Rundown (6/28/2026) Natalie Watched Goodwin’s Circus Show

• Post published:06/28/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
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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
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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
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• 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
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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
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• 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
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• Reading time:58 mins read
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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
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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
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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
• 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
• Post comments:0 Comments

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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