Rundown (12/21/2025) Slop Unto Divinity

• Post published:12/21/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: More Like D-AI-v-AI-n-AI-ty and L-AI-r-AI-n!
• Ubisoft Acquires Amazon Games Montreal (Likely Due to Office Politics and Favors)
• GOG Wants You To Pay $5 To Help Them To Preserve Games (And I Say Do It!)
• The Hollow Knight Continues! (Silksong DLC and Hollow Knight Improvements Announced)
• Sega Channel Has Been Preserved! (Through the Power of BONDS!)
• US Video Game Hardware Had Its Worst November Since 1995 (Consoles Might Be Boned!)
• Missy Scrumptious Muses About Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension (Donut-Filled Review Appetizer)

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Rundown (12/14/2025) Natalie Tried Needy Streamer Overdose

• Post published:12/14/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:62 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Didn’t Like Needy Streamer Overdose
• Postal: Bullet Paradise Announced and Canceled Within 48 Hours (Because The Game Seemingly Used Generative AI)
• Katsuhiro Harada Is Leaving Bandai Namco (Thus Ending An Era For Tekken)
• Paramount Skydance is Attempting a Hostile Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery (Because The Corporate Consolidation Must Continue)
• Deus Ex Remastered Has Been Indefinitely Delayed (Mo’ Like Deus Axed)
• The Game Awards Rundown (Advertisements and A Pseudo Awards Show)
• Bradley The Badger Announced (Genre-Bending Parody from Mario + Rabbids Devs)
• Stupid Never Dies Announced (Monster Mashing Action From Ex-Capcom Alumni, Funded by NetEase)
• Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Announced (Will Anybody Like Star Wars in 2028?)
• Larian Announces Divinity (No Subtitle or Number, Because Screw You!)
• Remedy Announces Control Resonant (With a Weirder, Wider World)
• Tomb Raider: The Legend of Atlantis & Tomb Raider: Catalyst Announced (The First New Tomb Raider Games in Nearly a Decade!)
• Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Announced (Ace Combat is BACK! Again!)
• Mega Man 12: Dual Override Announced (Capcom Finally Remembered Mega Man!)
• Gang of Dragon Announced (Nagoshi Studio Presents Like A Yakuza)

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Rundown (12/07/2025) Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!

• Post published:12/07/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:50 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!
• Natalie Yaps About Video Game Piracy Culture (And Why It Changed!)
• Monotype is Screwing Over Japanese Devs (Their Rates Went Up Over 50x)
• Saudi Arabia Will Own 93.4% of EA (DO NOT BUY EA GAMES, EVER!)
• Somebody Hates HORSES (Why Is This Horror Game Banned on Steam?)
• Crucial is Dead, Thanks to AI (AI Companies Are Making RAM and SSD STUPID Expensive)
• Netflix Acquires Warner Bros. (Corporate Consolidation Cannot Be Stopped!)

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Fan Fiction Funsies: Pokémon Legends: Zygarde – Alternative – Mega Malamar’s Mega Takeover

• Post published:12/02/2025
• Post category:Miscellaneous
• Reading time:143 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Malamar is not your friend! It will brainwash your friend and steal your body if given the opportunity.

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Rundown (11/30/2025) The Pursuit of Optimal Play

• Post published:11/30/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Pursuit of Optimal Play
• An Impromptu Xbox 360 Retrospective (It Was The Best of Times; It Was The Worst of Times)
• The Embracer Divestment Continues (Cryptic Games and Arc Games Are Buying Themselves, Basically)
• Nintendo Buys Bandai Namco Singapore (This is the Good Kind of Acquisition)

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TSF Showcase 2025-13: She is Me

• Post published:11/25/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:58 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

Never TSF a dude with undiagnosed mental issues, it does not fix them!

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Rundown (11/23/2025) Natalie Crashes Back to America

• Post published:11/23/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Crashes Back to America
• The Emulated Re-Release Problem (We Need Open Source Emulators Yesterday)
• Tales of Berseria Remastered Announced (Further Frazzling The Natalie)
• Unity and Unreal Are Teaming Up! (Which Just Sounds Like Bad News For Everyone…)

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FlipWitch: The Forbidden Sex Hex Review

• Post published:11/18/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:26 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

Flip your sex and get jiggly!

