Rundown (12/21/2025) Slop Unto Divinity
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: More Like D-AI-v-AI-n-AI-ty and L-AI-r-AI-n!
- Ubisoft Acquires Amazon Games Montreal (Likely Due to Office Politics and Favors)
- GOG Wants You To Pay $5 To Help Them To Preserve Games (And I Say Do It!)
- The Hollow Knight Continues! (Silksong DLC and Hollow Knight Improvements Announced)
- Sega Channel Has Been Preserved! (Through the Power of BONDS!)
- US Video Game Hardware Had Its Worst November Since 1995 (Consoles Might Be Boned!)
- Missy Scrumptious Muses About Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension (Donut-Filled Review Appetizer)
Rundown (12/14/2025) Natalie Tried Needy Streamer Overdose
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Didn’t Like Needy Streamer Overdose
- Postal: Bullet Paradise Announced and Canceled Within 48 Hours (Because The Game Seemingly Used Generative AI)
- Katsuhiro Harada Is Leaving Bandai Namco (Thus Ending An Era For Tekken)
- Paramount Skydance is Attempting a Hostile Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery (Because The Corporate Consolidation Must Continue)
- Deus Ex Remastered Has Been Indefinitely Delayed (Mo’ Like Deus Axed)
- The Game Awards Rundown (Advertisements and A Pseudo Awards Show)
- Bradley The Badger Announced (Genre-Bending Parody from Mario + Rabbids Devs)
- Stupid Never Dies Announced (Monster Mashing Action From Ex-Capcom Alumni, Funded by NetEase)
- Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic Announced (Will Anybody Like Star Wars in 2028?)
- Larian Announces Divinity (No Subtitle or Number, Because Screw You!)
- Remedy Announces Control Resonant (With a Weirder, Wider World)
- Tomb Raider: The Legend of Atlantis & Tomb Raider: Catalyst Announced (The First New Tomb Raider Games in Nearly a Decade!)
- Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Announced (Ace Combat is BACK! Again!)
- Mega Man 12: Dual Override Announced (Capcom Finally Remembered Mega Man!)
- Gang of Dragon Announced (Nagoshi Studio Presents Like A Yakuza)
Rundown (12/07/2025) Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!
- Natalie Yaps About Video Game Piracy Culture (And Why It Changed!)
- Monotype is Screwing Over Japanese Devs (Their Rates Went Up Over 50x)
- Saudi Arabia Will Own 93.4% of EA (DO NOT BUY EA GAMES, EVER!)
- Somebody Hates HORSES (Why Is This Horror Game Banned on Steam?)
- Crucial is Dead, Thanks to AI (AI Companies Are Making RAM and SSD STUPID Expensive)
- Netflix Acquires Warner Bros. (Corporate Consolidation Cannot Be Stopped!)
Fan Fiction Funsies: Pokémon Legends: Zygarde – Alternative – Mega Malamar’s Mega Takeover
Malamar is not your friend! It will brainwash your friend and steal your body if given the opportunity.
(more…)Rundown (11/30/2025) The Pursuit of Optimal Play
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Pursuit of Optimal Play
- An Impromptu Xbox 360 Retrospective (It Was The Best of Times; It Was The Worst of Times)
- The Embracer Divestment Continues (Cryptic Games and Arc Games Are Buying Themselves, Basically)
- Nintendo Buys Bandai Namco Singapore (This is the Good Kind of Acquisition)
Rundown (11/23/2025) Natalie Crashes Back to America
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Crashes Back to America
- The Emulated Re-Release Problem (We Need Open Source Emulators Yesterday)
- Tales of Berseria Remastered Announced (Further Frazzling The Natalie)
- Unity and Unreal Are Teaming Up! (Which Just Sounds Like Bad News For Everyone…)
Rundown (11/16/2025) Nurse Natalie and Comforting Cassie
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Nurse Natalie and Comforting Cassie
- State of Play Japan Edition (And Why It Is What It Is)
- The ARC Raiders Bit (Natalie Will Probably Regret This Rant, But Fuck It!)
- Valve Announced A Bunch of Steam Hardware (And Most of It Looks Cool!)
- Cassie’s Corner 2025-11 (Verbalising the V!)
Rundown (11/09/2025) Natalie Goes International!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie.TF Goes International!
- A Quarterly Nintendo Sales Segment (Somehow, The Nintendo Switch Kept Selling)
- NetEase Says NO to North American Game Companies (It Was A Bad Idea Anyway!)
- Pokémon Legends: Z-A Mega Dimension DLC Was Properly Revealed (It Looks… Alright?)
