Molehill Mountain Episode 194 – Nintendo Holds Sony’s Beer

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Unsurprisingly, the PS5 console is as goofy looking as its controller. No timestamps this week.  I spend the first hour or so talking about the various games I saw this week (mostly from the PS5 presentation) and then spend the next hour and a half interacting with the chat and randomly jumping from topic to …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 191 – Just the Worst

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I had topics all planned out but ended up yapping about none of it. Please enjoy a very stream of consciousness episode of Molehill Mountain!

Molehill Mountain Episode 190 – Is It Just Me?

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It’s just me, isn’t it? 3:30 – Let me get this straight. I have to pre-order the Tony Hawk remake… to play the demo of the Tony Hawk remake? 14:02 – A 9-minute Unreal Engine 5 demo was more satisfying that Microsoft’s 27-minute Xbox Series X presentation 27:40 – Sony and Sucker Punch lied abut …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 167 – The Mandalorian Just Isn’t Doing It For Me

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Yeah, I’m that guy. Again. 0:44 – Microsoft’s Inside Xbox event was poop. 6:37 – Google Stadia ain’t going to do that well, methinks. 25:54 – Redesign makes Sonic look better but the movie still looks bad. 36:48 – I don’t much care for The Mandalorian thus far.

Molehill Mountain Episode 153 – The Switchless Switch

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Not-a-Switch? Switch In Name Only? 0:12 – Andrew argues that Judgment was purposefully made a lesser game in order to incentivize gamers to purchase microtransactions and paid DLC 31:42 – The 3D characters in the new Lupin III animated movie are amazingly on model! 40:35 – The forthcoming beta gives us a look at what …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 152 – G2A Is Not the WayForward

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And… something, something tariffs. 11:36 – Andrew shows a bigot that they are wrong and that their news sources are lying to them. He doubts it made a difference. 25:54 – Sources say Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are considering scaling back console manufacturing in China due to tariffs 31:29 – G2A’s response to indie devs …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 151 – Steam Sale Shenanigans

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How could anyone have seen this coming? 12:25 – Google doesn’t think gamers want a subscription service so Stadia will charge a subscription AND per game! …what? 32:44 – Lazy Valve made obvious boo-boos with its Steam Summer Sale. Because it’s lazy, you see. 44:42 – Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft stand arm-in-arm against tariffs 53-16 …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 150 – Chucky vs Buddi

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I saw the new Child’s Play. I have opinions. 0:43 – Hey, did you hear what EA said about loot boxes? 15:27 – YouTube’s algorithm is… not very good. 25:47 – Time to talk Child’s Play. 47:52 – I don’t want to watch season 2 of Iron Fist… but I must!

Molehill Mountain Episode 149 – The Great E3 Recap Show!

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E3 2019 is over!  Let’s excitedly prattle on about all the games we want to buy! 1:04 – Microsoft 55:19 – Bethesda 1:11:09 – Devolver Digital 1:19:54 – PC Gaming 1:48:34 – Ubisoft 2:02:40 – Square Enix 2:23:26 – Nintendo 3:19:00 – E3 winners, final thoughts, and miscellaneous games

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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