Gamepass Bears its First Fruits: -$300 Million for ‘CoD’ Revenue

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:06:11 -0500

Oh dear, it looks like Microsoft’s endeavors to become Gaming’s loss-leader with Gamepass have already started to bear rotten fruits. According to a recent Bloomberg report, the Xbox Division managed to leave $300 million dollars on the table by put...

Backlog: The Embiggening – October, 2025

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:11:17 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future! It looks like we’re getting a late start on the games coming in Spoopy Month, since I was so flabbergasted by last week’s news of EA’s impending doom at the hands of private equity that it interrupted the flow. But now that every retail location is crammed with tacky, plastic skeletons and other Halloween-related junk; while grocery stores ...

The Big 3 Have Fallen! – EA to Sell-Out to Private Equity and Saudi Prince

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:06:56 -0500

Industrial Gaming has been in the hands of three major players in the Triumvirate of Evil for longer than most young-adult Gamers have even been alive. Yet, starting with the Microsoft buyout of Activision to feed the floundering Xbox Division, these big players have fallen by the wayside, one-by-one. Not long ago,

Nintendo Courts Diversity Hires: It’s Not What You Think

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:11:45 -0500

It seems like Nintendo is the only Big Gaming company making headlines this year, what with both Microsoft and Sony appearing to lie down and die while the gaming landscape changes around them. Earlier on this past Summer, Shigeru Miyamoto – the fat...

Nintendo Completes Transformation into Evil Corporation with Bullsh!t Patent

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:38:56 -0500

Oh dear, it seems that the little toy company that saved gaming from itself after the Crash of 1983 has finally come full-circle and completed its transformation into just another Evil Corporate Person out to take advantage of every situation and e...

Sony to Bow-Out of Hardware in Favor of Community

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:48:27 -0500

During its Summer financial briefing, Sony’s Senior Vice President announced that the company will be gradually changing the PlayStation division’s entire business model. “We are moving away from a hardware-centric business model more to a platform business that expands...

Review Round-Up: Summer 2025

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:23:53 -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: Matt and I decided to dump “Iron Harvest” after the first couple stages in the third campaigns absolutely sucked, so I went ahead and reviewed it so you, dear re...

Backlog: The Embiggening – September, 2025

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 17:49:51 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future! Fall will be upon us before we know it, and with it will come the Autumnal rush by the Games Industry to push out as much pre-holiday slop as they can in order to flood the market and hope desperately that something in their grapeshot barrage of trash actually connects with the hearts and minds of the Gamer audience. Judging by September’s rele...

Ubisoft is Breaking Up

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:46:23 -0500

After the last few years of rampant buyouts, mergers, and corporate acquisitions, it seems that Ubisoft – surprisingly – is the one Evil Publisher to buck the trend. The French mega-corporation announced this Summer that they would be splitting int...

No New Square-Enix Games for THREE YEARS!?

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 16:40:57 -0500

Square-Enix, the company that single-handedly boosted both the SNES and Original PlayStation to the heights of gaming godhood, has been in dire straits lately. It seems like all I ever get to write about regarding my two one-time favorite developer/publishers involves them doing something incredibly stupid or

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