Rundown (5/18/2025) Should Self-Employment Tax Be Abolished? (No!)

• Post published:05/18/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:48 mins read
• Post comments:17 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Love Social Security, Hate Social Security Tax!
• Giant Bomb is Independent (Fuck The Corpos, Stay Indie, Die Indie!)
• Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Was Canceled (And Natalie Misses The Art of the B-Game Spin-Off Point, Just in General)
• Tribe Nine EOS Announced After 3 Months (The Mobile Games Industry is BRUTAL!)
• Persona 5: The Phantom X Announced For Global Release (The Mobile Games Industry is Nasty!)
• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Bombed (Natalie Rambles About SNK History, Because Why Not?)

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Rundown (5/11/2025) Is Crossdressing TSF?

• Post published:05/11/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:54 mins read
• Post comments:14 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Is Crossdressing a Form of TSF?
• Rundown Preamble Ramble Append: Futanari is Sometimes TSF, But Mostly it’s Own Thing
• Gears of War Reloaded Announced (Natalie Rambles About Gears of War, I Guess)
• The Video Game Industry of Money-Making (And How It’s Broken!)
• AI vs Education (Natalie Rambles About School From Afar!)

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Rundown (5/04/2025) There Will Be No 2025 re:Dreamer Re-Review

• Post published:05/04/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:46 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: There Will Be No 2025 re:Dreamer Re-Review
• Body Swap Story – Aunty Yui & Yuto is Out (Well, That Was Fast…)
• Natalie is in… The Money Zone! (Mo’ Like Natalie.Dochy)
• The Japanese Game Preservation Society is On The Verge of Shutdown (So Please Give Them Money)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Doing Big Numbers (And There’s Some Dumb Discourse About It!)
• Microsoft Indulges in Price Hikes Thanks to Trump Tariffs (Nintendo Helped Too!)
• Bye Bye Giant Bomb and Polygon (The Video Games Press is FUCKED!)
• Grand Theft Auto VI Delayed to May 26, 2026 (There Goes the Biggest Game of the Generation…)

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Rundown (4/27/2025) The Pokémon Evolutionary Line Kerfuffle

• Post published:04/27/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Pokémon Generations and Evolution Lines
• ACTION BUTTON PICTURES PRESENTS “LOS ANGELES NOIRE” (Tim Rogers is Back, Bitches!)
• Oblivion Remastered Shadow Dropped! (And It’s An Aesthetic Downgrade)
• Natalie Muses About Re-Whatevers Some More! (She Just Can’t Stop It!)

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Rundown (4/20/2025) I Did the Taxes. Now I Go to Bread.

• Post published:04/20/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Did The Taxes. Now I Go To Bread.
• Mario Kart DWT – Direct World Tour (Because Nintendo Needs A Win…)
• More Mild Musings About Pokémon – April 2025 Ver. (Natalie Needs to Buff Up This Rundown Somehow!)

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Rundown (4/13/2025) Tax Xtender 2025

• Post published:04/13/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:26 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Tax Xtender 2025!
• The Tariff Wars Continue (Divest From America and Let Her Rot)
• Nintendo $witch 2 Much $$$$$$ (Because Everybody Else is Talking About It!)
• More Mild Musings About Live Services (If Only to Pad This Rundown)

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Rundown (4/06/2025) Swiitch 2 – 4 Mii & U

• Post published:04/06/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:74 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Swiitch 2 – 4 Mii & U
• Switch 2: The Main Deets (Summary of the System Level Stuff)
• Switch 2: The Race World (Mario Kart World Announced)
• Switch 2: A Familiar Fable (Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster Announced)
• Switch 2: A New Zelda, Technically! (Zelda Musou – Hyrule Warriors 3: Age of Imprisonment Announced)
• Switch 2: A FromSoftware Multiplayer Switch 2 Exclusive (The Saga of Souls Chapter IX: The Duskbloods Announced)
• Switch 2: Sakurai’s Next Big Game! (Kirby Air Riders Announced)
• Switch 2: A Banana Bonanza (Donkey Kong Bananza Announced)
• Switch 2: The Riffraff (Games I Have Only A Paragraph of Stuff To Say About)
• Switch 2: The GameCube (Dolphin At Home!)
• Switch 2: The Money Zone (And the High Prices Brought to You by Trump Tax)
• Switch 2: The Tariffs (Fight the Power, With Your Fists!)
• Switch 2: The Verdict (Nah, Imma Gonna Pass This One)
• Random Tax Tip For American Gamers (I’m An Enrolled Agent, Trust Me Bro!)
• Oh, Right, April Fools Happened (And I Didn’t Get to Celebrate It!)

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Rundown (3/30/2025) Game Fighter Animard is Dope!