- Grand Theft Auto VI Delayed to November 19, 2026 (Because of Attempted Unionization)
- Student Transfer Version 9 is Coming Out This December! (Oh Joy!)
- Cassie Gushes About Honkai: Star Rail’s Latest Update (Presented in the Language of the Fox)
Rundown (11/02/2025) Globally Offensive Gambling Reform
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Globally Offensive Gambling Reform
- Amazon (Basically) Gives Up On Gaming (The Line Has To Go Up Somehow!)
- The Console Wars Ended A Decade Ago… (And All Industry is DOOMED!)
- Animal Crossed To The Next Generation (Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gets An Update After Over 4 Years)
Rundown (10/26/2025) Open City Over Open World
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Open City Over Open World
- The Depressing Reality of Decade-Long Sequel Gaps (That Feeling When Your Favorite Game When You Were 8 Doesn’t Get a Sequel Until You’re 18…)
- Kirby Air Riders Direct #2 (Modern Game Development is Not Sustainable)
- Halo: Campaign Evolved Announced (No 37-Year-Olds, This Won’t Make You Feel 12 Again…)
Rundown (10/19/2025) If The Internet Dies, Then What?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: If The Internet Dies, Then What?
- Re-Whatevers Continue to Be a Nightmare (There Can Be No Order Without Vision)
- Idiots Like Natalie Are Keeping Gamindustri Alive! (Only 4% of Game Players Buy Games Every Month)
- Who Even Wants a PS6 Anyway? (Other The People With More Money Than Sense…)
- The Future of The Next Generation of Pokémon Got Leaked (TeraLeak 2: Da FreakLeak Just Dropped!)
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy – Route Reviews
Special Defense Unit! Best in the world! Indestructible and undefeated! New lose! Never yield! Special Defense Unit… Fight on!
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Rundown (10/05/2025) Entertainment Excess
Rundown (9/28/2025) The Natalie Who Leapt Through Time
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Natalie Who Leapt Through Time
- Palworld: Palfarm Announced (Because I Guess Palworld Didn’t Have Enough Farming?)
- Ananta Looks Like What I Hoped Games Would Look Like 15 Years Ago (But It’s Still A Damn Live Service)
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Announced (Because We Need a New Like A Dragon Game Every Year!)
- Deus Ex Remastered Announced! (Peak Narrative is BACK!)
- Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Edition Remastered (Peak Action is BACK!)
- State of Play Scraps #1 (Housemarque’s Saros Was Showcased)
- State of Play Scraps #2 (Marvel’s Wolverine Was Showcased)
- Fire Emblem Shadows Announced (Because We Needed TWO Fire Emblem Mobile Live Services)
- Forza Horizon 6 Announced (I Still Want Microsoft to Be Erased…)
Rundown (9/21/2025) The Right To Self-Murk!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Right To Self-Murk!
- Chat-a-lie The Talk-A-Lot (Natalie Has Been Too Busy Talking to Friends to Write)
- Learn About Sound Novels, Please! (Another Bowl of Lentils Banger Just Dropped)
- Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices Again (Divest From These Genocide Enabling Bastards!)
Rundown (9/14/2025) Find Yourself Within Silence
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Find Yourself Within Silence
- YouTube is Destroying The Livelihood of Its Creators (Thanks to Restricted Mode)
- How Many People Does It Take to Make a Game (And Who TF Counts as a Game Dev?)
- Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Unveiled (Forever Entertainment Biffed It Again!)
- Natalie Fell Down A Retro Game Influencer Hole Again (One More Mini Indulgence…)
- The Biggest Nintendo Direct EVAH! (Mr. Mario Just Turned 40~!)
- Super Mario Galaxy is Back Bay-Bee! (Back to SPACE!!!)
- Mario Tennis Fever Announced (Everybody Clap! NOW!!!)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is Getting Paid DLC for Switch 2! (Because Super Luigi Bros. Wonder Would be Too Cute!)
- Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Announced (What the Hell is the Yoshi Series?)
- Virtual Boy Games Are Back! (If You Pay Nintendo $100 for Some Plastic)
- Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined Announced (The Best/Worst Dragon Quest, But With 3D Scanned Doll and Dioramas)
- Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake Announced (Another Remake of a Remake!)
- Donkey Kong Bananza Paid DLC Announced (A Bastardized Childhood and Roguelike Mode for a Brisk $20!)
- Pokémon Legends: Z-A Is Getting Paid DLC! (And Stupid Natalie is Gonna Buy It!)
- Pokémon Pokopia Announced! (Pokémon X Dragon Quest Builders, I Guess?)
- Danganronpa 2×2 Announced (What a Needless Re-Whatever…)
- Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Announced (Here’s To Another Decade of Anime Genocide Discourse!)
- Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection Announced (How Is That Even Going to Work?)
Rundown (9/07/2025) Hot Tax Tips for Digital Content Creators!
Rundown (8/31/2025) What’s The Deal With Akumako?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: What’s The Deal With Akumako?
- Natalie Played The Trails in the Sky Remake (Hot TitS On A Platter)
- Nintendo is Withholding Switch 2 Dev Kits (Another Factor That Makes Modern Game Dev So Perilous)
- Natalie Muses About Live Services Some More (And How She Thinks It’s All Gonna Burn!)
- Duet Night Abyss Scraps Its Gacha and Stamina System (What Is a Gacha Without the Gacha? Good?)
TSF Showcase 2025-10: A NEET’s Life Unraveled
One of the many examples of why you shouldn’t steal random skinsuits you find in a cardboard box…
(more…)Rundown (8/24/2025) What Would My Dream TF Game Be?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Would My Dream TF Game Be?
- Time Marches On, So Just Accept It! (“WHAT? How is Y Turning X Years Old?”)
- Kirby Air Riders Direct (Masahiro Snackurai Returns!)
- Tales of Xillia Remastered Announced (Natalie Complains About Inefficient Re-Release Schedules)
- Keighley’s 2025 Part 2 of 3: Gamescom Ver. (Another Wet Barrage of Announcements!)
- Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Announced (I Really Miss Gen 7 Gamindustri)
- Bubsy 4D Announced (Neither the Bubsy We Want nor the Bubsy We Deserve)
- Zero Parades Revealed (Natalie Talks About The Disco Elysium Situation)
- Black Myth 2: Zhong Kui Announced (Fine, I Guess Black Myth is the Series Name)
- Hollow Knight Silksong Is Finally Coming Out (Arriving September 4th)
- PlayStation 5 US Price Hike Enacted (PlayStation? More Like PayStation!)
Rundown (8/17/2025) Natalie Got A Switch 2!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Got A Switch 2!
- An Alt Girl For Skoof Review (Because A Reader Gave Me A Copy)
- Natalie Rambles About Japanese to English Localization (Because I Felt Like It!)
- I Also Played The Adventures of Elliot Demo (It’s Alright, But Needs Some Tweaking)
Rundown (8/10/2025) Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!
- Yuke’s Bought Aquaplus! (WWE Developer Buys The Inventors of Modern Visual Novels)
- Natalie Rambles About REAL Online Censorship (Because I was Bored During A Meeting)
- Microsoft Killed Contraband (Because They NEED to Invest More in AI)
Rundown (8/03/2025) How Square Enix Fumbled Final Fantasy
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Why Don’t Zoomies Care About Final Fantasy?
- Atari Acquires Thunderful Group (It Was Either This or Bankruptcy, I Guess)
- Natalie Does Not Understand Gamindustri (She’s Also Nutso)
- Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase 2025 Happened (Bring On The Switch 2 Ports!)
- Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Announced (NOT The Monster Hunter People Crave)
- Once Upon A Katamari Announced (A Sequel 14 Years In The Making!)
- The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Announced (Cool, But What’s With That Name?)
- Octopath Traveler 0 Announced (Continent of Champions Redux!)
- Nintendo Switch Price Hike Announced (Bunk All This Tariff Ish Maaaaaan…)
- Darksiders is NOT Dead! (The 15 Year Dream Will Be Realized!)
- re:Dreamer Version 0.20.0 is FINALLY Done! (The Third Last Minute Addition)
Rundown (7/27/2025) That Time I Spent $15,000 on Colombian Pussy
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: That Time I Spent $15,000 on Colombian Pussy
- Pokémon Presents 2024-2 Happened! (Pokémon Champions and Legends Z-A Look Good)
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part V (Collective Shout Is Trying to Destroy Itch.io)
- A Natalie.TF Schedule Update (My 2025 Schedule Has Been Horrible!)
Rundown (7/20/2025) Natalie’s Software Suite! (And Alternatives)
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Software Suite! (And Alternatives)
- Publishers LOVE Selling Games to People Who Don’t Play Them (Sell to Hoarders and PROFIT!)
- I Played The Mindwave Demo (Per Skillet’s Request)
- Acquire Snatches United Arab Emirates Funding (Acquire X Red Dunes Games Venture Announced)
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part IV (Steam Goes After Sexual Content Because of Malicious Payment Processors)
- Microsoft Kills Their TV and Movies Storefront (Another Reason to NEVER Give Them Your Money)
Rundown (7/13/2025) Data Storage Wars
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Data Storage Wars
- Microsoft is Worse Than I Thought… (These Layoffs Get Worse and Worse!)
