Rundown (4/14/2024) The Enigmatic Children
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Enigmatic Children
- TSF Showcase 2024-15 TS Boshi Techou by Seto Kouhei and Matsuzono
- Contemplating Console Cataclysm (Response to the Consoles Are Dying Discourse – Wave Two)
- Natalie Rambles About the Triple-A and Triple-i Naming Convention (A Tangent That Overtook the Original Topic)
- Eman Looc’s Possession Scroll is Divesting from Student Transfer (Add Another Great Standalone TF Game to The List!)
- Minor Musings About Unionization and Costs of Living (Avalanche Studios Starts Unionizing)
- The Illest Quote From 1951 (Natalie Hyperfixates on 30 Seconds From a 38 Hour Documentary)
Rundown (4/07/2024) Artificially Difficult Taxation
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Artificially Difficult Taxation
- TSF Showcase 2024-14 Ojou-sama Irekawari by Yuniba (TSuniverse)
- TSF Showcase 2024-REJECT_1 Watashi-tachi ha “Byplayer” [We Are Supporting Actors] by Harada
- April Fools Ain’t Cool, Except For When It Is (The April Fools Rundown)
- STOP KILLING GAMES!!! (Ross Scott Launches Legal Campaign Against Live Services)
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part II (DLSite Has Been Screwed By US Credit Card Companies)
Rundown (3/31/2024) Revenge of Editing Hell
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Revenge of Editing Hell
- TSF Showcase 2024-13 A Gender-Bent Maiden and a Confession Under a Starry Sky [Nyotaika no Musume to Hoshizora no Kokuhaku] by Poriuretan
- The Embracer Fire Sale Continues! (Take Two Buys Gearbox Entertainment For $460 Million)
- SHOW ME WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF!!! (Sonic Heroes Remake/Remaster is Maybe Happening)
- Relic Entertainment Goes Indie! (Sega Lays Off 240 People, Sells Off Relic Entertainment)
- Credits Are Vital, Yet Often Suppressed (NetEase Announced Marvel Hero Shooter, Marvel Rivals)
Rundown (3/24/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Has Been Drafted!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Has Been Drafted!
- TSF Showcase 2024-12 Transformed Into A Busty Blonde [Kinpatsu x Kyonyuu ni Henshin de] by Ikuya Daikokudou
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans (Natalie Gets Political – March 2024 Ver.2)
- Ship Broken, Fix Maybe (There’s Nothing Remarkable About The Battlefront Classic Launch Disaster)
- A Relic Castle Reduced to Ruin (The Pokémon Company Killed A Fan Game Site)
- Steamy Family Funsies (Valve Announces Steam Families Overhaul)
Rundown (3/17/2024) Fatigue Leaves The Body Erotic
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Fatigue Leaves The Body Erotic
- TSF Showcase 2024-11 Becoming Lindsay by CasualCraig69 & Someone From Internet Art
- Sweet Baby and the Most Disgustingly Sour Babies (Natalie Gets Political – March 2024 Ver.)
- An Anti-Cheat Conundrum (Natalie Rambles About Why Multiplayer Gaming Is Bad Part ⅓)
Rundown (3/10/2024) Wack-Ass Work Shifts
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Wack-Ass Work Shifts
- TSF Showcase 2024-10 Kizoku to Dorei no Irekawari ~Subete o Te ni Ireta Otoko~ [The Aristocrat and His Slave Switched Bodies ~The Man Who Got It All~] by Iwashita (Iwashita Shoten)
- Yuzu Surrenders to Nintendo, Pays $2.4 Million in Damages (Screw Nintendo, But Screw Yuzu More)
- The Only Answer Is Not to Play (Persona 3 Reload Is Getting The Answer as $35 DLC)
- Akira Toriyama Has Passed Away (Rest in Peace, You Absolute Legend)
Rundown (3/03/2024) Life Might Be a Waste of Time but It’s Nice!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Life Might Be a Waste of Time but It’s Nice!