• Post published:03/30/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:71 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Game Fighter Animard is Dope!
• Geoff Keighley Launches The Game Business (Because Why Not At This Point?)
• Game Informer is BACK, BAY-BEE! (Fuck You, GME! We Got That Crypto Money!)
• The FINAL Switch 1 Nintendo Direct (Nina Tendo Works in Mysterious Ways…)
• Re-Release The Whole Saga of SaGa! (SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered Shadow Dropped)
• Monument Valley Trilogy is Coming to Switch (They Are Now REAL Games!)
• Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Announced (And it Is a Damn Remake!)
• Patapon 1+2 Replay Announced (Patapon Is BACK… On A Nintendo Console?)
• AI: The Somnium Files 3 – No Sleep For Kaname Date Announced (A Sequel To One Of My Favorite Games Ever!)
• Gradius Origins Announced (All Praise to the REAL Shooting Games, Ya Schmucks!)
• Another Story of Seasons Remake Announced! (Except This One Actually Looks Good)
• Everybody’s Golf is Back, BAY-BEE! (So is Hot Shots Golf, By Technicality!)
• Rhythm Heaven Groove Announced! (Not Even Cancer Can Kill This!)
• Tomodachi Life 3: Livin’ Da Dream Announced (For GTS Fans, It Is but a Dream)
• Ubisoft Opens Joint Subsidiary With Tencent (It Contains All Their Biggest IPs)
• Reflecting on Zenless Zone Zero With 6/10 Beats (My Backup Preamble if Animard Didn’t Go Live)

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Rundown (3/23/2025) Natalie is Depressed!

• Post published:03/23/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Depressed!
• The Sonic Unleashed Effect (Natalie Muses About… More Gaming Ephemera)
• United Videogame Workers Union is Open For Membership! (ALL AMERICAN GAME DEVS! UNIONIZE! NOW!!!)
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows… is Doing Pretty Well? (Natalie Just Wanted To Ramble Bout AssCreed)

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Rundown (3/16/2025) Work This Sucker to Death

• Post published:03/16/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:24 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Work This Sucker to Death
• The Saudis Really Did Buy Pokémon Go… (Niantic Games Acquired by Scopely, Subsidiary of Saudi Arabia d.b.a. Savvy Games Group)
• Another Excuse to Dunk on Roblox (As a Reminder, Natalie is Anti-Roblox)
• Microsoft, Stop With The AI Gaming Nonsense (Microsoft Announces Copilot for Gaming)
• Silent Hill f Formally Revealed (And It Looks Pretty Darn Good!)

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Rundown (3/09/2025) Don’t Pay Your Taxes; Buy A Gun!

• Post published:03/09/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Don’t Pay Your Taxes; Buy A Gun!
• The Natalie.TF Giveaway Went Incredibly Well (And I Suffered For My Success)
• Reject Remakes, Embrace Recompilations (Sonic Unleashed Recompilation Released, And It’s Dope!)
• Suikoden is BACK! (…As a Mobile Live Service!)
• Acclaim is BACK! (Because It’s A Name Millennials Recognize)
• Rockstar Buys Video Games Deluxe (The Developer Who Tried to Save the GTA Trilogy)
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4 Announced (Developed By… Not Vicarious Visions!)

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Rundown (3/02/2025) Natalie Has Over 500 Steam Keys to Give Away

• Post published:03/02/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:293 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Has Over 500 Steam Keys to Give Away
• Pokémon Presents The Synapse Present (Pokémon Champions Announced)
• Pokémon Presents A Big Present (Pokémon Legends Z-A is Real!)
• Just Sell Your Damn Games Division, Warner Bros! (Warner Bros Closes Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego)
• I Finally Got Steam Deck Sales Numbers! (Don’t Believe The Hype!)

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Rundown (2/23/2025) But I Don’t WANT To Be Part of a Community

• Post published:02/23/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: But I Don’t WANT To Be Part of a Community
• Marvel Rivals Dev Team Has Been Laid Off (Security Through Success is a Logical Fallacy)
• Natalie Is Gonna Give Away Hundreds of Steam Keys (Because Ziff Davis Enshittified Humble Bundle!)
• Saudi Arabia’s Pokémon Go is A-Go! (Niantic Is Selling Their Games Division to Saudi Arabia’s Scopely)
• Microsoft Pivots into AI Gaming (Forgetting That AI is Too Stupid to Remaster Classic Games)
• Nobody Expects The… Samurai Pizza Cats? (Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past Announced)

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Rundown (2/16/2025) The Future Is as Black as Obsidian

• Post published:02/16/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:41 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Future Is as Black as Obsidian
• State of Play Happened Again (And It Had a Few Things!)
• Shinobi: The Art of Vengeance Fully Revealed (It Sure Looks Like Shinobi IV)
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Fully Revealed (It Actually Looks Better Than I Thought It Would)
• Digimon Story: Time Stranger Announced (I Really Need to Play Cyber Sleuth)
• Warriors: Abyss Announced (Roguelike X Musou, But For PSP)
• People Want to Play Better Versions of Games They Loved When They Were 12 (They Want UE5 Remasters, Not Basic Re-Releases)
• I’m A 30-Year-Old Stuck Writing Stories About Teenagers (And It’s My Own Damn Fault)

