Backlog: The Embiggening – December, 2025
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/30/25 at 12:34 AM CT
Welcome back to another look into the near future! Winter is upon us, and the deadlines are all drawing near. Will the Games Industry manage to squeeze out a last minute must-play? Or will it be nothing but a succession of constipated turds? Will the MJ Crew be able to clear their Backlog Ablutions? Or will Chris and I (who already have) be getting more free games that we won’t play? Let’s dive into the last dregs of the year and see if there’s anything worth salvaging!
Ugh, well don’t get your hopes up too high for a last minute sock-off-knocker, as the shovelware outnumbers everything else coming in December. In Licensed Swill, there’s a ‘Nicktoons’ game and a ‘Terminator’ game (that was supposed to come out last month)... But that’s really it! There’s no Cazual Swill or Annualized Swill... The rest of the shovelware takes the form of Noteworthy Ports (and there are even more non-noteworthy ports that got pruned from consideration): The Nintendo Switch (not …
Microsoft Finally Listens, but it’s Too Late
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/23/25 at 03:26 PM CT
Remember how long I’ve been saying that Xbox should just be a fancy front-end for Windows that makes it easy to navigate on a TV using nothing but a controller? Remember how Microsoft and the Xbox Division have done ANYTHING and EVERYTHING besides that one simple idea to make Xbox less of a laughing stock?
Well, it seems that, as both Shoes, the Sword of Damocles, and various other unfortunate dangling proverbs fall on the Xbox Division’s head simultaneously, the House of Gates has finally – FINALLY – decided to not only create a nice, clean, controller-friendly frontend for Windows, but to make it broadly available to... Xbox Insiders? Well, they had to have a catch in there somewhere.
Yup, as a preview of coming attractions, Microsoft is making the alternate Windows 11 GUI they’re calling “Full Screen Experience” available to all Xbox Insider program members before rolling it out across the entire platform. For those not in the know, Windows 11 Full Screen …
Valve Drops the Mic, Set to DOMINATE 2026 with 3(!) New Hardware Options
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/16/25 at 02:25 PM CT
For decades now, Gamers have believed that Valve, the once-small-time developer and publisher of the ‘Half-Life’ and ‘Portal’ IPs was incapable of counting to three, since none of their games have ever gotten a third, officially-numbered sequel. Well, this week, Valve, the no-longer-small-time owner of Steam, the non-monopolistic, yet still biggest storefront in all of PC gaming, just announced THREE new hardware devices that they will be bringing to market in the first quarter of 2026 (provided no doo-doo comes into contact with any turbines regarding global trade and supply chains).
And I’m going to buy ALL OF THEM!
The world’s most charismatic nerd, Linus of the LinusTechTips Youtube channel, got a special invite to a Valve preview session with these devices, and based on what he showed off, they all look quite amazing.
First up is the Steam Frame, the long-awaited sequel to the Valve Index VR platform. Far from being a mere Index 2.0 as was speculated, the …
Nearly 100% of Corporate Suits Believe Steam is a “Monopoly” in PC Gaming
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/09/25 at 02:11 PM CT
Just when you think the corporate overlords that are actively ruining the economy on a global scale can’t get any more cringy or stupid, they always manage to find a way to lower the bar even further. In a recent study performed by the “who the heck are they” digital games sales consulting firm, Rokky, 72% of survey respondents said that they “perceive Steam to be a monopoly” in PC game sales. What’s interesting is that 75% of the people questioned in this survey were C-Suite Executive Sh!theads, so using some incredibly suspect “math,” it “seems” that only 3% of these plutocrats actually understand what a monopoly is, with the remaining 97% seeming to believe that a monopoly is “anything that prevents ME from having 100% of the business in a given sector.”
Based on their long-running stupidity, it seems that C-Suiters don’t know what a monopoly is when looking at it from either side. First, they’ve spent decades proclaiming that none of the wireless …
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