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He’s Everywhere X!: MOAR Yu-Gi-Oh! Edition

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:37:07 -0500

It’s that time of year, again! The coming of March means that MeltedJoystick’s very own Resident Evil (and Biohazard), Chris, is another year older and another year more irredeemably corrupted. Last year, it was Time to Duel, as I revealed 10 different f...

Review Round-Up: Winter 2025

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:27:24 -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: Erg, my Winter gaming wasn’t particularly inspiring. I mostly played mediocre games, and most of them cooperatively. The “Next Big RPG” I was excited about tur...

Backlog: The Embiggening – March, 2026

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:34:52 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future! With the coming of March, we’re officially at the end of the Fiscal Year, around which all big corporations – including those in Industrial Gaming – build their existence. Will there be any real last-ditch efforts to bring in revenue? Will there be any ambitious go-getters looking to get a head start on the year’s profit margins before ev...

Discord Attempts Suicide, Soon Forcing Global ID Checks

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:18:38 -0500

Discord has been the biggest name in gamer chat and communications for a while now, supplanting old-school players like Mumble and Ventrillo through its alleged ease-of-use and plethora of added features. The MJ Crew doesn’t have ...

Backlog: The Embiggening – February, 2026

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:35:31 -0500

Welcome back to another look into the near future! Unfortunately for us, the loaf-shaped, fur-covered, wiggly-nosed, pointy-toothed creature did indeed see its shadow, so we’ve got more Winter ahead of us. Will the imploding-building of Industrial Gaming provide us with something new to play during the extra 6 weeks of Winter? W...

Last Year’s Best-Selling Console... Shouldn’t Have

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:23:14 -0500

It seems that we may have jumped the gun in singing the praises of the Nintendo Switch 2’s glorious launch last year, as the latest and blandest from the Big-N only really sold “well” immediately after its launch, with Gamers quickly cooling on Nintendo’s milquetoast Launch Window games (and so, so many Ports/Remasters), leading to a one of GOG’s original co-founders, a Polack named Michal ...

Sony De-Lists 1000+ Shovelware Games! Is this Good or Bad?

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:04:57 -0500

This week, eagle-eyed industry watchers noticed that something was going on deep in the bowels of the PlayStation Network. ThiGamesDE – a Germany-based developer of Trophy-Farming shovelware games, who had the 4th most games available for purchase on PSN – just had all of its games de-listed from the PlayStation Store<...

4~ish Games to (Try to) Get Excited About in 2026

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:22:40 -0500

Welcome back to MeltedJoystick’s mostly-annual feature where we take a look at the most exciting titles slated to be released over the course of the coming year. While these titles frequently don’t come out when expected thanks to delays, when they do, they either horribly disappoint OR find their way into the MeltedJoystick Games of the Year list. Let’s take a look at ...

New Year’s Backlog Ablutions 2026

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:54:12 -0500

The results of the last year’s New Year’s Backlog Ablutions are in! While it came down to the wire, with Erstwhile Matt submitting his third and final review within 24 hours of the final deadline, all of us succeeded at wiping away our obligations to our bloated backlogs for 2025. That means we’ve got a new winnin...