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Vaguely Related Review: The New “DuckTales”

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:19:22 -0500

Back in 1987, Disney Television Studios Buena Vista produced a cultural touchstone for a generation. The original “DuckTales” cartoon, which ran from 1987-1990 over the course of four seasons and a feature-length film, was originally based on the “Uncle Scrooge” Disney comic books written and drawn by the legendary $10 price hike that at least some big “AAA” publishers will start applying to their console (and probably PC multi-platform) game releases. This increase will take the retail cost of a new ga...

Backlog: The Embiggening – July, 2020

Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:15:22 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future. Here we sit in July, right at the height of the Summer Game Drought Season, with COVID-19 showing no signs of relenting and “going away with the Summer heat,” as our Dear Leader promised – in his infinite ignorance – that it would. So we’re all still stuck at home with nothing but our (huge enormous) backlogs to keep us company. Yet, su...

The PC Gaming Show 2020: Good/Bad/Ugly

Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:52:12 -0500

Hot on the heels of Sony’s PlayStation 5-centric ‘Direct’ video, “PC Gamer Magazine” has produced a new entry in the annual PC Gaming Show, only this time it is, like the PlayStation Direct and… everything else in 2020… outside the context of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo, which was canceled due to the corporate Youtube account. While E3 may have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sony had already decided to pull out of the big June gaming event prior to the cancelation, which,...

Disgruntled Dad: Tired of Nintendo’s Approach to Game Data

Sun, 07 Jun 2020 20:35:36 -0500

The family Nintendo Switch is dead. It no longer will charge. The pins in the USB-C are bent, and the console is lifeless. The culprit, who caused this predicament, is most likely my four-year-old, or his older brother. The boys have taken to playing Pokémon and Animal Crossing, and they probably broke it putting the Switch back into its cradle. I know, I shouldn’t let such young kids charge t...

Review Round-Up: Spring 2020

Sun, 31 May 2020 16:45:03 -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: The MJ Crew co-oped our way through significantly more titles than usual this Spring, but only I took the time to write reviews. Oh well! Aside from those shared exp...

Backlog: The Embiggening – June, 2020

Sun, 24 May 2020 16:58:11 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future. What do you get when you combine the annual Summer Game Drought with a pandemic? … … Well, I was expecting s super-small release schedule, but thanks to the ‘other’ pandemic of ports/remasters/reboots/compilations/rehashes, there are actually TONS of “new” games coming out just in time for the start of Summer… and a few regul...

Dreadful DRM: Making a Comeback Under the Guise of “Anti-Cheating”

Sun, 17 May 2020 16:04:14 -0500

We live in a world in which it has been statistically proven that piracy not only doesn’t harm media sales, but actually provides free advertising. Likewise, selling digital media in a DRM-free format, be it games, music, or whatever, allows sellers to improve their reputations among buyers by