Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/29/13 at 03:40 PM CT

The year 2013 has come and gone. Every year has its great successes as well as things that didn’t quite go as planned. Let’s take a look back at what the past year brought us:

Top 5 Fails

5. Google Becomes Evil, Implements Draconian Youtube Copyright Enforcement
One would think that a company whose motto is “Don’t Be Evil” would endeavor to always serve as a ...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/22/13 at 07:13 PM CT

This year marks the first time in (approximately) 24 years that I have refrained from providing a written Christmas Wish List for my family. I started this tradition at around age 10 when my tastes and interests really began to solidify, and after a first disastrous year of receiving videogame-related gifts in the form of things my Troll Dad thought would b...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/14/13 at 01:56 PM CT

As I graduated high school and moved onto college, I had great dreams for my musical future. Not only was I the most talented musician (saxophone) in my entire high school, but I managed to convince the music teacher to let me compose a piece for performance during my final senior concert.

Unfortunately, college level music education quickly taught me that I was not better than anyone or anyth...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/07/13 at 10:51 PM CT

Welcome to another look into the near future. The end-of-year trend of a single massively mainstream multi-platform release each month has come to an end. Indeed, releases in general seem to have ground to a halt as the shovelware developers have already blown their collective load and are just waiting for the cash to come pouring in (and since retailers have refused to allow returns of opened vi...

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/01/13 at 11:40 AM 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:
After last quarter’s extremely short supply of staff reviews here at MeltedJoystick, Fall seems to have allowed things to ‘fall’ back into place. I focused on playing thr...