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Rundown (2/09/2025) A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Act 3 Update

• Post published:02/09/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Act 3 Update
• Natalie Needs to Ditch Google Docs (But She Dunno How!)
• What’s An Earnest Evans and Anett Returns? (The Obligatory Retro Game Fixation To Cleanse the Soul)
• Nintendo Switch Hits 150 Million Units Sold (It Might Just Beat The PS2 At This Rate!)
• Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny Remaster Announced (Better Late Than Never, I Guess)

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Rundown (2/02/2025) Increasing A Long on AI Generated Anime Girl Titties

• Post published:02/02/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Increasing A Long on AI Generated Anime Girl Titties
• Dino Crisis Has Been Re-Released! (Thanks to the Dedication of GOG!)
• The Sims 1 and 2 Re-Released! (Because Anything’s Better Than The Sims 4!)
• MultiVersus’s Not So Sudden Death (MultiVersus’s End of Service Announced)
• Shit Sucks, But Here Are Some Good Things I Saw This Weeks (A Last Gasp While Wrapping Up This Rundown)

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Rundown (1/26/2025) The Straight Dope On Gamindustri

• Post published:01/26/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:50 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Straight Dope On The Current State of Gamindustri
• In a Final Act of Excellence, The FTC Goes After Loot Boxes! (Specifically, Genshin Impact)
• Time For The Quarterly-ish Xbox Thing! (A Rapidly Written Xbox Developer Direct Recap)
• Ninja Gaiden 4 Announced (Natalie Rambles About the History of Team Ninja)
• Ninja Gaiden II Black Shadow Dropped This Week (It’s Not As Good As It Sounds…)

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Rundown (1/19/2025) Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?

• Post published:01/19/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:46 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?
• Nintendo Switch 2 Announced (It’s Been SEVEN YEARS!)
• Video Game Generation Numbers Are Fine, Ya Old Farts (Another Tangent Before Bedtime)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Vs. The PC Handheld Market (Nat-Nat Bullies Silly-Billy PC Fans)
• Natalie Hates Age-Based Timestamps (A Machine Needs to Vent, and So Do I!)
• STOP KILLING GAMES Update! (UK Citizens, Sign This Petition!)
• Sony Cancels Another Two Live Services (This Venture Was a Boneheaded Waste…)
• Bad Person And Writer is a Cool Person and Wackadoo Writer (I Swear These Mini Showcases Won’t Be A Regular Thing)

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Rundown (1/12/2025) Pedantic Porn Problems

• Post published:01/12/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:32 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Pedantic Porn Problems
• Video Game Movies Are Go! (Sony Pictures Needs Hits Badly)
• Nvivida Wants You To Use AI to Beautify Women in Games (Nvidia Will Un-DEI Femoid Faces!)
• SteamOS is Evolving! (And The Cheap PC Market is Kinda Bonkers)
• The House of the Dead 2 Remake Properly Announced (Because People Need Another Bad Remake…)
• Warui Slime Janai yo by Pandanuki is… Deranged (I Guess This Counts as a TF Showcase)

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Rundown (1/05/2025) A Body Swap Episode Conundrum

• Post published:01/05/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:14 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: A Body Swap Episode Conundrum
• A Surprise Game Boy Advance Tangent (I Actually Like The Modern Decade-Long Console Lifespans…)
• Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is Getting Remastered! (Capitalism Hoooooo~?~?~?~)
• New Year, New AI Musings (I Really Wish AI Tools Could Help Me With Anything…)

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Rundown (12/29/2024) Humdrum Holiday and Flaccid Festivities

• Post published:12/29/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:13 mins read
• Post comments:1 Comment

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Humdrum Holiday and Flaccid Festivities
• Natalie’s Latest Story Idea She Will Never Pursue (Project: Trillionaire Re;Start)
• PANIC MODE is ON! (Natalie Is Running Out of Time!)

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Rundown (12/22/2024) Fatalie’s Festive Feast

• Post published:12/22/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:25 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Fatalie’s Festive Feast
• Natalie Muses About Progression Systems (Written Half Past Midnight on Wednesday)
• Natalie Complains About Falcom’s Localization Practices (Ys X: Proud Nordics Announced, Trails in the Sky 1st Global Launch Confirmed)
• Sony X Kadokawa Business Alliance Announced (Better Than An Acquisition!)

