It is with a heavy heart that we must report there was an E3 this year. And it was a gongshow from day -2 to the end. We break down all the presentations. Note: This was recorded Wednesday, but the main thing we missed was Donkey Kong and Sky Skipper.

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No Freetime Radio Presents: E3 2018

Brought to you by muscle relaxers and other controlled substances.   Achievement unlocked: Get E3 preview show out before EA Play.   New Business: Battletech 2018, SMT: Strange Journey Redux, Batman Season 2 (spoilers), Forgotten Anne, and a crap 3D Castlevania. Feature: An E3 preview that got proved hilariously long by the following eleven days of leaks.   Mushrooms: Nintendo Online and medical issues both current and future. Recording date: May 27Editor: DonaldNext episode: The E3 recap show. Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow not included (?)

No Freetime 110: Re;3

Can't sleep, out of control Dad will eat me.   No time to talk, the editor has a plane to catch. New Business: Dying games, Star Wars: Empire at War, Monster Hunter World, God of War 2018 (mild spoilers), Ni no Kuni II: The Search For More Money   Whatcha Watchin': Infinity War (because someone had to), High School D+D, the, um, interesting lineup offered by Amazon Prime in Canada, Reboot 2018, Frank & Ollie, Muppet Guys Talking   Feature: A news catchup Listener Mail? YES! Mushrooms: Donald's continued feud with The Sandman, Stephen has praise for the PS4's account system (????) and Austen's on TV!   Recording date: May 6 Editor: Donald Next episode: The Contractual Obligation Album of the year. Send your predictions for what was once a trade show but is now Devolver owning everyone before the weekend.

No Freetime 109: Emotional Consequences of Podcasting

This would've come out earlier if this week wasn't out to kill the editor.Multiple sleepless nights all lead to this.New Business: Kirby Star Allies, Detective Pikachu, a warning about Radiant Historia PC, a Minit to win it, Nioh, and the obligatory Monster Hunter World segment with a surprising guest.Whatcha Watchin': Sherlock Gnome, Pacific Rim 2, Attack on Titan S2, My Hero One's Justice, Tomb Raider 2018, Waking Sleeping BeautyFeature: News catchupMushrooms: Channel Crap, price drops, THQ spends a year dead for tax reasons, Stephen goes ProRecording date: April 8Editor: DonaldNext episode: Send us stuff so we don't have to wing it.

No Freetime Radio 108: All Good Things...

In the year's most stunning upset that didn't involve the Maple Leafs making the playoffs...   Just in time for the first business day of the new fiscal year, it's the long-awaited GOTY show. There's three parts this year.   Part 1: A full countdown of the top 10s. Or in some cases, the top 8s.   Part 2: A Whatcha Watchin' recap. Sadly, Donald's participation for this in 2018 may have been DELETED.   Part 3: Other miscellaneous awards.   This podcast was recorded on March 17 and edited by Donald Theriault and Austen Parkin. A new version of the episode has been uploaded to resolve an issue with the audio.

NFR 2017 Game of the Year: So It's Come To This

Including the results of an ice cold Metacritic draft   Delayed once again due to tragedy. When you've got tragedy with no time, is that still eventually comedy? New Business: More MH World, Shadow of the Colossus HD, Persona 5 (ending spoilers, 25:18 - 31:40), Injustice 2 on the half shell, Bayonettas Whatcha Watchin': DC stuff (Gotham by Gaslight, Teen Titans, Justice League 2K17), Black Panther, The Olympics Feature: We go over predictions from last year and make new ones. Mistakes were made. Mushrooms: The delay explained. Next episode: It's GOTY.cx time. We want your top 5s, please.

No Freetime Radio 107: Predictions Revengeance

Way down south in Nashville, the hunt is on in N-Hanced Fur-K.Illness ended up delaying this episode twice. Luckily, it meant we could watch a few things.New Business: VA-11 HALL-A (disclaimer: code provided), Celeste, Monster Hunter World... and lots of it, Persona 5.Whatcha Watchin': AGDQ 2018, Doctor Who, The Orville, My-HIME, Kabaneri and the Iron FortressThe Feature: A mini Direct, a rat infestation, LABO, LABO, LABO and wait, Microsoft's doing WHAT?Mushrooms: PSN still sucks.Recording date: January 28Editor: DonaldNext time: Self-flagellation as we look back on our 2017 predictions - and possibly make new ones. Drop us a comment, shoot us an email, or hell, Tweet it if it's 280 characters.iTunes/Apple Podcasts: FIXED! Not only that, we're on Google Play Podcasts too.

