Free Play Podcast

The self-isolation descent into insanity continues as Bubba, Matt, and Kate continue to document their activities (or lack thereof). Kate organized a video game hostage handoff that involved Whole Food bags in a parking lot, Matt continues his Star Trek: The Next Generation binge with his wife as well as hunting for the money his child hid on his Animal Crossing: New Horizons island, and Bubba gets sucked into the redneck cousin of Making of a Murderer: Netflix's Tiger King. 

Bubba, Matt, and Kate return this week to take our minds off the state of the world. Instead, they talk about Matt's disgusting backed up bathtub, Kate's news report tells a sordid and twisted tale about a community of pumas that rival Game of Thrones in its scandalous aspirations, and Bubba's love for Picard on CBS all access has convinced Matt to binge Star Trek: The Next Generation while in quarantine...all 7 seasons. 

It's another week of quarantine for Bubba, Matt, and Kate as they all set sail for deserted islands in Animal Crossing: New Horizon. The trio talks about their experiences in exploring the island, some of the more frustrating elements of gameplay, how Kate completely pillaged her best friend's island, and how Bubba will eventually cave and let chickens into his house. All this and more on this episode of the Free Play Podcast.

Well, here we are.  The entire world in the midst of a global pandemic.  It crazy, really.  We’ve all seen 100 post-apocalyptic movies and played through games like The Last of Us and Fallout more times than you could shake a radioactive stick at, but I’m not sure that anyone really ever thought we’d be here having to deal with something like this.  I hope you’re all stocked up on toilet paper and bottle caps because they are 100% the new currency.  All that being said, nerds are on the rise as the internet becomes everyone’s new place of refuge and that what we want to talk about this week on the Free Play Podcast!

Bubba and Matt are at PAX East 2020 with Love Thy Nerd's Editor-In-Chief Drew Dixon. The trio reflects on the games they have played and where they feel Love Thy Nerd can be an influencer amongst the gaming community. Also, Matt plays with the new soundboard and chaos ensues. 

Bubba, Matt, & Kate take your questions in this Ask Us Anything episode along with Matt and Kate's "free range posse" escapades in Red Dead Online. 

Kate wants to go into scary mines with her Switch while re-enacting scenes from Red Dead, Matt shames Bubba and Kate into joining his posse, and Bubba introduces a new game, "Test Your Friends" by seeing if Kate or Matt can identify iconic video game themes played backward. 

This week on the Free Play podcast, Kate reads yet another entry from her Red Dead Diary, Matt plays his 41st play of Marvel Champions, and I catch you up on the adventure that is playing Gloomhaven… well… starting it, anyways.  Thanks for spending just a little bit of time with us this week on the Free Play Podcast.

Bubba, Kate, and Matt are back for season 3 in a free for all episodes where there is no plan, any game they have been playing is up for discussion, and introductions to Free Play insider lingo for the noobs.

Jennifer Graham-Macht of Keymaster Games joins Bubba for a sit-down interview about her background as a local game store owner, the board game Parks, and the upcoming Kickstarter from Keymaster games for Parks Memories.

Well, we did it.  This is the last Free Play episode of 2019 and Matt and I are in the same room to record it!  With all of the games that came out this year, we thought it would be a good idea to do the most creative thing we would think of, so we came up with what we thought were the top 8 tabletop games released this year and that’s what we want to talk about this week on the Free Play Podcast.

The holiday season is in full swing, and chances are you’re probably out shopping for that special someone in your life… even if it’s you… which it probably is. What should you get them?  Is it going to be worth your time to pick it up and their time to open it?  Well, fret not, nerd, because the Free Play Podcast is here for just a time as this.  We’ve created a little holiday shopping guide and that’s what we want to talk about this week of the Free Play Podcast!

Are there too many streaming services? I mean, who doesn’t love a good binge-watching session with their favorite streaming TV show, but it seems to be getting harder and harder to get everything we want in one place. Mickey Mouse just released his mega streaming service and even Disney + doesn’t have everything on it. Where do services like Hulu, Netflix, Prime video and the new Apple TV + fit into the mix? Should we be spending our hard-earned doll-hairs on multiple services? Well, that’s what we want to talk about this week on the Free Play podcast.

Who doesn’t love a 400 hour story mode?  I mean, when you are in a world that you love playing a game that lets you escape the one that you actually live in… you don’t really mind the extra time spent chasing bottlecaps and crafting mats just to spend a little more time with your favorite characters. But is all of that time worth it?  Would it be better if you could just play for a shorter amount of time and then move on to the next best thing?  Well, that’s what we want to talk about this week of the Free Play podcast.  

After what feels like a thousand years of waiting, we finally had a chance to see what Kojima has up his sleeve.  Is it another Silent Hill? What about something similar to Metal Gear? Well, take those two hands, mash them together, add a baby and a bunch of fetch quests and you got yourself a snazzy new game featuring everyone’s favorite motorcyclist, Norman Reedus exclusive to your Playstation video game console! But is it any good?

Just because Halloween is over doesn’t mean that we can’t keep the spoops rollin’!  We polled our Facebook Community and asked them about a few of the more memorable times when they got a little more than scared playing games.  And that’s what we want to talk about this week on the Free Play Podcast.

Well… Fortnite broke itself… and the internet.  In what can only be described as a pretty great PR stunt for epic games, they literally obliterated the game.  Like… all the way, dead. It’s fine... I mean, it came back… but was it worth it?  Were there other off the wall PR stunts that the gaming industry has tried?  That’s what we want to talk about this week on the Free Play Podcast.

LTN Con has LTN Come and LTN Gone, and it was good! Nerds from all over the US and Canada came to learn what exactly Love Thy Nerd is, who runs it and why it’s important. We had sessions on our three pillars, raffled the night away and gave away over 200 games!  But was it worth it? That what we want to talk about this week on the Free Play Podcast.

We’ve been excited about the Link’s Awakening remake since the day it was announced and, ladies and gentlemen, IT IS FINALLY HERE. Is it everything we hoped it would be? And should you pick it up for yourself if you don’t have it already? That’s what we want to talk about today on the Freeplay Podcast.

Games cost money, and we’ll gladly hand over all the pennies that we’ve got for them. But how many plays or hours do you expect to get out of a game to make the financial investment “worth it”? How many dollars are you willing to pay or do you expect to pay per play to make it worth the financial commitment? That’s what we want to talk about this week on the FreePlay Podcast.