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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/12/22 at 06:53 PM CT
Every March, our beloved Community Manager, drain clogger, stale potato chip disposal, and disappearer of money, Chris, gets a year older and a year more idiosyncratic. Last year, I threw Chris a bone and poked fun at myself for being such an antisocial mi...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/06/22 at 02:41 PM CT
Wow, is it March already? I guess we’d better take a look at the games coming in 2022 that are worth getting hyped about before any more of 2022 is in the rear-view mirror! Unlike previous years, there are a LOT of titles coming up in the near future to get excited about: 14 of them, to be precise. Let’s get to it.
14. Steel Rising
This upcoming release from Euro-Jank...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/02/22 at 01:03 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:
Nick doesn’t like it when I curse in the blog, but I had a FUCKING horrible quarter. The open-world Sandbox game I played, which received RAVE reviews, turned out ...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/20/22 at 05:02 PM CT
With the coming of March, Spring is officially sprung. You know that that means: The crappy games will start replicating like rabbits. Let’s take a look at what Fiscal Year 2022 is going to lead off with from our beloved corporate overlords in the Games Industry.
There is, unfortunately, some shovelware popping up above the soil as the Winter freeze bleeds away. Four such titles are assaulti...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/13/22 at 04:47 PM CT
Hardware comes and hardware goes, usually with a new-and-improved version replacing older tech as it’s phased-out and discontinued. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way, and with increasing frequency, incredible, novel pieces of hardware are quietly discontinued, vanishing off store shelves and out of Amazon warehouses, with no apparent successor intended to replace them. Here’s a...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/29/22 at 05:59 PM CT
The shortest month of the year is back with 28 days’ worth of crap.
For the second month in a row, there’s no blatant shovelware being dumped on the unsuspecting game-buying public. That’s good news! I wonder how long it can last...
As with last month, though, February isn’t letting off the gas in the slightest when it comes to ports, remasters, remakes, and whatnot. Indeed, the Nin...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/23/22 at 04:26 PM CT
The Triumvirate of Evil is about to become a duo. This week, Microsoft, the tech giant of operating systems and productivity software – and also-ran gaming platform holder – announced that they were going to buy Activision-Blizzard for nearly $69 billion dollars. No, that’s not a typo!
Microsoft has been on a ...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/16/22 at 03:20 PM CT
The MJ Crew is back from an extended holiday break, and the results of the last year’s re-re-revised New Year’s Backlog Ablutions are in. After tasting the bitter sting of failure and growing my own personal backlog by three penalty games in 2020, most of us buckled down and cleared our ablutions. I, of course, have nev...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/08/22 at 05:41 PM CT
A new year is officially upon us, as 2022 roars in with… more COVID, more home-grown extremism on both fringes of the U.S. political spectrum, more economic woes, more China being China, more Russia being Russia, and generally no indication that things on the grand scale are going to improve any time soon. (Seriously, how is the U.S. bursting with Omicron Variant cases, while the Taliban puts n...
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