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Joe Dix on August 11, 2017 Every week on The Free Cheese Podcast, we begin with a segment called Now Playing where we talk about the games that we’ve been spending time with. In this article, we’re bringing a bit of that conversation to the written word because it isn’t dead yet. We’ll share what we’ve been playing and we encourage you…
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Joe Dix on July 28, 2017 The Free Cheese awarded Shovel Knight with Game of the Year in 2014, and the game continues to remain in our conversations regularly. Yet, Matt has never played Shovel Knight- until now. Joe and Matt sit down to push Matt through the first stage of the game and introduce Matt to the controls, the world,…
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Joe Dix on July 10, 2017 This week on The Free Cheese: You can email us a new car! We gather to share our mutual excitement for Splatoon 2 and its upcoming release. We also talk about the new Castlevania series and where we'd like to see it go. Matt finds himself a new platinum trophy and can't play anything else.…
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Joe Dix on December 28, 2016 We reach the halfway point as we start Day 3 of our Game of the Year 2016 awards. Today includes the awards for I’ll Buy It Again, Best Friend, Best Free Cheese Moment, and 2016’s 2015 Game of the Year.
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Joe Dix on October 31, 2016 Video game music has now reached the point where it rivals the best of film scores. Modern releases over the last decade host within them grandiose orchestral scores that provide a sense of environment and depth to the game that creates a clear departure from what we had previously come to expect in video game…
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Joe Dix on October 27, 2016 Life is usually more interesting to me when I let the weird stuff become a reality. Those moments where my brain feeds me something odd and I let it ride. For example, I wandered through the house in the middle of the night, not very awake. Caught somewhere between dreaming and waking, my house looked…
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Joe Dix on October 27, 2016 Castlevania II: Simon's Quest was first released for the Famicom in 1987 in Japan, followed by the NES in 1988 in North America. The game was developed and published by Konami and continues the story from the franchise's debut title, Castlevania. Like a number of sequels released for the NES, Simon's Quest varies from both…
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Joe Dix on October 15, 2016 Today, Joe and Marc are playing the NES trilogy of Castlevania games live. To celebrate thirty years of Castlevania and the feature of this month's cover story, join us as we play through the first games in the series. Watch live video from TheFreeCheese on www.twitch.tv Starting at 4:30PM EST/1:30PM PST, we'll play through Castlevania…
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