- TSF Showcase 2024-09 Transjitter Ibitsu na Karada by Jirou Saku
- A Reminder That Apple Arcade Exists (Apple Arcade Is Undergoing Some Troubles)
- Pokémon Presents… Confusion! (Pokémon Legends Z-A Announced)
- Sony Lays Off 900 People (Also The Twisted Metal Live Service is Dead)
- EA Also Laid Off 670 People A Day Later (Also, Respawn Got Screwed Again)
- Saber Interactive is Free From The Embrace! (Saber Interactive Leaves Embracer Group)
- Bobby ‘n’ Da Tiki Boyz is Goin’ Indie (Toys for Bob Is Parting Ways from Microsoft Activision Blizzard King)
- NetEase is Opening Up An All-American Bullet Farm (NetEase Established LA-Based Studio, BulletFarm)
- I Get Why You’re Doing This Nintendo, But Fuck Off (Nintendo Is Suing the Developers of the Yuzu Switch Emulator)
Rundown (2/25/2024) First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!
- TSF Showcase 2024-08 Okitsune-sama de Chu♥ by Sumino Yuji
- Nintendo Direct 2024 – 1 of ??? (A Spoonful of Sugar To Numb The Mind)
- Monster Hunter Stories… Retold (Capcom Announces Monster Hunter Stories Remaster)
- Epic Disappointment Remastered (Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed Announced)
- SMT is BACK! …With A Vengeance! (Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Announced)
- Back to the Banana-Rama Again! (Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble Announced)
- Explore The Sea… With Friends! (Endless Ocean Luminous Announced)
- Pokémon Radical Insanity (First Impressions of Pokémon Radical Red v4.0)
Rundown (2/18/2024) Xbox Is Not Dead, Y’All Lied To Me!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Xbox Is Not Dead, Y’All Lied To Me!
- TSF Showcase 2024-07 Bocchi de Shinda Ore ga Bishoujo Nurse ni Natta Hanashi [The Story of How I Died Alone and Became a Sexy Nurse] by Oden Ohgan (TuriSasu)
- ***SCRAPPED***
Nintendo Direct 2024 – 1 of 3(Don’t Be Glad The Switch Happened, Be Glad It’s Over) - Nintendo Switch Successor Delayed to Q1 2025 (Bad News Broke Friday Afternoon)
- Gacha RPG vs. JRPG (A Tangent For Cassie)
Rundown (2/11/2024) The Alleged End of Xbox
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Alleged End of Xbox
- TSF Showcase 2024-06 JK-ka Refle [JK-ification Salon] (Ch 1, 2, 3, and 4) by Kouji
- No Escape for Runescape! (Jagex Acquired by Private Equity Firms)
- The Wild Age of Yu-Gi-Oh! Games Returns(?) (Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection Announced)
- Metrics for Everyone (Natalie Complains About How Capitalism Won’t Give Her Sales Figures)
- The Unionization Effort Continues! (IGN is Unionizing!)
- Disney & Tencent’s Epic (Disney Invests $1.5 Billion in Epic Games)
Rundown (2/04/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Delayed Again!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Delayed Again!
