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Molehill Mountain Episode 116 – Bowsette Bandwagon

Published October 4, 2018 by Andrew Eisen

Nintendo and Sony both listened to their fans.  How about that?

22:36 – LEGO Worlds for Switch requires subscription to Nintendo’s online service to download free DLC

28:13 – Sony enables cross platform play for Fortnite; is disgustingly disingenuous about it

35:14 – Nintendo gives 6 month grace period before deleting your cloud saves if your subscription lapses

41:31 – Listening to fan feedback, Valve rename’s Artifact’s ‘Crack the Whip’ card

48:50 – Mario Odyssey art book shows Bowsette was a thing before the internet made it a thing

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What Games Will Make Up The Secret 15 Games On The PlayStation Classic?

Published September 27, 2018 by E. Zachary Knight

When Sony announced the PlayStation Classic console, its response to the wildly successful NES and SNES Classics from Nintendo, it promised us 20 games, but didn’t give us the full slate. Instead, it teased us with only 5 games that made the cut, Final Fantasy VII, Jumping Flash, Ridge Racer Type 4, Tekken 3, and Wild Arms. It could have released only 5 titles to help keep word of mouth going as people, like Andrew and me, speculate on what games will show up on the console when it launches in December, or it plans to drip feed us games until then as a way of keeping its marketing going. Or, it could be that they don’t yet know what the final list of games will be and are struggling, just as I am, from turning this system into a massive RPG box.

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UPDATED: Warner Bros. Claims CinemaSins Everything Wrong With Annabelle: Creation Video

Published September 4, 2018 by E. Zachary Knight

CinemaSins video claimed by Warner Bros.UPDATED: Its Back. Earlier today, CinemaSins, the channel dedicated to critiquing and over analyzing every single movie in existence, published its regularly scheduled sins video. This video was to sin the Warner Bros. distributed movie Annabelle: Creation. However, visitors to the popular movie critic Youtube channel were not given their weekly dose of movie sins. Instead, they were presented with the above copyright claim by Warner Bros. The text reads as follows:

Video Unavailable:
This video contains content from MC for Warner Bros., who has blocked it on copyright grounds.

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Molehill Mountain Episode 110 – For Real This Time

Published August 24, 2018 by Andrew Eisen

EZK has weighty topics to discuss but I just want to talk about cartoons.

0:12 – All of the Operation Rainfall games are good!

33:13 – Should publishers announce paid DLC before the game is out?

44:33 – Andrew is disappointed that the third sequel to slasher flick “Hatchet” is very bad

53:39 – Netflix for games. Good idea or bad idea?

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Niantic Announces New Kid Friendly Login, Immediately Takes It Away From Kids

Published August 17, 2018 by E. Zachary Knight

Niantic KidsYesterday, Niantic, the developers of Pokemon Go, announced a new product aimed at giving parents better control over how their kids use Pokemon Go, and potentially other Niantic games. Niantic Kids is a login system developed in partnership with SuperAwesome. It is billed as a away for parents to manage what their kids can do.

Parents can register with Niantic Kids to manage their child’s privacy via the parent portal. Niantic Kids helps you review and approve your child’s permissions before they can play and provides options to control the personal information shared in Pokémon GO.

They don’t mention any specifics here, but the consensus among parent of kids who play Pokemon Go is that this could mean that Niantic is finally going to let parents decide if their under 13 kids can use the friend feature.

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