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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/11/23 at 04:30 PM CT
It’s March, again, and that means MeltedJoystick’s favorite fur-bearing, idiosyncratic cryptid, Chris, is another year older, and another year more set in his ways. Last year, I listed a number of D&D “Monster Manual” denizens that remind me of Chris, but this year, I’m going to do a sequel to the second ‘He’s...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 03/05/23 at 03:19 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:
I got off to a roaring start in 2023, finishing 10 games, including ALL of my Backlog Ablutions...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/24/23 at 11:38 PM CT
Welcome back to another look into the near future! Winter and the last dregs of 2022 are officially behind us, once again, as Spring spoings into our lives, bringing with it superstitious Paschal holidays, seasonal allergies, crazy weather, and probably a whole bunch of terrible videogame releases. Let’s check on that last one…
We’re starting off Fiscal Year 2023 with corporate publisher...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/19/23 at 03:32 PM CT
Just a few years ago, every Games Industry publisher and their dog was trying to get in on the hot fad of Live Service gaming, where a slow, steady drip-feed of grindable content keeps players engaged and playing a single product for years upon years. Live Service gaming is, ultimately, just the latest incarnation of an Ind...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/12/23 at 05:07 PM CT
“Hogwarts Legacy,” the brand new game from Warner Bros. based on the ‘Wizarding World of Harry Potter’ by British novelist, J.K. Rowling, just released. What should we expect from a new Licensed piece of shovelware based on a series of novels aimed at children-through-teens? Well, according to Wired Magaz...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/05/23 at 05:15 PM CT
Wizards of the Coast had a very busy January, as the Hasbro subsidiary and owner of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG since 1997 set about the process of… burning itself to the ground.
It all started with Wizards’ new President, Cynthia Williams – a typ...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/29/23 at 04:32 PM CT
Welcome back to another look into the near future! February is already upon us, as 2023 gets off to a rocky and tumultuous start. As tech and media companies hemorrhage staff via mass layoffs, how will that affect the quality and quantity of game releases? It won’t! We’ll still be drowning in crap.
We’ve got a light shovelware load coming in February, with one particularly big release in...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/22/23 at 04:36 PM CT
The results of the last year’s New Year’s Backlog Ablutions are in! It’s official: For the first time since we started doing the Backlog Ablutions Challenge in 2019, ALL of us managed to succeed!
Of course, I was done by May, while Nick barely squeaked by, submitting his review for “Metroid Dread” on December 3...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/15/23 at 04:24 PM CT
Welcome back, once again, to another look into the near future! 2023 is here, and both We the Gamers and the Games Industry itself have the opportunity – and excuse – to start afresh. Will gaming turn over a new leaf in the new year? Or will we get stuck with the same corrosive trends, slowly eating away at us like cosmic entropy? I’m not a gambling man, but I’d bet on the latter…
Is...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/08/23 at 04:13 PM CT
After two Plague Years, 2022 was an attempt at returning to normalcy. Of course, it seems that the pandemic and its aftershocks have continued to reverberate through our societies, bringing ever-more divisiveness and hostility, as the Culture Wars reach a fevered pitch in the West and Russia instigated a completely unjustified real war in the East.
While it was incredibly easy to come ...
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