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
• Post comments:0 Comments

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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Rundown (6/02/2024) It’s Gonna Be A Bangin’ TSF Summer!

• Post published:06/02/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:66 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

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)

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Rundown (5/26/2024) I Got Robbed!!!

• Post published:05/26/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:33 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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)

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Rundown (5/19/2024) re:CPE:Dreamer

• Post published:05/19/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

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)

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Rundown (5/12/2024) Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder

• Post published:05/12/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:63 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

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)

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Rundown (5/05/2024) Natalie & Cassie Preserved An Anime Soundtrack!

• Post published:05/05/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

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)

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Rundown (4/28/2024) The Masturbation Conundrum

• Post published:04/28/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:89 mins read
• Post comments:19 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Masturbation Conundrum
• TSF Showcase 2024-17 The Auto-Closet by Kristen O
• TSF Showcase 2024-17.1 One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
• TSF Showcase 2024-17.2 Two Sexy Errors by SapphireFoxx
• TSF Showcase 2024-17.3 Shifting Roommates: One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
• TSF Showcase 2024-17.4 One Sexy Error: Role Reversal by SapphireFoxx
• I Spent Too Much Time Playing PokéRogue, so Now I Gotta Contentize It (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Rogue of A Risky Rainy Randomness)
• Unembraced Entities (The Embracer Group Announces Disbandment)
• Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part III (Pixiv Restricts R18 Works For All US and UK Residents)
• The Game Industry Hates Games And Libraries Too (ESA Refuses to Assist Libraries With Game Preservation)
• Infogrames is Back Bay-Bee! (Atari Relaunches Infogrames Brand After 20 Years Because I Don’t Know!)
• Nintendo Hates You And Everyone Too (Nintendo Removes All Nintendo-Related Uploads From Garry’s Mod)

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Rundown (4/21/2024) Always Four Years Behind…

• Post published:04/21/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:78 mins read
• Post comments:15 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Always Four Years Behind…
• TSF Showcase 2024-16 Futaba-kun Change! by Hiroshi Aro
• Re;Yar’S’ Rising: Revengeance – Recharged (Natalie Rambles About the History of the Yars’ Revenge Series)

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Rundown (4/14/2024) The Enigmatic Children

• Post published:04/14/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:48 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

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)

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Rundown (4/07/2024) Artificially Difficult Taxation

• Post published:04/07/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

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)

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Rundown (3/31/2024) Revenge of Editing Hell

• Post published:03/31/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:25 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

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)

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Rundown (3/24/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Has Been Drafted!

• Post published:03/24/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

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)

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Rundown (3/17/2024) Fatigue Leaves The Body Erotic

• Post published:03/17/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (3/10/2024) Wack-Ass Work Shifts

• Post published:03/10/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:33 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

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)

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Rundown (3/03/2024) Life Might Be a Waste of Time but It’s Nice!

• Post published:03/03/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:49 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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)

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Rundown (2/25/2024) First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!

• Post published:02/25/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

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)

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Rundown (2/18/2024) Xbox Is Not Dead, Y’All Lied To Me!

• Post published:02/18/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

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)

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Rundown (2/11/2024) The Alleged End of Xbox

• Post published:02/11/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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)

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Rundown (2/04/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Delayed Again!

• Post published:02/04/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

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)

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Rundown (1/28/2024) Palling Around in Palworld

• Post published:01/28/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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)

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Rundown (1/21/2024) Natalie the Pokémaniac is Hungry for Souls!

