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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/17/23 at 01:42 AM CT
This week, the corporate overlords that control the second-most-popular canned game development engine, commonly known as Unity, followed in the footsteps of Wizards of the Coast in being the second American corporation in 2023 to completely self-destruct after
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/09/23 at 09:24 PM CT
Backlog: The Embiggening – September, 2023
Welcome back to another look into the near future! Summer’s over and all the little darlings have gone back to school, while the most of the MJ Crew has returned our dear mothers to the Earth. Can the Games Industry do anything to improve our collective mood? Not bloody likely!
The shovelware is OVERWHELMING for September, with all three major ...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/03/23 at 02:21 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 Spring was unkind to me, Summer was as malicious and vindictive as possible. Most of the games I played through were definitively mediocre or slightly abov...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/25/23 at 04:50 PM CT
Recently, a new startup calling itself RobotCache has started advertising in the gaming community. The service bills itself as a “game changer,” in that it is yet another digital videogame storefront, but that it also includes the incredibly-common-sense feature of allowing users to sell their games to each other when they’re done with them.
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/21/23 at 12:33 AM CT
The world of tabletop roleplaying has been thoroughly shaken-up in 2023, with the OGL debacle that has seen long-lasting tankage of Wizards of the Coast’s sales numbers, including their movie endeavors with “Honor Among Thieves.” In the aftermat...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/13/23 at 04:58 PM CT
This week, Fortune Magazine published a fantastic little article revealing the root of the United States’ economic woes. In a surprise to no one with two functioning synapses, it ...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/30/23 at 02:31 AM CT
Welcome back to another look into the near future! August is nearly here, and I’ve already gotten the worst gift possible. The very same day, I decided to pre-order the next volume of the “DragonLance Destinies” trilogy in spite of my trepidation about where this newest series will ultimately take my favorite High Fantasy campaign setting. Let’s see if the Games Industry has anything that...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/23/23 at 02:26 AM CT
Back in the Spring of the Plague Year 2020, I warned of major players in the corporate Games Industry attempting to smuggle Digital Rights Management schemes – a.k.a., DRM – into our modern games under the guise of ‘protecting’ law-abiding players from evil, filthy hackers and cheaters. Unfortunately, there was no l...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/15/23 at 08:37 PM CT
Recently, in their “The Duviri Paradox” update, Canadian-based, Chinese-(partly)-owned developer, Digital Extremes, revitalized the weapon ecosystem in their decade-running Live Service shooter, “Warframe” with the addition of Incarnon Genesis Adapters, which can be earned for a specific subset of ‘old, unused’ weapons in a rotating selection that changes each week. Digital Extremes h...
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