Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/29/15 at 05:57 PM CT

This week the PlayStation 4 was taken by storm by From Software releasing the same game they’ve been releasing over and over and over since 1995. The insufferable Masocore fanbase has been hyping it and praising it since the first screens leaked, despite the fact that “Bloodborne” is nothing more than an 8th Gen rehash of “K...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/22/15 at 03:22 PM CT

Earlier this week, Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata, gave an hour-long press conference in Japan announcing three major changes for the struggling Japanese game-maker.

1. Nintendo will partner with DeNA – one of Japans biggest and most...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/15/15 at 02:20 PM CT

There has been a disturbing trend in the games appearing on Nintendo’s struggling WiiU console. Where, in many cases, there were once cohesive story/campaign modes, engaging single-player content has now been replaced with a large number of disjointed little tasks. I like to call this newer style of game design “Checklist” gameplay because the games that employ it amount to little more than prese...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/06/15 at 12:15 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:
This long, cold, lonely Winter was good to me, as I was able to play through a sizeable portion of my backlog (yet it hasn’t really gotten any smaller…). I was quite plea...

Chris Kavan - wrote on 03/05/15 at 08:17 PM CT

While I wasn't gung-ho about jumping into the new generation of gaming systems, I was presented with a deal I couldn't pass up and wound up with a brand new Playstation 4. The Nintendo WiiU has been fun, but nothing I was dying to get. The PS4 was likewise on my "somewhere down the road" list, but I was willing to give it time. That being said, after jumping in, have played (or am playing) two of...