Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/17/21 at 08:36 PM CT

I still occasionally see a particularly depraved breed of console fanboy crusading on the Internet against the inexorable tide that is PC gaming. And, of course, one of the old chestnuts that gets dragged out, dusted off, considered, and stored again for another day is always the fact that physical PC games don’t really exist anymore and that the True Faithful of gaming will always

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/11/21 at 02:20 PM CT

Back in 2018, the MJ Crew was tentatively excited about a new competitor entering the PC gaming digital distribution market. Unfortunately, we had to walk that assessment back very quickly, as Epic Games didn’t have their doo-doo together in 2018…...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/03/21 at 11:35 PM CT

A mere 4 months after implementing the wildly unpopular ‘Sunsetting’ mechanic, which put an expiration date on every piece of Legendary rarity loot in the game, “Destiny 2’s� developer, Bungie, partially reversed the move, leaving already Sunset wea...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/28/21 at 02:48 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future! April, as always, is for fools, and the continued impact of the pandemic, combined with a silicon chip shortage, has all of us playing the part. But the Games Industry is content to continue churning its mechanism to produce lots of new products for ‘us’ to buy. Let’s take a look at what the next month has in store…

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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/21/21 at 04:04 PM CT

This week, Sony revealed their new generation of PlayStation VR equipment for the PlayStation 5. The most impressive piece of the reveal was the new generation of motion controllers that go along with the new VR headset. These controllers are clearly modeled upon the Oculus To...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/14/21 at 03:25 PM CT

We’re one quarter of the way through 2021, and the horrors of 2020 – the COVID-19 pandemic, global logistics and shipping challenges, and a microchip shortage – have doggedly followed us into what we’d all hoped would be a brighter future and a return to normalcy. The new Xbox and PlayStation consoles (as well as the old Nintendo Switch) are still hard to come by on store shelves, but PC ...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/07/21 at 05:26 PM CT

For the past four years, each time MeltedJoystick’s Community Manager – and my oldest friend –

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/28/21 at 03:54 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:
King Richard the Third was right: NOW is the Winter of our disconte...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/21/21 at 05:17 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future! Corporations are people too! And just like all the rest of us, they ring in the (Fiscal) New Year in March! That goes a long way toward explaining the traditional influx of garbage from the Games Industry as “we� (read: “they�) turn the ledger page to another year.

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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/14/21 at 03:26 PM CT

Valve, the parent company of the PC digital distribution service Steam, is still a privately-owned corporation, beholden not to the demands of shareholders, but to the whims of its visionary Big Boss, Gabe Newell, colloquially known to Steam fans as ‘Lord GabeN.’ Back when Steam launched in 2003, PC gaming was on its last legs, utt...