FEATURING: We had another great telethon for Child's Play, and you can still donate at our website (through November 15, 2014)! The Famicast is live from Japan with special guests John Ricciardi and J.J. Epperson from 8-4 Play! Shenanigans brings in Karl for the first time all day, as he leads the returning RFN gang and a very special guest caller! Box Office Poison is back this year as Karl, Stan, Jonny, and Ty somehow fill an hour on the terrible Wing Commander movie!...
Nov 15, 2014•3 hr 5 min
FEATURING: We had another great telethon for Child's Play, and you can still donate at our website! Radio Trivia Live returns with more awesome video game music! Ten-year retrospective on Nintendo DS with special guest Chris Johnston! Kickstarter games are under the spotlight with Nintendo Free Radio and special guest Robert Boyd!
Nov 11, 2014•2 hr 59 min
FEATURING: We had another great telethon for Child's Play, and you can still donate at our website! RFN gets it started with a live edition of Listener Mail, then a surprise-filled roundtable on our Top Five Personal Games Ever! Connectivity is up next with everyone's favorite game show, Who Wants to Be a Nintendoaire? Learn about the shadiest era in bootleg video games with Jon and James in... Unlicensed to Drive!
Nov 10, 2014•4 hr 13 min
FEATURING: Karl Castaneda joins us for a five man podcast this week! New Business features Woah Dave!, Shadow of Mordor, Fantasy Life, Lair, Bayonetta, Super Little Acorns Turbo, Gargoyle's Quest 2 and Demon's Crest! In the second segment, Guillaume gives his impressions of Super Smash Bros for Wii U, Captain Toad, and Sonic Boom (from an event held by Nintendo of Canada, then James explains Nintendo's Quality of Life platform, and finally Karl hypes the telethon. It's next week!...
Nov 02, 2014•2 hr 26 min
FEATURING: Josh Hillyer is our special guest this week! New Business features Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, Smash Bros for 3DS, Wii Music, Skyrim and Kirby Tripe Deluxe! In the second segment, we tackle 50 facts about Smash Bros for Wii U and "artistic intent" in video games!
Oct 26, 2014•2 hr 16 min
FEATURING: Craig Harris is our special guest this week! New Business features Bayonetta 2, Smash 3DS, and a trio of Halloween-themed games! Listener Mail covers Rogue Squadron Trilogy and other unreleased games, plus the strangest sequels and when you should buy a console!
Oct 19, 2014•1 hr 54 min
FEATURING: Recorded live via Google Hang Outs On Air, James and Danny bring you an episode focused on the New 3DS! Danny goes hands-on with a New 3DS LL (XL) and lets you know about general system speed, Miiverse, the Web Browser, Smash on the new system and more! Your listener questions, including a mini Life in Japan and direct interactions during the broadcast! Send your questions to famicast@nintendoworldreport.com or send us a tweet at @thefamicast
Oct 17, 2014•1 hr 14 min
FEATURING: We're back to normal with all your favorite segments as Season 4 is officially underway! New Business covers Smash Bros. on 3DS, Blok Drop U, Dracula X, ZombiU, Shovel Knight, and more Tekken Tag 2! A news recap lets us chat about release dates, pricing, New 3DS in Oz, and firmware updates for both systems! Listener Mail covers the GamePad's TV button, New 3DS killer features, Kingdom Hearts confusion, and limited edition outrage!
Oct 12, 2014•2 hr 13 min
FEATURING: RFN listeners selected many of the best moments from over eight years of the podcast. Hear them all again (or for the first time) in this convenient highlight reel!
Oct 06, 2014•36 min
FEATURING: The Tokyo Game Show is over. The Famicrew survived and has many a tale to tell Hands on impressions with the New 3DS, Bravely Second, Final Fantasy Explorers, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and much more! Updated thoughts on Smash for the 3DS and your questions straight from twitter (tweet at us @thefamicast, or email us at famicast@nintendoworldreport.com - we would like to hear from YOU!)
Oct 01, 2014•1 hr 42 min
FEATURING: New Business: Super Smash Bros. for 3DS demo, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Final Fantasy Theatrythm: Curtain Call demo, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Azure Striker Gunvolt, Wooden Sen'SeY. Listener Mail: TVii, and Crush 3D.
Sep 30, 2014•3 hr 9 min
FEATURING: New Business: Super Smash Bros. for 3DS demo, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Final Fantasy Theatrythm: Curtain Call demo, Fire Emblem: Awakening, Azure Striker Gunvolt, Wooden Sen'SeY. Listener Mail: TVii, and Crush 3D.
Sep 22, 2014•1 hr 20 min
FEATURING: Get ready for an action packed episode as the guys talk about the recently released Super Smash Bros. on 3DS with a familiar voice returning to the Famicrew. Pre-TGS news filled with talk about Dragon Quest X for 3DS, a Mega Man theme park event and more! Your listener mail about MMOs on Wii U and another that is...not suitable for the Famicast, but we read it anyway!
Sep 16, 2014•1 hr 42 min
FEATURING: New Business: Guacamelee, Fez, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Azure Striker Gunvolt and Destiny. Listener Mail: The New 3DS, 3DS Ports for New 3DS?, We Need to Talk About Ubisoft.