- TSF Showcase 2024-05 Boku Tamasaburo by Ono Shinji (Yoshimura Tatsumasa)
- Deus Ex Capitalism (Embracer Canned a Deus Ex Game in Pre-Production)
- It’s Fate That You Stay Away! (Fate/Stay Night Remastered Is Getting An International Release)
- The Volition to Shapeshift! (Former Volition Staff Establish Support Studio Shapeshifter Games)
- State of Play Slurp Up! (The Un-Nintendo Direct)
- Sonic Generations is BACK! (Sonic X Shadow Generations Announced)
- Supermassive Games Got Done Dirty… (Sony is Having A New Studio Replace Until Dawn)
- The Open World Woes! (Natalie Rambles About Palworld – Week 2)
Rundown (1/28/2024) Palling Around in Palworld
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Palworld – Week 1
- No One Can Stop The Pokémadness (Palworld is a Global Sensation and Home to Massive Controversy)
- TSF Showcase 2024-04 Oto x Maho by Shirase Shuu and Suemitsu Dicca
- Microsoft’s Big Cuts! (Microsoft Layoffs, Cancellation, and War on Physical Games)
Rundown (1/21/2024) Natalie the Pokémaniac is Hungry for Souls!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Shattered Locks and Strained Logistics
- TSF Showcase 2024-03 Fujoshi Trapped in a Seme’s Perfect Body by Seru and Jouvru
- After 15 Years of Sitting in the Dumpster, Indy’s Back Gamin’ (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Revealed)
- Fine, I’ll Talk About Online Drama… (Chuggaaconroy Was Being Creepy And Asking For Feet Pics)
Rundown (1/14/2024) Natalie’s Sexual Binary
Rundown (1/07/2024) The Co-Op Conundrum
Rundown (12/31/2023) Christmas with Judas
This Week’s Topics:
- A review of a non-TSF manga that Cassie SAID was TSF!
- A triple-decker TSF Showcase as a holiday treat
- One of the biggest games ever got its source code leaked
Rundown (12/24/2023) How to Do Time Management?!?
This Week’s Topics:
- Musings about my perpetual inefficiency
- A fun TSF romcom canceled before its prime
- A TSF novella that is worse than my shit
- What TimeSplitters 4 (2021) could have been…
- The second biggest gaming leak of the year
- Pontificating the Posse Logs
Rundown (12/17/2023) Year-End Hustle & Bustle
This Week’s Topics:
- A reminder of what you can expect from Natalie.TF for the rest of the year
- A Trans wish fulfillment manga to help the medicine go down
- The burning, glorious, corpse of a canceled manga
- Natalie’s burning hatred of We and Us
- The Last of Us Online’s cancellation!
Rundown (12/10/2023) Good Night Gamindustri, See Ya Next Year!
This Week’s Topics:
- A rain themed TSF manga
- The prelude for the biggest entertainment launch of all time
- The 21st Annual Spike Video Game Awards Rundown
- A call to download everything you love
- A pronoun predicament
Rundown (12/03/2023) Yo! NTF Cribz
This Week’s Topics:
- A tour of my new house!
- Hot-blooded dudes becoming hot-blooded gals
- An impending lack of content
- The re:Death of TimeSplitters
- A call to un-service the latest Final Fantasy game
- Natalie Harasses Akumako
Rundown (11/26/2023) The Quest for a Dream TF Metroidvania
This Week’s Topics:
- First impressions of the latest professional-grade TSF game
- A Natalie.TF exclusive first look at a translation of a 31-year-old TSF comic
- A nothingburger acquisition
- A pleasant Indonesian acquisition
- Nat & Akumako discuss a weird hentai trope
Rundown (11/19/2023) So Long Old Home! + The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update
This Week’s Topics:
- Saying goodbye to my childhood home
- The much-needed update on Verde’s Doohickey 2.0
- A possession fiesta for all the boys and one girl
- A slightly squirrelly acquisition
- NetEase’s 11th new studio
- Meandering musings of a controversial topic
- Oh shit, Class of ’09 really blew up
- The Last of Us is back…
Rundown (11/12/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works is Done!
This Week’s Topics:
- The next big Natalie.TF project is DONE!
- An unfinished TSF game from 2007
- A film announcement that people have wanted for 30 years
- Musing about the inevitable release of an industry shaking title
- A surprise hardware stealth drop
Rundown (11/05/2023) re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…
This Week’s Topics:
- A re:turn to re:Dreamer for side content
- An email-based TSF story from 2002
- A triple dose of acquisitions
- NetEase is back with their tenth new studio since 2020
- Another re:turn of an older Sonic style
- A 3.5-hour-long animated fan film
Rundown (10/29/2023) Horror Is Not Niche!
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie FINALLY acknowledges the spooky month
- A Natalie.TF exclusive* look at the next next great TF visual novel!
