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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/07/21 at 05:12 PM CT
Way back in the 1980s, those who were on the cutting edge of technology, and who had a huge amount of discretionary income, were playing games on the prototypical systems – things like Amiga, Commodore,
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/30/21 at 05:47 PM CT
Welcome back to another look into the near future! February is the shortest month of the year, but with even the new Biden Administration at the reins, COVID doesn’t look to be going away anytime soon, and is, in fact, getting WORSE in some ways, with new variants that are more contagious and (possibly) more fatal. With worldwide industry and logistics severely hobbled by the virus, it’s prob...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/23/21 at 05:47 PM CT
It’s a new year, and a quick trip through the grocery store will reveal to anyone paying attention that we’ve gotten a pretty severe price hike across the board in 2021. And as this new year begins Microsoft seemed dead set on being the bad guy again, after spending the entirety of the 8th Generation groveling and pandering to gamers in the hope of winning us back after the
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/17/21 at 04:29 PM CT
Live Service games always generate some amount of controversy. Whether it’s their intentionally-addictive design that ropes gamers in for more hours-per-week than they really ought to be spending with a single game, or heavy-handed monetization schemes that force invested players to continuously shell-out more cash to keep up with the proverbial “Joneses,” or some other, even-more-nefarious...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/09/21 at 04:27 PM CT
Last year, I received a special request to talk about the upcoming game releases for 2020 that the curators at MeltedJoystick were keeping an eye on. Of course, we had no idea at the time that the year was going to bring a pandemic with it, which screwed with industries, arts, and release dates across the board. Then there...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/03/21 at 03:12 PM CT
The results from last year’s revised New Year’s Backlog Ablutions are in, and it seems that the challenge was a bit too much for everyone except me. Thus in 2020, in spite of COVID locking everyone down so they really shouldn’t have had anything better to do than play a few of their games, I was, disturbingly, the onl...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/26/20 at 04:31 PM CT
Welcome back to another year of glimpses into the immediate future, where we spy upon planned Games Industry releases, and appropriately temper our expectations with cynicism. As per usual, January is never a particularly full month, usually relegated to deadline-missers that were supposed to launch during the previous September-through-December, or low-budget junk whose publishers didn’t want ...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/20/20 at 03:56 PM CT
Here we are, once again. As we stand at the end of another cycle of seasons after slogging through a torturous trip around the Sun that made 2019’s “challenging” year seem like a cake-walk, we must look back and pass judgment on the hot “new” titles – that were, once again, mostly old, re-warmed slop.
But in spite of its overall insane levels of awfulness, 2020 was ever-so-slightly...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/12/20 at 04:37 PM CT
Another year has come and gone… and what a year it was! 2020 will live in infamy for numerous reasons, some of them actually having to do with videogames.
Top 5 Fails
5. Australia’s Conservatives Ban Basically Everything
In a year marked by social, political, and economic upheaval, it’s somewhat reassuring that, at least in the Land Down-Under, conservat...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 12/05/20 at 04:50 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:
If I thought my Summer of COVID was mediocre, then the Autumn of COVID was even mediocre-er. I only had two stunningly positive experiences, with one being the huge-...
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