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Rundown (12/15/2024) Natalie Mustn’t Become Fatalie

• Post published:12/15/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:59 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Mustn’t Become Fatalie
• Change of Plans for TSF Showcase 2024-51 (No More Valkyrie Yuuki)
• Blue Protocol Is Being Resurrected as Star Resonance (Still a Generic Name, but Also Way Better)
• The Platform Agnostic and Self-Important Geoff Keighley’s Spike Video Game Awards X Advertisements (Leg’s Go!)
• Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound Announced (D@SH and R@GE!)
• Edgy Pac-Man Metroidvania Shadow Labyrinth Announced (What the Fuck?)
• Final Fantasy VII-2: Re;Birth is Coming to PC on January 23, 2025 (Hopefully People Buy It This Time Around)
• The Witcher IV Properly Announced (Thank You For the AWFUL CG, Now Leave!)
• Elden Ring Nightreign Announced (A Multiplayer Survival Elden Ring Spin-Off)
• Former Team Ico X Tencent Project Was Shown Off (It’s Sci-Fi… Good Night!)
• Hazelight Co-Op Venture #4: Split Fiction Announced (Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Crossing Over in Virtual Reality!)
• Virtua Fighter 6 Announced (We Basically Knew This Was Happening, But Whatever!)
• Turok Origins Announced (I Guess That’s A Functional Subtitle?)
• Onimusha: Way of the Sword Announced (No Clue What Flavor of Onimusha It’ll Be!)
• Okami Sequel Announced! (And It’s Directed By Hideaki Kamiya!)
• Sonic Racing 4: CrossWorlds Announced (I Miss When Games Were Announced Via Press Releases…)
• Project Century by Ryu Ga Gotoku Announced (Like a Dragon: 1915!)
• Dispatch Announced from Ex-Walking Dead Developers (Now THIS is Next Gen Telltale!)
• Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announced (Natalie Gets TOXIC Over the New Naughty Dog Game)

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Rundown (12/08/2024) I Want to Do Everything!

• Post published:12/08/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Want to Do Everything! 
• Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete is Just An Offline Gacha Game (And It Sucks Because of It)
• Tetris: The Grand Master 4: Absolute Eyes Announced (An Offline Competitive Tetris Game in 2025?)
• Year-End Recaps Should Be at the END of the Year (December Is the Un-Month)
• World End Politico (What the Hell Is Going On in the World?)

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Rundown (12/01/2024) TG and Turn Into A Girl

• Post published:12/01/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TG and Turn Into A Girl
• Never 7 and Ever 17 Remasters Revealed (It’s Not a Remake Like They Said It Would Be!)
• Sony is Planning a Portable PS5 (The PlayStation Portal Was a Test Project)
• Natalie Fixates on Collection Contents (The Early GAMEBOY Days)
• Tariff Turmoil (Fear The Rulers Who Want to Destroy The Economy)
• Tencent Bought Kuro Games (They Develop Punishing: Gray Raven and Wuthering Waves)

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Rundown (11/24/2024) How Natalie Would ‘Wreck’ The American Tax System!

• Post published:11/24/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: How Natalie Would ‘Wreck’ The American Tax System!
• Sony Is In Talks To Acquire Kadokawa (They are WAY More Than The Elden Ring Guys…)
• Final Fantasy XIV: Mobile Announced (Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Remobilized)

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Rundown (11/17/2024) Natalie Has Become a Witch!

• Post published:11/17/2024
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• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Has Become a Witch!
• Doom Spending and Financial Paranoid (Buy Assets and Invest in Stonks)
• Lawsuit Updates! (Palworld and The Crew Are Making Legal Waves)
• Hideaki Itsuno Joins LightSpeed Japan Studio! (Tencent’s Consumption Continues!)
• The GOG Preservation Program is Go! (GOG’s Fancy New Sticker and Promise)
• Tequila Works Announces Insolvency (Tequila Works Is All Outta Booze)
• Natalie Muses About The Success of Lollipop Chainsaw RePop (Lollipop Shadows of the Damned Chainsaw)
• Warcraft: Remastered and Warcraft II: Remastered Announced (Pulled Outta and Polished From The Vault!)
• Embracer Sells Easybrain to Miniclip for $1.2 Billion (The Unembrace Continues)

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Rundown (11/10/2024) Humanity Has Declined

• Post published:11/10/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Humanity Has Declined
• Natalie Rambles About Pokémon TCG Pocket (This Poison Takes Like Fruit Punch!)
• Sega is Delisting Their Classic Games Library (They Probably Just Want to Re-Release ‘Em for the Thirteenth Time)

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Rundown (11/03/2024) Natalie Rambles About Psycho Shatter 1988

• Post published:11/03/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:50 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Psycho Shatter 1988 Is A Wack-Ass Mess, But I Love It
• Steins;Gate RE:BOOT is a Re;Make (The Terminology of Re-Whatevers Remains Inconsistent)
• Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete Overview Released (I Will Pay $500 For Dragalia Lost Complete, Nintendo…)
• Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Announced (The Switch Consolidation Continues)
• Nintendo Music Streaming Service Announced (Why The Frick Do Zoomies Use Streaming Services?)
• Sony Closes Down Concord Developer Firewalk Studios (Hopefully The Final Concord Segment)
• The REAL Reason Nintendo is Suing Palworld (A Lawyer Explains Nintendo v. Palworld!)
• Natalie Rambles About How Sports Games Were Ruined (What’s an Accolade?)

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Rundown (10/27/2024) Rushing to Completion!

