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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/02/23 at 05:25 PM CT
Welcome back to another look into the near future! The month of horror is upon us once again… and I have a strong suspicion that the game release schedule will be the most dreadful, terrifying abomination the world will see this month (come on, Putin, Xi… prove me wrong!).
After years of relative dormancy, shovelware really came roaring back onto the scene last month, and it’s EVEN WORSE...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/01/23 at 04:05 PM CT
Remember when we all got excited about a new digital storefront being run by Epic Games joining the fray on PC? Remember how disappointed we were in the Epic Store not having basic features for YEARS after launch? Remember how nearly anyone you asked ...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/17/23 at 01:42 AM CT
This week, the corporate overlords that control the second-most-popular canned game development engine, commonly known as Unity, followed in the footsteps of Wizards of the Coast in being the second American corporation in 2023 to completely self-destruct after
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/09/23 at 09:24 PM CT
Backlog: The Embiggening – September, 2023
Welcome back to another look into the near future! Summer’s over and all the little darlings have gone back to school, while the most of the MJ Crew has returned our dear mothers to the Earth. Can the Games Industry do anything to improve our collective mood? Not bloody likely!
The shovelware is OVERWHELMING for September, with all three major ...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/03/23 at 02:21 PM CT
Welcome back to another installment of the MeltedJoystick Review Round-Up. Here’s what our staff has reviewed since last time:
Nelson’s Reviews:
If Spring was unkind to me, Summer was as malicious and vindictive as possible. Most of the games I played through were definitively mediocre or slightly abov...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/25/23 at 04:50 PM CT
Recently, a new startup calling itself RobotCache has started advertising in the gaming community. The service bills itself as a “game changer,” in that it is yet another digital videogame storefront, but that it also includes the incredibly-common-sense feature of allowing users to sell their games to each other when they’re done with them.
Th...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/21/23 at 12:33 AM CT
The world of tabletop roleplaying has been thoroughly shaken-up in 2023, with the OGL debacle that has seen long-lasting tankage of Wizards of the Coast’s sales numbers, including their movie endeavors with “Honor Among Thieves.” In the aftermat...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/13/23 at 04:58 PM CT
This week, Fortune Magazine published a fantastic little article revealing the root of the United States’ economic woes. In a surprise to no one with two functioning synapses, it ...
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