S3 Episode 13: all work and no pay? Let's talk about free games

Rental is a free horror game that you can support by buying a zine, while Content Warning launched free for a limited time. Is giving stuff away the new way to get paid? Who even knows anymore.

Episode 13 of the Electronic Wireless Show podcast, hosted by Rock Paper Shotgun, titled "S3 Episode 13: all work and no pay? Let's talk about free games" was published on April 4, 2024 and runs 62 minutes.

April 4, 2024 ·62m · Electronic Wireless Show

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Summary

This week you could get two horror games for free! Rental and Content Warning both launched for nada (albeit for a couple of days only in the case of the latter). Nate and I have both done work for free in the hope someone would retrospectively pay for it. Is it worth it? Is this how the internet is going to work from now on? Plus, what are some of our favourite free games? There are a bunch. We also talk about the science that suggests people process visual information at wildly different speeds (I know I shouldn't have said that some people just 'see more fasterer' or whatever reductive thing I said, please don't email me), Nate teaches me about some weird cryptids, and we recommend some sweet non-video game stuff, as per usual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices