Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/15/24 at 03:53 PM CT

Back in 2013, Valve introduced a feature in their PC gaming storefront, Steam, called “Steam Family Sharing,” which allowed relatives (and friends) to share their Steam libraries with each other, with the burdensome restriction that if a friend or relative was playing a game from your account, you couldn’t play ANY games in your account without kicking the share-ee out of their game first.
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/08/24 at 03:37 PM CT

Last week, something completely unexpected drifted into my Steam feed: A recommendation by a curator I follow called “Coop Cowboys” for a new game being developed by Valve…. Yes, you read that right! VALVE, the parent company of Steam, responsible for such incredible games as “Half-Life 2” and “Portal 2” is...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/01/24 at 02:26 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:
My gaming slowed to a trickle over the Summer. I found myself terribly disappointed by the two brand-new Japanese games backed by celebrated directors (who both died...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/24/24 at 06:22 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future! Labor Day will soon be upon us, signaling the official “end” of Summer, even though all the Genderqueer, Non-Binary Kiddies will have been back in their indoctrination mills for a month already. The only reason Summer Vacation even exists as a concept is because of MY industry, Agriculture. In the past, all the Kiddoes would be called away fr...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/18/24 at 05:15 PM CT

It seems like Epic Games, the owner and operator of the Unreal Engine which underpins so many modern “AAA” games, just can’t seem to do anything right when it comes to expanding outside of their wheel house of Middle-Ware Developer. The software house mistakenly thought they were more important than they actually were...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/10/24 at 04:38 PM CT

Oh dear! The news just keeps getting worse for the one-time Kingmaker and titan of industry, Square-Enix. While the titles coming out of both Squaresoft and Enix drove console sales across the globe in the Golden Age of the 4th and 5th Generations, things haven’t been going so well for the company after its early 2000’s corporate merger.

Over a decade ago, it was a well-established fact t...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/04/24 at 02:13 AM CT

Uh oh! Not all is well in the studio that Sony bought in 2022 as hilarious parody of parity with Xbox’s massive merger with Activision-Blizzard. No, it turns out that having one game – “Destiny 2” – a live service at that, and mismanaging it...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/28/24 at 03:49 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future! Summer will be over soon, and all the cute little autists and gender-queers will be heading back to their Postmodernist Deconstruction Indoctrination mills. While, traditionally, Industrial Gaming bigwigs have chosen the end of Summer to start dumping tons of games onto the market, this year’s August schedule looks like a continuation of the Su...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/21/24 at 03:09 PM CT

My all-time favorite President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt, earned a reputation as a Trust Buster, regulating the Wild West of Big Business into a more manageable and publicly responsible form. It seems that today’s Federal Trade Commission has finally opened its eyes and gotten back to turn of the (20th) Cen...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/14/24 at 04:21 PM CT

I still remember when you could buy a brand-new, just-launched console for $200. Now simply “owning” a console costs $240… annually.

Microsoft, the company that first successfully foisted subscriptions upon console gamers after the failures of Nintendo’s Satellaview and The Sega...