Award losing radio
One Life Left aired its 50th episode at 9pm tonight and it once again showed why it’s Europe’s number 1, and now an officially award-losing, gaming radio show. Boasting tales of drunken awards parties, condemnation of grumpy presenters and a sackful of self-deprecating humour this episode is one of the best; even its news was relevant. So relevant in fact that it was more aware of the transformation of Princes Street’s HMV branch than I was, despite stopping in there at least twice a week and travelling past it on a daily basis on the way to and from work.
It seems that HMV has decided to run a pioneering scheme here in Edinburgh to allow customers to play games in a brand new communal gaming-zone (well, gaming basement it would appear) for the sum of £5 every 3 hours. As part of this initiative, the lower level of the store has been overhauled to make room for several gaming-pods in X-Box green and white (of course glistening with Microsoft’s requisite level of ‘shiny’) and a haul of HD televisions.
There are twenty-seven 360s in total (and presumably as many televisions) crammed into the room. It all looks as clean and new as those Sega Worlds did when they first opened; before the management discovered that British ‘youths’ prefer vandalism and casual violence to Outrun cabinets.
It opens on Friday and I give it a month before a. it smells faintly of sick; b. half the controllers have failed due to abuse and c. someone’s been stabbed after winning a Halo 3 deathmatch.
HMV is a large shop at the West End. One Life Left on the other hand can be found Tuesdays at 9pm on Resonance FM.