Rundown (8/16/2026) A VD Captions Retrospective

• Post published:08/16/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: A VD Captions Retrospective
• Natalie Muses About Cloud Gaming (It’s Viability Is Limited, and I Hate It)
• The Segregation of Sex (Team Puritan Vs. Team Goon)
• Epic Sells ArtStation and Sketchfab (Epic Crumbles! My Favorite!)
• Pokémon Bank is Ending Service February 27, 2027 (End of a Connected Era)

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No Sleep for Kaname Date – From AI: The Somnium Files Review

• Post published:08/12/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:19 mins read
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Psycing with a side story!

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Rundown (8/09/2026) Devilman is DOPE!

• Post published:08/09/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:20 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Devilman is DOPE!
• Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner Now Own Electronic Arts (Because Of Course They Do)
• Beast of Reincarnation Patch Roadmap Announced (Guess I Gotta Delay My Review!)

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Natalie Rambles About Monkey Man

• Post published:08/05/2026
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Because all of Natalie Neumann’s creative endeavors must be preserved!

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Rundown (8/02/2026) Remember When PC Gaming “Died”?

• Post published:08/02/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:54 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Remember When PC Gaming “Died”?
• Did Nintendo or Monolith Just Acquire Xenosaga? (No, But I Wanted to Talk About This Topic)
• What Do People Want From Gaming Third Spaces? (Natalie Talks About Skokie Real Estate)
• Obligatory Mention of DragonSword: Awakening (I Love It When Gacha Games Get Un-Gacha’d)

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Maria Mania – Student Transfer Scenario Review

• Post published:07/30/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:6 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Because we couldn’t decide which mania we were going for…

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Natsumi Swap – Student Transfer Scenario Review

• Post published:07/28/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:6 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

Because John can swap with a dog, but not a minor!

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Rundown (7/26/2026) Natalie Has Spent Over $12,000 On Video Games in 13 Years

• Post published:07/26/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:49 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Has Spent Over $12,000 On Video Games in 13 Years
• Natalie Will NOT be Reviewing Class of ’09: Puzzle Showdown (It Was Too Bloody Hard!)
• Xbox Backwards Compatibility Comes to PC! (Play 4 Original Xbox Games on Your Windows Machine!)
• HUGE Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Development Details Just Dropped (Thanks to Lewtwo and Friends!)
• Are Video Games A Millennial Medium? (No, But Not For The Reasons You Think)
• Natalie Watched Eddington (Politically Prescient in the Worst Way (Complimentary))

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension Review

• Post published:07/22/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:27 mins read
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♫It’s Mega Dimension— Bad DLC— An Unmitigated Travesty!♫

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Rundown (7/19/2026) Creating A Post-TF Setting

• Post published:07/19/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:48 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Creating A Post-TF Setting
• Natalie Muses About Digital Game Prices (She Just CANNOT STOP!)
• S&P Predicts The Future of Game Consoles (And Here’s Why I Think They Are Wrong)
• Once Upon a Katamari + Rolling Live Highlights Announced (Re-Whatever Brainrot Strikes Again!)
• Natalie Muses About Game Console Legacy (Natalie Complains About Scott The Woz)

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Help! I’m Turning Into A Mermaid! Review

• Post published:07/16/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:25 mins read
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The Lachlanverse Episode VI: The Cop To Mermaid Pipeline!

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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 15th

• Post published:07/15/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:32 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 14th

• Post published:07/14/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:97 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 13th

• Post published:07/13/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:118 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 12th

• Post published:07/12/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:81 mins read
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Rundown (7/12/2026) Microsoft Slaughters ‘Em Up

• Post published:07/12/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:39 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Microsoft Slaughters ‘Em Up!
• Physical Versus Digital: The Price Discourse (Beat That Sucker To Death Uh-Huh-Huh!)
• Fakku Acquired Fairytale’s PC-98 Catalog! (PC-98 Games in ENGLISH on STEAM!)
• Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis End of Service Announced (Another Final Square Enix Live Service is DEAD!)
• Mario Kart Tour End of Service Announced (No Offline Version – CONFIRMED)

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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 11th

• Post published:07/11/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:102 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 10th

• Post published:07/10/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:107 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 9th

• Post published:07/09/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:97 mins read
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Natalie Rambles About the Modern Reality of Remasters, Remakes, and Re-Whatevers

• Post published:07/08/2026
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:116 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Because this topic has been looming over Natalie.TF for long enough…

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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 8th

• Post published:07/08/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:55 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 7th

• Post published:07/07/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:89 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 6th

• Post published:07/06/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:84 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 5th

• Post published:07/05/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:59 mins read
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Rundown (7/05/2026) Physical Gaming is DEAD!

