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!)
Rundown (6/01/2025) Press-Switch Is on an Indefinite Hiatus
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Press-Switch Is on an Indefinite Hiatus
- TF Artists Launch A Comic Storefront (A BSB NZFW, GTG, & JN Joint!)
- I Just Learned Front Mission 3: Remake Was Announced (Forever Entertainment Makes Me Pine for Ports, Not Remakes)
- Pokémon Legends Z-A Is Launching October 16th (Welp, Guess I GOTTA Buy A Nintendo Game Again!)
- Every Issue of Game Informer Has Been Archived (And You Can Freely Read Them on Their Website)
Rundown (5/25/2025) Natalie.TF Hit 2 Million Lifetime Views!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie.TF Hit 2 Million Lifetime Views!
- Power to the Payment Processors (The Biggest Winner In Modern Gaming)
- Fortnite’s Back on The Apple App Store! (The Epic v. Apple Battle Has Finally Ended)
- Scroll to Infinity & Natalie’s Horse-Blinders (Akumako Explains Why Natalie’s a Dumb-Dumb)
- Shuten Order Formally Announced (Too Kyo Games X Neilo Multi-Genre VN Joint)
Rundown (5/18/2025) Should Self-Employment Tax Be Abolished? (No!)
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Love Social Security, Hate Social Security Tax!
- Giant Bomb is Independent (Fuck The Corpos, Stay Indie, Die Indie!)
- Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Was Canceled (And Natalie Misses The Art of the B-Game Spin-Off Point, Just in General)
- Tribe Nine EOS Announced After 3 Months (The Mobile Games Industry is BRUTAL!)
- Persona 5: The Phantom X Announced For Global Release (The Mobile Games Industry is Nasty!)
- Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Bombed (Natalie Rambles About SNK History, Because Why Not?)
Rundown (5/11/2025) Is Crossdressing TSF?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Is Crossdressing a Form of TSF?
- Rundown Preamble Ramble Append: Futanari is Sometimes TSF, But Mostly it’s Own Thing
- Gears of War Reloaded Announced (Natalie Rambles About Gears of War, I Guess)
- The Video Game Industry of Money-Making (And How It’s Broken!)
- AI vs Education (Natalie Rambles About School From Afar!)
Rundown (5/04/2025) There Will Be No 2025 re:Dreamer Re-Review
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: There Will Be No 2025 re:Dreamer Re-Review
- Body Swap Story – Aunty Yui & Yuto is Out (Well, That Was Fast…)
- Natalie is in… The Money Zone! (Mo’ Like Natalie.Dochy)
- The Japanese Game Preservation Society is On The Verge of Shutdown (So Please Give Them Money)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Doing Big Numbers (And There’s Some Dumb Discourse About It!)
- Microsoft Indulges in Price Hikes Thanks to Trump Tariffs (Nintendo Helped Too!)
- Bye Bye Giant Bomb and Polygon (The Video Games Press is FUCKED!)
- Grand Theft Auto VI Delayed to May 26, 2026 (There Goes the Biggest Game of the Generation…)
Rundown (4/27/2025) The Pokémon Evolutionary Line Kerfuffle
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Pokémon Generations and Evolution Lines
- ACTION BUTTON PICTURES PRESENTS “LOS ANGELES NOIRE” (Tim Rogers is Back, Bitches!)
- Oblivion Remastered Shadow Dropped! (And It’s An Aesthetic Downgrade)
- Natalie Muses About Re-Whatevers Some More! (She Just Can’t Stop It!)
Rundown (4/20/2025) I Did the Taxes. Now I Go to Bread.
Rundown (4/13/2025) Tax Xtender 2025
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!)