Molehill Mountain Episode 109 – Sexier Than Senran Kagura

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Activision, EA, Steam and a Senran Kagura pinball game. 9:58 – Peach Ball is gross 31:06 – The physical release of the Spyro trilogy only includes the first game 47:07 – EA DMCAs an opensource city building sim that uses SimCity 2000 assets 55:30 – Steam game caught installing crypto currency miners on users’ PCs

Nitro Game Injection #318: Dueling Doses

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It’s the rematch of the century this week as SEGA’s upstart SG-1000 takes on the mighty Nintendo Famicom for the first time since 1983 in a new NGI segment we’re calling DUELING CONSOLES! You’ll also get your Dose of Duels for July 2018 as well as a celebration of this month’s gaming anniversaries in a …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 105 – Poor, Put-Upon Scrappy-Doo

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How could we be so cruel? 23:52 – Pirates pirate pirates so pirates can’t pirate pirates! 30:22 – PUBG drops lawsuit against Fortnite 33:54 – Sony drops ball on cross-platform play, Nintendo and Microsoft run with it 47:09 – PQube cancels western localization of Omega Labrynth Z, seemingly at behest of Sony

Molehill Mountain Episode 103 – When Nintendo Loses E3, No One Wins

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EZK and Andrew spend a few hours talking E3 2018! (We talked about EA’s conference on last week’s show.) 4:53 – Microsoft 53:28 – Bethesda 1:20:30 – Square-Enix 1:42:11 – Ubisoft 2:17:06 – PC 2:47:32 – Devolver Digital 2:54:12 – Sony 3:30:19 – Nintendo

Molehill Mountain Episode 102 – EA’s E3 Conference Sucked

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E3 is off to a rough start.  On the other hand, we weren’t expecting anything different from EA’s press conference. 0:15 – We discuss EA’s tepid E3 press conference 1:02:41 – Valve is not interested in quality control or curation for Steam 1:28:04 – We discuss the cool movie trailers we saw this week

Molehill Mountain Episode 97 – Coffee Syrup

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Cane sugar, water, and coffee. 35:27 – We discuss a new N64 controller from Retro Fighters 51:07 – Nintendo’s being greedy with its pricing of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Switch 59:07 – EZK notices some oddities with the website for the Atari VCS

Molehill Mountain Episode 95 – Do I Look Like I’m Made of Cardboard?

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Cardboard is expensive, yo! 0:10 – Andrew really, really doesn’t like baby Haruto in Yakuza 6 17:26 – Let’s talk about marijuana. ‘Cause why not? 32:21 – New Call of Duty rumored to drop the single player campaign. It is not rumored to drop the price. 52:52 – Nintendo Labo is super cool but super …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 86 – Lawmakers Look To Legislate Loot Boxes

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Everyone but the video game industry saw this coming. 20:30 – Loot Boxes and potential legislation 59:56 – Publisher banned from Steam for strong-arming employees to review their own game 1:07:20 – What do we think about the upcoming Five Nights At Freddy’s movie?

Molehill Mountain Episode 81 – No Rush For Gravity Rush 2

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Why pay full price for a video game when you can pay full price for HALF a video game? 0:15 – We start the show! I played the Dragon Quest Builders demo and EZK watched The Punisher on Netflix 28:37 – Half of the new BlazBlue game’s characters will be paid DLC 36:41 – Sony …

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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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