Rundown (8/03/2025) How Square Enix Fumbled Final Fantasy

• Post published:08/03/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:80 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

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)

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TSF Showcase 2025-09: Girl In My Dream

• Post published:07/29/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:76 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

It’s finally time to cover this forgotten TSF masterpiece!

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Rundown (7/27/2025) That Time I Spent $15,000 on Colombian Pussy

• Post published:07/27/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

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!)

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Rundown (7/20/2025) Natalie’s Software Suite! (And Alternatives)

• Post published:07/20/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:47 mins read
• Post comments:12 Comments

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)

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An Update on Press-Switch

• Post published:07/17/2025
• Post category:Miscellaneous
• Reading time:2 mins read
• Post comments:16 Comments

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Hello Girl Review

• Post published:07/15/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:7 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Bunnies are not made for war, they are made for phone repairs!

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Rundown (7/13/2025) Data Storage Wars

• Post published:07/13/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:57 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

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

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Rundown (7/06/2025) What Do People Do?

• Post published:07/06/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:36 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

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!)

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TSF Showcase 2025-08: TSF Monogatari Append

• Post published:07/01/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:60 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

Because the TFS Monogatari Comic Universe must continue!

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Persona 5: The Phantom X Review

• Post published:06/30/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:25 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

The Officially Licensed Live Service Spin-Off to the Hit JRPG Persona 5!

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Rundown (6/29/2025) The Video Game Canon!

• Post published:06/29/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:38 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Video Game Canon!
• So, I Played Tokimeki Memorial (And I Didn’t Like It, As Expected)
• Viral Misfit Multiplayer Mayhem (Natalie Continues To Not Understand The Children…)

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TSF Showcase 2025-07: TSF Monogatari

• Post published:06/24/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:48 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

Takumi ga Seitenkan shite Fuck sare makuru Monogatari or The Story of How Takumi Changed Sex and Fucked A Bunch

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Rundown (6/22/2025) I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home

• Post published:06/22/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

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!!!)

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Rundown (6/15/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases – Slice 2

• Post published:06/15/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:73 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

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…)

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Tribe Nine Review

• Post published:06/10/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:51 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

“After all, the game’s far from over!”

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Rundown (6/08/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases 2025 – Slice 1

• Post published:06/08/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:64 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

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!)

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Press-Switch Version 0.6c Beta Review

• Post published:06/03/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:59 mins read
• Post comments:17 Comments

Just the thought of being you makes my heart go into the groove…

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Rundown (6/01/2025) Press-Switch Is on an Indefinite Hiatus

• Post published:06/01/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:15 Comments

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)

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TSF Showcase 2025-06: King’s Proposal (Manga)

• Post published:05/27/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:70 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

To save the girl, I shall become the girl!

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Rundown (5/25/2025) Natalie.TF Hit 2 Million Lifetime Views!

• Post published:05/25/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

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)

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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Body Swap Story – Aunty Yui & Yuto Review

• Post published:05/09/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:12 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Rejoice in the good smut!

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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TSF Showcase 2025-05: Change! by Homare Mikokuno

• Post published:04/29/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

Because we needed more CHANGE to meet this month’s quota!

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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All in Abyss: Judge The Fake Review

• Post published:04/23/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

Time to go ALL IN, because I know the faker is YOU!

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TSF Showcase 2025-04: Change! Sabu

• Post published:04/22/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

Change Yuri Chenji and Sabu Henmi Into… Yuri Henmi and Sabu Chenji!

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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Rundown (4/13/2025) Tax Xtender 2025

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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TSF Showcase 2025-03: My Toy

• Post published:03/25/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:73 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

My toy is a boy, but I’ll make him into a girl one way or another!

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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TSF Showcase 2025-02: Magical Trans

• Post published:02/25/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:71 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

Because after 8 years, the English translation is finally done!

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket Review

• Post published:02/12/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:42 mins read
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‘Cos You Gotta Gacha ‘Em All!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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TSF Showcase 2025-01: Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki

• Post published:01/28/2025
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:76 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

Time for another TSF webcomic classic!

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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Rundown (1/12/2025) Pedantic Porn Problems

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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

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

This Week’s Topics:

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

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TSF Showcase 2024-52: A Body Swap Story Between a Prematurely Ejaculating Nephew and an Insensitive Auntie (Demo)

• Post published:12/31/2024
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:17 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Natalie learned how to machine translate visual novels!
…And she really wanted to get out a 52nd TSF Showcase before year-end!

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TSF Showcase 2024-51: TS Revolution

• Post published:12/31/2024
• Post category:TSF Showcase
• Reading time:41 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Let’s end this year with a BANG!

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