• Post published:10/27/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Rushing to Completion!
• Let’s Talk About Acquire Corporation! (Because They Made Mario & Luigi 6!)
• I Might Have Been Wrong About Unity (Unity Management Has Completely Changed Over The Past Year)
• Nintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program Has Slipped Through The Cracks (Nintendo’s Nintendo-some Nintendo-ing)
• More Musings About Re-Whatevers (Because I Didn’t Want to Go to Bed at 1 AM)

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Rundown (10/20/2024) Natalie Needs a NAS

• Post published:10/20/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:57 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Needs a NAS
• The Pokémon Tera Leak (Possibly Bigger Than The Nintendo Gigaleak)
• Tribe Nine is a Perplexing RPG (I Played the Tribe Nine Demo and… What the Fuck?)
• All in Abyss is DOPE! (I Cast My Judgment, and This is The Real Shit)
• I Also Checked Out Ys X Nordics! (The ANOFO Vibe Remains Dead and Over)
• Out of the Frying Pan; Into The Firefox (I Switched to Firefox and Plugins Ruined My Site)

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Rundown (10/13/2024) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic! – The Lost Levels

• Post published:10/13/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic! – The Lost Levels
• Silent Hill 2 (2024) is… Actually Good? (Bloober Got It Right?)
• 343 Industries Is Now Halo Studios (Still Doesn’t Get Halo Out of Its Mess)
• Student Transfer FINALLY Got An Official YouTube Channel! (And Other Miscellaneous Tangents)
• Red Dead Re-Re-Re-Redemption! (Red Dead Redemption Is FINALLY Coming to PC)
• LittleBigDelisting (Sony is Delisting LittleBigPlanet 3)
• The Great Big Roblox Exposé! (Roblox Is an X-Rated Pedophile Hellscape)
• Raise the Alarmo! (Nintendo Reveals a Smart Clock to Watch You as You Sleep)

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Rundown (10/06/2024) Natalie Vs The Medical-Industrial Complex

• Post published:10/06/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Vs The Medical-Industrial Complex
• CaptainCaption Posted Another Life Update! (It’s A Cascade of Bullshit!)
• Natalie is Anti Hardware Innovation (On The Wrong Side of History Yet Again…)
• RIP RyujiNX (Nintendo Shuts Down Ryujinx, the Other Switch Emulator)
• Palworld Mobile Announced! (That’s All!)
• Epic Royalty Discount! (Release Games on Epic Games Store, Save 30% on Unreal Fees!)
• Keep It Peashy, Nippon! (Japan’s PC Game Market Grew 260% In 4 Years!)

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Rundown (9/29/2024) Acknowledge ALL of Gaming History!

• Post published:09/29/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:78 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Acknowledge All of Gaming History!
• Metrics 4 Gamers (Gimme All The Sales Data!)
• Oops! An Unhinged Rant About Controllers (The Astro Bot Mind Virus Strikes Again!)
• Level-5 Is Still Alive(?) (TGS Rundown Part 1)
• Inazuma Eleven RE(make) Announced (Also Victory Road Looks DOPE!)
• More like Yok-AI Watch! (Yo-Kai Watch Next: Holy Horror Mansion Announced)
• Let’s Play Down State of Play! (TGS Rundown Part 2)
• Bring Back ALL The Great 90s RPGs! (Lunar Remastered Collection Announced)
• The Legacy Must Be Retold! (Legacy of Kain 1 & 2 Remastered Announced)
• Look Into The Horizon And See… A Pretty Game (Horizon I: Zero Dawn Remastered Announced)
• That’s Not Ghost of Two-shima! (Ghost of Yotei Announced)
• Behavior Gets Their Hooks In Another One! (Behavior Interactive Acquires Red Hook Studios)
• Every Day I Wish For The Live Service Industry’s Collapse… (Persona 5: The Phantom X is Coming to Japan)
• Classic Dungeons Are The Best Dungeons (Cladun X3 Announced)
• I Got Bamboozled by a Surprise Launch! (I’ll Review Class of ’09: The Flip Side Next Month)

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Rundown (9/22/2024) An Impromptu Vita Retrospective

• Post published:09/22/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:56 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: An Impromptu Vita Retrospective
• ♫FREEEEEDOM WAAAAARS!♫ (Freedom Wars Remastered Announced)
• So Long Touch Arcade (Massive Gaming Publication Shuts Down After 16 Years)
• Playtika Acquires SuperPlay for $700 Million (We Need Better Reporting on Mobile Games…)
• Starlight Re:Volver and the Financial Landscape of Games (You Can’t Fund a REAL Games Nowadays…)
• Interest Rates Dropping Affects The Gamindustri, You, and Natalie (♫Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gotta Get The Money!♫)
• Another Console Data Tangent! (You Gotta Have One Every Week!)
• Who is the REAL Master of Pokémon? (Natalie Talks About A Video Essay She Watched Twice)
• Pokémon v Pocketpair – A Palworld Patent Panic (Nintendo Sues Pocket Pair for Patent Infringement)
• How Do You Solve The Final Fantasy Problem? (Or Why Didn’t FFXVI and FFVIIR2 Do Well?)
• Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Announced (Yar Har, Fiddle De Dee! Being a Pirate Is What We Wanna Be!)
• The Annapurna Interactive Exodus Explained! (IGN Reveals The Full Story!)

