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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/05/24 at 04:00 PM CT
Recent data from the TV and movie industries have shown that, when given access to the entire depth of said media, viewers tend to gravitate to older stuff, leaving modern shows to flop and flail, unable to recoup their multi-million-dollar budgets, let alone become the type of
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/28/24 at 03:30 PM CT
Welcome back to another look into the near future! April Showers bring May Flowers… but I’m not sure what April Tornados and April Hail bring… from the looks of things, they bring ports, shovelware, and yet another month of overall crappy game releases. Let’s dissect this dead frog!
The shovelware is moderately deep. I think we can get by with
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/23/24 at 04:38 PM CT
In recent memory, it seemed that gaming consolidation was inevitable, as Big Corporations snatched up every smaller or Indie studio they could, building their IP portfolios while doing nothing with said IP. The consolidation phase of Late Stage Corporatist Gaming culminated with the
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/14/24 at 03:19 PM CT
Oh, what new Hell is this? Mere weeks after Yves Guillemot of Ubisoft caused MeltedJoystick’s CTO, Nick, to collapse in a fit of catatonia with his insistence on coining the term ‘
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/31/24 at 04:23 PM CT
Welcome back to another look into the near future! It turns out that Christopher would have seen his shadow if he wasn’t staring so intently at his phone, so we’ve been saddled with 6 more weeks of Wintry weather. April is upon us, and I still have to keep my furnace turned on at night… so… thanks, Global Warming?
Sadly, videogame releases have become far more predictable than t...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/10/24 at 04:37 PM CT
It’s that time of year, again! The coming of March means that localized paranormal phenomenon, Chris, is another year older and another year more inscrutable. Last year, I dug back into Game Freak’s world of pocketable monsters to reveal that there are i...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/03/24 at 02:50 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:
I actually had a pretty good Winter quarter, with plenty of 4.5 scores to hand out. Two of those high-scoring titles were my Backlog Ablution titles, which just leav...
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