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This week on The Free Cheese, we campaign to get Frankie Muniz on the show. We're in the midst of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare beta and have reports from the battlefield. We also touch on the future of E3 and talk about the history of demo discs. Matt edges deeper into the world of Alan Wake while Marc sees the beginnings of Link's Awakening and Joe hits the streets in Session.

This week on The Free Cheese, speed run Sneak King! Joe and Matt discover how to take care of spiders in the basement and what's worth $3.88 at a faraway Target. We also put Astral Chain to bed and get excited about more Control. We stoke the fire of Gears 5 and hit the road toward professional Overwatch. We cover Apple Arcade and the new horror of the Ring Fit Adventure ad before taking some emai...

This week on The Free Cheese, oh, what you'll find on the boardwalk. We talk about Astral Chain and the growth of Platinum Games along with the news from the Nintendo Direct this week. Additionally, we checked out the Code Vein demo and saw the end of the annual Battle Pass. We learn about changing laws for gambling in Japan and how it definitely has nothing to do with a changing Konami business p...

This week on The Free Cheese, can you name them all? The video games have arrived and we have played them. We start things off with Blair Witch and talk about the ups and downs of getting lost in the woods. Then, we walk the line between two worlds in Control. Finally, we talk about Platinum's latest with Astral Chain and why it's good to play against your expectations. We discuss some new game co...

This week on The Free Cheese, who would eat a soft-shell crab? We're here in the year of our Hideo to talk about Gamescom and the full roster coming to Mortal Kombat 11. We also talk about Insomniac Games joining the PlayStation family and concept art from the cancelled WB Montreal Damian Wayne Batman game. Marc returns to Resident Evil 4 to prepare him to go further back into the original release...

This week on The Free Cheese, the rapper returns. Marc takes a dive into Ion Fury, a new game that uses the Duke Nukem 3D engine, while avoiding encounters with the fourth kind. Joe sees the end of one storyline in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and has some suggestions for approaching the game. Matt is grinning ear to ear despite his abnormal sleep schedule as The International 2019 is off to a start....

This week on The Free Cheese, we went to the movies. Join us for another episode where we talk about loot box percentages, full-time jobs, and what to do about WWE. We hear from Matt on his week with Wolfenstein: Youngblood and the narrowing road of the world of DOTA. Marc takes us on another adventure in Pokémon GO (now with 100% more ghosts). Joe traveled through time in Fire Emblem: Three House...

This week on The Free Cheese, you can pause us at any time. Marc survives a strange encounter in a parking lot with Team Rocket and maybe more. Joe starts to get heavy into tea time with his students in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Matt learns what video games look like on a new graphics card with Wolfenstein: Youngblood. We talk about how many millions of PlayStation 4 consoles have been sold, what...

This week on The Free Cheese, I found this in the backyard, you want it? Wolfenstein: Youngblood is adding a bit of the Arkane flavor to the hallway shooter and we detail what we're digging about the game so far. Fire Emblem: Three Houses is changing up the formula as well, adding in a whole lot of social elements to the game that are making us care about the characters even more. Finally, Marvel...

This week on The Free Cheese, we go down the river. With six months behind us, we take a look at what we like this year so far and which games we believe will end up in our annual conversations this December. We also talk about the slew of announcements from Nintendo this week along with id Software departures, Comic-Con announcements, and news of Tetris Effect on PC. Thankfully, the meta changed...

This week on The Free Cheese, what's after Mars? Marc is away but Matt and Joe come together to talk about the Sega Genesis and how it lives on in 2019. With the announcement of the Vita 2, or "Nintendo Switch Lite", we talk about what we want in portable gaming and where we think Nintendo should take its family of hardware next. Another week of Dota 2 and Underlords is in Matt's play record while...

This week on The Free Cheese, you want job? We're here to talk about another round of Q&A from a Nintendo shareholder's meeting that includes discussion about the future of Nintendo Switch Online and whether or not these poor shareholders can get to an amusement park. Matt only understands the ways of The Ancients these days as every screen must contain DOTA. Marc uses the absence of the internet...

