EA has closed one of its studios… again.
32:38 – Capcom grossly overprices its costume DLC for Marvel vs Capcom Infinite
37:10 – Disney finally revealed the official name of its upcoming Han Solo movie. It’s boring.
39:12 – Bethesda goes overboard with Season Pass and Preorder shenanigans for Wolfenstein 2
41:25 – Switch OS update allows you to capture up to 30 SECONDS of game footage! WOW!!!
49:29 – Fire Emblem Warriors charges you extra for content Hyrule Warriors gave away for free
52:38 – EA closes another of its acquired studios. Who’s next?
1:06:30 – Icky Activision patent revealed
If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube or to your left. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes or download them from our good friends at KNGI.
Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night right here on RandomTower!
Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.
Chat Transcript:
2:13 PMHey I just started playing Tera online.
5:34 PMIt’s time to go to bed in this part of the world. Enjoy the podcast! Just a thought on Mario Odyssey and DLC. The in-game costumes for Mario and some sort of in-game currency that I remember from…
5:36 PM..playing the demo make me dread the possibility of in app purchases for different costumes and other cosmetic items. Let’s hope this does not happen.
6:27 PMYou mean the purple coins that are specific to each area?
6:52 PMHello Everyone.
7:10 PMholy sh*t your voice is awesome
7:12 PMmlp is weid. I watch the first 2 episodes, and it was a clear parody of sailor moon
7:13 PMshow is not for me, but get why it has its fan base
7:17 PMHi everyone!
7:21 PMkinda surprised bd fighters z isnt coming to switch, maybe the graphics take to much resources
7:22 PMdragon ball fighters z
7:23 PMwhat software do you use?
7:25 PMgive davinci resolve a try its a fully built editing software for free, only thing you cant do is 4k editing in the free version
7:31 PM15 viewers
7:32 PM5 watching now
7:32 PMI dont like current superhero stuff. the older western stuff is better, and while I understand mha isnt for you I vastly prefer it to the western stuff.
7:37 PMI dont know about ps4, but mvci yanked on steam it only sold 32k acording to steamspy
7:39 PMthey are trying to milk their tiny playerbase
7:40 PMyeah its cringy, but not the worst movie title
7:41 PMIts a Australian soft drink
7:41 PMSolo
7:44 PMties in to the ea stuff single player games at the AAA lvl are dying
7:44 PM30 seconds come on, add streaming the hardware can do it
7:45 PMI’m disappointed and how Disney is handling the series. We don’t need a new Star Wars film every single damn year. Only two films in, and I’ve completely lost any enthusiasm due to over-exposure.
7:45 PMdisappointed in* how
7:46 PMspoiler the x1 chip has a hardware encoder, no reason they cant add streaming
7:47 PMMario odyssey will have video recording
7:48 PMBut if you want move video with better quality, you can get a capture device
7:48 PMCause Switch dosent block footage like PS4
7:49 PMUSB headphones now work
7:49 PMezk do you trust Nintendo with cloud saves, I dont
7:49 PMYU you can use the pS4 wireless headset with it now
7:51 PMQuality its about 5mbps video 720 30fps
7:52 PMOne good thing you can take the SD card out of the Switch and put it in the PC
7:54 PMthat isnt awful
7:54 PMSorry Hyrule Warriors?
7:54 PMalot of twitch streamers stream at a lower bit rate
7:56 PMfrom what I have heard the ea star wars game fell in to dev hell. I am ok with ea canning it. also I am not that intreasted in a uncharted style game, but I get people were
7:57 PMinterested
7:59 PMa dead space 2 dev, same studio, said it cost 60 mill to make, another 60 million to market, 4mil coppies was not enough to make its money back
7:59 PMDidn’t seem like the new Star Wars game was going anywhere
7:59 PMmath is a B***** some times
8:00 PMunlikely they are making antham
8:01 PMis this the molehill mountain show with andrew eisen?
8:02 PMezk they cant indies/mid teir is already doing that
8:05 PMI mean the new neir was 16mil, and did very well selling a 1.5 mil coppies
8:06 PMI mean cuphead sold over a mil copies
8:07 PM😃
8:08 PMgreat I can watch a podcast live
8:09 PMNew 3DS. Not vanilla 3DS.
8:10 PMI guess I am not normal I have played over 100 hours of overwtch and never bought a lootbox
8:13 PMtrust me if they implament it people will figure it out if they do
8:13 PMpeople will be every activision game going foword
8:15 PMyes cod sales have dropped 50% yoy, so that its a real option
8:16 PMjust spend the extra $100 for the switch ezk