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Rundown (9/15/2024) How Are ‘Real’ Video Games Profitable? Mk2

• Post published:09/15/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:47 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: How Are ‘Real’ Video Games Profitable? Mk2
• Natalie Rambles About Roblox For Way Too Long (All Because of a Potential Nothingburger)
• Looks Like Ubisoft is Crumbling… (They Just Keep Letting Us Down, Letting Us Down…)
• PlayStation 5 Pro Announced ($700 And They Don’t Even Give You A Disc Drive…)
• THE GREAT UNITY TURNAROUND! (Unity Axes Runtime Fees After Destroying Their Brand)
• So Long, I Guess, Annapurna Interactive (The Entire Annapurna Interactive Staff Resigned)
• Drats! Generative AI Found Natalie.TF! (I Got 3,339 Page Views In A Day)

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Rundown (9/08/2024) Compulsory Game Design

• Post published:09/08/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Compulsory Game Design
• Fall of the Concord (And Future Questions Regarding Live Services)
• Death of the Concord (Oops! Natalie Got Bamboozled by Fate!)
• Natalie Is The Only One Who is Displeased By Astro Bot (Her Opinion Is Probably Wrong)
• Natalie Rambles About The Zelda Timeline (The Downfall Timeline is Bullcrap, But Also Not Really?)
• Fuck The Law, Praise The Archive (An Obligatory Pro-Internet Archive Aside)

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Rundown (9/01/2024) Nina Tendo Brain Problems

• Post published:09/01/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:69 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Nina Tendo Brain Problems
• Nina Tendo’s Double Direct Digest! (Nintendo Direct and Indie World Rundown)
• Tetris Really IS Forever (Digital Eclipse Announces Tetris Forever)
• Yo, Falcom’s TitS is No Longer Ugly As Hell! (Trails in the Sky 1st Remake Announced)
• We Are In The CapGod Era of Re-Releases! (Capcom Announces Capcom Fighting Collection 2)
• DominuS Without the Dual Screen (Castlevania DominuS Collection Announced)
• Corporatized Coziness Continues (EA Announces Remaster of MySims and MySims Kingdoms)
• Hitting the Switch LIKE A DRAGON! (Like a Dragon – Yakuza: Kiawami (2016) Announced for Switch)
• Tokimeki FUCKING Memorial is Back! (Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You Emotional Announced)
• Nintendo Direct: Dribs and Drabs (JRPGs I Didn’t Have Much to Say About)
• Live Services, Quality, Disdain, Bad Ideas, and Death (The Struggles of Foamstars, Concord, and Blue Protocol)
• Argonaut & Croc are BACK! (Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD Remaster Announced)
• Visions of Dissolution and Despair (NetEase and Tencent Are Reconsidering Japanese Game Investments)
• Hideaki Itsuno Leaves Capcom After 30 Years (Devil May Cry Shepard and Dragon’s Dogma Director Leaves Capcom)
• Nintendo Re-Whatever Rationale List (Moved to the End to Avoid Pace Breaking)

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Rundown (8/25/2024) Return to Inefficient Labor

• Post published:08/25/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Return to Inefficient Labor
• Nintendo Direct 2 Da Museum (Natalie Is Confused By The Nintendo Museum)
• Wukong Does Big Bananas! (In More Ways Than One!)
• The Gamescom Rundown (Because I Didn’t Want To Cover Everything…)
• Take Two Interactive’s Gearbox Is Back To Money-Making (Borderlands 4 Announced)
• A Reminder: Tencent Owns Techland (Dying Light: The Beast Announced)
• Dirty Liar Peter Molyneux is Back! (Masters of Albion Announced)
• How The Hell Is This Series Still Alive? (Mafia: The Old Country Announced)
• Oh Snap, TSF Creators Are Noticing Me! (And Another Aside About SwapHouse)
• Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp EOS Announced (But It’s Getting an Offline Version!)

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Rundown (8/18/2024) Welcome to Chicago (Duck Motherfucker)

• Post published:08/18/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Welcome to Chicago (Duck Motherfucker)
• Tango Gameworks is BACK… Somehow? (Krafton Baffles Yet Again!)
• The Goemon Spiritual Successor Goes International! (Bakeru Announced For a Western Release)
• WayForward is Back 2 Licensed Games! (RetroRealms Halloween & Ash Vs Evil Dead Announced)
• When Do Games Become Retro? (A Recurring Shower Thought)

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Rundown (8/11/2024) Natalie & Cassie Do Chicago!