- Natalie Talks About Politics – July 2025 Ver. (I Had to Research the Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill for Work)
- Natalie Tried Umamusume (To See What the Hubbub Is!)
- The Subnautica 2 Situation is Exploitative Bonkers (Krafton Refuses to Follow Contract and Issue $250 Million Payout)
- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is Getting DLC (Kodaka Wants The Game to Last 10 Years!)
- Progress Report 2025-07-13
Rundown (7/06/2025) What Do People Do?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Do People Do?
- Europe Might Be Able to Save Gaming! (Stop Killing Games is At The Cusp of Success!)
- Microsoft Lays Off Over 9,000 People (The Xbox Project is DEAD!)
- Everything’s Expensive, Nobody Can Buy Stuff! (And That Includes Video Games!)
- Natalie Just Learned About Project Code M (The Next Game From The House in Fata Morgana People!)
TSF Showcase 2025-07: TSF Monogatari
Takumi ga Seitenkan shite Fuck sare makuru Monogatari or The Story of How Takumi Changed Sex and Fucked A Bunch
(more…)Rundown (6/22/2025) I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home
- Should I Run Ads on Natalie.TF? (Strictly for Tax Purposes!)
- Donkey Kong Bananza Direct (As Expected, It Looks Great!)
- Natalie Tries to Figure Out What Dating Sims Are (And the Gap in Western Romance Games)
- Switch 2 Did Not Save Gamindustri… (BIG SHOCK!!!)
Rundown (6/15/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases – Slice 2
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: During My Vacation, I Wrote a Novel’s Worth of Stuff!
- Xbox Games Showcase Rundown (Games For Your Home Computer, TV, and Telephone)
- ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Announced (The Xbox Handheld is Finally Here!)
- Xbox Reasserts Play Anywhere As A Key Selling Point (But Do People Actually Want It?)
- Super Meat Boy 3D Announced Super Meat Boy is BACK in the Third Dimension
- Beast of Reincarnation Announced (Game Freak’s AAA Action Game is Real!)
- Clockwork Revolution Re-Revealed (And It Looks DOPE!)
- Don’t Nod Announces Aphelion (They Are Also Running Out of Money)
- No Ghosts At The Grand Is a Baffling Musical Mystery (Magical Musical Negro Jumpscare!)
- Aniimo Announced as the Latest Big Budget Critter Collector (Too Bad It’s a Damn Live Service!)
- Persona 4 Revival Announced (The Only Reason to Remake Persona 4 Is to Make It Gayer)
- The Xbox Showcase Dribs and Drabs (Stuff I Don’t FEEL Like Propping Up, or Have Much to Say About)
- Splatoon Raiders Announced (And Natalie Complains About PVP Games Being Bad)
- Nintendo Switch 2 Sells 3.5 Million in Four Days! (Nintendo Switch 2 Da Moon!)
- Bloober Team is Remaking Silent Hill (1999) (Try Not To Be Too Shocked)
- Metal Gear Δ: Snake Eater is Getting A New Online Mode! (RIP Metal Gear Online…)
Rundown (6/08/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases 2025 – Slice 1
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Segmented Summer Showcases 2025 – Slice 1
- The State of Play Rundown (And MORE Ranting About PlayStation’s Lack of Legacy)
- The State of Play Miscellaneous Announcements (It’s Silly Having 30 Subheaders, Aight?)
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Announced (STOP BLURRING SPRITES, IDIOT!)
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Announced (And It’s About Time Too!)
- Pragmata Re-Announced (Pragmata is NOT Dead!)
- Romeo is a Dead Man Announced (Grasshopper is NOT a Dead Studio)
- Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement Announced (Bloodstained 2 Bay-Bee!)
- 007 First Light Announced (Of Course It’s a James Bond Origin Story)
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Announced (Mahvel 4, Hold The Capcom)
- Switch 2 Bad Publicity (Switch 2 Came Out to Zero Reviews)
- Summer Game Fest Rundown (Keighley’s Summer Game Adverts VI)
- Sonic Racings CrossWorlds Is A Crossover Racer (And All The Children Screamed)
- Code Vein II Is REAL! (My Suspicions Were Right! RIGHT!)
- Killer Inn Announced (Where is My Deception V? I was Promised Deception!)
- Lego Voyagers and Lego Party Announced (Double Lego Toil & Trouble!)
- Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver Announced (Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ To Fuck Wit!)
- Project Century Is Stranger Than Heaven (And It’s (Probably) a 100 Year Saga!)
- Resident Evil 9: Requiem Announced (And Not Much Else)
- The Miscellaneous Announcements! (There are Too Many Games!)