- Another unhinged Pokémon tangent
- Bop-Louie ‘n’ da Boyz are BACK!
Rundown (10/22/2023) Natalie is a Homeowner
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie bought REAL property!
- A Fictionmania flashback
- A game design tangent
- The return of a niche DS adventure game series
- A Pokémon tangent
Rundown (10/15/2023) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic!
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie bitching about her job
- A double dose of TSF coolsies
- The end of the biggest gaming acquisition
- A premonition of a dead internet
- The Downfall of Unity: Part III
- The slick and svelte NEW PS5
Rundown (10/08/2023) If You Don’t Like ‘Em, Kill ‘Em!
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s keeping it RADICAL!
- A Natalie.TF exclusive* look at the next great TF visual novel!
- The 3DS and Wii U get even deader!
- Epic’s ‘financial troubles’
Rundown (10/01/2023) How Are ‘Real’ Video Games Profitable?
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie asks how games are supposed to make money for prices so low
- A Super Smash swap comic
- The end of a Platinum era
- A sequel to one of Natalie’s favorite exploration-driven action platformers
- Sony’s latest mega-hack
- Sony’s status quo non-shake-up
- Epic spits out Bandcamp like a stale pretzel
- Ownership or possession – the real media debate
Rundown (9/24/2023) Ai’s Time Warp and Premise Predicament
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s Oshi no Ko lukewarm take
- A body swapping rental service that would destroy society
- The BIG Xbox FTC leak
- Some inane Japanese gaming minutia
Rundown (9/17/2023) Natalie is a TOS Violation
This Week’s Topics:
- Why Natalie cannot be trusted on any major platform
- A wackadoo TSF manga from my magic bag
- TF trials and tribulations
- The inevitable death of Mario Kart 9 (or 13)
- Embracer’s quest to liquidate
- Unity’s endeavor to make things worse for everyone
- A definitional diatribe only Natalie cares about
- Another Nintendo Direct rundown
- A half-assed State of Play rundown
- Wizardry Re;Birth
Rundown (9/10/2023) Money! Money! Money! Is What I Need!
This Week’s Topics:
- Deliberations of dochy
- A potential king
- Tencent’s continued consumption
- Vampires X the walking simulator guys
- An unfocused ramble on… display technology?
- Another farewell to 𝕏
Rundown (9/03/2023) Let’s Imagine… TSF Mecca
This Week’s Topics:
- The quest for the TSF holy land
- A story of two grandpas finding love in VR
- Natalie’s dream software
- Price scamming from a billion dollar tech company
- Super Mario Bros. 10 looks wünderbar
- The death a developer with great volition
Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers
This Week’s Topics:
- Remix Heart Gaiden: The Better Version
- An utterly unhinged school body swap comic
- A gluey acquisition
- Sony buying an audio company
- The worst PlayStation handheld.
- A Mario for a new generation!
- Denuvo is trying to ruin everything!
- Epic Games’ ‘big’ profit share
- The eradication of platform identity
Rundown (8/20/2023) The Quest for Quantified Quality
This Week’s Topics:
- The NEED to turn art into a number
- A BlazBlue manga I read to appease my Cassie
- NetEase is back with another expansion!
- The dastards who screwed over Embracer Group
- The 18.5 year 360 of life and death
- Wishing for the end of modern development schedules
- A body swap formatting dilemma
- Region locking vs. autistic archivists (archivists always win)
Rundown (8/13/2023) Enrolled Agent of Chaos
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s professional achievements
- A TSF comic featuring one impossible girl
- A tangent about girls with penises
- Emulation and collection woes
- Further proof that Verde’s Doohickey is an Act Of Plagiarism
- A Rockstar takeover
- The Red Dead let down
- A plethora of Pokémon presents
Rundown (8/06/2023) Nothing Like the First Time
This Week’s Topics:
- The hunt for meaning through new experiences
- A TSF manga that should have been much better
- The dread of going back to older generations of Pokémon
- Musings about Nintendo’s second tablet
- A rema(ke)(ster) of Oblivion
- A semi-regular update on Natalie.TF projects
Rundown (7/30/2023) Hoarding Games I’ll Never Play!
