Chris Kavan - wrote on 03/23/13 at 11:13 AM CT

Scandal! Anger! Absolute hate! For those of you who have been living under a rock, March 05, 2013 was supposed to be the day EA gave us the next thrilling chapter in everyone's favorite city building saga, SimCity. Instead it has turned into a nightmare of epic proportionss. So bad, EA had to pony ...

Nick Barry - wrote on 03/20/13 at 01:58 PM CT

It appears we may now know a little more about what project Durango hides beneath it's speculative veneer. Everyone wants to know what Microsoft is going to have for it's next gen Xbox console, code named Durango. It appears the site VGLeaks has published what is believed to be a leaked installation for the new Xbox's documentati...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/17/13 at 03:31 PM CT

For everything that exists, there are fanboys. Thanks in large part to the Internet and its ability to bring people together based on common interests, fanboys (and fangirls) have been able to unite and form pocket communities where they can feel safe in knowing that everyone around them loves their favorite thing as much as they do.

The problem with fanboys is when they try to interact with t...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/07/13 at 02:53 PM CT

Welcome to another look into the near future. With March comes Spring! The long, cold, dead months of Winter have passed us by, leaving us with the promise of rebirth and renewal. The same can be said of videogame releases: March is the traditional release month for delayed games that missed their holiday deadlines. So in March, we’re getting the awesome-looking “

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/03/13 at 12:13 AM CT

Welcome back to another installment of the MeltedJoystick Review Round-Up. Here’s what our staff has reviewed since last time:

Nelson’s Reviews:
Winter saw our co-op gaming increase significantly from the previous quarter, thanks in large part to the release of the WiiU. Of course, after blasting through 3 WiiU ga...

Matt - wrote on 02/23/13 at 02:26 PM CT

Months ago MeltedJoystick Editor Nelson and I determined to build our own SteamBoxes. We had discovered the joys of Steam and had been playing games like “Dungeon Defenders” for countless hours, Nelson on his aging laptop and me on my 2010 Mac Pro, obviously with Windows installed. Steam made us feel like it had the potential to ...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/22/13 at 05:56 PM CT

After being lured in by the wonders of Steam back in February of 2012, it soon became obvious that the laptop I use for most things computing-related just didn’t cut it as a dedicated gaming PC. Indeed, the entire concept of a ‘dedicated gaming PC’ seemed alien to me as someone who had long tried – and failed – to maintain a...

Chris Kavan - wrote on 02/21/13 at 07:20 PM CT

So Sony had been hyping their big Feb. 20th meeting for some time. Granted, most everyone knew it was going to be about their next generation system - but what would they show? The big tease is finally over and what we got was.... a controller - some game trailers - some specs and a promise that at E3 they were really going to show us the goods.

The good news is that, despite early rumo...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/16/13 at 04:46 PM CT

Back in July, I lamented the sorry state of the tablet PC and listed the three reasons I didn’t own one. As of a month ago, those reasons no longer apply. While initially I planned to buy the Microsoft Surface Pro, I was turned off...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/09/13 at 05:35 PM CT

A month ago, I began a quest in search of a motion-control solution for the PC that was comparable to Nintendo’s Wiimote and Nunchuck combo for playing FPSes. While initially it seemed my quest was one of pure futility, fraught with a confusing mixture of terrible PC controllers, big price tags, and questionable hacks, fate,...