The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Joe and Kyle discover the wereworm and accidentally create the cug.  It's been a month since we've sat down, so we had a lot to catch up on. Kyle really wants to play Mad Max after watching 70 minutes of footage for the game. Joe needs to figure out how to get a Shovel Knight amiibo into his hands. Both of us have been playing the Pokemon Trading Card Game Onl...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast:   We get really excited about Sonic Boom: Fire and Ice. Well, one of us does.  Marc plays a little bit of The Escapists and a lot a bit of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.  Joe tries to play this month's pick for The Free Cheese Game Club, but ends up playing a lot of Rocket League instead.  We also talk about how much fun Splatoon is and the new content coming up...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: We talk more about Batman: Arkham Knight. Joe finally reviews the game and the newly released DLC, "A Matter of Family." We take a break from the Batman chatter to go a bit deeper into EarthBound Beginnings and explore the insides of Shigesato Itoi's mind. Marc returns to the basics and enjoys some Super Smash Bros. for his birthday, and tells us a bit about h...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: We remember Satoru Iwata. We went to the arcade and played some of gaming's greatest games, and we fill in the week with our usual Super Smash Bros. sessions. Joe explores a bit more of EarthBound Beginnings, slowly begins to understand Splatoon, and continues to wonder why Warner Bros. hates Arkham Knight. This podcast, our passion for video games, and everyt...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Joe and Marc are joined by a very special guest, Joe's nephew Jake, to talk all about Rocket League. Since we last met, Marc wakes up inside of the Wii U eShop to find himself inside the world of F-Zero. Jake rides elephants and blows stuff up in Far Cry 4, and Joe really doesn't like #DRIVECLUB. The common thread in this week's show is our love for the recent...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Marc makes a serious investment but still can't paint the world. Kyle is annoyed with the recording schedule. Joe still loves Arkham Knight, even after the grueling endgame. We determine which cheese is the best cheese, although Kyle is still wrong.  We discuss the difficulty of reviewing a game based on something you love, and then we talk about comic books a...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Joe and Kyle sit down to talk about Batman: Arkham Knight. Joe finished the game and provides some overall thoughts on the experience. Kyle is just getting started, but he somehow knows everything. We don't go into any spoiler territory, so if you haven't played yet, feel free to listen all the way through. We open the show by discussing how video games have c...

We gather to talk about E3 from our excitements to our disappointments.  We get really happy about a lot, and sad about a lot more. We also forget to post the show for a week!

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: MOTHER IS COMING HOME! We talk about the recently announced and released EarthBound Beginnings, the first ever North American release of 1989's Mother from Nintendo and Shigesato Itoi. We also discuss the Nintendo World Championships 2015, and how the event turned out. Most of our week involved Super Smash Bros., so conveniently there was a Super Smash Bros. D...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: We try to get better in Smash Bros. in anticipation of Lucas arriving in one week. Why can't Animal Crossing be perfect? Marc wants to fall back in love with Zelda, but he's scared of commitment. Kyle burns himself. We discuss the difference between scaring and startling, and why video games seldomly get it right. Finally, we make our predictions for PlayStati...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Kyle buys stocks and doesn't starve. Marc makes Power Rangers and continues to dominate in Super Smash Bros. as Joe overcomes his hatred for Star Fox.    We find out which Pokemon we are (again). We race against the sun and get murdered by scarecrows over and over again.   Finally, we close the show by making our predictions for Xbox at E3 2015. 