• Post published:08/11/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:26 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie & Cassie Do Chicago!
• Natalie Muses About The Objectively Greatest Games of All Time (And Why That’s a Fallacy)
• Natalie’s A Musical Dinosaur (Natalie Talks About Her Music Library And Gets Distracted)
• Can’t Escape From Crossing Fate! (Fate/Extra Record Announced)
• Dead At Dusk (Ready At Dawn Shut Down)

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Rundown (8/04/2024) Swap Bodies and Have Sex While I Watch

• Post published:08/04/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Swap Bodies and Have Sex While I Watch
• A Brief Aside About SwapHouse (A Face Swapping Harem RomCom?)
• ToHeart Is Back, Bay-Bee! (ToHeart Remake Announced)
• Europeans, Sign This Petition To Save Gaming! (Stop Killing Games Progress Update!)
• Natalie Rambles About CRT And Retro Gaming Displays (Respect The Pixels!)
• OpenCritic Has Been Acquired by Valnet (The Gaming Press Continues to Shrink…)
• ROMhacking.net Is Creasing Operations (20 Years of Progress Abruptly Stops)
• Game Informer Is Dead (GameStop Has Ended the Longest Running Games Publication in America)

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Rundown (7/28/2024) Update to Devastation

• Post published:07/28/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:25 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Update to Devastation
• SVC Chaos is BACK! (The Capcom Versus Resurrection Arc is GO!)
• MultiVersus Forever? (Warner Bros. Acquired Player First Games)
• Not So Humble Games Anymore… (Ziff Davis Axes Humble Games in a ‘Restructuring’)
• Over 800 Microsoft Developers Unionized This Week! (Unionize EVERYTHING!)

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Rundown (7/21/2024) Prepping for Four Months of Agony…

• Post published:07/21/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Prepping for Four Months of Agony…
• Disney Epic Leaks! (Hackers Released 1.1 TB of Internal Documents From Disney)
• Emio is Famicom Detective Club 3! (Famicom Detective Club 3: Emio – The Smiling Man Announced)
• Ranma ½ is BACK! (New Ranma ½ Anime Reveal Trailer Dropped)
• KoRobo, A Chibi-Robo Spiritual Successor Announced! (Kickstart Chibi-Robo 4, Ya Rat Bastards!)

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Rundown (7/14/2024) Go Rush, Get Flow!

• Post published:07/14/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:26 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Go Rush, Get Flow!
• Piranha Bytes The Dust (Gothic, Risen, and ELEX Dev Piranha Bytes Closes)
• Natsu-Mon: 20th Century Summer Kid Is Getting Localized (Summer’s Not a Bummer Cause We’re Kid’s Just Being Kids!)
• Subscribe To Nonsense (Natalie Does Not Understand Game Pass Pricing Tiers)
• The Palworld Expands! (A Sony X Aniplex X Pocketpair Joint!)
• Double Dragon Revive Announced (The Fifth Revival?)
• Class of ’09: The Flip Side Announced (Catch Ya On Da Flip Side, Fucklo!)
• Nintendo Announces Emio (A Trashcore Bloober Team Joint)

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Rundown (7/07/2024) Student Transfer Ad Infinitum

• Post published:07/07/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Transfer Students Ad Infinitum
• DRDR: Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Gameplay (We’ve Got Nothing To Discuss This Holiday Week!)
• A Lost Planet History Rundown… Because I Don’t Know (Gotta Bulk Up The Word Count)
• Keywords Studios Has Been Acquired (Private Equity Wants To Ruin The Games Industry For £2.2 Billion)

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Rundown (6/30/2024) Psycho Shatter The Psycho Bullet

• Post published:06/30/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:46 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Psycho Shatter 1988 is Basically Going to be Psycho Bullet Festival 3
• TSF Showcase 2024-26 Toaru Kizoku-kun no Nyotaika Hametsu Ganbou [A Certain Nobleman’s Desire to Become a Woman and Destroy Himself] by Hoshino Iro and Namamugi (Amulai Sweet Factory)
• Leaker Drama: Data Scrapers and Clout Chasers (A Necessary Evil Vs A Structural Evil)
• Ranma is BACK, Bay-Bee! (Natalie is Considering Reading 38 Volumes of Manga!)
• The Steam Market Monopoly Method (Natalie Muses About The 30% Revenue Fee and Steam Key Vendors)
• HORSE GIRLS X-TREME RACING® (English Ver.) (Uma Musume Pretty Derby is FINALLY Getting an English Release)
• CyberAgent Acquires Nitroplus (The Acquisition Wave Has Returned!)
• TinyBuild’s IP Surgical Removal (TinyBuild Sells Surgeon Simulator to Atari)
• Resident Evil Trilogy Re-Release (An Announcement Straight Outta My Email)
• Dead Rising Rises From Its Grave! (An Impromptu Dead Rising Retrospective)

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Rundown (6/23/2024) Pride Month and Transition Reflections