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Rundown (11/16/2025) Nurse Natalie and Comforting Cassie

• Post published:11/16/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Nurse Natalie and Comforting Cassie
• State of Play Japan Edition (And Why It Is What It Is)
• The ARC Raiders Bit (Natalie Will Probably Regret This Rant, But Fuck It!)
• Valve Announced A Bunch of Steam Hardware (And Most of It Looks Cool!)
• Cassie’s Corner 2025-11 (Verbalising the V!)

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Rundown (11/09/2025) Natalie Goes International!

• Post published:11/09/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie.TF Goes International!
• A Quarterly Nintendo Sales Segment (Somehow, The Nintendo Switch Kept Selling)
• NetEase Says NO to North American Game Companies (It Was A Bad Idea Anyway!)
• Pokémon Legends: Z-A Mega Dimension DLC Was Properly Revealed (It Looks… Alright?)
• Grand Theft Auto VI Delayed to November 19, 2026 (Because of Attempted Unionization)
• Student Transfer Version 9 is Coming Out This December! (Oh Joy!)
• Cassie Gushes About Honkai: Star Rail’s Latest Update (Presented in the Language of the Fox)

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A Review

• Post published:11/04/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

From the bottom to the top, from the north to the south, and back around again.

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Rundown (11/02/2025) Globally Offensive Gambling Reform

• Post published:11/02/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:38 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Globally Offensive Gambling Reform
• Amazon (Basically) Gives Up On Gaming (The Line Has To Go Up Somehow!)
• The Console Wars Ended A Decade Ago… (And All Industry is DOOMED!)
• Animal Crossed To The Next Generation (Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gets An Update After Over 4 Years)

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TSF Showcase 2025-12: Turned Into a Breast Milk Fountain by a Beautiful Vampire

• Post published:10/28/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:77 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

I know what you’re thinking, but trust me, it’s dope.

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Rundown (10/26/2025) Open City Over Open World

• Post published:10/26/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:41 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Open City Over Open World
• The Depressing Reality of Decade-Long Sequel Gaps (That Feeling When Your Favorite Game When You Were 8 Doesn’t Get a Sequel Until You’re 18…)
• Kirby Air Riders Direct #2 (Modern Game Development is Not Sustainable)
• Halo: Campaign Evolved Announced (No 37-Year-Olds, This Won’t Make You Feel 12 Again…)

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Rundown (10/19/2025) If The Internet Dies, Then What?

• Post published:10/19/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: If The Internet Dies, Then What?
• Re-Whatevers Continue to Be a Nightmare (There Can Be No Order Without Vision)
• Idiots Like Natalie Are Keeping Gamindustri Alive! (Only 4% of Game Players Buy Games Every Month)
• Who Even Wants a PS6 Anyway? (Other The People With More Money Than Sense…)
• The Future of The Next Generation of Pokémon Got Leaked (TeraLeak 2: Da FreakLeak Just Dropped!)

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Rundown (10/12/2025) No Love For The Zoomies!

• Post published:10/12/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: No Love For The Zoomies!
• Natalie’s Big FAT Talk (Skillet Didn’t Ask For This, But She’s Getting It Anyway!)

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy – Route Reviews

• Post published:10/10/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:78 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

Special Defense Unit! Best in the world! Indestructible and undefeated! New lose! Never yield! Special Defense Unit… Fight on!

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Review

• Post published:10/08/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

100 Days, 100 Endings, Over 200 Bloody Hours…

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Rundown (10/05/2025) Entertainment Excess

• Post published:10/05/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Entertainment Excess
• Electronic Arts is Going Private! (Saudi Arabia and Other Callous Dastards Are Buying EA)
• Natalie Complains About Private Equity (A ‘Scrapped’ Segment)
• Microsoft Price Hikes Game Pass by 50% (CANCEL YOUR GAME PASS! NOW!!!)