• Post published:07/05/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Physical Gaming is DEAD!
• Crap, Sony and Microsoft Are Gonna Kill Discs, Aren’t They? (Discs Are DEAD!)
• The Plan to Eradicate The Game Console (Walled Gardens Must Die For the Future to Survive)
• Sentimental Graffiti Re Announced (Another Excuse to Babble About Japanese ADVs and SIMs)
• Studying is Hard, Studying is Serious (Study Too Much: You’re Gonna be Delirious!)

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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 4th

• Post published:07/04/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:128 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 3rd

• Post published:07/03/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:75 mins read
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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 2nd

• Post published:07/02/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:55 mins read
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Natalie Rambles About The History of Remasters, Remakes, and Re-Whatevers

• Post published:07/01/2026
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:129 mins read
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Because I fell down a rabbit hole, and all I found was a bunch of dope gaming history…

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Verde’s Doohickey 2.0: Sensational Summer Romp – July 1st

• Post published:07/01/2026
• Post category:Chapters
• Reading time:68 mins read
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Rundown (6/28/2026) Natalie Watched Goodwin’s Circus Show

• Post published:06/28/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Watched Goodwin’s Circus Show
• The Steam Machine Lives! (Starting At $1,050!)
• Tencent Ditches Investment in Marvelous (Marvy is FREE!)
• Grand Theft Auto VI Will Be A $80 Digital Only Game (Analysts in SHAMBLES!)
• Xbox Gets Another Price Hike (The RAMpocalypse is only Getting Worse!)

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Rundown (6/21/2026) Money on My Mind (Re;Finance Ver.)

• Post published:06/21/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:20 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Money on My Mind (Re;Finance Ver.)
• I Researched the Game Boy Advance Library (It Really Is as Bad as They Say It Is…)
• Xbox Hits Reset and Plans A New Wave of Layoffs (Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, and Double Fine are in Danger)
• Unreal Engine 6 Will Be A Slop Machine (Divest From Big Tech. NOW!)

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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Review

• Post published:06/17/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:30 mins read
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Because it’s the best of the three, apparently.

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Rundown (6/14/2026) S3 2026: STOP! You’re Making A Mess!

• Post published:06/14/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:109 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Stop! You’re Making a Mess!
• Microsoft’s S3 2026 Festivities (No Games For Genocide, Bitch!)
• The Miscellaneous Microsoft Trough (Go Away, Xbox!)
• Gears of War: E-Day’s First Major Showing (The Return to Form Apology)
• Persona 4 Revival Was Properly Revealed (And I’m FINE With It)
• Crazy Taxi: World Tour Announced (Verified AI Slop Revival)
• Vivarium Re-Announced (A Hand-Drawn Boku no Natsuyasumi Like!)
• Persona 6 Announced (With A Nothing Trailer!)
• Spyro 4 is REAL! (It’s Been 18 Years…)
• Thief: The Dark Project Remastered Announced (The Next Nightdive Joint)
• The Nintendo Direct Section (Nat-Nat Will Never Sleep!)
• Nintendo Direct 2026-06-09: Minor Things of Note (Many Minors!)
• The Ocarina of Time Remake Announced (I’m Indifferent Until I Learn Literally Anything About It)
• Muramasa Revenant Blades Announced (After 11 Years of Waiting, Vanillaware Finally Brought A Game to PC!)
• Xenoblade Games Get Nintendo Switch 2 Editions (Xenoblade 1, 2, and 3 As God Intended)
• Xenoblade Genesis Announced (Neat, But What’s Going On?)
• Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Announced (This Should Have Been Nintendo Switch Sports 1)
• Final Fantasy Resonance Announced (From The Ashes of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius)
• Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic – the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Announced (Natalie FINALLY Talks About Touhou)
• Video Games This September Are Bonkers, Yo! (Wake Me Up When Septembergeddon Ends)
• Ubisoft Celebrates S3 2026 With LAYOFFS! (380 People Can No Longer Support Their Families!)