No Freetime Radio 106: Defective Pikachu

Not recommend for fans of Mularkey, robots, or piling dirt on the 3DS.New Business: Monster Hunter World (we can just pencil this in until PAX West), Switchmas, Never Stop Sneakin', Nier Automata, and Persona 5.Whatcha Watchin': Collective pass. It'll be back with a vengeance for 106 (even Donald might get in on it).Feature: Counting down the top 5 games we were hyped for. We know one list is way different now.Mushrooms: The disqualification of Fire Pro Wrestling World by the coward Brad Shoemaker, ARMS is selling better than we thought, and someone had to "work" on Christmas Day.Recording date: January 7Editor: DonaldNext time: Look, Smithers! Labo is coming! (Also Detective Pikachu and the Direct.)iTunes/Apple Podcasts: Still not returning our calls. Grab your RSS feed here: http://nofreetimeradio.podbean.com/feed/

No Freetime Radio 105: Your Android Waifu Is Crap

Shorter than a Giant Bomb GOTY cast divided by the trailer for that banging film Death Stranding.New Business: Dauntless, Monster Hunter World, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Never Stop Sneakin', a skeptic's extended look at PSVRWhatcha Watchin': The Keighlies and PSXFeature: See aboveMushrooms: Capcom collections, where's Sherman when you need him, Fedex and Amazon cockupsRecording date: December 17Editor: DonaldNext time: 2018 hype... snails.iTunes/Apple Podcasts: Buggered off for the holidays. Grab your RSS feed here: http://nofreetimeradio.podbean.com/feed/

No Freetime Radio 104: Backsplash Criticism

At least Donald called Campo Santo appearing.New Business: Pokémon Ultra Sun, Battle Chef Brigade (Donald), Cat Quest, Farpoint (Stephen), more Breath of the Wild, Batman and Hand of Fate (Austen)Whatcha Watchin': Desert Bus For Hope (Donald), Tiger and Bunny (Stephen), Justice League Action (Austen)Feature discussion: We preview the Game Awards and PSX, and how naive we were.Back of the book: Politicians quote Star Wars, two positive mentions for Sega, and screw the Steam ControllerBut, Plugs: We talked Terranigma; you can grab it here (along with the rest of the show) or hereRecording date: November 26Editor: DonaldNext time: Austen's on better (?) internet

No Freetime Radio 103: The Trouble With GOTY

The final episode recorded under less than ideal circumstances (in taping order). For the sixth time, we were honored with the chance to record a segment for the NWR Live Telethon for Child's Play. The donation box may have closed, but this year we managed to raise $6200 in support of a great cause: the children. On this year's show, Donald, Stephen and Austen had all played or seen through most of the lost (to North Americans) SNES game Terranigma. Why didn't it cross from Europe? How many drinks did the translators have? Why is Bloody Mary such a...? All this and more await. The remaining audio from the telethon - in which Donald had no less than three segments and a trainwreck - can be found at Nintendo World Report.

Terranigma: The Lost SNES Classic

Better late than never, just in time for the telethon.New Business: Mario Odyssey + odds and ends (Donald), medical absence (Stephen), proving Donald right, Breath of the Wild, Hand of Fate 2, GameStop Trade Price Is Right (Austen)Whatcha Watchin': pass (Donald), the sequel to Thor 2: The Dark World (Stephen), Spiderman Homecoming, The Boys: The Sherman Bros. Story and Your Name (Austen)Feature discussion: Sony's Paris Games Week announcement of Guacamelee 2 and, uh, that's itBack of the book: Sony going lootbox, Telltale layoffs, "EA, just... EA" (BEFORE BATTLEFRONT 2 BLEW UP), Lords of Thunder on Wii U, medical trauma, and Starcraft/Pokémon Olympic medalsBut, Plugs: Donald's XONiC review, we're talking Terranigma on Saturday (guaranteed), new email, same Twitter Recording date: November 12Editor: DonaldSo much for: Getting this out in November

