5 Essential Dungeons and Dragons Supplements Regardless of Edition

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:51:53 -0500

Well, Hasbro Wizards of the Coast recently released the 5.Woke Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, which they are calling “2024 Edition” apparently. While it allegedly maintains compatibility with the 2014 release of 5th Edition, there are already enough minor changes being reported that it will drive Dungeon Masters and exp...

Are Gamers Considerably More Culturally Aware than the Mainstream?

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:37:15 -0500

It seems like ever since the Orange Retard, Trollnald J. Dump, was elected President in 2016, the Culture Wars have been enflamed – as he might say – “like never before.” Seemingly in reaction to the MAGA movement, every single Marxist Sleeper Agent activated simultaneously… and prematurely. While the Corporate Personhood is like the curse of immortality where the recipient/victim still ages and decays while living forever, or what. It seems that Sony might have Super Alzheimer’s Disease… or maybe they’re just retarded. One of those two things needs to be true in order for the corporation to justify

New “Steam Families” is Mired in Caveats

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:53:08 -0500

Back in 2013, Valve introduced a feature in their PC gaming storefront, Steam, called “Steam Family Sharing,” which allowed relatives (and friends) to share their Steam libraries with each other, with the burdensome restriction that if a friend or relative was playing a game from your account, you couldn’t play ANY games in your account without kicking the share-ee out of their game first. ...

Can We PLEASE Stop with the Hero Shooters, Already?

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 14:37:44 -0500

Last week, something completely unexpected drifted into my Steam feed: A recommendation by a curator I follow called “Coop Cowboys” for a new game being developed by Valve…. Yes, you read that right! VALVE, the parent company of Steam, responsible for such incredible games as “Half-Life 2” and “Portal 2” is...

Review Round-Up: Summer 2024

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 13:26:41 -0500

Welcome back to another installment of the MeltedJoystick Review Round-Up. Here’s what our staff has reviewed since last time: Nelson’s Reviews: My gaming slowed to a trickle over the Summer. I found myself terribly disappointed by the two brand-new Japanese games backed by celebrated directors (who both died...

Backlog: The Embiggening – September, 2024

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:22:54 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future! Labor Day will soon be upon us, signaling the official “end” of Summer, even though all the Genderqueer, Non-Binary Kiddies will have been back in their indoctrination mills for a month already. The only reason Summer Vacation even exists as a concept is because of MY industry, Agriculture. In the past, all the Kiddoes would be called away fr...

Epic Ceo: “Paid Exclusives Not Good Investments”

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 16:15:29 -0500

It seems like Epic Games, the owner and operator of the Unreal Engine which underpins so many modern “AAA” games, just can’t seem to do anything right when it comes to expanding outside of their wheel house of Middle-Ware Developer. The software house mistakenly thought they were more important than they actually were...