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TSF Showcase 2025-11: Getting Into Her Shape

• Post published:09/30/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:69 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

Would you swap bodies with your pudgy 45-year-old Korean engineering professor?

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Rundown (9/28/2025) The Natalie Who Leapt Through Time

• Post published:09/28/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:49 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Natalie Who Leapt Through Time
• Palworld: Palfarm Announced (Because I Guess Palworld Didn’t Have Enough Farming?)
• Ananta Looks Like What I Hoped Games Would Look Like 15 Years Ago (But It’s Still A Damn Live Service)
• Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Announced (Because We Need a New Like A Dragon Game Every Year!)
• Deus Ex Remastered Announced! (Peak Narrative is BACK!)
• Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Edition Remastered (Peak Action is BACK!)
• State of Play Scraps #1 (Housemarque’s Saros Was Showcased)
• State of Play Scraps #2 (Marvel’s Wolverine Was Showcased)
• Fire Emblem Shadows Announced (Because We Needed TWO Fire Emblem Mobile Live Services)
• Forza Horizon 6 Announced (I Still Want Microsoft to Be Erased…)

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Rundown (9/21/2025) The Right To Self-Murk!

• Post published:09/21/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:25 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Right To Self-Murk!
• Chat-a-lie The Talk-A-Lot (Natalie Has Been Too Busy Talking to Friends to Write)
• Learn About Sound Novels, Please! (Another Bowl of Lentils Banger Just Dropped)
• Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices Again (Divest From These Genocide Enabling Bastards!)

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Rundown (9/14/2025) Find Yourself Within Silence

• Post published:09/14/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:93 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Find Yourself Within Silence
• YouTube is Destroying The Livelihood of Its Creators (Thanks to Restricted Mode)
• How Many People Does It Take to Make a Game (And Who TF Counts as a Game Dev?)
• Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Unveiled (Forever Entertainment Biffed It Again!)
• Natalie Fell Down A Retro Game Influencer Hole Again (One More Mini Indulgence…)
• The Biggest Nintendo Direct EVAH! (Mr. Mario Just Turned 40~!)
• Super Mario Galaxy is Back Bay-Bee! (Back to SPACE!!!)
• Mario Tennis Fever Announced (Everybody Clap! NOW!!!)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is Getting Paid DLC for Switch 2! (Because Super Luigi Bros. Wonder Would be Too Cute!)
• Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Announced (What the Hell is the Yoshi Series?)
• Virtual Boy Games Are Back! (If You Pay Nintendo $100 for Some Plastic)
• Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined Announced (The Best/Worst Dragon Quest, But With 3D Scanned Doll and Dioramas)
• Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake Announced (Another Remake of a Remake!)
• Donkey Kong Bananza Paid DLC Announced (A Bastardized Childhood and Roguelike Mode for a Brisk $20!)
• Pokémon Legends: Z-A Is Getting Paid DLC! (And Stupid Natalie is Gonna Buy It!)
• Pokémon Pokopia Announced! (Pokémon X Dragon Quest Builders, I Guess?)
• Danganronpa 2×2 Announced (What a Needless Re-Whatever…)
• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Announced (Here’s To Another Decade of Anime Genocide Discourse!)
• Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection Announced (How Is That Even Going to Work?)

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Natalie Rambles About Pokémon X and Y

• Post published:09/09/2025
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:50 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

Because I apparently had 50 hours to burn on another side project…

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Rundown (9/07/2025) Hot Tax Tips for Digital Content Creators!

• Post published:09/07/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:38 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Hot Tax Tips for Digital Content Creators!
• FACT: Consoles ARE Getting More Expensive (And That’s Why They’re Stagnant)
• Natalie Hyperfixates on A Niche Re-Release Again! (Another Excuse to Gush About Falcom)

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Rundown (8/31/2025) What’s The Deal With Akumako?

