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Molehill Mountain Episode 6 – By the Seat of Our Pants

Published June 27, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

There wasn’t much happening this week that grabbed our attention. Well, other than Brexit, which neither EZK or Andrew feel qualified to weigh in on (not that that stops them!) so the majority of this week’s show is a grab bag of topics and questions from the chat.

EZK and Andrew discuss what little they know and understand about Brexit (0:10), Andrew reviews the Ghostbusters cover by Fall Out Boy and Missy Elliott (8:05 – listen to the new song here), they talk a bit about the latest Tropes vs. Women in Video Games episode and address other Sarkeesian questions and comments (25:35), the Nintendo NX is rumored to use cartidges (47:09), and the good old days of expensive old games and the games rental business (54:13).

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Molehill Mountain Episode 5: Another E3 Has Come and Gone

Published June 20, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

EZK and Andrew spend nearly four hours discussing last week’s E3 show, addressing each conference in chronological order: Electronic Arts (16:38), Bethesda (49:22), Microsoft (1:01:22), Ubisoft (1:50:17), Sony (2:15:42) and in the case of Nintendo, its Treehouse Live segments (3:00:40).

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On the next episode of Molehill Mountain…

Published June 16, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

Would you like early access to the Monster Hunter Generations demo? I have a few free codes and I’ll be giving them away on this weekend’s episode of the podcast!

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Molehill Mountain Episode 4 – Is Life Just One Big Video Game?

Published June 13, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

On this week’s episode of Molehill Mountain, Andrew and EZK give a few E3 predictions (8:20), continue Kicking the Bucket List (34:23), weigh in on Elon Musk’s idea that video game tech suggests life could be a simulation (43:20), admonish Nintendo for forgetting the rest of the world when announcing an eShop promotion (48:42), and discuss the ramifications of a Texas court ruling that video game mechanics are not copyrightable.

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When covering cleavage on North American box art is NOT censorship

Published June 7, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

To your left is an image comparing the lower left portion of the Japanese and North American box arts for Atlus’s highly anticipated Persona 5. You may notice that Morgana (the smiling cat) has been repositioned in a way that covers up the cleavage of another character.

CENSORSHIP!!!

Not so fast…

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Nintendo celebrates eShop anniversary, forgets about the rest of the world

Published June 7, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

Yesterday, Nintendo announced a promotion to celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the eShop, its online marketplace where you can buy digital games, new and classic alike. 100 titles on the eShop have been discounted by up to 50%. The promotion starts today and runs through Monday.

Pretty sweet, right?

Yeah, but this promotion only applies to the Japanese eShop so what about THE REST OF THE WORLD?!

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Molehill Mountain Episode 3 – Hell No, AO!

Published June 6, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

On this week’s podcast, Andrew is still playing Yakuza (awesome series from Sega that EVERYONE should play!) and describes a sequence where he helped a jumper by chucking him off the roof (6:46), he and EZK discuss Nintendo’s updated E3 plans (17:23), they continue comparing bucket lists and determine that Zachary has never left his house (36:35), and passionately argue why the ESRB should get rid of the AO rating (49:10).

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GOG makes some of your Steam games DRM-free

Published June 3, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

Digital distribution service GOG continues to be awesome!* This week the purveyor of DRM-free games and movies announced GOG Connect, a new service that connects to your Steam library and adds any eligible games to your GOG library so that you can play them DRM-free.

Yep, buying the game once was enough. If you own one of 23 eligible titles including FTL, Braid, Twine, The Witcher, and Bit.Trip Runner on Steam, you can add them to your GOG library free-of-charge.

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Amazon is making me feel old

Published June 2, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

While my sister and I were growing up, our mom often drove us from Phoenix, Arizona to Los Angeles, California to visit our dad. It’s a boring six to seven-hour drive through the desert with little to do or look at but us kids couldn’t help but get excited to see the dinosaurs at Cabazon, a small town in the middle of nowhere that featured two, towering dinosaur sculptures that served to draw attention to a small, privately-owned restaurant with a big sign that said “EAT.”

We loved those damn dinos. It was just so cool to see these giant monsters standing out in the middle of the desert.

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Molehill Mountain Episode 2 – What Is a Video Game?

Published May 30, 2016 by Andrew Eisen

On this week’s show, EZK and Andrew continue to Kick the Bucket List (12:38), discuss the ESA’s public E3 event being held down the street from the main show (31:46), try to figure out the chronology of events surrounding a Cleveland police officer donating his Pokemon collection to a boy whose own was stolen collection was recovered (40:19), and spend a ton of time debating super-important questions like: “Should ‘fun’ be the baseline descriptor for games?” “Should games be called ‘games’ or something else?” “How do you define ‘video game’?” (46:06).

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