The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese, you are the wind.

Journey with us back to 2009 to the heyday of PlayStation Network and the burgeoning world of indie video games. We discuss the significance of thatgam…

This week on The Free Cheese, that's David's mark.

We travel through time and fight dinosaurs as we add another Capcom survival horror game to the list. This time, we look at the more action-oriented…

This week on The Free Cheese, you search and you action.

Sega may be working toward its goal of transmedia takeover today, but the roots of the efforts follow back to 1987 on the Master System. In th…

This week on The Free Cheese, a good first-person shooter.

We Return to Castle Wolfenstein, seeing what id's legacy becomes in another developer's hands while still using idtech to bring the game to …

This week on The Free Cheese, Halo ...killer?

We turn the clocks back to 2004, as the video game world looked toward sequels to Grand Theft Auto and Halo, and PlayStation introduced its new first-per…

This week on The Free Cheese, mullets live on.

We finally add a Mario Kart game to The List. Wait, right—We add our third Mario Kart game to The List this week, bringing the best-selling Nintendo Swi…

This week on The Free Cheese, boulderrrrr PUNCH!

It wouldn't be a season of The Free Cheese Podcast without a new Resident Evil game to add to The List. This time, we make it a cooperative experience…

This week on The Free Cheese, hello neighbor!

We've just moved to town in time for the winter holidays and the total absence of bugs. We gather to recant our time spent in the first quarter of our ye…

This week on The Free Cheese, throw all your hands up.

Six years after its initial release, we finally play through the Anthem campaign. We share our thoughts on our time with the game, what we think…

This week on The Free Cheese, hear that?

We discuss soundtracks that made an impact on us and on other video games. Rather than focus on the "best" soundtracks (although we save some time for that as…

This week on The Free Cheese, metroiDOOMvania?

We look at how video games post-Doom tried to find their own niche and why expanding on item collection works well in a first person shooter. It's back …

This week on The Free Cheese, we are not ninjas.

What happens when a franchise reaches incredible heights and has nowhere to go but outward? A grand adventure to collect the icons of the elements, if…

This week on The Free Cheese, prepare for Titanfall.

We return to Titanfall 2 this episode to check in on the multiplayer community and see the campaign through. We discuss how it holds up after eigh…

This week on The Free Cheese, welcome to the year of Metroid!

We revisit the most divisive entry in the Metroid series ahead of the release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond this year. We examine the unique…

This week on The Free Cheese, let's predict 2025.

For the debut of our thirteenth season, we look ahead at 2025. We see how we fared in predicting 2024 and then make our claims for the year ahead. We…

This week on The Free Cheese, it's the end of Season 12 — Part Two.

In our finale, we each share the games we played in 2024 that made an impression on us. We discuss some of the headlines from the y…

This week on The Free Cheese, it’s the end of Season 12 - Part One.

As we bring Season 12 to a close in a two-part episode, we shake up The List with science and math. We also discuss the games we lo…

This week on The Free Cheese, making friends with old computers.

In January, we each purchased a console we never owned before and have spent the year with it. Matt selected the PSP and Joe the Xbox.…

This week on The Free Cheese, live in your world, listen in ours.

We celebrate the 30th anniversary of PlayStation one generation at a time. We discuss the launch of the brand, how it has evolved, an…

This week on The Free Cheese, it's been a while.

We return to the adventure and see how the year turned out for our fitness journeys. We discuss how to maintain momentum with a routine and what we th…