I Really Want a DecaGear…

Sat, 08 May 2021 22:42:12 -0500

Late last year, I was excited about the prospect of finally pulling the trigger on a VR setup to usher in the new 9th Generation of consoles… devices I will continue to steadfastly ignore unless something drastic changes. Of course, last year, we didn’t know there was going to be an According to numerous big players in the silicon microchip industry, things don’t look like they’ll...

Backlog: The Embiggening – May, 2021

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 21:12:16 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future! April showers (of watery diarrhea) bring May flowers (or maybe some sort of fungus that grows in manure), and Games Industry watchers are getting settled-in for one last month of copious releases before the onset of the annual Summer Games Drought. Though in a post-COVID world, it’s possible some of these ‘traditions’ may have been shunted ...

You Think You “OWN” PlayStation Games? Think Again!

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 20:36:44 -0500

I still occasionally see a particularly depraved breed of console fanboy crusading on the Internet against the inexorable tide that is PC gaming. And, of course, one of the old chestnuts that gets dragged out, dusted off, considered, and stored again for another day is always the fact that physical PC games don’t really exist anymore and that the True Faithful of gaming will always

Three Years Later, the Epic Store is Still a Failure

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:20:29 -0500
Back in 2018, the MJ Crew was tentatively excited about a new competitor entering the PC gaming digital distribution market. Unfortunately, we had to walk that assessment back very quickly, as Epic Games didn’t have their doo-doo together in 2018…...

‘Sunsetting’ Has Been Sunset: Top Legendary Weapon Picks for “Destiny 2.”

Sat, 03 Apr 2021 23:35:48 -0500
A mere 4 months after implementing the wildly unpopular ‘Sunsetting’ mechanic, which put an expiration date on every piece of Legendary rarity loot in the game, “Destiny 2’s” developer, Bungie, partially reversed the move, leaving already Sunset wea...

Backlog: The Embiggening – April, 2021

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 14:48:32 -0500
Welcome back to another look into the near future! April, as always, is for fools, and the continued impact of the pandemic, combined with a silicon chip shortage, has all of us playing the part. But the Games Industry is content to continue churning its mechanism to produce lots of ~~new~~ products for ‘us’ to buy. Let’s take a look at what the next month has in store… No...

PlayStation VR Not Dead; Motion Controls Neither

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:04:19 -0500
This week, Sony revealed their new generation of PlayStation VR equipment for the PlayStation 5. The most impressive piece of the reveal was the new generation of motion controllers that go along with the new VR headset. These controllers are clearly modeled upon the Oculus To...

Nvidia’s Tone-Deaf “Solution” to the Graphics Card Shortage

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:25:55 -0500
We’re one quarter of the way through 2021, and the horrors of 2020 – the COVID-19 pandemic, global logistics and shipping challenges, and a microchip shortage – have doggedly followed us into what we’d all hoped would be a brighter future and a return to normalcy. The new Xbox and PlayStation consoles (as well as the old Nintendo Switch) are still hard to come by on store shelves, but PC ...

I’m Everywhere!?: Self-Deprecation Edition

Sun, 07 Mar 2021 17:26:06 -0500
For the past four years, each time MeltedJoystick’s Community Manager – and my oldest friend –

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I Really Want a DecaGear…

Backlog: The Embiggening – May, 2021

You Think You “OWN” PlayStation Games? Think Again!

Three Years Later, the Epic Store is Still a Failure

‘Sunsetting’ Has Been Sunset: Top Legendary Weapon Picks for “Destiny 2.”

Backlog: The Embiggening – April, 2021

PlayStation VR Not Dead; Motion Controls Neither

Nvidia’s Tone-Deaf “Solution” to the Graphics Card Shortage

I’m Everywhere!?: Self-Deprecation Edition