Molehill Mountain Episode 87 – Publishers and Politicians

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It’s like they’re trying to piss us off. 0:00 – Monster Hunter World’s DLC is grossly overpriced. 10:18 – YouTube’s recommendations algorithm sucks. 28:38 – Game developer uses malware as DRM. It goes about as well as you’d expect. 41:34 – ESA doesn’t want you to enjoy anything it can’t make money off of, bemoans …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 82 – Nintendo Labo is Fabo!

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Even if the games suck, the DIY cardboard stuff is neat! 25:35 – We think wannabe Steam competitor Robot Cache is DOA 39:13 – Nintendo Labo: super cool. Super overpriced.

Molehill Mountain Episode 79 – All About the Kugel

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Swatting got someone killed last week.  It’s an unpleasant topic and one we spend the first part of the show yammering about anything and everything to avoid it.  But, as former GamePolitics writers, we felt we needed to discuss it. 46:00 – Gamers kill someone via swatting 1:13:08 – Copyright extensions keep hundreds of games …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 72 – Animal Crossing: Happy Campers

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Because that’s a far better name than “Pocket Camp.” 9:41 – EA and demands for high Metacritic scores 28:54 – Xbox One’s backwards compatibility would have arrived sooner if Microsoft didn’t have to spend a bunch of time and resources removing its ill-advised always-on DRM 39:46- Nintendo details Animal Crossing for mobile devices

Nitro Game Injection #256 – Larri Oh’ji: The Story of Larri (aka B-12 Butt Injection)

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Don’t ask. Just… don’t.

Touhou Tuesday 2014-04-15: Sixten Interview ~ Sakuracon 2014 Hype!

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Today I talked with Sixten about his new book, Use Your Illusion! It’s a cute comic about Youmu and Reisen needing to get married 🙂 We also talked a lot about SakuraCon, where his publishing company DoujinPress will have a booth at the convention. I also played some celtic music today for Sixten since he’s a fan 🙂 …

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Touhou Tuesday 2013-01-22: Don’t Stop Believin’

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WOW, what a week this has been. A bad one. Long story short, I had to completely redo my audio setup. Fixing it with hardware will cost money I don’t have, so I went the route of Virtual Audio Cable, which is super handy to have, since it allows me to continue doing this show. …

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