The Free Cheese

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.

This year, we're changing a bit of how our awards are chosen and announced. We're limiting the entire process to a single, shorter episode. We've worked behind the scenes using a spreadsheet and some math, with a bit of wiggling one way or another to determine the winners of each category. As we read through each category, we'll name the winner and two runners up. Then, we'll share some of our exp...

This week on The Free Cheese, another anniversary? We hear predictions from our friend Ako and celebrate NieR Automata's final secret. We learn about how Miis integrate into Breath of the Wild and figure out how to sleep inside of Gengar.

This week on The Free Cheese, twenty twenty-one. We look forward to what we expect in 2021 with our latest run of predictions after reflecting on what we expected from 2020. We also take some time to share positive outlooks on Sonic Forces and hear all about brand new Game Gear games from M2. Finally, we get the final word on Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

This week on The Free Cheese, Matt writes Sonic fanfiction. More of what you love: conversations about video games. We're talking Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Deep Rock Galactic, with a trip through some fighting games along the way. We also check out Umurangi Generations, slowly uncovering its layers beyond a simple photography game.

This week on The Free Cheese, money please! We check out the demo for Bravely Default II and wave goodbye to Cyberpunk 2077. Matt takes over a small town in Yakuza: Like a Dragon while Marc finds the true successor to a 3D Sonic game in Crumble and Joe grabs the Wii Remote for Samus' final first-person adventure in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

This week on The Free Cheese, and the award goes to... We recap some of our favorite announcements from this year's Game Awards along with a rundown of headlines from the week including the new release timeline for Halo Infinite and an upcoming Digimon wearable. Marc and Matt take the first steps into Cyberpunk 2077 and share the good, the bad, and the buggy. Meanwhile, Joe readies himself for Bre...

This week on The Free Cheese, Mario Paint. Together, we discuss the stack of industry shakeups that were announced this week along with a brief and literal pulse check for the PlayStation Vita. Catch up on what it means to complete your first palace in Persona 5 Royal, what it feels like to finish Demon's Souls, and how to survive on the Oregon Trail in 2020.

This week on The Free Cheese, excuse me, Princess! Marc closes the curtains on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity while opening a box of Digimon cards. Matt discovers the roots of FromSoftware as he edges deeper into Demon's Souls. Joe finally learns what it means to steal a heart with Persona 5 Royal's first dungeon. We also make it to the end of our own dungeon as we wrap up another ongoing segmen...

This week on The Free Cheese, don't give him Sonic. During a slightly slower week of news we dive a bit deeper into Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Hades, and Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra. We also share our first impressions with Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and how it fits into the lore of The Legend of Zelda.

This week on The Free Cheese, push to puff! It's new console week and we have Matt's first impressions with both as well as a series of rapid-fire questions that get to the bottom of what we really want to know. We also talk about Marc's first week with Genshin Impact and Joe's time with Tekken 7 and its fourth season.

This week on The Free Cheese, did we find Brittfaceyo? With the launch of next generation consoles only moments away we make sure to catch up on all of the vampire news you could ever ask for. We also bring a close to our ongoing segment, "Who Would Win in a Fight?" and continue with the second round of "Another Night, Another Dream" in between a heavy week of news. Finally we check in with Pokémo...

This week on The Free Cheese, Happy Halloween! We share our ideas for other game franchises that could learn from Breath of the Wild and try to figure out how to name new Final Fantasy characters. Marc keeps things spooky with Phasmophobia and Handy Harry's Haunted House Services, Matt enters a Rocket League tournament, and Joe returns to the world of Pokémon.

This week on The Free Cheese, someone remembers to unmute his microphone. A slower news week lets us explore some different topics. What's a positive example of a game that feels like its from the PS2 era? Name a game that was overshadowed by something when it initially released? We also discuss Halloween events in video games and how to catch a ghost.

This week on The Free Cheese, where's Okami? Listen in as we talk PlayStation 5 UI and the new initiative from the Video Game History Foundation. We look back on where we were a year ago and close out on some of the games we've been playing recently. Also, it's the final round in the quarter finals of our ongoing segment chronicling the best of the bad in video game's greatest villains.