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A Handy Flow Chart for Pokemon GO

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 15:11:19 -0500

The additions of Friends and Trading to 2-year-old mobile app, "Pokemon GO" are long overdue features, and their sudden appearance has sparked at least one of my acquaintances to fire-up the app again and try, in vain, to Catch 'Em All. This same ac...

Microsoft Could Shake Things Up With New Xbox Peripheral

Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:14:00 -0500

Ever since they started producing Surface tablets, bundling Kinect peripherals with their Xbox consoles, and partnering with third-parties to create their Hololens Darwinian approach to game sales, while the curated stores on PlayStation Network, Nintendo Network, and Xbox Live (notwithstanding Microsoft�s temporary experiment with Xbox Indies) were more mythological, where an a...

E3 Impressions 2018

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:50:54 -0500

I had no expectations for E3 once again this year. I had hoped to see a handful of titles to help justify my Switch ownership, as well as a few multi-platform titles coming to PC that the MJ Crew could play cooperatively. I was not, however, prepared for the absolute tsunami of titles shown off at E3 2018. It was tough to take notes on everything shown off during the three console press conferenc...

The Money Game

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 14:42:37 -0500

Recently, I was surprised by something said by rotund gaming pundit, Jim Sterling. While usually, I�m very impressed with Sterling�s ability to keep his thumb on the pulse of the modern games industry, this video, in which he revers...

Review Round-Up: Sping 2018

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:24:32 -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: I had a pretty good Spring as far as volume goes� but not so good with regard to quality. The MJ Crew managed to wrap up 2 coop games we�ve been working on for a while (...

Backlog: The Embiggening � June, 2018

Sun, 27 May 2018 15:04:39 -0500

June is just around the corner, and that means it�s time to take a look at what our friendly Uncles in the videogame industry have planned for our Summer fun. This month looks a bit more evenly spread amongst the categories than last month� but the single biggest group of games being released to kick off the Season of Freedom for kids (or not, it seems that kids today are more firmly guided into ...

The Nintendo Network Subscription is an Unfunny Joke

Sat, 19 May 2018 18:48:58 -0500

Nintendo has been dragging their feet for over a year after the company announced that they would be adding a subscription paywall to online play for the Nintendo Switch (and presumably all future Nintendo hardware). For a while, it looked like maybe they�d changed their minds, but alas,