Radio Free Nintendo

FEATURING: The middle three hours of our most successful telethon yet! Includes these segments: Radio Trivia Live, Connectivity's Who Wants to Be a Nintendoaire?, and The Famicast: Live from Japan! Special guests include 8-4's Mark McDonald, Justin Epperson, and Brenden Pritchard!

FEATURING: The first three hours of our most successful telethon yet! Includes these segments: Wii U Hype Train, A Decade of Metroid Prime, and The Eurocast! Special guests include Garnett Lee, Brad Shoemaker, David Ellis, Jeff Kalles, and a very awesome surprise guest! Plus: The return of Jon Lindemann!

FEATURING: It's a three man crew this week, with Jon still on extended leave and James being replaced by NWR's Aussie correspondent Nicholas Bray. New Business tackles the Mutant Mudds free DLC stages, eShop game 2 Fast 4 Gnomz, the new XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Final Fantasy V Advance,Mario Party 9 and the eShop version of Shinen's Art of Balance TOUCH! Listener mail deals with the future of eShop VC...

FEATURING: Prodigal Son Castaneda fills in for Jon this week. Guillaume unloads his impressions from a recent press event: Fluidity: Spin Cycle, Crashmo, and Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Karl follows up with Liberation Maiden on eShop, plus some iPhone game called Letterpress. James dips back into Dark Souls and Minecraft (XBLA). Jonny returns from his week off with an eShop game, NightSky, and Fina...

FEATURING: Danny takes over as host and is joined by Daan, Minoru, and that rascal Ty Shughart! Tons of Japanese games, including the new Paper Mario, EX Troopers, Bravely Default, and Project X Zone! Plus: Classics like Willow and Friday the 13th! And: Nintendo Direct coverage, Life in Japan, and Listener Mail!

FEATURING: Both Jonny and Jon are absent, so James hosts, Nate is back and Donald "Shaymin" Theriault from the NWR boards and the "Nintendo Free Radio" podcast wanders in. New Business features Pokemon Black Version 2, Pokemon Dream Radar, Asura's Wrath, Kirby Super Star, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Minecraft. After the break we move into a set of feature discussions: we first we shar...

FEATURING: New Business features the worst DSiware game James ever reviewed, The Walking Dead, Pushmo, Persona 3 Portable, La Mulana and FTL! Then, Nates invade the Listeners' Mail segment with letters about reviewing games with preconceived notions, lives and difficulty in Mario, our most valuable games, and a neat idea for a Wii U Metroid game!

FEATURING: New Business features NSMB2 DLC, Dark Souls, Mario Party 4, Kirby's Nightmare in Dream Land, Rayman Origins, Quarth, and Final Fantasy V! RetroActive concludes with a fun discussion of Kirby and the Amazing Mirror!

FEATURING: This week is all New Business! Jonny starts with a marathon session of La-Mulana, Fractured Soul, and To the Moon, while Gui tries out Renegade Ops and finished PoP: Forgotten Sands! James reports on Non-tendo games such as Birds of Steel and Splice, while Nate returns as guest to teach us the mysterioius ways of The Denpa Men and even Torchlight II!

FEATURING: Rhythm Hunter: HarmoKnight and the ultimate StreetPass puzzle! Learn to play rock-paper-scissors... Japanese style! Ty Shughart emerges from a dark arcade to discuss demos and cat drugs from Tokyo Games Show 2012!

FEATURING: With Nate Andrews, Reviews Editor on NWR, Jonny, Guillaume and James shoot the crap on the adequately priced Fractured Soul, the enraging FTL, the non-derivative Starship Defense and Renegade Ops, the imperfect Touch Detective and the nostalgic Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. The crew then reads the listeners' mail: hand-wringing over the Wii U price, bundles, backwards-compatibi...

FEATURING: James is back, but Jon is replaced by Mike TYP Cole. We talk about StarFox 64 3D, Monster World IV, NSMB2, Diamond Trust of London, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, Double Dragon Neon and Touch Detective. After a musical break courtesy of Double Dragon Neon, we talk about the recent Wii U Launch Press event and discuss its price, the launch games, the bigger games down the road and wh...