• Post published:01/21/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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)

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Rundown (1/14/2024) Natalie’s Sexual Binary

• Post published:01/14/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Sexual Binary
• TSF Showcase 2024-02 Ellie Skinsuit by Imp Undernearth
• Switch 2.0 Insanity + Natalie Rambles Some More (The Switch 2 Content Mill is Getting Bonkers)
• Dead End Rehashes (Natalie Complains About No Frills Re-Releases)

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Rundown (1/07/2024) The Co-Op Conundrum

• Post published:01/07/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:17 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Co-Op Conundrum
• TSF Showcase 2024-01 Osananajimi wa Onnanoko ni Naare [My Childhood Friend MUST Become a Girl!] by Morishita Mao
• Our World of Demons is Ended! (PlatinumGames’ World of Demons is Being Delisted)

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Rundown (12/31/2023) Christmas with Judas

• Post published:12/31/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: A Review of Judas by Suu Minazuki
• TSF Showcase 2023-45 Irekawatte Modotta Joshikousei by Zaregoto Hitsuji
• TSF Showcase 2023-46 Queen Slime no Gyakushuu [The Queen Slime’s Counterattack] by Hiiragi Popura and Kuratsuka Riko
• TSF Showcase 2023-47 Boku no Milk o Meshiagare by Yoshida Gorou
• Rockstar Just Can’t Catch A Break… (Grand Theft Auto V’s Source Code Was Leaked)

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Rundown (12/24/2023) How to Do Time Management?!?

• Post published:12/24/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: How To Do Time Management?!?
• TSF Showcase 2023-44 Megu Miruku [Megu Milk] – Kusaka Shiroi
• A Review of Swapped by the Magic Mirror by Gregor Daniels (Natalie Wanted to Do a TSF Showcase on This, But It Wasn’t Good Enough)
• TimeSplitters 4 Post-Cancelation Interview (Former Free Radical Devs Lays The Deets on TimeSplitters 4)
• The Type of Leak That Makes You An Insomniac… (Insomniac Games Subjected to Ransomware Attack and Leak)
• Pontificating Posse Logs (Scope Creep Vs. Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 – Part 5?)

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Rundown (12/17/2023) Year-End Hustle & Bustle

• Post published:12/17/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Year-End Hustle & Bustle
• TSF Showcase 2023-42 Seitenkan Appli no Tadashii Tsukaikata [How to use Gender-Changing Apps Properly] by Mogetama (Tanakamori Yokota)
• TSF Showcase 2023-43 Jinzou Shoujo [Artificial Girl] by Natsume Satoru
• There Is No We or Us, Only Y’all and Me (Natalie Bitches About Being Lumped Into Groups)
• Don’t Worry, I Won’t Bitch About The Last of Us Again (The Last of Us Online Has Been Canceled)

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Rundown (12/10/2023) Good Night Gamindustri, See Ya Next Year!

• Post published:12/10/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:57 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Game Awards Happened!
• TSF Showcase 2023-41 Ame Nochi Hare [Clear Up After Rain] by Bikke
• A Prophecy Fulfilled, A Decade Later (Grand Theft Auto VI Announced)
• The Game Awards Had Too Many New Game Announcements… (The Big The Game Awards Rundown)
• Brothers: A Tale of Development Shenanigans (Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake Announced)
• Aw SHIT! The Genshin-Likes Are Here! (Natalie Learned What Arknights: Endfield Is)
• From Ragnarök , We Venture to Valhalla (God of War 5: Ragnarök – Valhalla DLC Announced)
• Don’t Fly Me to that Moon! It’ll CRUNCH Me! (Moon Studio Announces No Rest for the Wicked)
• SEGA IS BACK, BAY-BEE!!! (Sega Gives Natalie a Heart Attack by Announcing Five Reboots at Once)
• SPARKING! 4 Neo Zero (Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 Re-Revealed as Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero)
• 16 Years Later, Similar Vision (Visions of Mana Announced)
• Odd Overdose Overdrive (Kojima Productions and Xbox Game Studios Announce OD)
• The Dino Lore of Natalie & Cassie Ramble About The Jurassic Park Hexalogy Continues! (Jurassic Park: Survival Announced)
• Life is Strange is a Strange Entity… (Don’t Nod’s Life is Strange Successor, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Announced)
• My Love For You is Like a Truck… BERSERKER!!! (The First Berserker: Khazan Announced)
• The Gulags of Gun Games (An Obligatory Acknowledgement of A Nexon and Two Tencent Games)
• Marvel Continues to License AAA Game Projects (Arkane Lyon is Developing Marvel’s Blade)
• It’s a Wild World Out There, so Rise Up, Young Monster Hunter! (Monster Hunter Wilds Announced)
• From Sci-Fi To Fantasy… Shouldn’t It Be The Other Way Around? (Hello Games Announces Light No Fire)
• A Reminder That Digital Ownership is a Sham (Sony Steals Hundreds of Shows From Its Customers)
• A Pronoun Problem (A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update and Preview)

