The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese, the only remaining TV show confirmed. We share our plans for Season 10 of The Free Cheese and what 2022 has in store. We take a deep dive into when games take deep dives into themselves. Last, we discuss where the three major platforms stand at the end of 2021.

This week on The Free Cheese, Mario is a cop. We uncover the best Navi in video games, guess each other's top five, and figure out the video game equivalent of the worst Christmas song ever written. All that and more as we near the end of this podcast season.

This week on The Free Cheese, the next Halo promotional tie-in announced! We talk about how modern platforms have reduced the number of differences between consoles and handhelds. We bring Game of the Game of the Year to a close and play a game of "Who said this?"

This week on The Free Cheese, we're porting games to Switch. We discuss HD remasters, from the origins to present day and contemplate what makes a necessary port. We add one more game to our Game of the Game of the Year list before completing it and we talk a bit more about our fun with Halo Infinite.

This week on The Free Cheese, we save you from your aunt's mistake. What happens when someone buys you the wrong console for the holiday? We give you game recommendations for those untimely mishaps. We also check in with Halo Infinite and offer yet another solution for in-game rewards. Finally, we talk about moments in a game that made us shout, "Nice touch!"

This week on The Free Cheese, a few boxes turned twenty. We celebrate the twentieth anniversaries of Xbox and GameCube with twenty questions. We canonically murder Pokémon. Finally, we talk a lot about Halo Infinite and why playing video games shouldn't feel like going to work.

This week on The Free Cheese, say sorry to the Wii U. Is Wii Sports the most beloved game ever made? Will Forza Horizon 5 win Game of the Year? These questions and more answered inside! We also hear first-hand experience with Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda and decide which game we never want to see remade.

This week on The Free Cheese, what year is it? We add two more games to our Game of the Game of the Year list and then look ahead to predict the winner of Game of the Year 2022. We check back in after a full week with Pikmin Bloom and imagine what games would make great demakes.

This week on The Free Cheese, tell 'em you're playin' Pikmin! We talk about Darkest Dungeon 2 and discuss the best games that could benefit from going Rogue. We wander around to grow flowers in Pikmin Bloom and wonder what's next. Finally, we rewrite history by adding one mechanic to a game.

This week on The Free Cheese, April fools! We approach the end of our Game of the Game of the Year list with another title added. We talk about when gameplay from spin-offs finds its way back into the mainline series and then share stories about when box art led us astray or led us to play.

This week on The Free Cheese, gimme fuel, gimme five. We talk about the best fifth games in a series and see how many collectibles it takes before we break.  We explore the depths of Metroid Dread and talk about how Back 4 Blood has changed since it's initial beta.

This week on The Free Cheese, preparing for the hurt. Konami? Just ahead of Metroid Dread we talk about playing through classic games with modern conventions and contemplate when that goes too far. We share the least requested characters for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and figure out what gets us in the mood for the respective games we're playing.

This week on The Free Cheese, ruining birthday parties since 1996. We make some new changes to our Game of the Game of the Year list and reminisce on another from the best in 2016. We talk about revisiting PlayStation games in new ways and how the right combination of mechanics and systems can create an endless gameplay loop. We make our final predictions for a new Super Smash Bros. fighter and la...

We celebrate the 35th anniversary of Castlevania with some talking points around how to replay your favorite games and still keep them fresh. We let the Rot carry us deep into Kena: Bridge of Spirits and discuss (again) why PlayStation 2 is still the best of video games. Oh, and we're all playing Magic: The Gathering.

This week on The Free Cheese, delete your social media. Our video game marketing discussion continues with a conversation surrounding how marketing instills a fear of not being part of the club and if we aren't there at launch, we missed something. We talk about where this can benefit us, like visiting Final Fantasy XV years after its release. We also check out the newest set in Magic: The Gatheri...

This week on The Free Cheese, heaven is a place on Earth. We wonder when marketing goes too far and what we want in the lead to a new game release. We try to find the balance between leaks and corporate condescension as we prepare our guidelines for how to market your video game. Ahead of new card game releases, we design our perfect trading card game and realize it's probably a board game. Finall...

This week on The Free Cheese, the road to XV begins. It's the annual Sonic Amateur Games Expo and we've played a bunch of submissions from the community. We talk about our favorite interactive elements in video games. Then, we check in with Pokémon Black and Sonic Colors Ultimate.

This week on The Free Cheese, who else should go in the monkey ball? After a new update to Phasmophobia we discuss the difference between changing and fixing a game, as well as our favorite bugs in games. We talk about weird origin stories for getting us to play one thing in particular. We share stories of the first video games we remember buying with our own money and put a final word on our disc...

This week on The Free Cheese, chicken nuggets in costumes. We unpack our discussion on remasters yet again after the rerelease of Quake and the announcement of BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites. Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare leads a discussion surrounding how the aesthetic of a game can draw us into it. We use the surprise of time spent in Pokémon Unite to talk about games we've gotten lost...

This week on The Free Cheese, who's that Pokémon? We begin by turning the clocks back one year to see where we were then. We spend some time considering how to remove microtransactions from games and imagine how Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls will play without them. Finally, do we get more excited for a remaster than a sequel?

This week on The Free Cheese, please don't kill George Clooney. We celebrate the 35th anniversary of Metroid the only way we know how. Marc shares tales from the Back 4 Blood beta, Matt details the changes in the Pokémon Unite meta, and Joe uncovers the truth behind Dark Souls et cetera.

This week on The Free Cheese, the doctor is dead. Marc is knocking on Death's Door while Matt ranks up in Pokémon Unite and Joe is reborn in NieR: Re[in]carnation. We catch up on delays from the week and how we're progressing in Dark Souls, while offering the future of old video games to you for free.

This week on The Free Cheese, mouth tattoos. With the release of Pokémon Unite, we've each taken our first steps toward The Pokémon International. Marc checks out The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD to see if it works with buttons. Matt begins the quest for another Dark Souls platinum. Joe finds branching paths in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. We outline a semester in video game school and give y...

This week on The Free Cheese, delays and surprises. We talk about the recently announced Nickelodeon All-Stars Battle Royale and how Square Enix sold out of a digital game. We discuss Valve's Super Nintendo Switch, and take a guess at what 7 Persona announcements are imminent.

This week on The Free Cheese, Shigeru Miyamoto took a bath 40 years ago. We weigh in on the newly announced Nintendo Switch OLED and reflect on other handhelds that may or may not have used OLED technology. We also explore video game's best party as we wonder what happened to Ridge Racer.