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s Plump ROM Hole
- TSF Showcase for Chari & Cassie!
- Tencent’s Techland
- Capcom’s new cane
- The rise of 𝕏
- A bad collection that made Natalie slightly less sane
Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!
This Week’s Topics:
- One of Natalie’s favorite music people dropped a HOT new mixtape!
- A transition related retrospective and analysis
- The return of Natalie’s weekly dose of TSF translated goodness
- TSF Showcase 2023: All You Can Eat! Summer 6 Comic Works Mix
- The power of worker solidarity
- The confusing pricing models for gaming subscription services
Rundown (7/16/2023) Falling Down The Helly Tree!
This Week’s Topics:
- Natalie’s latest file hoarding excursion and post-2027 plans
- A legal update on the biggest video game acquisition of all time
- Tencent’s expansion continues unimpeded
- The straight dope on how BAD game preservation is
- The Limited Run Games’ summer showcase
- Delays of all July reviews
Rundown (7/09/2023) Jump! Back! Glock! Cock! Aim! Shoot!
This Week’s Topics:
- Political wafting and revolution promotion
- The legal battle for the future of gaming
- The impending death of Twitter (and the internet)
- A genre terminology diatribe
- Yuji Naka in… Prison Escape
- Getting into some TRUTHS about the Pokémon series
Rundown (7/02/2023) Thanks Cap, You Made Me Write a Novel of Lore!
This Week’s Topics:
- A VD2.0 progress update
- The ‘magic users as oppressed minority’ trope
- Complaining about Nintendo and Switch 2 discourse
- The idea that games should ‘let players be creative’
- A remaster that is doomed for disaster
Rundown (6/25/2023) A Gray Day Is DOPE!
This Week’s Topics:
- Another dope TSF comic I think you should read
- A brief rumination on TSF
- Dissin’ Some Cube-Heads
- A 4,800 word ramble on the latest Nintendo Direct
- The Q3 and Q4 2023 schedule for Natalie.TF
Rundown (6/18/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: Later Bitches, I’ll See Ya Next Year!
This Week’s Topics:
- An admission of defeat
- The Embracer Group’s $2 Billion Problem
- The reanimated remnants of Kurayami
- A tepid terminological tirade
Rundown (6/13/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: I’d Rather Be Doing Anything Else!
This Week’s Topics:
- A generation of trained 2 B 2-D game haters
- The big Xbox summer bash
- Fallout X Skyrim X SPACE!
A tray of Ubisoft’s treats- Capcom’s box of festive snacks
Rundown (6/11/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: Let The Festivities Commence!
This Week’s Topics:
- The start of the Summer Game Festivities!
- Another preservationist rant
- Persona 3’s Remake and the importance of art direction
- Persona 5 Tactica’s uncanny chibis
Rundown (6/04/2023) Natalie Needs to Sell Her Old Game Collection
This Week’s Topics:
- NetEase established ANOTHER studio
- The death of Vanpool
- Why Redfall was a bad game
- Nintendo’s low effort write-off
- A Leaf classic is getting translated!
Rundown (5/28/2023) The 6 Month Post-Surgery Update
This Week’s Topics:
- That thang between Natalie’s legs
- Bad Brain murders executives
- Embracer’s $2 billion oopsie
- Nintendo kills the 3DS while it stews in its grave
- The PlayStation Showcase Fundown
- A Marvelous pursuit to the current generation
Rundown (5/21/2023) My re:Dreamer Panic Attack
This Week’s Topics:
- The most intense reaction I’ve had to a piece of media
- The EXP vs XP debate
- A brief dismissal of Tears of the Kingdom
- The death of another gacha
- Activision Blizzard’s lie to pivot to F2P
- The announcement of Mortal Kombat 1
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