• Post published:08/31/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:49 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: What’s The Deal With Akumako?
• Natalie Played The Trails in the Sky Remake (Hot TitS On A Platter)
• Nintendo is Withholding Switch 2 Dev Kits (Another Factor That Makes Modern Game Dev So Perilous)
• Natalie Muses About Live Services Some More (And How She Thinks It’s All Gonna Burn!)
• Duet Night Abyss Scraps Its Gacha and Stamina System (What Is a Gacha Without the Gacha? Good?)

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TSF Showcase 2025-10: A NEET’s Life Unraveled

• Post published:08/26/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:59 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

One of the many examples of why you shouldn’t steal random skinsuits you find in a cardboard box…

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Rundown (8/24/2025) What Would My Dream TF Game Be?

• Post published:08/24/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:60 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Would My Dream TF Game Be?
• Time Marches On, So Just Accept It! (“WHAT? How is Y Turning X Years Old?”)
• Kirby Air Riders Direct (Masahiro Snackurai Returns!)
• Tales of Xillia Remastered Announced (Natalie Complains About Inefficient Re-Release Schedules)
• Keighley’s 2025 Part 2 of 3: Gamescom Ver. (Another Wet Barrage of Announcements!)
• Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Announced (I Really Miss Gen 7 Gamindustri)
• Bubsy 4D Announced (Neither the Bubsy We Want nor the Bubsy We Deserve)
• Zero Parades Revealed (Natalie Talks About The Disco Elysium Situation)
• Black Myth 2: Zhong Kui Announced (Fine, I Guess Black Myth is the Series Name)
• Hollow Knight Silksong Is Finally Coming Out (Arriving September 4th)
• PlayStation 5 US Price Hike Enacted (PlayStation? More Like PayStation!)

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Rundown (8/17/2025) Natalie Got A Switch 2!

• Post published:08/17/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Got A Switch 2!
• An Alt Girl For Skoof Review (Because A Reader Gave Me A Copy)
• Natalie Rambles About Japanese to English Localization (Because I Felt Like It!)
• I Also Played The Adventures of Elliot Demo (It’s Alright, But Needs Some Tweaking)

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Doukyuusei: Bangin’ Summer Review

• Post published:08/11/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:24 mins read
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Scorching hot days, scorching hot babes~!

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Rundown (8/10/2025) Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!

• Post published:08/10/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!
• Yuke’s Bought Aquaplus! (WWE Developer Buys The Inventors of Modern Visual Novels)
• Natalie Rambles About REAL Online Censorship (Because I was Bored During A Meeting)
• Microsoft Killed Contraband (Because They NEED to Invest More in AI)

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Rundown (8/03/2025) How Square Enix Fumbled Final Fantasy

• Post published:08/03/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:80 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Why Don’t Zoomies Care About Final Fantasy?
• Atari Acquires Thunderful Group (It Was Either This or Bankruptcy, I Guess)
• Natalie Does Not Understand Gamindustri (She’s Also Nutso)
• Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase 2025 Happened (Bring On The Switch 2 Ports!)
• Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Announced (NOT The Monster Hunter People Crave)
• Once Upon A Katamari Announced (A Sequel 14 Years In The Making!)
• The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Announced (Cool, But What’s With That Name?)
• Octopath Traveler 0 Announced (Continent of Champions Redux!)
• Nintendo Switch Price Hike Announced (Bunk All This Tariff Ish Maaaaaan…)
• Darksiders is NOT Dead! (The 15 Year Dream Will Be Realized!)
• re:Dreamer Version 0.20.0 is FINALLY Done! (The Third Last Minute Addition)

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TSF Showcase 2025-09: Girl In My Dream

• Post published:07/29/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:76 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

It’s finally time to cover this forgotten TSF masterpiece!

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Rundown (7/27/2025) That Time I Spent $15,000 on Colombian Pussy

• Post published:07/27/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: That Time I Spent $15,000 on Colombian Pussy
• Pokémon Presents 2024-2 Happened! (Pokémon Champions and Legends Z-A Look Good)
• Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part V (Collective Shout Is Trying to Destroy Itch.io)
• A Natalie.TF Schedule Update (My 2025 Schedule Has Been Horrible!)