No Freetime Radio 102: The Calm Before The Trap

And to think, it only gets worse from here.New name, new email address, new show note format.New Business: Fire Emblem Warriors (Donald), Final Fantasy 3 [The Good One] (Stephen), SNES classic hacking, adventure games, The Sexy Brutale, The Evil Within 2 (Austen)Whatcha Watchin': pass (Donald), The My Little Pony Movie, Voltron (Stephen), Orville, Ducktales 2017 (Austen)Feature discussion and episode namer: Calling out Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and five of the Big Six western publishersBack of the book: Batman happiness, EA/Visceral, Stephen never asked for this, the worst people in gaming including a serial drunk groperBut, Plugs: Donald's Fire Emblem Warriors review, Donald will be on RFN 546 talking FEW and Odyssey, new email, same TwitterRecording date: October 22Editor: DonaldPlease: Don't sue us, understand

No Freetime Radio 101: Hold My Beer

The only thing missing from this momentous episode is a Brass Bonanza.Somehow, against all logic, we've reached 100 episodes of Nintendo Free Radio. So it's roundabout time for some changes. In New Business, it's a group chat as for Mushroom-related reasons all three members of the team snagged SNES Classics, and between them managed to play a full third of the lineup. Donald picks up with Culdcept Revolt on the 3DS, before Stephen tries his hand at virtual head formation and also busts out the Super Scope VR... er, the Farpoint controller. Austen's big ones for this episode are the last Microsoft published title not to be loot boxed to hell in Cuphead, and in time for Dishonored Halloween his return to the world of Dishonored 2.Whatcha Watchin' serves as a nice summary of our collective tastes. Stephen brings the sci-fi with Seth MacFarlane's Orville, which should probably last a bit longer than every show Fox greenlit between cancelling and reinstating Family Guy. Austen goes superheroic with Best Picture nominee Wonder Woman, while Donald represents the anime faction with a few rounds of Code Geass.The Feature discussion is two parts, as we are keeping the show going under a new name that you'll probably see on our Twitter account, before doing the traditional look back at some of the highs and lows of production. Even the Mushrooms have a theme, as traditional punching bags of trade shows, Square Enix and recent foe Amazon come around for a good pillorying along with the continued ineptitude of PlayStation Network (seventy bucks a year!).We'll be back with you soon and will let you know when the email address change goes through, but for now we'll forward all the mail sent to the old address.This podcast was recorded on October 2 and was edited by Donald Theriault.

Episode 100: Goodbye, Farewell and HOLD IT

After this month, we've fully banned "Rock You Like a Hurricane".The Great One episode of Nintendo Free Radio has quite a bit packed into two and a half hours or so. In New Business, Stephen kept pecking away at the Monster Hunter Stories demo - did we mention this thing is LONG? - but we're not sure if he took the plunge. Maybe the Zelda DLC will help. Donald grabbed the demo for Project Octopath Traveler as well as the second good Metroid game of this decade (or ever) in Metroid: Samus Returns. Austen has some brief mentions including blatant Square selling out (because none of their games are) before dealing with the double main event of Life is Strange: Before the Storm episode 1 and the dreaded Knack 2. Thanks to the Nine Network for adding those bits to Donald's hard drive.Whatcha Watchin' covers the Netflix Voltron season 3, with a pitstop at the end of modern Ninja Turtles, before Austen castigates bad casting in Batman v Harley Quinn and violates about twenty copyrights when he visits Big O. Billion dollar debts not included, but probable in that universe.The Feature sort of got rolled into the Mushrooms as we encourage you to donate to a quality organization to help Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, which are still completely without power as of press time and has a member of the NWR fora living in the former. Also covered: The passing of The Brain, debates over the All-22 film, and Nintendo being Doomed this Christmas. Some big changes are coming to the podcast after the next episode, so keep it locked to our Twitter feed for updates as well as to send suggestions for things to discuss on said episode. If you can't keep it to 14... sorry, 280 characters and need a bit more space to breathe, then drop us an email or leave it here. Either way, we want to hear from you one more time.This podcast was recorded on September 17 and was edited by Donald Theriault.

Nintendo Free Radio 99: No Scorpions For You, Come Back Next Time

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