Rundown (2/23/2025) But I Don’t WANT To Be Part of a Community
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: But I Don’t WANT To Be Part of a Community
- Marvel Rivals Dev Team Has Been Laid Off (Security Through Success is a Logical Fallacy)
- Natalie Is Gonna Give Away Hundreds of Steam Keys (Because Ziff Davis Enshittified Humble Bundle!)
- Saudi Arabia’s Pokémon Go is A-Go! (Niantic Is Selling Their Games Division to Saudi Arabia’s Scopely)
- Microsoft Pivots into AI Gaming (Forgetting That AI is Too Stupid to Remaster Classic Games)
- Nobody Expects The… Samurai Pizza Cats? (Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past Announced)
Rundown (2/16/2025) The Future Is as Black as Obsidian
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Future Is as Black as Obsidian
- State of Play Happened Again (And It Had a Few Things!)
- Shinobi: The Art of Vengeance Fully Revealed (It Sure Looks Like Shinobi IV)
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Fully Revealed (It Actually Looks Better Than I Thought It Would)
- Digimon Story: Time Stranger Announced (I Really Need to Play Cyber Sleuth)
- Warriors: Abyss Announced (Roguelike X Musou, But For PSP)
- People Want to Play Better Versions of Games They Loved When They Were 12 (They Want UE5 Remasters, Not Basic Re-Releases)
- I’m A 30-Year-Old Stuck Writing Stories About Teenagers (And It’s My Own Damn Fault)
Rundown (2/09/2025) A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Act 3 Update
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Act 3 Update
- Natalie Needs to Ditch Google Docs (But She Dunno How!)
- What’s An Earnest Evans and Anett Returns? (The Obligatory Retro Game Fixation To Cleanse the Soul)
- Nintendo Switch Hits 150 Million Units Sold (It Might Just Beat The PS2 At This Rate!)
- Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny Remaster Announced (Better Late Than Never, I Guess)
Rundown (2/02/2025) Increasing A Long on AI Generated Anime Girl Titties
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Increasing A Long on AI Generated Anime Girl Titties
- Dino Crisis Has Been Re-Released! (Thanks to the Dedication of GOG!)
- The Sims 1 and 2 Re-Released! (Because Anything’s Better Than The Sims 4!)
- MultiVersus’s Not So Sudden Death (MultiVersus’s End of Service Announced)
- Shit Sucks, But Here Are Some Good Things I Saw This Weeks (A Last Gasp While Wrapping Up This Rundown)
Rundown (1/26/2025) The Straight Dope On Gamindustri
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Straight Dope On The Current State of Gamindustri
- In a Final Act of Excellence, The FTC Goes After Loot Boxes! (Specifically, Genshin Impact)
- Time For The Quarterly-ish Xbox Thing! (A Rapidly Written Xbox Developer Direct Recap)
- Ninja Gaiden 4 Announced (Natalie Rambles About the History of Team Ninja)
- Ninja Gaiden II Black Shadow Dropped This Week (It’s Not As Good As It Sounds…)
Rundown (1/19/2025) Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?
- Nintendo Switch 2 Announced (It’s Been SEVEN YEARS!)
- Video Game Generation Numbers Are Fine, Ya Old Farts (Another Tangent Before Bedtime)
- Nintendo Switch 2 Vs. The PC Handheld Market (Nat-Nat Bullies Silly-Billy PC Fans)
- Natalie Hates Age-Based Timestamps (A Machine Needs to Vent, and So Do I!)
- STOP KILLING GAMES Update! (UK Citizens, Sign This Petition!)
- Sony Cancels Another Two Live Services (This Venture Was a Boneheaded Waste…)
- Bad Person And Writer is a Cool Person and Wackadoo Writer (I Swear These Mini Showcases Won’t Be A Regular Thing)
Rundown (1/12/2025) Pedantic Porn Problems
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Pedantic Porn Problems
- Video Game Movies Are Go! (Sony Pictures Needs Hits Badly)
- Nvivida Wants You To Use AI to Beautify Women in Games (Nvidia Will Un-DEI Femoid Faces!)
- SteamOS is Evolving! (And The Cheap PC Market is Kinda Bonkers)
- The House of the Dead 2 Remake Properly Announced (Because People Need Another Bad Remake…)
- Warui Slime Janai yo by Pandanuki is… Deranged (I Guess This Counts as a TF Showcase)
Rundown (1/05/2025) A Body Swap Episode Conundrum
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: A Body Swap Episode Conundrum
- A Surprise Game Boy Advance Tangent (I Actually Like The Modern Decade-Long Console Lifespans…)
- Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is Getting Remastered! (Capitalism Hoooooo~?~?~?~)
- New Year, New AI Musings (I Really Wish AI Tools Could Help Me With Anything…)
TSF Showcase 2024-52: A Body Swap Story Between a Prematurely Ejaculating Nephew and an Insensitive Auntie (Demo)
Natalie learned how to machine translate visual novels!
…And she really wanted to get out a 52nd TSF Showcase before year-end!
Natalie Rambles About 2024
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Rundown (12/22/2024) Fatalie’s Festive Feast
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Fatalie’s Festive Feast
- Natalie Muses About Progression Systems (Written Half Past Midnight on Wednesday)
- Natalie Complains About Falcom’s Localization Practices (Ys X: Proud Nordics Announced, Trails in the Sky 1st Global Launch Confirmed)
- Sony X Kadokawa Business Alliance Announced (Better Than An Acquisition!)
