Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/25/11 at 09:29 PM CT

This is the first in what I hope to make a quarterly feature in which I round-up all of the Official Staff Reviews from the previous season and put them in one easy-to-find location. As you probably know, the MeltedJoystick staff currently consists of four people: Me, Chris, Nick, and Alex. Nick and Alex spend a lot of time working on behind-the-scenes matters for the ImaJAN Media Network, so the...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/17/11 at 03:38 PM CT

“Skyrim” comes out in 24 days.

Do you know what that means?

“Skyrim” won’t be ready to play for at least 389 days.

The reason should be obvious: PC games have always followed the paradigm of ‘release it now, fix it later.’ Since “Skyrim” is a PC game (that just happens to appear on consoles as well), this is old n...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/09/11 at 03:19 PM CT

Having been a stalwart supporter of the game-creation endeavors of both Squaresoft and Enix since 1989, it pains me to say this: Square Enix is dead. No, they aren’t going out of business or anything official. It’s worse than that: They have turned their

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/03/11 at 04:35 PM CT

When it comes to maintaining a healthy ecosystem for videogames, it’s important for diversity to exist. While we may continually hear about how important this is in relation to grander things than games, such as biodiversity being an important aspect of evolutionary and ecological sciences, the same concepts can be applied to anything, inclu...