Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/18/20 at 03:18 PM CT

I have already written in-depth about the late-‘80s collaboration between Milton-Bradley and Games Workshop known as “HeroQuest,” and my eternal admiration and respect for the hybrid board game/role-playing game that introduced me, and my entire generational cohort, to the wondrous world of Fantasy Role-P...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/11/20 at 01:59 PM CT

While it may have gotten lost in the shuffle of other news, including both the COVID-19 pandemic and the months-long E3 substitute presentations by game developers and platform holders, one of the most interesting nuggets of information to appear over the course of Summer 2020 is a report that Nintendo has “

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/04/20 at 04:27 PM CT

Two years ago, when Microsoft started gobbling up the small-time Single “A” developers that popped-up like so many nomadic tribes after the collapse of the Pre-Columbian Latin American empires, I pointed out that these shattered fragments of the once-great InterPlay – the only publisher from gaming’s

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/26/20 at 05:00 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into… some sort of whirling physics vortex where time has no meaning. I mean, yeah, the constant wearing-down of our spirits upon the grinding wheel of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic can no doubt cause many of us to go a little loopy, but I’ve been living that Quarantine Life since before it was cool, so I thought I’d be unaffected. Yet, October is bringing more ...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/20/20 at 02:36 PM CT

We’re on the very cusp of Sony and Microsoft joining Nintendo’s party and launching the remainder of the 9th Gen hardware that will take us through roughly the next decade of gaming. Both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are scheduled to launch in November, and both are expected to face supply issues as COVID-19 has both hampered material production across Industry as a whole, and mobs of ...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/13/20 at 04:47 PM CT

The movie industry is Big Business worldwide, with huge, prolific production centers not only in America, but in Europe, China, and India. In fact, MeltedJoystick itself exists as a sister-site for FilmCrave, which is a dedicated place for movie fanatics to review, rank, and list their favorite (and least favorite) titles from across the broad history of c...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/05/20 at 05:07 PM 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:
I had a fairly mediocre Summer of COVID with regard to gaming. The Crew only managed to get through one new coop game, while the majority of titles I completed and r...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/30/20 at 04:10 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future… or is it the past? With the never-ending, never-slowing torrent of old games – be they successes or flops – being flogged as ‘new,’ it’s getting harder and harder to tell. And with our days filled with pandemic saminess and nothing but bad news on TV and in the (digital) ‘papers,’ putting up with the continuous stream of nonsense ...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/23/20 at 04:04 PM CT

The MeltedJoystick Crew absolutely loooooves our cooperative gaming. We’ve played pretty much every coop game for 3-4 people that doesn’t advertise itself as complete, irredeemable trash (and a few that do *coughSpelunkycough*), but we frequently run unto situations where a given coop game is actually more fun as a solo experience due to bizarre development choices that actually...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/16/20 at 04:27 PM CT

Thanks to my good fortune of being part of a successful family business, my Uncle Scrooge levels of frugality, and through my well-reasoned, non-bandwagoning, non-sleazy investments in the United States’ Stock Market, I own just shy of $800,000 worth of “value” in the corrupt corporate American economy. Of course, as a shareholder, I...