• Post published:06/23/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:88 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Pride Month and Transition Reflections
• Student Transfer V8 is Out! (Get HYPE!)
• TSF Showcase 2024-25 True Stories From the Time of The Great Shift by Caleb Jones
• Embracer Group Shuts Down Pieces Interactive (Alone in the Dark (2024) Developer Crumbles Into Pieces)
• Nintendo Direct 2024-06-18 Rundown (Nindai Doko? Nindai Now!)
• The Denpa Boys Are BACK! (Live Service The New Denpa Men Announced)
• The Ace Attorney Saga is Now Complete! (Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Announced)
• Toy Zelda is Back… Unfortunately (Natalie Completely Loses The Plot in Her Latest Rant)
• Ho Hi Jamboree! (Mario Party 13: Super Jamboree Announced)
• Beyond The Emerald Beyond | Minstrel Song Successor (Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven Announced)
• This Looks Like a Marvelous Mishmash! (Farmagia Formally Unveiled)
• Mario & Luigi RPG is BACK! (Mario & Luigi: Brothership Announced)
• They Downgraded A Remake of an NES Game! (Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake Re-Announced)
• Versus Capcom is BACK! (Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Announced)
• Do I Want This Fantasy To Come True? (Fantasian Neo Dimension Announced)
• Donkey Kong Re-Re-Re-Returns With His First Game in 7 Years! (Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Announced)
• I want 100 Danganronpas, And I’m Not Kidding! (The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Announced)
• It’s Been 7 Years… (Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Gameplay Reveal)
• I Should Have Talked About This Two Weeks Ago… (Tribe Nine Looks Like The Coolest Shit*)
• Resident Evil… 1996! (PEGI Leaks a Possible PC Release of the Original Resident Evil)
• Limited Run Rundown! (Sonuva Finch! I Forgot This Was This Week!)
• Two PS1 Games, Emulated Decently, For a Premium Price (Fighting Force Collection Announced)
• Fear Effect Reinvented is Dead, Take This Re-Release (Fear Effect Port Announced)
• Limited Run Should Not Have This Power! (The Carbon Engine Was A Mistake…)
• A Good Remaster Example (Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition Formally Announced)

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Rundown (6/16/2024) S3 2024 is Done and Dusted

• Post published:06/16/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:77 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: S3 2024 is Done and Dusted
• TSF Showcase 2024-24 Sekainohate de Aimashou [Meets True Love on the World End] by Sun Takeda
• Microsoft Gaming’s Summer Showcase (Xbox is the Schrödinger’s Cat of Gaming)
• Doom: The Dark Ages Announced (Doom 666: Gettin’ Medieval)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Announced (Nothing Obscure About This, No Claire Farron In Sight)
• South of Midnight Gameplay Reveal (4 Minute Trailer, 3 Minutes of Cutscene)
• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Gameplay Reveal (Little Changes Beyond Aesthetics, But That’s Okay)
• Perfect Dark Reboot ‘Gameplay’ Reveal (I Think This Is a Vertical Slice Covering a Disaster)
• Life is Strange: Double Exposure Announced (They REALLY Wanted to Call This Life is Strange 2…)
• Atomfall Announced (More Details Required to Form Proper Reaction)
• Gears of War: E-Day Announced (Gears of War 0: Please Forget About Judgment)
• The Adorably All-Digital Xbox Series X is REAL! (Natalie Almost Rambles About Xbox Storage Prices)
• Ubisoft’s Summer Showcase (Ubisoft Forward Happened)
• Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP? More Like ReNOT! (Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP Gameplay Reveal)
• EPIC LEAKS (Epic Games Store Leaks Unannounced Titles)
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Been Formally Unveiled (Natalie’s History with Dragon Age)
• Cassie’s First Impressions of Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Cassie’s Corner Returns)

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Rundown (6/09/2024) Natalie Got A New Shower!

• Post published:06/09/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Got A New Shower!
• TSF Showcase 2024-23 Shimai ga Nakayoshi Kara Ryouomoi ni Naru Hanashi [How Sisters Go from Friendship to Romance] by Sebire
• Take-Two Shutters Private Division Label (Take-Two Botches It Again!)
• Avalanche Studios Shutter Suddenly (Just Cause Developer Closes North American Studios)
• 7-Year-Old Platformer, Yooka-Laylee, is Getting a Remaster (And it Looks Worse The The Original)
• Remaster, Remake, Re-Release, Repeat (A Tangent I Wrote While on the Phone with IRS)
• Summer Game Fest Rundown (The Bits ‘N’ Pieces Before The Big Stuff)
• Lego Horizon Adventures Announced (Much to Natalie’s Confusion)
• Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind Announced (It’s Not Natsume, But It’s Close Enough)
• Slitterhead Gameplay Reveal (Split ‘Em All 1995! I am Possession Man! 1 Billion Dead Yo-Kais!)
• Killer Bean Revealed to the Broader Gaming World (Grand Theft Potato Looks DOPE!)
• Natalie Learned About Unknown 9: Awakening (It’s A Possession Stealth Action Game!)

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