Molehill Mountain Episode 148 – Pooping In the Punch Bowl

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Here’s last week’s podcast.  (What can I say?  I’ve been busy.)  This week’s podcast will be posted in the next couple of days. 3:50 – EA’s new Star Wars game didn’t present very well 24:14 – Bandai Namco game director/producer releases statement on all three of the company’s E3 games leaking 26:16 – Google Stadia …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 147 – Nintendo Fears Perfection

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Nintendo fears perfection.  That’s my theory for why it inexplicably saddles its otherwise genius games with at least one unnecessary and objectively bad design decision. 13:03 – Nintendo restricts online play in Super Mario Maker 2 to random players 22:52 – Gaming Disorder is now a recognized illness 38:18 – Anti-loot box and microtransaction bill …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 146 – Nothing But Bad Ideas

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In the long, sad history of bad ideas, these are some of them. 19:36 – Ouya’s days are numbered. Who knew it was still alive? 28:59 – Fire Watch publisher announces a Nintendo-esque quirky portable console 40:38 – Terminator franchise picks itself up, brushes itself off, and tries it all over again. Again. 52:12 – …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 145 – Worse Than the Sonic Movie Trailer

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Sega and Paramount can breath a sigh of relief. 7:40 – Two grown men seriously discuss Detective Pikachu 41:01 – Minecraft Earth has a bad trailer and who ever made it should feel bad 51:35 – Nintendo’s voucher program is very Nintendo 1:05:05 – Epic should know that gamers don’t take kindly to idea of …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 144 – State Of ESA

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We know what the future holds, we’re just trying to throw you off track! 34:47 – Sony’s second State Of Play presentation tops the first but still hasn’t found its groove 55:14 – Nintendo content to continue milking the 3DS 59:17 – Video game industry fun facts, courtesy of the ESA! 1:14:59 – The state …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 143 – Late To the Party

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We’re back! I think. We’ll see how it goes. 26:02 – Okay, yeah. Let’s talk about the Sonic movie trailer 44:59 – A non-spoiler discussion of Avengers: Endgame 57:23 – A super spoilery discussion of Avengers: Endgame

Molehill Mountain Episode 142 – Our Picks For the Remaining 30 Genesis Mini Games

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We’ll talk about Star Wars next week. 19:22 – What we thought of Shazam! 31:11 – Our picks for the remaining 30 Genesis Mini games 1:13:51 – Super Meat Boy Forever delayed for a very good reason

Molehill Mountain Episode 141 – My, Myself and Y’all

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It’s just me and you tonight, folks.

Molehill Mountain Episode 140 – Let’s Just Make a Mess Of Things

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Just because it’s clearly ineffective and will predictably exacerbate the problem doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it anyway, right? 9:46 – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice may not be very fun to play, but there is a lot Andrew likes about it 26:08 – We speculate on what the rumored new Switch SKUs could be 35:13 – …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 139 – Ask Your Doctor If Stadia Is Right For You

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I mean, it’s a pretty bad name. 12:52 – Andrew saw Us and EZK saw How To Train Your Dragon 3 24:03 – Andrew likes Resident Evil 7 34:53 – So far, Google Stadia isn’t doing much for either of us 1:14:09 – Cadence of Hyrule is the standout of the recent Nindies Direct