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

• Post published:04/12/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:41 mins read
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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!)
• Falcom is Bringing Back Dragon Slayer! (And Ending The Trails Series!)
• PEGI is Rating All Games With Loot Boxes 16+ (Not Enough, But It’s Something!)
• The Children Yearn for Real Gaming… (Or Maybe This is Just Copium)
• The 7th Guest Remake Announced (It’s Actually A VR Game Without the VR…)

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Rundown (3/08/2026) Natalie’s Insufficient Queer Diversity

• Post published:03/08/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Insufficient Queer Diversity
• Natalie Muses About The Physical Media Resurgence (Because She Read an Article and Had THOUGHTS)
• Let It Die is Getting an Offline Version (I Love It When Online Games Get Offline Versions!)
• Sony Abandons PC Gaming Venture (PlayStation Games Are Only On PlayStation… Again)
• Humble Games is Reborn as Balor Games (A Subsidiary of MEP Capital!)
• The Next Xbox is Going to be a PC (Project Helix Will Hopefully Bring An End to Xbox)

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Rundown (3/01/2026) Natalie is Sexual Addicted

• Post published:03/01/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Sexual Addicted
• Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Leave Xbox Pt. 2 (AI Yourself to Despair)
• Saudi Arabi’s Plan to Destroy Fighting Games (♫Let it Rot, Let it Rot♫)
• Marvel MaXimum Collection Announced (Licensed Re-Release Compilations Drive Natalie NUTS!)
• Paramount Skydance Outbids Netflix, Securing Warner Bros. Discovery Ownership (Stupid Rich Fascists Keep Trying to Consolidate Everything)
• Pokémon Presents Rundown (Finally! Some Good Beef!)

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Natalie Rambles About Pokémon Black and White’s Pokédex

• Post published:02/27/2026
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:79 mins read
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Because with a roster like this, a tier list is necessary!

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Natalie Rambles About Pokémon Black and White

• Post published:02/25/2026
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:60 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

Because it’s the 30th Anniversary of Pokémon and Missy kept asking me to do this…

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Rundown (2/22/2026) Diversify Your Formative Experiences

• Post published:02/22/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:63 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Diversify Your Formative Experiences
• .hack//Z.E.R.O. Announced (But is This the Way Dot Hack Should Return?)
• The State of Video Gaming in 2026 (Matthew Ball is BACK!)
• Bluepoint Games is Dead, Killed by Sony (Because They Wanted a Remaster Studio to Make Live Services)
• Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Ports Announced for Nintendo Switch (Why Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Suck and Are Beloved)
• Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Leave Xbox (I Hope This Kills Xbox Faster)

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Rundown (2/15/2026) How to Display Old Video Games

• Post published:02/15/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:58 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: How to Display Old Video Games
• What The Hell is Going on with Yakuza Kiwami 3? (We All Hate A Fall From Grace…)
• Sony Had A Banger State of Play! (Which Was A Pleasant Surprise)
• Legacy of Kain: Defiant Remastered Announced (They Skipped Blood Omen II!)
• Legacy of Kain: Ascendance Announced (WWWHHHHAAAAAAATTTT?!?!?!?!)
• Dead or Alive 6: Last Round and Dead or Alive 7 Announced (Dead or Alive is BACK!)
• Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Announced (It’s a Museum, Bay-Bee!)
• Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 2 Announced (Featuring MGS4, Peace Walker, and… Ghost Babel)
• Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Announced (A Proper Castlevania Game From the Dead Cells Guys)
• Silent Hill: Townfall Announced (Silent Hill is Annualized Again!)
• God of War Trilogy Remake Announced and Sons of Sparta Shadow Dropped (Greek God of War is BACK!)

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Rundown (2/08/2026) Natalie Writes Too Many Eating Scenes

• Post published:02/08/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:61 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Writes Too Many Eating Scenes!
• Nintendo Financials Update Q3 2026 (And Other Gaming Hardware Tidbits!)
• Nina Tendo’s Friends’ Switch 2 Showcase (Nintendo Direct 2026-01)
• Tokyo Scramble Announced (Japan’s Funniest Dino Crisis!)
• Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse Announced (It’s A Horror Series, Bay-Bee!)
• Another Eden Begins Announced (It’s Another Offline Gacha RPG! Yay!)
• Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok Announced (Granblue Fantasy: Relink With Endgame Content for Switch 2)
• Xanadu 6: Kyoto Xanadu Announced (Falcom Does What Gamindustri Don’t)
• A Bunch of Game Collections Were Announced (A Preface to Bomberman, Goemon, and Console Archives)
• Super Bomberman Collection Got Shadow Dropped (Classic Bomberman is BACK! …On a Budget!)
• Ganbare Goemon Daishuugo! Announced (Goemon is BACK! …But Only in Japan!)
• Hamster’s Console Archives Are Here! (Have Cool Boarders and Ninja Gaiden II NES)
• Overwatch 2 is Now Overwatch Again (And Natalie Still Hates It!)

