Radio Free Nintendo

FEATURING: The final three hours of our most successful telethon yet! Includes these segments: Nintendo Free Radio's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, 3DS Report Card, and Shenanigans! Special guests include Craig Harris, Billy Berghammer, and Player One Podcast's Phil Theobald and Chris Johnston! Plus: Jon Lindemann performs the Pokemon Rap -- all of it!

FEATURING: A new Nintendo system just launched, wouldn't you know! Guillaume, Billy Berghammer and NWR's Ariel Ruff talk about their launch experiences while Jonny curses his bad luck and a sexy version of James performs the interminable OS update on his fresh new Wii U. A good half of the show is devoted to New Super Mario Bros. U and Nintendo Land, while the second half is shared by OS rants, Miiverse praise, eShop games and Call of Duty.

FEATURING: Nate rejoins us this week as we talk about Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Zone of the Enders HD Collection, the demo for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Shinobi for 3DS, Shinobi III, Persona 3 Portable, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (the sequel to 999) and Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask. Listener Mail covers a request to assess the real meaning of Wii U's undeniable third-party support at launch, and whether this level of interest from third-party developers and publish might evaporate once Sony and Microsoft launch their next consoles; a comment on the recent spate of big-name game directors/producers leaving their companies; and a look at a Japanese commercial in which Nintendo refers to the "Super Wii".

FEATURING: The middle three hours of our most successful telethon yet! Includes these segments: Radio Trivia Live, Connectivity's Who Wants to Be a Nintendoaire?, and The Famicast: Live from Japan! Special guests include 8-4's Mark McDonald, Justin Epperson, and Brenden Pritchard!

FEATURING: The first three hours of our most successful telethon yet! Includes these segments: Wii U Hype Train, A Decade of Metroid Prime, and The Eurocast! Special guests include Garnett Lee, Brad Shoemaker, David Ellis, Jeff Kalles, and a very awesome surprise guest! Plus: The return of Jon Lindemann!

FEATURING: It's a three man crew this week, with Jon still on extended leave and James being replaced by NWR's Aussie correspondent Nicholas Bray. New Business tackles the Mutant Mudds free DLC stages, eShop game 2 Fast 4 Gnomz, the new XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Final Fantasy V Advance,Mario Party 9 and the eShop version of Shinen's Art of Balance TOUCH! Listener mail deals with the future of eShop VC releases, Internet trolls putting down Nintendo and its fans, and a discussion of the game makers' original artistic vision in these days of patches and focus groups. The show concludes with hype for the imminent live show!

FEATURING: Prodigal Son Castaneda fills in for Jon this week. Guillaume unloads his impressions from a recent press event: Fluidity: Spin Cycle, Crashmo, and Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Karl follows up with Liberation Maiden on eShop, plus some iPhone game called Letterpress. James dips back into Dark Souls and Minecraft (XBLA). Jonny returns from his week off with an eShop game, NightSky, and Final Fantasy V Advance. For the second half of the episode, we focus on Wii U and start with the rest of Guillaume's impressions from that press event. Listen for Balloon Trip, Mario's Boost Mode, more ZombiU, Ninja Gaiden 3, and Epic Mickey 2. James drops a surprise here, as well: he finally played the new console again for the first time since E3 2011, plus the upcoming Rayman Legends. Jonny kicks in his own rather late epiphany on Wii U as technical marvel, incited by the recent Iwata Asks.

FEATURING: Danny takes over as host and is joined by Daan, Minoru, and that rascal Ty Shughart! Tons of Japanese games, including the new Paper Mario, EX Troopers, Bravely Default, and Project X Zone! Plus: Classics like Willow and Friday the 13th! And: Nintendo Direct coverage, Life in Japan, and Listener Mail!

FEATURING: Both Jonny and Jon are absent, so James hosts, Nate is back and Donald "Shaymin" Theriault from the NWR boards and the "Nintendo Free Radio" podcast wanders in. New Business features Pokemon Black Version 2, Pokemon Dream Radar, Asura's Wrath, Kirby Super Star, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Minecraft. After the break we move into a set of feature discussions: we first we share our thoughts on Nintendo's recent (and not so recent) procurement of Japanese franchises. Our second topic is a more in-depth discussion of Nintendo's marketing strategy for Wii U.

FEATURING: New Business features the worst DSiware game James ever reviewed, The Walking Dead, Pushmo, Persona 3 Portable, La Mulana and FTL! Then, Nates invade the Listeners' Mail segment with letters about reviewing games with preconceived notions, lives and difficulty in Mario, our most valuable games, and a neat idea for a Wii U Metroid game!

FEATURING: New Business features NSMB2 DLC, Dark Souls, Mario Party 4, Kirby's Nightmare in Dream Land, Rayman Origins, Quarth, and Final Fantasy V! RetroActive concludes with a fun discussion of Kirby and the Amazing Mirror!

FEATURING: This week is all New Business! Jonny starts with a marathon session of La-Mulana, Fractured Soul, and To the Moon, while Gui tries out Renegade Ops and finished PoP: Forgotten Sands! James reports on Non-tendo games such as Birds of Steel and Splice, while Nate returns as guest to teach us the mysterioius ways of The Denpa Men and even Torchlight II!

FEATURING: Rhythm Hunter: HarmoKnight and the ultimate StreetPass puzzle! Learn to play rock-paper-scissors... Japanese style! Ty Shughart emerges from a dark arcade to discuss demos and cat drugs from Tokyo Games Show 2012!

FEATURING: With Nate Andrews, Reviews Editor on NWR, Jonny, Guillaume and James shoot the crap on the adequately priced Fractured Soul, the enraging FTL, the non-derivative Starship Defense and Renegade Ops, the imperfect Touch Detective and the nostalgic Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. The crew then reads the listeners' mail: hand-wringing over the Wii U price, bundles, backwards-compatibility, a digital copy of Nintendo Land, etc. We also get some really interesting survey results from a high school teacher who wanted to know what games are most beloved by today's students.

FEATURING: James is back, but Jon is replaced by Mike TYP Cole. We talk about StarFox 64 3D, Monster World IV, NSMB2, Diamond Trust of London, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, Double Dragon Neon and Touch Detective. After a musical break courtesy of Double Dragon Neon, we talk about the recent Wii U Launch Press event and discuss its price, the launch games, the bigger games down the road and whether we'll be early adopters or not.