Free Play Podcast

Have you ever done an escape room? Various scenarios designed to stretch your mental capacity and force you to solve inane riddles and puzzles by thinking outside of the box… sometimes literally. Are…

Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words.  Logic would dictate that thousands of moving pictures spread out over upwards of 18 movies are easily more words than anyone will ever be able to …

GenCon 2018 is in the books!  And oooooo weee, there were so - many - games this year.  If you had a week to walk the expo hall you still wouldn’t have been able to even see all the games, let alone …

San Diego Comic-Con is the best of the best.  All of the new things in the nerdy movie, comic book and small-screen are shown at this convention.  We watched a few trailers, so I think that makes us …

This week on the Free Play podcast we're talking graphics.  With all of the advancements that we are making with technology, why is it that the graphics in video games seem to be trending backward?

On this week's episode, Bubba and Kate talk about the state of rich, single-player experiences in video games.  Is it worth it to go buy a game if you've already had it spoiled by watching it online?…

We all have that one song from our favorite game that floods our minds during the silent parts of our day.  They make you think and feel certain things during the game and that's what we in the biz c…

With the Switch, Nintendo is winning in every sense of the word.  We know that this isn't always the case, but for the time being... Nintendo is doing pretty well.  We want to celebrate that this wee…

On the chopping block in this week's episode are Sony, Nintendo, Square Enix and PC's E3 2018 conferences.  We look at the good the bad and the ugly as well as let you know who we feel did the best a…

E3 is a media circus... and we want to ride the elephant.  In this, the first of a two-part series, Bubba, Matt and Kate look at the EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft and Bethesda press conferences.

Stepping outside of the normal week-to-week nonsense, Bubba, Matt and Kate take a look at the importance of the gaming community as well as a few of the problems it may cause.  They also leave you wi…

This week, Bubba rants about how good Starbucks is at handling pressure, Matt rants about how good Starbucks is at listening to reggae, and Kate rants about her grandpa who rants about Starbucks poli…

With the band all back together for this episode, it doesn't take long before they are swapping stories about UFO sightings and the possibility of time travel.  If you manage to make it through all o…

This week Bubba is more than a little under the weather, Matt has an abscessed tooth and Kate... well, Kate seems to be okay.  Outside of health problems, the team talk about what its like to dream i…

We kick off our weekly Free Play Podcast release schedule on May the 4th with a special Star Wars themed episode!  OUtside of a little trivia from a Galaxy far, far away... Matt complains about how t…

Games... games... GAMES this week!  Holy freakin' cow so many games!  Matt and Bubba have been up to their ears in games and it's helping to pad those BGG stats.  Kate... well... she played a game, t…