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Radio Free Nintendo is Nintendo World Report's official weekly podcast. Every week, NWR's staff discuss everything Nintendo from the latest releases to classic games.

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  • 24 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 2 hr 9 min
  • English
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  • Yesterday · 2 hr 6 min

    Episode 991: F.L.U.D.D.'S Death Scene Was Lacking Gravitas

    FEATURING: (00:04:36) New Business: Two Point Museum. (00:16:52) Wolfenstein 3D. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. (00:33:24) Poinpy. Sonic Origins. (00:50:06) Rhythm Heaven Groove. Pikmin 3 Deluxe. (01:14:39) Listener Mail - Add a gun, improve a game. (01:40:17) Game endings, good and bad.

  • August 30 · 2 hr 18 min

    Episode 990: The Sportsmate Had Bad Mouthfeel

    FEATURING: (00:02:10) Switch 2 is about to get more expensive. (00:14:15) Listener Mail: Why not just make smaller games? (01:02:26) Launching early for success on Switch. (01:38:42) Nintendo and their soul.

  • August 16 · 1 hr 58 min

    Episode 988: Monster Rancher Stole My Identity but I Got This Cool Kaiju

    FEATURING: (00:00:52) New Business - Pokopia expansion pass. (00:26:58) Days Gone. (00:37:42) Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. (00:50:07) Virtual Boy headset novelty. (00:55:16) Splatoon Raiders. (00:59:01) Listener Mail - Dynasty Warriors (verb) a franchise. (01:25:01) Western devs are back! Do we care?

  • August 9 · 1 hr 51 min

    Episode 987: I Could Be Merging Things Right Now!

    FEATURING: (00:07:24) New Business - LEGO Voyagers. (00:17:26) Denshattack! (00:28:14) Pokopia expansion pass. (00:45:52) Days Gone. (00:59:04) Merge Mansion (what's the opposite of an intervention?). (01:18:21) Splatoon Raiders. (01:23:50) Housekeeping.

  • August 1 · 1 hr 54 min

    Episode 986: Give Us Willem Dafoe

    FEATURING: (00:02:18) New Business - Splatoon Raiders. (00:21:00) Milano's Odd Job Collection. (00:32:47) Modern pinball games show Larry what happens. (00:47:22) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The Order of Giants DLC. (00:54:26) Halo: Campaign Evolved. (01:02:49) Listener Mail - Make it even 2D-er. (01:29:51) Living voice chameleon Willem Dafoe is all you need. (01:43:56) More languages: an underrated perk.

  • July 25 · 2 hr 16 min

    Episode 985: Really, Square-Enix? Still No Upgrade Path For Various Daylife!?

    FEATURING: (00:02:15) New Business - Splatoon Raiders. (00:18:19) Goemon Collection. (00:21:29) Mario Tennis Fever. (00:29:56) Absolum. (00:38:00) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Halo: Campaign Evolved. (00:58:30) Listener Mail - The next giant leap in gaming? (01:26:40) Square-Enix's confounding upgrade path strategy. (01:48:50) The Switch 2 upgrades we crave.

  • July 11 · 2 hr 6 min

    Episode 983: Get Back at Your First Responders With Swipe Fees

    FEATURING: (00:07:39) New Public Service Announcements - New Mario Kart World Knockout Tours. Mario Kart Tour sunsets on mobile. Send your Switch in for repairs while you can. (00:17:31) Star Fox (2026). (00:33:41) New Business - Rhythm Heaven Groove. (00:55:11) Heavy Machinery vs Shumai. (01:03:52) Listener Mail - What N64 games should have been on PlayStation? (01:33:06) We have to talk about your credit card.

  • July 5 · 2 hr 13 min

    Episode 982: All We Wanted Was to Pull a Sword Out of a Man's Forehead

    FEATURING: (00:05:51) New Business - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. (00:26:23) Gui's new headset, please forgive the sound quality. Absolum. (00:33:45) Rhythm Heaven Groove. (00:52:41) Star Fox (2026). (01:32:28) Listener Mail - An attention-starved hack still wants to beat you up. (01:39:34) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake concerns.

