Rundown (2/22/2026) Diversify Your Formative Experiences
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)
Rundown (2/15/2026) How to Display Old Video Games
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!)
Rundown (2/08/2026) Natalie Writes Too Many Eating Scenes
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!)
Rundown (2/01/2026) Natalie Ditches The Dollar
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)
Rundown (1/25/2026) Natalie Vs CRTs
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!)
Rundown (1/18/2026) The 108 Genres of People
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…)
Rundown (1/11/2026) The Internet is Working as Intended
Rundown (1/04/2026) The Most Confusing Name In Gaming…
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)
Rundown (12/21/2025) Slop Unto Divinity
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)
Rundown (12/14/2025) Natalie Tried Needy Streamer Overdose
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)
Rundown (12/07/2025) Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!
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!)
Fan Fiction Funsies: Pokémon Legends: Zygarde – Alternative – Mega Malamar’s Mega Takeover
Malamar is not your friend! It will brainwash your friend and steal your body if given the opportunity.
(more…)Rundown (11/30/2025) The Pursuit of Optimal Play
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)
Rundown (11/23/2025) Natalie Crashes Back to America
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…)
Rundown (11/16/2025) Nurse Natalie and Comforting Cassie
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!)
Rundown (11/09/2025) Natalie Goes International!
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)
Rundown (11/02/2025) Globally Offensive Gambling Reform
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)
Rundown (10/26/2025) Open City Over Open World
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…)
Rundown (10/19/2025) If The Internet Dies, Then What?
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!)
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy – Route Reviews
Special Defense Unit! Best in the world! Indestructible and undefeated! New lose! Never yield! Special Defense Unit… Fight on!
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Rundown (10/05/2025) Entertainment Excess
Rundown (9/28/2025) The Natalie Who Leapt Through Time
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…)
Rundown (9/21/2025) The Right To Self-Murk!
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!)
Rundown (9/14/2025) Find Yourself Within Silence
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?)
Rundown (9/07/2025) Hot Tax Tips for Digital Content Creators!
Rundown (8/31/2025) What’s The Deal With Akumako?
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?)
TSF Showcase 2025-10: A NEET’s Life Unraveled
One of the many examples of why you shouldn’t steal random skinsuits you find in a cardboard box…
(more…)Rundown (8/24/2025) What Would My Dream TF Game Be?
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!)
Rundown (8/17/2025) Natalie Got A Switch 2!
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)
Rundown (8/10/2025) Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!
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)
Rundown (8/03/2025) How Square Enix Fumbled Final Fantasy
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)
Rundown (7/27/2025) That Time I Spent $15,000 on Colombian Pussy
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!)
Rundown (7/20/2025) Natalie’s Software Suite! (And Alternatives)
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)