This week on The Free Cheese, we walk like a dinosaur. It's the middle of the summer and we've got your tips on staying out of school and how to survive 6th grade. Marc dances through Hyrule a little bit more before getting engrossed in a childhood classic on the Nintendo 64. Joe finds his footing in the castle of Bloodstained leading up to the season of creation with the launch of Super Mario Mak...

This week on The Free Cheese, that's a veteran catch! Marc returns from Chicago to tell us what it's like to catch Pokémon with thousands of other people across three parks, as well as share the experience of Rare Replay and the arcade edition of Battletoads. Matt is collecting ears with his motorcycle as he begins the wandering within Days Gone. Joe is looking for a way to make things turn upside...

This week on The Free Cheese, you can do that in traffic? We're on the other side of E3 and we're tallying up the points to see who was the best at seeing into the future. After the dust settled, we also talk about the games that are still sticking with us that we're most anticipating. For the week, Matt played the beta release of Valve's latest video game: Dota Underlords and some of Ubisoft's ne...

We bring E3 2019 to a close with Nintendo's presentation and what we loved from it. We talk about everything we saw in the Direct and some of the things we learned from the subsequent Treehouse stream afterward. We talk about Banjo & Kazooie joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate along with The Hero from Dragon Quest. We check in with Luigi's Mansion 3 and Astral Chain, while taking our first look at...

E3 2019 continues as Ubisoft and Square Enix introduce the next year and beyond in video games. We talk about where we fall after the pair of press conferences have aired and the highlights of each show. We fell in love with Final Fantasy VII all over again and are eager to take over London in Watch Dogs Legion. We find ourselves curious of what else Ubisoft is up to besides Tom Clancy's game and...

It's the start of E3 2019 and we've watched Xbox, Bethesda, and Devolver Digital show off some video games. We each share a bit of what we found most interesting from each presentation. We talk about the next generation of Xbox and what that means for what we're currently playing on as well as what surprised us most out from the first day of E3 2019.

This week on The Free Cheese, we welcome back that classic taste. We're recording this episode just hours before Xbox goes live with its E3 2019 announcements so we keep it a little light this time. We talk about what we've played this last week. Marc takes a trip to the swamp with Hunt: Showdown and tries World War Z's approach to the Left 4 Dead style of survival games. Matt climbs a few more le...

This week on The Free Cheese, we give you 45 reasons why this E3 will be the best E3. We switch things up a bit this time as we start the show with a bit of news from the last week before moving into what we've all been playing. Matt set sail in space as he completed Observation. Marc tried to find the meaning of life and how to escape it in Transference. Joe learned about biology and New York Cit...

This week on The Free Cheese, we talk about movies for a while. Matt spent some time fixing a PC this week so we could all play Sea of Thieves. Marc looked into the goggles again to take Astro Bot on a little adventure. Joe found a team of Sonic characters to go racing with in the latest in the series of Sonic kart racing games. We talk about what Jack Tretton has to say about PlayStation 5, how l...

This week on The Free Cheese, the waffles might be burning. We induct another game into The Free Cheese Hall of Fame, bringing our total to three. We also talk about Sony and Microsoft's partnership in the cloud and what it probably actually means. We find out what The Video Game History Foundation is doing at Game Informer. Additionally, we get the latest details on Treyarch's Black Ops IIIII. Ma...

This week on The Free Cheese, we bring back the dead. Marc teaches you how to rig the arcade so you and your family can get switchblade combs. Matt maintains his status on Xbox Live without compromising his trash talking. Joe checks out a bunch of video tapes. Without a lot that we've been playing recently to talk about, we instead look backwards and forwards in time to talk about video game remak...

This week on The Free Cheese, we're not slowing down. Marc and Joe are excited for the future of Sonic the Hedgehog cinema and talk about our favorite live-action Pokémon so far. We also talk about how Microsoft thinks you should trash talk appropriately and how crunch is affecting the video game industry. Marc spent some time this week waving a tiny ball at his screen while Joe continued to learn...

This week on The Free Cheese, should you go into someone's van? We finally find out that Persona 5 is coming to Nintendo Switch and we talk about how you can make your own Overwatch games. Matt spent the week being sad on ice, Marc took a sword to the 1980s, and Joe found a way to build a deck. With Mortal Kombat 11's release, we detail a lot of what has changed since the last iteration of the gam...