Rundown (12/15/2024) Natalie Mustn’t Become Fatalie
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Mustn’t Become Fatalie
- Change of Plans for TSF Showcase 2024-51 (No More Valkyrie Yuuki)
- Blue Protocol Is Being Resurrected as Star Resonance (Still a Generic Name, but Also Way Better)
- The Platform Agnostic and Self-Important Geoff Keighley’s Spike Video Game Awards X Advertisements (Leg’s Go!)
- Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound Announced (D@SH and R@GE!)
- Edgy Pac-Man Metroidvania Shadow Labyrinth Announced (What the Fuck?)
- Final Fantasy VII-2: Re;Birth is Coming to PC on January 23, 2025 (Hopefully People Buy It This Time Around)
- The Witcher IV Properly Announced (Thank You For the AWFUL CG, Now Leave!)
- Elden Ring Nightreign Announced (A Multiplayer Survival Elden Ring Spin-Off)
- Former Team Ico X Tencent Project Was Shown Off (It’s Sci-Fi… Good Night!)
- Hazelight Co-Op Venture #4: Split Fiction Announced (Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Crossing Over in Virtual Reality!)
- Virtua Fighter 6 Announced (We Basically Knew This Was Happening, But Whatever!)
- Turok Origins Announced (I Guess That’s A Functional Subtitle?)
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword Announced (No Clue What Flavor of Onimusha It’ll Be!)
- Okami Sequel Announced! (And It’s Directed By Hideaki Kamiya!)
- Sonic Racing 4: CrossWorlds Announced (I Miss When Games Were Announced Via Press Releases…)
- Project Century by Ryu Ga Gotoku Announced (Like a Dragon: 1915!)
- Dispatch Announced from Ex-Walking Dead Developers (Now THIS is Next Gen Telltale!)
- Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announced (Natalie Gets TOXIC Over the New Naughty Dog Game)
Rundown (12/08/2024) I Want to Do Everything!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Want to Do Everything!
- Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete is Just An Offline Gacha Game (And It Sucks Because of It)
- Tetris: The Grand Master 4: Absolute Eyes Announced (An Offline Competitive Tetris Game in 2025?)
- Year-End Recaps Should Be at the END of the Year (December Is the Un-Month)
- World End Politico (What the Hell Is Going On in the World?)
Rundown (12/01/2024) TG and Turn Into A Girl
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TG and Turn Into A Girl
- Never 7 and Ever 17 Remasters Revealed (It’s Not a Remake Like They Said It Would Be!)
- Sony is Planning a Portable PS5 (The PlayStation Portal Was a Test Project)
- Natalie Fixates on Collection Contents (The Early GAMEBOY Days)
- Tariff Turmoil (Fear The Rulers Who Want to Destroy The Economy)
- Tencent Bought Kuro Games (They Develop Punishing: Gray Raven and Wuthering Waves)
Rundown (11/24/2024) How Natalie Would ‘Wreck’ The American Tax System!
Rundown (11/17/2024) Natalie Has Become a Witch!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Has Become a Witch!
- Doom Spending and Financial Paranoid (Buy Assets and Invest in Stonks)
- Lawsuit Updates! (Palworld and The Crew Are Making Legal Waves)
- Hideaki Itsuno Joins LightSpeed Japan Studio! (Tencent’s Consumption Continues!)
- The GOG Preservation Program is Go! (GOG’s Fancy New Sticker and Promise)
- Tequila Works Announces Insolvency (Tequila Works Is All Outta Booze)
- Natalie Muses About The Success of Lollipop Chainsaw RePop (Lollipop Shadows of the Damned Chainsaw)
- Warcraft: Remastered and Warcraft II: Remastered Announced (Pulled Outta and Polished From The Vault!)
- Embracer Sells Easybrain to Miniclip for $1.2 Billion (The Unembrace Continues)
Rundown (11/10/2024) Humanity Has Declined
Rundown (11/03/2024) Natalie Rambles About Psycho Shatter 1988
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Psycho Shatter 1988 Is A Wack-Ass Mess, But I Love It
- Steins;Gate RE:BOOT is a Re;Make (The Terminology of Re-Whatevers Remains Inconsistent)
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete Overview Released (I Will Pay $500 For Dragalia Lost Complete, Nintendo…)
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Announced (The Switch Consolidation Continues)
- Nintendo Music Streaming Service Announced (Why The Frick Do Zoomies Use Streaming Services?)
- Sony Closes Down Concord Developer Firewalk Studios (Hopefully The Final Concord Segment)
- The REAL Reason Nintendo is Suing Palworld (A Lawyer Explains Nintendo v. Palworld!)
- Natalie Rambles About How Sports Games Were Ruined (What’s an Accolade?)
Rundown (10/27/2024) Rushing to Completion!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Rushing to Completion!
- Let’s Talk About Acquire Corporation! (Because They Made Mario & Luigi 6!)
- I Might Have Been Wrong About Unity (Unity Management Has Completely Changed Over The Past Year)
- Nintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program Has Slipped Through The Cracks (Nintendo’s Nintendo-some Nintendo-ing)
- More Musings About Re-Whatevers (Because I Didn’t Want to Go to Bed at 1 AM)