FEATURING: James is overseas, but good old Billy replaces him and recounts his adventures at PAX Prime! Paper Mario Sticker Star and Fluidity: Spin Cycle are discussed. The rest of New Business includes Monster World IV, Hotel Dusk, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, Wario Land and Ys: The Oath in Felghana. Listener Mail: covers the futility of fan-made game mods, the anti-Nintendo shadow conspiracy, c...

FEATURING: The latest Nintendo Direct from Japan! A preview of Tokyo Games Show! Dragon Quest X!

FEATURING: Jon gets the ball rolling with his thoughts on Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Gran Turismo PSP, and his disappointment with the 3DS lineup in 2012. Jonny follows with a report on his visit to the Wii U Experience in Denver, which is very much reminiscent of the old Cube Clubs and features many notable Wii U demos from E3. James has wrap-up thoughts on Rhythm Thief, which is pretty short (bu...

FEATURING: A group discussion of NSMB2 and digital game sales in Japan! Minoru plays Dylan Cuthbert's obscure gem, X! Daan plays Wii U for the third time! Plus: The latest Japanese gaming news and Life in Japan!

FEATURING: Jon couldn't make it once again, but Michael TYP Cole fills the vacancy and talks about Mole Mania and Rayman Origins. Guillaume and Jonny both talk about their new 3DS XLs and their new New Super Mario Bros 2. Gui untalks about Retro/Grade for a bit, while Jonny regales us with the end of his lost 3DSware saga. James talks about the Rhythm Thief copy he has finally snatched up. Finally...

FEATURING: Jon is out but the crew still manages to babble on about a ton of games! 5th Cell's Hybrid on XBLA, the Heroes of Ruin demo, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Mole Mania, Another Super Mario Bros Wii (homebrew!), The Legendary Starfy, Sound Shapes and Excitebike World Rally are discussed. We then move on to a lengthy segment full of predictions about the Wii U, and answer listeners who wrote about...

FEATURING: It's a games-only, shorter RFN episode! Disaster, Wario Ware: Mega Party Game$, Super Mario War, Fortune Street, Big Brain Academy DS, Pac-Man VS, Zelda: Four Swords Adventure, the R-Type series, Sound Shapes, Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 3, Deus Ex: Human Evolution, Tales of the Abyss and Pandora's Tower.

FEATURING: For RFN's 300th episode, we discuss the Wii like we never have before, covering the Wii from its debut as Revolution at E3 2005, right up to the present day! And we've brought friends as well: Billy Berghammer, Craig Harris, Michael "TYP" Cole, Karl Castaneda, co-founder Mike Sklens and, of course, our escaped editing slave, Greg Leahy!

FEATURING: Greg stops by to save our weekends by offering to edit the show in Gui's absence! New Business has a loose theme of older, retro, and faux-retro games! Listener Mail is all about digital downloads (and sales thereof)!

FEATURING: Daan's first impressions of Level 5's Time Travellers and Taiko Drum Master for 3DS! Danny's thoughts on Kirby Dream Collection and the modern classic, Eternal Darkness! Minoru revisits Pikmin 2 before the Famicrew runs down the latest Japan gaming news, including coverage of Oni Training and SpotPass TV! Also: comparing Phoenix Wright to the real Japanese legal system, and Listener Mai...

FEATURING: During RFN's off-week, four infamous forum goons take matters into their own hands! 28 games, over 3 hours of content, and so very many inside jokes for RFN fans! A special discussion of accessibility in video games!

You ever have a favorite TV show that delays progressing the story by featuring a one-off episode that both ignores and fails to impact the show's continuity entirely? Welcome to that episode of Radio Free Nintendo! With the crew off for a little summertime R&R, Zach and I thought it might be fun to see if the guys would let us take control of RFN for a week in order to settle a bet once and for a...

Featuring: Jonny lost his 3DS but found a light at the end of the Xenoblade tunnel, while Jon spends quality time with Suda 51! James catches up with Tales of the Abyss for 3DS, and Guillaume revisits a pair of eShop games! Listener Mail has us tackling load times, Project Sora, and Nintendo's listening abilities!