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Rundown (7/20/2025) Natalie’s Software Suite! (And Alternatives)

• Post published:07/20/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:47 mins read
• Post comments:12 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Software Suite! (And Alternatives)
• Publishers LOVE Selling Games to People Who Don’t Play Them (Sell to Hoarders and PROFIT!)
• I Played The Mindwave Demo (Per Skillet’s Request)
• Acquire Snatches United Arab Emirates Funding (Acquire X Red Dunes Games Venture Announced)
• Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part IV (Steam Goes After Sexual Content Because of Malicious Payment Processors)
• Microsoft Kills Their TV and Movies Storefront (Another Reason to NEVER Give Them Your Money)

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An Update on Press-Switch

• Post published:07/17/2025
• Post category:Miscellaneous
• Reading time:2 mins read
• Post comments:16 Comments

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Hello Girl Review

• Post published:07/15/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:7 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

Bunnies are not made for war, they are made for phone repairs!

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Rundown (7/13/2025) Data Storage Wars

• Post published:07/13/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:57 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Data Storage Wars
• Microsoft is Worse Than I Thought… (These Layoffs Get Worse and Worse!)
• Natalie Talks About Politics – July 2025 Ver. (I Had to Research the Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill for Work)
• Natalie Tried Umamusume (To See What the Hubbub Is!)
• The Subnautica 2 Situation is Exploitative Bonkers (Krafton Refuses to Follow Contract and Issue $250 million payout)
• The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is Getting DLC (Kodaka Wants The Game to Last 10 Years!)
• Progress Report 2025-07-13

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Rundown (7/06/2025) What Do People Do?

• Post published:07/06/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:36 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Do People Do?
• Europe Might Be Able to Save Gaming! (Stop Killing Games is At The Cusp of Success!)
• Microsoft Lays Off Over 9,000 People (The Xbox Project is DEAD!)
• Everything’s Expensive, Nobody Can Buy Stuff! (And That Includes Video Games!)
• Natalie Just Learned About Project Code M (The Next Game From The House in Fata Morgana People!)

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TSF Showcase 2025-08: TSF Monogatari Append

• Post published:07/01/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:60 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

Because the TFS Monogatari Comic Universe must continue!

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Persona 5: The Phantom X Review

• Post published:06/30/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:25 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

The Officially Licensed Live Service Spin-Off to the Hit JRPG Persona 5!

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Rundown (6/29/2025) The Video Game Canon!

• Post published:06/29/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:38 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Video Game Canon!
• So, I Played Tokimeki Memorial (And I Didn’t Like It, As Expected)
• Viral Misfit Multiplayer Mayhem (Natalie Continues To Not Understand The Children…)

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TSF Showcase 2025-07: TSF Monogatari

• Post published:06/24/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:48 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

Takumi ga Seitenkan shite Fuck sare makuru Monogatari or The Story of How Takumi Changed Sex and Fucked A Bunch

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Rundown (6/22/2025) I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home

• Post published:06/22/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home
• Should I Run Ads on Natalie.TF? (Strictly for Tax Purposes!)
• Donkey Kong Bananza Direct (As Expected, It Looks Great!)
• Natalie Tries to Figure Out What Dating Sims Are (And the Gap in Western Romance Games)
• Switch 2 Did Not Save Gamindustri… (BIG SHOCK!!!)

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Rundown (6/15/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases – Slice 2

