Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/31/20 at 04:45 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:
The MJ Crew co-oped our way through significantly more titles than usual this Spring, but only I took the time to write reviews. Oh well! Aside from those shared exp...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/24/20 at 04:58 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future. What do you get when you combine the annual Summer Game Drought with a pandemic?

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Well, I was expecting s super-small release schedule, but thanks to the ‘other’ pandemic of ports/remasters/reboots/compilations/rehashes, there are actually TONS of “new” games coming out just in time for the start of Summer… and a few regul...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/17/20 at 04:04 PM CT

We live in a world in which it has been statistically proven that piracy not only doesn’t harm media sales, but actually provides free advertising. Likewise, selling digital media in a DRM-free format, be it games, music, or whatever, allows sellers to improve their reputations among buyers by

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/10/20 at 05:56 PM CT

On 4/20/2020, while multitudes of people around the world spent the day smoking unimaginable amounts of marijuana and getting happy and giggly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, I, instead, spent the day sobbing at the veterinarian’s office, saying goodbye to a friend I’d known for 18 years.

In the Summer of 2002, I was still a fresh college graduate, struggling with the frustrations of...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/03/20 at 02:00 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future. Thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine/shelter-in-place/stay-at-home zeitgeist is has foisted upon us, game developers and publishers don’t really seem all that keen to release a bunch of new games.

This is, of course, completely ass-backwards, as videogame development is done entirely on computers, and thus can be don...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/26/20 at 03:10 PM CT

The wholly-unqualified, perpetually-bankrupt (both financially and ethically), conspiracy-mongering, insult-flinging President of the United States (and sometimes Troll Doll), Donald J. Trump doesn’t like videogames. And he will gladly

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/19/20 at 05:43 PM CT

Earlier this April, a leaked plot synopsis for “The Last of Us: Part 2” made the rounds in the dark underbelly of the Internet gaming community, before being removed by a DMCA takedown notice. In this synopsis, it was revealed that, far from being a post-apocalyptic...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/12/20 at 03:03 PM CT

I don’t think it’s necessary to retread the well-trampled ground of Atari’s (delenda est) past crimes, since I covered that dark chapter in videogame history quite well enough back in 2012. Yet, just when it seemed that the worst platform-holder in all of gaming history was ready to

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/05/20 at 05:02 PM CT

Those depraved Nintendo fanboys are at it again! With the dismal release schedules happening in the world of videogames for the past two months, combined with the delays and postpon...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/29/20 at 06:01 PM CT

Welcome back to another look into the near future. Thanks to the disgusting eating habits of our brothers and sisters in China, the world is on lockdown as we attempt to ride-out the spread of the COVID-19 plague. For gamers, staying inside and never glimpsing the light of day is standard operating procedure, but the effect the coronavirus is...