The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese, more free marketing ideas for Mountain Dew. PlayStation picked up a few new studios while Konami announced a partnership. We check out Mario Golf: Super rush and close the book on Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart in this week's episode.

This week on The Free Cheese, we're going for the gold. Or the platinum? It seems like E3 was a year ago at this point as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Quake and 30th for Sonic the Hedgehog. We check in with Final Fantasy VII Remake - Intergrade while checking out SEGA's Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. We talk about new games in the River City Girls franchise, the potential home for The Internati...

This week on The Free Cheese, KeighlE3. We run down our favorite games showcased between Summer Game Fest and E3 2021 and then discuss what it means to be revolutionary when designing a video game. Our discussion stretches back through our touchstone moments in game history where something truly new happened and continues with talk about how iteration is not a bad word.

This week on The Free Cheese, no news! It's E3 season and you're hearing everything somewhere else already. Instead of repeating headlines, we're focusing on what we've been playing and catching you off guard with some surprise questions.

This week on The Free Cheese, we apologize to Yuji Naka. The return of E3 and Summer Game Fest mean the return of 15 predictions announcements that are coming soon. We also reveal the next three characters joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate before Sakurai doesn't retire and catch up with one of cinema's greatest tragedies.

This week on The Free Cheese, we talk about Sonic's stomach. E3 is fast approaching and publishers are lighting the fires with some early announcements. We catch up on the 35th anniversary presentation for Dragon Quest, as well as the 30th anniversary kickoff for Sonic the Hedgehog. We get news on some new sequels and talk about Valve making its own Sega Nomad.

We are gathered here today to bring you our full thoughts and impressions on Resident Evil Village. For the first time in a while, we have all completed a game together and are excited to discuss where we think it ranks among the rest of Resident Evil games. Plus, we offer what we think the future of the series may hold.

This week on The Free Cheese, should amiibo still exist? Game of the Game of the Year continues as we rank Super Mario Odyssey. We prepare for Summer Game Fest and the anniversary of Dragon Quest. We try to figure out if we like Scarlet Nexus and Resident Evil 2. Finally, we check in with the latest from Call of Duty: Warzone live from inside Nakatomi Plaza.

This week on The Free Cheese, please put the gun away. We're ready for the season of announcements with the official announcements of The International and QuakeCon. Sega is looking into reviving some of its dormant IPs while Koei Tecmo is turning its into pachislo. After six months, we check in with both of this generation's new consoles and share our first thoughts on Famicom Detective Club as w...

This week on The Free Cheese, we believe in Quake. It's our 400th episode! We briefly reminisce on some of our favorite moments from our time together and introduce a new recurring segment for 2021. We're all playing Resident Evil Village and share our early impressions of its technical performance and overall setting. We check back in with NieR Replicant and Returnal. Then, sharing our thoughts o...

This week on The Free Cheese, there's more Square Enix than you think. We talk about NieR Replicant ver. 1.22474487139..., Returnal, and make guesses at what Monolith Soft is working on once it has 300 employees on staff. We have some opposing thoughts on the Mortal Kombat movie but all agree that losing another studio to Call of Duty: Warzone is a tragedy.

This week on The Free Cheese, we're still making PSN recommendations anyway. We talk the reversal of PlayStation's decision to shutdown the PS3 and PS Vita stores with the soft launch of Xbox Cloud Gaming on iOS and PC. We share impressions on Before Your Eyes and the first Resident Evil Village demo, and we take a trip to Yusnaan with Lightning.

This week on The Free Cheese, chyeah chyeah, chel chyeah. We're fresh from another Resident Evil showcase and counting down to all and every available hours for a new demo of Village. We check out Oddworld Soulstorm and Prime 2D, while chasing the elusive target in Hitman 3 and revisiting Bionic Commando. We celebrate the 15th anniversary of Mother 3 by remembering the game and people behind it, a...

This week on The Free Cheese, let's remake Final Fantasy VII Remake! We're talking the latest new releases, from Gran Turismo 5 to Saints Row IV and we hear the latest on Cyberpunk 2077 after its latest patch. Bloomberg's latest report on Sony has us questioning the future of PlayStation and we start to line up sponsors for E3 2021.

This week on The Free Cheese, that feels like Sega. We spend a week with Monster Hunter Rise and get lost in the world of Wario while new PCs arrive and carry us into the future of Apple Arcade.

This week on The Free Cheese, was that game bad this whole time? We share our experience with Monster Hunter Rise, Tekken 7's latest character, and the Ancient Gods expansion for Doom Eternal. We also talk about a handful of games out now and coming to mobile, along with some exciting fighting game announcements. Finally, we share a shortlist of games you should start buying before PlayStation shu...

This week on The Free Cheese, step into the zone with Opa-Opa. We celebrate the 35th anniversary of Fantasy Zone by remembering Sega's first mascot. We also talk about the "co-op" Ada Wong campaign in Resident Evil 6, how to make a bad Need for Speed game, and check in with the world of Marvel's Avengers.

This week on The Free Cheese, free chairs? When was the last time you went to a junkyard? What was the last thing you threw from a rooftop? These questions and more find their answers on this week's show. We share more discoveries from within Loop Hero while Marc takes on more of Resident Evil 6 and Matt and Joe discover the different ways to play basketball.

This week on The Free Cheese, a podcast so nice we recorded half of it twice! We celebrate the launch of Loop Hero and the 4th anniversary of the Nintendo Switch by finally scratching that ever present basketball itch.

This week on The Free Cheese, it's 1986. We each played 35 minutes of The Legend of Zelda to see how far we could get and how the game feels in 2021.

This week on The Free Cheese, can you smell TI? What a wonderful week for a Nintendo Direct! We catch up on the highlights from the week along with the future of Miis and share what we think of brand new video games, like DOTA 2 and Batman for NES. We also get first thoughts on 30XX.

This week on The Free Cheese, welcome to the land of treasure. We begin our 20th anniversary celebration of the Game Boy Advance by accident and lament what could have been a live-action Link. We share impressions for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury and talk a lot more about Loop Hero.

This week on The Free Cheese, what are you ordering? We build the future of Tomb Raider and combine the power of two of video games greatest heroes to create Samus the Hedgehog.

This week on The Free Cheese, yes. We step into some survival horror this week with a run through Resident Evil VII and a peek into the latest from Bloober Team, The Medium. Gabe Newell outlines the future—seriously, not just for video games, but the future of programming ourselves . We take a stab at the future of Nintendo merchandising and close out with a dive into what we've been playing on ou...

This week on The Free Cheese, Virtual Marc! Marc steps into virtual reality with his new Valve Index, while Matt wraps through the underbelly of Dark Souls in search of the Platinum Trophy.