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Rundown (6/07/2026) S3 2026: Let the Gorging Commence

• Post published:06/07/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:112 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: S3 2026: Let the Gorging Commence
• Natalie Does Not Like Trick Room in Pokémon (And Apparently I Need to Explain Why In Grave Detail!)
• Toy Story Games Are BACK! (At Least The Most Noteworthy Ones Are…)
• State of Play: BIG Edition (The S3 One!)
• Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine Acts Like It’s 15 Years Old (In Both Meanings of the Word!)
• Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends are BACK! (Two of My Favorite 2D Games Return*!)
• Tomb Raider #1 Remake #2 Looks Good (Too Bad About the AI Drama)
• Natalie Complains About Sony’s Classic Re-Releases (Because the State of Game Releases Annoys Me…)
• Kemuri is Cool Urban Fantasy! (So Much Better than the Multiplayer Thing It Used to Be)
• The Stuntman is BACK! (…What the Heck is Stuntman?)
• Until Dawn 2 Announced (Third Game; Third Developer)
• God of War 4.5 Gaiden: Laufey Announced (God of War, Faster, Slicker, and With A Woman!)
• Summer Game(s) Fest Happened (And Here’s What Happened!)
• Summer Game(s) Fest Riffraff Roundup (There are Too Many Segments Already!)
• Resident Evil: Veronica Announced (Because It’s Better to have an REV Remake Than An RE5 Remake…)
• Gen Atlas Announced (Project Shiico is Full of Robots!)
• Tupac’s Corpse Confirmed for Stranger Than Heaven (Because Hiring A Known Sexual Abuser Wasn’t Bad Enough…)
• Crossfire(?) Announced (Because Smilegate Does Not Believe in Subtitles!)
• Virtua Fighter VI: Crossroads Revealed in Earnest (A Cinematic Action Drama with a Fighting Game Mode?)
• 1666: Amsterdam Revealed (Time Traveling Cats and Witches!)
• Attack on Titan 3 Announced (Another Game That Should Not Exist…)
• Stellar Blade 2: Blood Rain Announced (More Like Stellar FIST!)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin Re-Announced (A Larry Ellison X PlatinumGames JOINT!)
• Final Fantasy VII Revelation Announced (After 21 Years, the Final Fantasy VII Remake Dream is Almost Over…)
• Hitman Classic Trilogy Remastered Announced (More Fodder for the Re-Whatevers Piece)
• Barbie Rewind Announced (Banger Galge Collection Dropping!)
• Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered Announced (They Massacred MY BOY with UE5!)

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Rundown (5/31/2026) Natalie Does Not Like Life Sims!

• Post published:05/31/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:38 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Does Not Like Life Sims!
• My re:Dreamer Review Has Been Delayed (Because I’m Waiting for the Next Update)
• Unreal Engine 6 Announced (Because I Guess We Needed This)
• Dragon Quest XII Re-Announced (Also, Dragon Quest Monsters 4!)
• The Witcher 3 is Getting A New Expansion (Somehow, This 2015 Game Returned)
• Steam Deck Gets The Mother of All Price Hikes (More Like Steam DEAD)

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Air Twister Review

• Post published:05/27/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:19 mins read
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Space Harrier Neo (Feat. Valensia)

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Rundown (5/24/2026) Costco Body Swap Brainstorming

• Post published:05/24/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Costco Body Swap Brainstorming
• Sony Formally Cancels Single-Player Games Push on PC (Somehow, Console Exclusives Returned…)
• Embracer is FINALLY Splitting Up! (All The Good Eggs Go In One Basket!)
• Bungie Announces Final Destiny 2 Content Update (Natalie’s Wack-Ass Bungie Retrospective)

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Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance Review

• Post published:05/20/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:24 mins read
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Because I guess this is a recurring series now!

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Rundown (5/17/2026) The Natalie.TF Schedule Update – May 2026

• Post published:05/17/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Natalie.TF Schedule Update – May 2026
• Natalie Muses About FMV Games (Blame The Saturn Panda Man!)
• Katsuhiro Harada Accepts Fat Check From Saudi Arabia (The Face of Tekken is Now Working for Saudi Arabia’s SNK)
• Sega Kills Their Super Game Initiative (A Hundred Billion Yen Down The Drain!)