Sep 14, 2014•1 hr 57 min
FEATURING: In this episode, we forgo New Business in order to interview Dan Adelman, the independent development consultant who recently left Nintendo of America after nine years of work on digital distribution platforms. Listener Mail: Ethics in game journalism.
Sep 07, 2014•2 hr 8 min
FEATURING: New business talking about Hyrule Warriors, fighting games and even some mobile Bust-a-Move. A look into the New 3DS on top of other Japanese happenings in the news. Another game of Fake or Real and a Life in Japan segment about baseball in Japan!
Sep 04, 2014•1 hr 34 min
FEATURING: New Business: Shadow of the Ninja, The Fall, Gone Home, Wario Land 3, Rogue Legacy, Spec Ops: The Line, PT, Resogun, Madden 25, Demon's Souls, Persona 4. Topic: DLC. Listener Mail: Leaking Culture.
Aug 31, 2014•2 hr 1 min
FEATURING: NFL 2014 Preview! All the NFC jynx you can stomach! Super Bowl predictions!
Aug 29, 2014•2 hr 13 min
FEATURING: NFL 2014 Preview! Well just the AFC
Aug 26, 2014•2 hr 11 min
FEATURING: New Business: Console Wars, Rayman Legends, Cybernator, Armored Hunter GUNHOUND EX, Astebreed, The Mysterious Murasame Castle, Final Fantasy XIV. Listener Mail: Collections and Backlogs, Nintendo X Koei.
Aug 17, 2014•1 hr 37 min
FEATURING: New Business: Puzzle League Express, The Mysterious Murasame Castle, Super Mario Kart, Resogun, Dillon's Rolling Western, Baseball, Donkey Kong Jr., Vegas Stakes. Listener Mail: Give Us Starfox 65, Console Wars, The Trouble with Download-Only Handhelds.
Aug 10, 2014•1 hr 53 min
FEATURING: Michael "TYP" Cole is with us for a five-man podcast! New Business: Mario Golf: World Tour, Mega Man Xtreme 2, fixing the eShop, Super Mario Land 2, Wii Sports Club, Mr Driller: Drill Till You Drop, Wario Land 3 and Rogue Legacy. Listener Mail: Mushroom Kingdom Historia, GamePad design.
Aug 03, 2014•1 hr 49 min
FEATURING: New business talking about more Mario Kart 8, Buta Medal (a free puzzle game on Wii U in Japan), Metroid Zero Mission and some EVO talk. A breakdown of how NFC payments work on Wii U (it's now a thing!) and a lot of other news from Japan! A new feature from the mind of Ty - Fake or Real. Guess whether or not the crazy Japanese game Ty is describing exists or not!
Jul 30, 2014•1 hr 30 min
FEATURING: New Business: Donkey Kong 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Mr Driller 2, Tomodachi Life, Game & Wario, Final Fantasy XIV, Bases Loaded. After the break: Summer gamin', and the 3DS successor.
Jul 27, 2014•1 hr 52 min
FEATURING: What starts as a three-man podcast looking at Wind Waker HD, Game & Wario, Super Castlevania IV, and Club Nintendo Rewards ends as a four-man show looking at how to do a podcast and which Nintendo exec is hottest.
Jul 20, 2014•2 hr 1 min
FEATURING: It's a shorter, all-New-Business episode this week: Jonny checks out Armillo, Jon digs into Xenoblade Chronicles, Guillaume throws himself against 1001 Spikes, James pirates Ace Attorney Investigations 2, and the crew takes a trip to Another World.
Jul 13, 2014•1 hr 18 min
FEATURING: New Business: James finally played Super Mario 3D World, Guillaume finally played Xenoblade Chronicles, Jonny revisits Resogun, Jon discovers Battlefield 4 and brains melt as Rec-Rec makes an appearance. Listener Mail: Enjoying bad games, GamePad showcases, the GCN controller for Smash Bros., and RFN as part of your daily grooming ritual.
Jul 06, 2014•1 hr 49 min
FEATURING: New business hitting on Nintendo 2013 Game Seminar title, Poppo Hunter (all about pigeon dating...kind of...), Mario Kart 8, State of Decay and more! The latest gaming news from Japan Thoughts on the Capcom takeover defense being lifted (aka don't get excited) and some thoughts about E3 2014
Jul 02, 2014•1 hr 22 min
FEATURING: New Business this week is mostly about Shovel Knight, but we also touch on The Wonderful 101 and the streetpass function in Tomodachi Life. In Listener Mail, we talk about the format of Nintendo's E3 show, we explain Miyamoto's projects and we explain the new role of gaming journalism. We get to hear a painful story from a listener. We four dudes then talk female representation at Nintendo. And we end with our thoughts on the Digital Deluxe Promotion!
Jun 29, 2014•1 hr 54 min
FEATURING: Shovel Knight, Pushmo World, and Tomodachi Life take charge in a very full New Business that extends past the first segment! We fully debrief on E3 and examine the aftershocks of Nintendo's stellar performance at the show!
Jun 22, 2014•1 hr 58 min