  • June 28 · 2 hr 3 min

    Episode 981: We're So Winback Direct

    FEATURING: (00:00:58) New Business - Rhythm Heaven Groove demo. (00:22:05) Super Scram Kitty. (00:31:37) Wolffang Skullfang Saturn Tribute Boosted. (00:48:19) The Last Salvage Squad. (00:55:21) Star Fox (2026). (01:29:50) Send your Retroactive ideas. (01:36:40) Listener Mail - Does the Neo Geo spark joy?

  • June 20 · 1 hr 40 min

    Episode 980: The Amazing Digital Blockchain

    FEATURING: (00:01:05) New Business - Pokemon Champions. (00:19:34) Destiny 2, its end and DLC The Final Shape. Digressions on the blockchain. (00:40:12) Piku Niku. (00:45:36) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. (01:00:37) Beatdown City Survivors. (01:12:35) Mina the Hollower. Shadow Labyrinth. Metroid: Other M. (01:23:29) Super Scram Kitty.

  • June 14 · 2 hr 24 min

    Episode 979: We All Struggle Under the Giant Thumb of Sportsmate

    FEATURING: June 9th 2026 Nintendo Direct, in order. (00:02:30) Rhythm Heaven Groove. Capcom bloc. Big Walk. (00:21:30) Kairosoft. (00:29:06) Pokopia. Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. DK Challenge. (00:54:26) Jujutsu Kaisen Rumble: Survivaton. Cozy Darksoulslikes. Muramasa: Revenant Blades. (01:04:39) So much Xenoblade. (01:40:49) Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World. Kingdom Hearts 4. (01:50:11) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (2026) glimpsed. (02:06:34) Star Fox (2026) demo.

  • June 6 · 2 hr 9 min

    Episode 978: Cotton Is Coming!

    FEATURING: (00:03:40) New Business - Saros. Outlast. (00:09:27) eFootball. (00:21:53) Pokopia. (00:42:12) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. Panorama Cotton. (00:58:35) James on Mina the Hollower. (01:41:51) Greg on Mina the Hollower. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. (01:58:08) Listener Mail kinda - When the Red Arremer underwhelmed.

  • May 31 · 2 hr 16 min

    Episode 977: The Pictonico! Pact

    FEATURING: (00:02:51) New Business - Table Flip Simulator. (00:12:44) Pictonico!. (00:27:45) Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival. (00:42:11) Forza Horizon 6. (00:59:57) The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. (01:04:34) Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. (01:39:56) Listener Mail - Bosses who join the party.

  • May 24 · 2 hr 16 min

    Episode 976: I'm Just Going to Choose to Not Engage with How I Taste

    FEATURING: (00:02:03) Listener Mail - The state of "modern" light gun games (2007-2015, really). (00:27:52) Pacing issues. (00:52:02) Is is easier to imagine a rerelease for Chrono Trigger than an end to Fire Emblem Heroes. (01:08:17) What future do we see for the console market? (01:52:24) Strangest things that we've experienced as part of RFN. (01:58:45) mlem (what if Yoshi ate us).

  • May 17 · 2 hr 2 min

    Episode 975: Charles Bronson's Ragebound

    FEATURING: (00:09:11) News - A Long-Expected Price Increase. (00:35:08) Tezuka retires. Results and shareholder questions. (01:15:11) New Business - The Switch N64 controller. Sin and Punishment. (01:32:55) Star Fox 64. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. (01:45:09) Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound.

  • April 27 · 2 hr 36 min

    Episode 972: Jean Ubisoft's Business Travels

    FEATURING: Syrenne joins the two greatest sages in business, the enlighted duo and J and J DreamFactory, to talk about the state of the industry, the attention economy, and just how much of a mess everything is. At some point we also talk about meme games. No timecodes this week because the entire episode is unstructured.

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