs. Gatorade Tiger and a review of a new Snickers spinoff. Hence, many/most people may find it completely stupid, which I would understand.
A lot of game developers do podcasts too; Bungie does one where they take a person in the company and interview them about what they do, how they got there, etc. Criterion does one which is pretty good; they answer a lot of player mail and talk a bit about development here and there. I know Insomniac does one but I haven't listened to it, and I think Naughty Dog may as well.
Other than that, there's the TWiT network (MacBreak Weekly is one of my favorite podcasts, but you probably want to own a Mac to listen to it) and This American Life.
Oh, and Real Time with Bill Maher is being podcasted by HBO in both video and audio formats, which is pretty awesome if you're following politics at the moment at all.
Sorry for the lack of links, but I need to run off to a meeting... just search in the iTunes podcast directory or google "____ podcast" and you'll find the links.
I'll bung it on my mp3 player tomorrow then, it'll break up my walk to work (normally I listen to a "Learn spanish" cd) and give me something to post about in this thread
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ExtraLife Radio is good, and well worth a listen
I really enjoy 1UP Yours, even though I think 1UP's GFW is slightly better.
I'm still living in the hope that the GamersHell Podcast will start up again...
The Maximum PC Podcast is quite nice as well, but they're more of a tech show than a gaming podcast, but they do talk about them.
I'll let you guess which.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
I listen to:
gamers with jobs- an insightful podcast which covers all platforms
player one-a bit more focused, pretty good what you've been playing segments
And the PC gamer podcasts (US and UK) - ok, they're admitedly not that great compared to some of the other ones that have been mentioned, but they do have good insight sometimes, take last week's PCgamer US podcast, instead of the olol-PC gameing is dead talk when the PCGA was brought up, they instead talked about they could actually do to get it to kinda work (Hardware labeling standards!), and also actually had new information that wasn't even on gaf about how that ORB PC-platform thing was going to work (an opening ad when you start it, then you can play uninerupted sessions of partner games for completely free, including some actual hardcore games such as CoH)
CheapAssGamer's podcast is fairly okay (http://www.cagcast.com). There's also one done every now and again by the guys at Criterion, makers of Burnout (www.criteriongames.com). Bungie does one (http://www.bungie.net) and I think Insomniac has one.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
Urk. We get this sometimes.
BUT! We also get people who take a few episodes to 'get' the show, so it might be worth you trying again. If you don't feel it, don't worry. You are far from being alone. We don't cover the bleeding edge, we are Not For Everyone (that is fast becoming our motto), and there are plenty of other things out there. Diversity! Sweet.
All that said, we do share a few important things with P-A which is why I'm glad this topic exists: total independence, a solid 'these are OUR jokes and this is OUR thing' community feel, and a holy-shit games are awesome and stupid and ridiculous ethos. We aren't quite as angry about it all as Gabe and Tycho but i assume that's because we're british and sedated by tea and toast and self-deprecating humour.
I will check out the other recommendations too, be nice to have more downloads to look forward to next time I hit the pub.
1) Insider information
2) Information in general
3) Intelligent discussion
...
some unfathomable number) Comedy
Fucking Joystiq and their "It's really late and we're zany!" GDC nonsense.
Eh, while insider information is nice, most of the really juicy stuff is under NDAs anyway, so I'd place it at #3. Case in point, EGM Live, they often have exclusives like the too human stuff in the latest episode, but the level of discussion in it is so bad, that I only listen to the quarter of the episode that actually has that segement and skip the rest. On the other hand, without a number of big news items or new games, the Brodeo often ends up just shooting the breeze, which is still completely awesome and worth listening to.
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1up Yours has been in a funk for a few months, but it seems to be on the road to recovery.
GFW Radio is great. Just great. All gamers (PC or otherwise) should listen to it.
If you compare it to Sunday_Assasin's Bullet list, I'd say it only hits on point #2 with a dab of #3, but chock full of comedy.
Going by the name, it is obviously full of nintendo chatter.
1up yours
GFW Radio
Retronauts
The 1up Show
As mentioned before, 1up would be much better without shane b.
don't want to listen to GFW (or anything like it) because I'd like to listen to multiplatform talk, rather than 1 system centric.
Maybe I'll try out the other ones listed here. I really need to get more PA podcasts; they are very enjoyable to listen to.
Well, the GFW guys frequently diverge from PC talk and do discuss some stuff on consoles or hand-helds occasionally. Besides, it's not like Shawn Elliott gets to say much during 1up Yours since he's always drowned out by Shane and Garnett. So, GFW gives me the PC talk (and they're usually objective about things, knowing all the shortcomings of the platform) that gets marginalized elsewhere.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
GFW Radio often has much fairer and balanced multiplatform discussions than 1up yours.
I love 1up Yours to death, but them's some overbearingly opinionated motherfuckers.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Duly noted. It's tough when you think of someone as both - but calling someone "Omegasquash" or "Deaconknowledge" can be a bit of a mouthful when you can go with "Shaun" or "Josh". Then again, it can be hard to keep it straight in the heat of the moment. I'll see what I can do
For those interested the podcast is on iTunes or at platformers.net. It's a bit of a different crew from when it started so if you haven't listened in a while, give it a shot and let me know what you think.
well, it works in internet explorer for some strange reason, but it sounds horrendous.
The IGN ones are pretty good. At least I think so.
(Did anyone watch the latest 1UP Show where they're discussing GDC and indy games? They were talking Gears 2 and UE3 updates and Shane was most excited about new water effects)
reminds me of another annoyance. 1up does this feature on topics, but forgets to mention what the topic is.
"Well this new item is about microsoft putting out---"
"Oh yeah, i know what you mean. That's crazy. You're soooo crazy"
"Next up, the game we're all waiting for is---"
"Man I can't believe it's coming out. Amazing it was announced. Greg will need new pants you know?"
I can't read your minds you pieces of shit.
Although others hate it, I enjoy what you've been playing segments. Even though it can be repeats of the same games week after week, I do get to know what's going on in the gaming scene. What's coming out, what's out, what's been out but is still being played.
I might give GFW a shot. But it sounds like, by luck, they mention other games. While they're more level about it, I would rather have bias news covering more platforms than fair news on few platforms.
Does one life left make files, or is it a live stream? I only listen while in traffic to/from work, so a live stream wouldn't work for me.
1up yours use to be my favorite, but more and more I gravitate toward GFW when I'm driving around. It got me interested in games again after my gaming coma from World of Warcraft. It's consistently good, and can be funny as long as you like dick jokes. It can be pretty god damn annoying whenever PC comes up, but with Shawn as a new member hopefully that will be rectified.
I've listened to a few One Life Left podcast. First one I heard was great, what I've listened to since has been ok. Some of their shtick can be funny, the little girl reviews are great. The guy with the deep drowsy voice and his segments makes me want to turn it off.
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Can you suggest which ones in particular? I had it on itunes for a while, but then they stopped putting wii-k in review on it, and I got kinda annoyed it DLed all of them
So because of that the content was not only marred by us being constantly distracted and then erroneously ASSUMING the problem was because the stream was screwed -- this is only the second time we've ever done that, you see -- but more screwed up by the actual fizz every time there's a noise.
We normally podcast (NB: the 100 listener record is only for our two-episode-old live stream, not the podcast or the FM broadcast, obviously) so people can download and listen at their leisure but I'm not sure we can this time. It's just too shitty. Maybe with enormous warnings at the start. Annoying!
Sorry, anyway.