Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/14/18 at 02:57 PM CT

News broke recently that the Polish author, Andrzej Sapkowski, of the original novels upon which CD Projekt’s blockbuster videogame franchise, ‘The Witcher,’ is based had decided to sue the Poland-based developer, publisher, and ow...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/06/18 at 02:33 PM CT

I have some sad news for readers in Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska: Gamers is gone. As reported by KETV Channel 7 this past week, every store in the Midwestern used videogames chain were seized by their bank and shut down without warning. Not only did this leave Gamers employees in the lurch, w...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/30/18 at 04:20 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future! October will be here in the blink of an eye, and since October is traditionally associated with horror thanks to the Pagan holiday of Samhain, upon which Halloween is based, we should all be well and truly prepared for the horrors the Games Industry will heap upon us in the coming month.

No, NO WAIT! I’m not ready for this much shovelware! Aft...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/23/18 at 02:52 PM CT

This past week, Telltale Games, the Indie start-up Adventure game developer that worked closely with popular IP holders, revealed that they had fired 90% of their staff and cancelled all of their remaining game development projects except for “Minec...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/16/18 at 02:27 PM CT

*sigh* Meh. Videogame news has been pretty dead lately. Nothing to get excited about or enraged by.

On the other hand, those crazy kids in European government are trying to destroy the online world as we know it. Ar...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/09/18 at 03:14 PM CT

Those who follow this blog or interact with me regularly via other online media know that I am vehemently opposed to the corrupt practices that have begun to infest the Games Industry over the last decade or so. The gold-digging behavior of big, corporate “AAA” publishers makes me sick, and when I look back on the truly classic games that emerged during the 16-bit Golden Age, I can’t help but thi...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/01/18 at 02:11 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 wasn’t as productive as usual this Summer, largely because I spent the bulk of July and August enjoying (!) the “Dungeon Defenders II – Protean Shift” patch, endeavori...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/26/18 at 08:01 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future! All of the adorable little school shooters are back in their hunting grounds, so naturally, the Games Industry traditionally choses the month when that happens to end the Summer Game Drought and start releasing things again. Of course, as we should remember from the past few months, the Summer Game Drought of 2018 was cleverly concealed by the re...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/19/18 at 02:50 PM CT

Earlier this year, Valve quietly removed the Steam Machines section from the Steam Storefront. Many industry watchers and gamers took this to mean that both the concept of Steam Machines – console-sized PCs that are built specifically for couch gaming – and the Linux-based SteamOS that po...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/12/18 at 02:42 PM CT

This past week, EmuParadise – which is not a porn site for those who wish to have sexual relations with large flightless birds – pulled all ROM and ISO files from public availability, citing recent legal pressure from Nintendo on other emulation websites, which caved and shut themselves dow...