• Post published:06/15/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:73 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: During My Vacation, I Wrote a Novel’s Worth of Stuff!
• Xbox Games Showcase Rundown (Games For Your Home Computer, TV, and Telephone)
• ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Announced (The Xbox Handheld is Finally Here!)
• Xbox Reasserts Play Anywhere As A Key Selling Point (But Do People Actually Want It?)
• Super Meat Boy 3D Announced Super Meat Boy is BACK in the Third Dimension
• Beast of Reincarnation Announced (Game Freak’s AAA Action Game is Real!)
• Clockwork Revolution Re-Revealed (And It Looks DOPE!)
• Don’t Nod Announces Aphelion (They Are Also Running Out of Money)
• No Ghosts At The Grand Is a Baffling Musical Mystery (Magical Musical Negro Jumpscare!)
• Aniimo Announced as the Latest Big Budget Critter Collector (Too Bad It’s a Damn Live Service!)
• Persona 4 Revival Announced (The Only Reason to Remake Persona 4 Is to Make It Gayer)
• The Xbox Showcase Dribs and Drabs (Stuff I Don’t FEEL Like Propping Up, or Have Much to Say About)
• Splatoon Raiders Announced (And Natalie Complains About PVP Games Being Bad)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Sells 3.5 Million in Four Days! (Nintendo Switch 2 Da Moon!)
• Bloober Team is Remaking Silent Hill (1999) (Try Not To Be Too Shocked)
• Metal Gear Δ: Snake Eater is Getting A New Online Mode! (RIP Metal Gear Online…)

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Tribe Nine Review

• Post published:06/10/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:51 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

“After all, the game’s far from over!”

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Rundown (6/08/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases 2025 – Slice 1

• Post published:06/08/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:64 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Segmented Summer Showcases 2025 – Slice 1
• The State of Play Rundown (And MORE Ranting About PlayStation’s Lack of Legacy)
• The State of Play Miscellaneous Announcements (It’s Silly Having 30 Subheaders, Aight?)
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Announced (STOP BLURRING SPRITES, IDIOT!)
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Announced (And It’s About Time Too!)
• Pragmata Re-Announced (Pragmata is NOT Dead!)
• Romeo is a Dead Man Announced (Grasshopper is NOT a Dead Studio)
• Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement Announced (Bloodstained 2 Bay-Bee!)
• 007 First Light Announced (Of Course It’s a James Bond Origin Story)
• Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Announced (Mahvel 4, Hold The Capcom)
• Switch 2 Bad Publicity (Switch 2 Came Out to Zero Reviews)
• Summer Game Fest Rundown (Keighley’s Summer Game Adverts VI)
• Sonic Racings CrossWorlds Is A Crossover Racer (And All The Children Screamed)
• Code Vein II Is REAL! (My Suspicions Were Right! RIGHT!)
• Killer Inn Announced (Where is My Deception V? I was Promised Deception!)
• Lego Voyagers and Lego Party Announced (Double Lego Toil & Trouble!)
• Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver Announced (Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ To Fuck Wit!)
• Project Century Is Stranger Than Heaven (And It’s (Probably) a 100 Year Saga!)
• Resident Evil 9: Requiem Announced (And Not Much Else)
• The Miscellaneous Announcements! (There are Too Many Games!)

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Rundown (6/01/2025) Press-Switch Is on an Indefinite Hiatus

• Post published:06/01/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:15 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Press-Switch Is on an Indefinite Hiatus
• TF Artists Launch A Comic Storefront (A BSB NZFW, GTG, & JN Joint!)
• I Just Learned Front Mission 3: Remake Was Announced (Forever Entertainment Makes Me Pine for Ports, Not Remakes)
• Pokémon Legends Z-A Is Launching October 16th (Welp, Guess I GOTTA Buy A Nintendo Game Again!)
• Every Issue of Game Informer Has Been Archived (And You Can Freely Read Them on Their Website)

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TSF Showcase 2025-06: King’s Proposal (Manga)

• Post published:05/27/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:70 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

To save the girl, I shall become the girl!

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Rundown (5/25/2025) Natalie.TF Hit 2 Million Lifetime Views!

• Post published:05/25/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie.TF Hit 2 Million Lifetime Views!
• Power to the Payment Processors (The Biggest Winner In Modern Gaming)
• Fortnite’s Back on The Apple App Store! (The Epic v. Apple Battle Has Finally Ended)
• Scroll to Infinity & Natalie’s Horse-Blinders (Akumako Explains Why Natalie’s a Dumb-Dumb)
• Shuten Order Formally Announced (Too Kyo Games X Neilo Multi-Genre VN Joint)

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