Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/25/11 at 04:19 PM CT

This is the first in what I hope to make an irregularly-recurring column in which I (or one of the other MeltedJoystick staff) review a product that is related to gaming but isn’t an actual videogame or console. This week the product in question is Pepsi’s “Game Fuel” varieties of Mountain Dew.

Game Fuel first made an appearance in 2007 as a tie-in promotion for the release of “Halo 3.” I didn...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/20/11 at 05:03 PM CT

Videogames are a perpetually evolving form of media. While literature and film have largely passed through their respective coming-of-age periods and have settled into a series of well-defined pigeonholes, videogames are still a bit more ambiguous. In all other forms of media, the genre describes the basic setting in which the characters and plot are revealed. While ‘genre’ is considered a dirty ...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/13/11 at 03:32 PM CT

This Veterans Day weekend, millions of gamers will celebrate the sacrifices made by the United States military by shooting each other in the head, teabagging the corpses of their fallen adversaries, and screaming obsc...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/06/11 at 03:42 PM CT

The Seventh Generation of videogame consoles has spawned numerous changes in the way videogaming works. While there has been little innovation in the games themselves, our interaction with them has changed immensely. And most of these changes were initially forced upon us by Microsoft, a company that never should have become ent...