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Rundown (12/03/2023) Yo! NTF Cribz

• Post published:12/03/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Yo! NTF Cribs
• TSF Showcase 2023-40 Gyakujō Jigokuhen Kiwami by Byuu
• The December Drought is Here! (Natalie Doesn’t Have Stuff To Talk About Now!)
• TimeSplitters is Dead… Again! (Embracer Revived and Killed Free Radical)
• Hopefully Modders can make this Final Fantasy ForEver Crisis… (Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis is Coming to PC Next Week)
• Fandom the Social Escape (Natalie Harasses Akumako RE: Fandom)
• Razor Danger (Natalie Harasses Akumako RE: Razor Blades)

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Rundown (11/26/2023) The Quest for a Dream TF Metroidvania

• Post published:11/26/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:21 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Quest for a Dream TF Metroidvania
• TSF Showcase 2023-39 Electric-Exchanger [Dengeki Exchange] by Neriwasabi
• Another Acquisition, And That’s It! (Aonic Acquires NDreams)
• Indonesia Powers Unite! (Toge Productions Acquires Mojiken Studio)
• Yo, What’s the Deal With All This Goblin Fucking in Hentai? (Natalie and Akumako Discuss Goblin Porn)

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Rundown (11/19/2023) So Long Old Home! + The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update

• Post published:11/19/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:32 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: So Long Old Home!
• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update
• TSF Showcase 2023-38 P(ossession)-Party by Asagiri (ts-complex2nd)
• Annapurna Bought 24 Whole Bits! (Annapurna Interactive Acquires 24 Bit Games)
• NetEase Still Won’t Stop! (NetEase Establishes New Studio Worlds Untold)
• **** The Children (Natalie Rambles About ‘The Child Question’)
• Oh Shit, Class of ’09 Really Blew Up (Natalie Looked At Her Site Stats and Found a Surprise)
• The Least Surprising Remaster Announcement Happened at 6:30 PM on a Friday (The Last of Us Part II Remastered Announced)

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Rundown (11/12/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works is Done!

• Post published:11/12/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:19 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works is Done!
• TSF Showcase 2023-37 The Legend of Zelda: Tale of the Fourth Goddess by Unknown Creator
• Nintendo’s Quest For Another Billion Dollars… (Nintendo Announces Live-Action Legend of Zelda Movie)
• A Preemptive Musing About the Inevitable GTA VI Reveal (Grand Theft Auto VI Will Be Revealed Soon)
• Surprise! Steam Deck 1.5, Bitches! (Steam Deck OLED Model Announced)

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Rundown (11/05/2023) re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…

• Post published:11/05/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…
• TSF Showcase 2023-36 Shisutaabooi by Joe Six-Pack
• Digital Eclipse Is No Longer Independent (Atari Acquires Digital Eclipse)
• Devolver Digital’s Corporate Consumption Continues (Devolver Digital Acquires System Era Softworks)
• Sony is Buying Up A Video Delivery Company For Their Cloud Streaming (Sony Announces Acquisition of iSIZE)
• Net Ease is BACK with Another New Studio (After a 5 Month Hiatus, NetEase Announces Their Tenth New Studio Since 2020)
• Sonic Dream Team Looks Like An Official 3D Sonic Fan Game (This Is the Closest Thing We’ve Gotten to Sonic Adventure Since 2006)
• Fiery Red Passion (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Flash Filmic Fanworks)

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