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Rundown (5/10/2026) Neverness to Ever Less

• Post published:05/10/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:81 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Neverness to Ever Less
• Rundown 2 Preamble 2 Ramble: Neverness to Ever Less is Bad at Storytelling
• Gaming Generation Wars (No, The Worse Kind of Generations)
• Star Fox (2026) Announced (It’s The Third Remake of Star Fox 64)
• Atari Bought The First Five Wizardry Games (Somehow, Some Way, And It’s CONFUSING!)
• Nintendo Hikes Their Prices (Again) (Affordable Gaming is DEAD)

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Rundown (5/03/2026) Vampire Crawling to My Grave…

• Post published:05/03/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Vampire Crawling to My Grave…
• The Pokémon Remake Dilemma (Because All I Think About These Days is Re-Whatevers, lol)
• Spiders is DEAD (And It’s All Nacon’s Fault)

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Rundown (4/26/2026) Game Collection Imagination Fixation

• Post published:04/26/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:39 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Game Collection Imagination Fixation
• Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Announced (Because Ubisoft-Tencent Wants Money!)
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 Announced (Such A Boring Follow-Through…)
• Splatoon Raiders Gets A Proper Reveal (The Extraction Horde Schlooter Spin-Off)
• Xbox Game Pass Price Drop (Because I Guess Too Many People Canceled. Keep It Up!)
• There Are Too Many Games Showcases Nowadays! (Showcase Psychopathy)

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Castlevania: Circle of the Moon Review

• Post published:04/22/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:34 mins read
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Because I needed to play something while stressing out over tax season…

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Rundown (4/19/2026) Mathalie Demands ALL The Statistics!

• Post published:04/19/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:20 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Mathalie Demands ALL the Statistics!
• Grand Theft Auto Online Has Made Over $5 Billion USD (It Really Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving…)
• Metro 2039 Announced (Return to The Metro; Kill The Fuhrer!)

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Rundown (4/12/2026) Natalie is Noncompetitive!

• Post published:04/12/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Noncompetitive!
• The Backwards Compatibility of the Wii PS360 Era Ruined Games Preservation (And is Why We Have A Glut of Re-Whatevers)
• Amazon Kills Their Luna Game Store and Service (Its Impact Was So Subtle I Forgot It Existed)
• Level-5 Announced A Bunch of Things (I Don’t REALLY Care Because They Are In Their Slop Arc)

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Rundown (4/05/2026) Inefficient Crunch Time Continues…

• Post published:04/05/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:15 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Inefficient Crunch Time Continues…
• Eidos Montreal Cancels AAA Project After 7 Years (Eidos Montreal Continue to Crumble in Chaos)
• Shift Up Acquires Shinji Mikami’s New Studio (Do I Blame Him For Selling? NO!)

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Rundown (3/29/2026) The Resident Evil Redemption

• Post published:03/29/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:52 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Resident Evil Redemption
• FlipWitch: Temples of Temptation Announced (That TSF Metroidvania is Getting a Sequel!)
• Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 People (Because Time Sweeney is a Small-Minded Man)
• OpenAI Kills Sora (I Cannot WAIT for the AI Bubble to Pop)
• What The Hell’s Going on With Acquisitions and Closures This Week? (Everything is Falling Apart! Aaaaaahhhh!!!)
• The PlayStation 5 Gets A $100 Price Increase (Budget Gaming is DEAD. Politics Killed It!)
• Nintendo is Charging More For Physical Games (This Was Inevitable, and Here’s Why!)

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Rundown (3/22/2026) Natalie is Afraid of Commitment!

• Post published:03/22/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Afraid of Commitment!
• Japan Established Indie Games Grant Program (Up to $62,000 USD for Indie Devs Goes A Long Way~!)
• The Subnautica 2 Situation is OVER! (Krafton Lied and Got Punished. Yay~!)
• DLSS 5 Will Turn Your Games Into AI Slop (The AI Enshittification of Life Continues)
• Neptunia Unlimited Announced (It Took A Decade for a New Numbered Neptunia… And It’s Not Even Numbered!)
• Shenmue III Enhanced Announced (You Can’t Enhance A Dead Dog!)

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Rundown (3/15/2026) American Wants to Destroy The World

• Post published:03/15/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: America Wants to Destroy The World
• NetEase Stops Funding Nagoshi Studio (I Was RIGHT to Not Trust NetEase!)
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