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Rundown (2/01/2026) Natalie Ditches The Dollar

• Post published:02/01/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:48 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Ditches the Dollar!
• Natalie’s History With Dragon Ball (Important Context For The Next Segment!)
• A Bunch of New Dragon Ball Projects Were Announced (A Deluge of Dragon Ball News)
• New Virtual Boy Games Are Coming in 2026 (Zero Racers and D-Hopper Live On!)
• Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Got Leaked (Natalie Muses About The Rayman)
• Tomadachi Life: Livin’ Da Dream Direct (Don’t LIVE The Dream, BE The Dream!)
• More Than a Fourth of All Games Workers Have Been Laid Off (At Least Per GDC’s Polling)

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Rundown (1/25/2026) Natalie Vs CRTs

• Post published:01/25/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:64 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Vs CRTs
• Natalie’s Dumb Ocarina of Time Vs Twilight Princess Discourse (Because This Bitch Cannot Let Drama Die!)
• Life Is Strange: Reunion Announced (AKA Life Is Strange Volume 6: Life Is Strange 3)
• For Some Reason, Nintendo Updated Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (Playable Dixie Kong, Psychotic Time Trials, and Switch 2 Upgrades)
• Microslop’s Developer Direct (And Also Fable!)
• Beast of Reincarnation… Looks Good! (Game Freak Is ACTUALLY Making a AAA Action RPG!)
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake is Canceled! (Welcome to the Era of Ubisoft-Tencent!)
• An Impromptu Prince of Persia Retrospective (Why Prince of Persia Mattered!)

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Rundown (1/18/2026) The 108 Genres of People

• Post published:01/18/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The 108 Genres of People
• Japan’s Game Preservation Society Goes International! (And the importance of Charitable Organizations)
• Facebooks Shuts Down Armature, Sanzaru, and Twisted Pixel (Facebook Buying Oculus Shot VR in the Legs…)
• Help! I’m Turning Into A Mermaid! Came Out Last Week (It’s A TSF Visual Novel!)
• New World Will Be Dead In A Year (Amazon Gaming Has Been A Huge Failure…)

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Student Transfer Version 9.0 Review

• Post published:01/13/2026
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

Ten years strong, with no signs of stopping the swapping…

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Rundown (1/11/2026) The Internet is Working as Intended

• Post published:01/11/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:39 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Internet is Working as Intended
• Natalie’s Insane Pokémon Project (That She Will Never Finish)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Holiday Sales Underwhelm (And What It Means for Gaming)
• Cygames Opens up AI Studio (More like Cyg-AI-mes!)

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Rundown (1/04/2026) The Most Confusing Name In Gaming…

• Post published:01/04/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:33 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natsume Atari Is Now Winning Entertainment Group
• Student Transfer Version 9 is Out! (Enjoy and Rejoice in The Swappings!)
• GOG is Under New Ownership! (Which Could be Good or Bad)
• Granblue Fantasy is Coming to Steam! (Which is Weird and Confusing!)
• Rance is Coming to Steam! (Steam, Clarify Your Damn Guidelines!)
• Natalie Muses About Chinese RPGs (Because She’s Ignorant But Wants to Care)

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Natalie Rambles About 2025

• Post published:12/31/2025
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:155 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

The Trial of Natalie Neumann!

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TSF Showcase 2025-14: Trans Venus

• Post published:12/30/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:80 mins read
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‘Cos you gotta end with a BANG!

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Rundown (12/28/2025) The Festivus Downtime!

• Post published:12/28/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Festivus Downtime!
• Everybody Has a Goal (Or At Least I Wish Everyone Did…)
• Anna’s Archive is Torrenting Pirated Music from Spotify (Circulate the Links and Maintain Music)

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Rundown (12/21/2025) Slop Unto Divinity

• Post published:12/21/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:5 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
• Post comments:2 Comments

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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