Rundown (4/06/2025) Swiitch 2 – 4 Mii & U
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!)
Rundown (3/30/2025) Game Fighter Animard is Dope!
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)
Rundown (3/23/2025) Natalie is Depressed!
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)
Rundown (3/16/2025) Work This Sucker to Death
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!)
Rundown (3/09/2025) Don’t Pay Your Taxes; Buy A Gun!
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!)
Rundown (3/02/2025) Natalie Has Over 500 Steam Keys to Give Away
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!)
Rundown (2/23/2025) But I Don’t WANT To Be Part of a Community
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)
Rundown (2/16/2025) The Future Is as Black as Obsidian
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)
Rundown (2/09/2025) A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Act 3 Update
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)
Rundown (2/02/2025) Increasing A Long on AI Generated Anime Girl Titties
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)
Rundown (1/26/2025) The Straight Dope On Gamindustri
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…)
Rundown (1/19/2025) Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?
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)
Rundown (1/12/2025) Pedantic Porn Problems
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)
Rundown (1/05/2025) A Body Swap Episode Conundrum
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…)
Rundown (12/22/2024) Fatalie’s Festive Feast
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!)
Rundown (12/15/2024) Natalie Mustn’t Become Fatalie
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)
Rundown (12/08/2024) I Want to Do Everything!
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?)
Rundown (12/01/2024) TG and Turn Into A Girl
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)
Rundown (11/24/2024) How Natalie Would ‘Wreck’ The American Tax System!
Rundown (11/17/2024) Natalie Has Become a Witch!
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)
Rundown (11/10/2024) Humanity Has Declined
Rundown (11/03/2024) Natalie Rambles About Psycho Shatter 1988
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?)
Rundown (10/27/2024) Rushing to Completion!
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)
Rundown (10/20/2024) Natalie Needs a NAS
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)
Rundown (10/13/2024) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic! – The Lost Levels
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)
Rundown (10/06/2024) Natalie Vs The Medical-Industrial Complex
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!)
Rundown (9/29/2024) Acknowledge ALL of Gaming History!
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)
Rundown (9/22/2024) An Impromptu Vita Retrospective
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!)
Rundown (9/15/2024) How Are ‘Real’ Video Games Profitable? Mk2
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)
Rundown (9/08/2024) Compulsory Game Design
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)
Rundown (9/01/2024) Nina Tendo Brain Problems
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)
Rundown (8/25/2024) Return to Inefficient Labor
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!)
Rundown (8/18/2024) Welcome to Chicago (Duck Motherfucker)
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)
Rundown (8/11/2024) Natalie & Cassie Do Chicago!
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)
Rundown (8/04/2024) Swap Bodies and Have Sex While I Watch
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)
Rundown (7/28/2024) Update to Devastation
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!)
Rundown (7/21/2024) Prepping for Four Months of Agony…
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!)
Rundown (7/14/2024) Go Rush, Get Flow!
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)
Rundown (7/07/2024) Student Transfer Ad Infinitum
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)
Rundown (6/30/2024) Psycho Shatter The Psycho Bullet
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)
Rundown (6/23/2024) Pride Month and Transition Reflections
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)
Rundown (6/16/2024) S3 2024 is Done and Dusted
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)
Rundown (6/09/2024) Natalie Got A New Shower!
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!)
Rundown (6/02/2024) It’s Gonna Be A Bangin’ TSF Summer!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: It’s Gonna Be A Bangin’ TSF Summer! (Also, Press-Switch v0.6b is OUT!!!)
- TSF Showcase 2024-21.1 Tenkôsei: Sayonara Anata (2007) [Transfer Students: Goodbye to You] or Switching: Goodbye Me
- TSF Showcase 2024-22 The God Power by Gregor Daniels
- TSF Showcase 2024-22.1 The God Power Seeks Another by Gregor Daniels
- Awaiting The Inevitable Segmented Summer Showcases (A Preamble to S3 2024)
- The Obligatory State of Play Summary (Let S3 2024 Begin!)
- Monster Hunter Musings (Natalie Avoids Talking About Monster Hunter Wilds)
- Dynasty Warriors X – The New Zero (Dynasty Warriors Reboot, Dynasty Warriors Origins, Announced)
- Japan Studio Died So Astro Bot Can Live (Standalone Astro Bot 3D Platformer Announced)
Rundown (5/26/2024) I Got Robbed!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Got Robbed!!!
- TSF Showcase 2024-21 Tenkōsei [Exchange Students] or I Are You, You Am Me
- Nintendo’s Miami Shiver is Ret-2-Go! (Nintendo Acquires Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group)
- The Accursed Consolidation Continues! (Ziff Davis Acquires Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, and More)
- Abrazar La Muerte, Amico (Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand)
Rundown (5/19/2024) re:CPE:Dreamer
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: re:CPE:Dreamer
- TSF Showcase 2024-20 I Love Yuri and I Got Bodyswapped with a Fujoshi! by Ajiichi
- Bye-Bye Xbox, Hello Microsoft Gaming (Speculating on the Future of Xbox Part 3)
- Oh SNAP! Press-Switch v0.6b is Coming Soon! (Natalie’s Gonna Review The Big Three Back-To-Back)
Rundown (5/12/2024) Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder
- TSF Showcase 2024-19 Change Ring by Kawaii Tsun’aho
- TSF Showcase 2024-19.1 Change Ring the Manga by Kawaii Tsun’aho and MPZ
- Student Transfer V8 is Coming Soon! (The Murder Route is Finally Getting Replaced!)
- re:Dreamer is Back, Bay-Bee! (re:Dreamer Version 0.18.0 Releases After 7 Month Delay)
- Microsoft Murders Arkane Austin and Tango GameWorks (Technically They Also Killed Alpha Dog and Consolidated Roundhouse…)
- Another AI Generated Image Musing (No, I’m Not Going to Become An AI Pundit)
- Yes, Nintendo Switch 2 is Happening, But You Gotta Wait! (The Switch-2.0-Roadmap)
- Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Announced (Better Than Nothing, Worse Than You’d Expect)
Rundown (5/05/2024) Natalie & Cassie Preserved An Anime Soundtrack!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie & Cassie Preserved An Anime Soundtrack!
- TSF Showcase 2024-18 Idol Pretender by Haruse Hiroki
- Burn It All, Square Enix! Burn It All! (Square Enix Cancels Multiple Game Projects)
- Sony’s First-Party PSN Records Leaked (The Insomniac Leaks Keeps on Giving)
- Miscellaneous Ramblings From a Tired Madwoman (Political Nonsense Natalie Wrote At 2 AM)