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast:  We figure some stuff out... Which holiday is most like E3? Which holiday is the worst holiday? Which food called "stew" is the worst food ever? Joe is joined by Marc, Kyle, and Tyler to discuss plans for The Free Cheese in the coming weeks and months, as well as our E3 plans. We discover that everything is fanfiction and that we are all Wartortle. Occasionall...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast:   Join Joe, Marc, and Kyle as they try to figure out the identity of Rocksteady's upcoming conclusion to the Batman: Arkham series. We celebrate the announcement of Koji Igarashi's Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and talk about our favorite Metroidvanias. Joe has been exploring Metroid Prime and imagining Kirby inside of Box Boy!, while Marc runs through a l...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast:   We slowly recover from taking a week off. We start by talking about Koji Igarashi's new game and the enigmatic marketing campaign that is currently underway. Konami hasn't shown a future for Castlevania, so why shouldn't Igarashi carry on its legacy by a new name?  We also discuss Konami and the strange behavior of the company over the last month, including...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Joe spends some time with Ray Barnholt of Retronauts, No More Whoppers, SCROLL, GamePro, and more. We talk about getting a job writing about video games and how that has changed (or not changed) since Ray first entered into the industry. Ray explains the process of creating a video game magazine and how it differs from creating content for the web. We learn ab...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: We talk about the lost secrets of video games and how publishers have replaced hidden content with microtransactions. The playground conversations of video game discoveries have become obsolete in a world where secrets are spoiled before the game releases and surprises are sold to us after buying the box. Join us as we discuss Mortal Kombat X and Unreal Engine...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: We want more superhero video games. The movies, television, and obviously the comics have all been fantastic; but we're looking for more games featuring our favorite heroes. Join Joe, Kyle, and Tyler as they discuss how a Green Lantern video game would work, what a Superman game should be, and why Arkham Knight is doing it right.  Joe has been losing himself i...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: We discuss the state of amiibo and Nintendo's terrible choices for customer purchasing. Joe shares his adventures while trying to procure a Ness amiibo and the camaraderie felt among fellow amiibo hunters.  We talk about our favorite video game franchise and where it currently stands. Pokémon is weird, free-to-play experiments, Zelda is remade and delayed, and...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: We talk about the latest Nintendo Direct, a lot. Nintendo announced release dates for Super Smash Bros. DLC characters Mewtwo, and Lucas; as well as a date for the next DLC pack for Mario Kart 8. Hear all of our reactions to the announcements for amiibo, Splatoon, 200cc, N64 Virtual Console games, and more. We also share what we've been playing and thinking ab...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Joe, Marc, and Kyle discuss Nintendo's new partnership with DeNA to bring Nintendo IP to mobile platforms and the introduction of a new membership program. Marc finds secrets in Hotline Miami 2 and figures out the biggest secret behind the entire game. Kyle let his 3DS die and hasn't been bothered to turn it back on. Joe watches two characters in Fire Emblem:...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: We talk about Game Freak's collaboration with SEGA for a PS4 and Xbox One title, and Kyle cries about Uncharted 4. First, Joe finally appreciates Castlevania II: Simon's Quest and the strange obtuse world that it brought to the NES. Kyle shuffles some Pokemon around and tries to brand a bunch of warriors in Shadow of Mordor. Marc finds Hotline Miami 2: Wrong N...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Joe sits down with Alex Fraioli of the No More Whoppers podcast and the bar CRITICAL HIT. We discuss living in Japan and how you can never get used to the xenophobia. We talk about Alex's bar, CRITICAL HIT, a bar centered around classic video games in Nagoya, Japan. Alex explains the benefits of living in Japan, along with some of the aspects of the country th...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: We get excited about E3 a little early, but first we discuss what we've been playing. Marc has been killing too many blue and yellow Pikmin, while Mike raids in Destiny and discovers the joy of Rayman Legends. Kyle gets addicted to Pokemon Shuffle and saves his friend's corpses in Shadow of Mordor. Sandeep buys a PS4 and is enjoying The Last of Us Remastered,...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Joe, Kyle, and Dan sit down to discuss which classic franchise or movie we would like to see reimagined as a modern video game. Before that, Dan talks about the recently released Apotheon for PS4 and the little changes that make LittleBigPlanet 3 so much fun. Kyle trades in some imaginary coins on Club Nintendo for The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX and...

This week on The Free Cheese Podcast: Sandeep joins us, albeit briefly, with some insightful questions and thoughts on Resident Evil, where to start with The Legend of Zelda, and why we didn't buy the New Nintendo 3DS XL. Kyle slowly loses his patience with Majora's Mask 3D, so much so that it has killed his enjoyment of video games... for now. Dan has been toggling in the world of Far Cry 4 (whic...