Rundown (9/29/2024) Acknowledge ALL of Gaming History!
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)
Rundown (9/22/2024) An Impromptu Vita Retrospective
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)
- Pok̩mon v Pocketpair РA 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!)
Rundown (9/15/2024) How Are ‘Real’ Video Games Profitable? Mk2
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)
Rundown (9/08/2024) Compulsory Game Design
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)
Rundown (9/01/2024) Nina Tendo Brain Problems
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)
Rundown (8/25/2024) Return to Inefficient Labor
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!)
Rundown (8/18/2024) Welcome to Chicago (Duck Motherfucker)
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)
Rundown (8/11/2024) Natalie & Cassie Do Chicago!
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)
Rundown (8/04/2024) Swap Bodies and Have Sex While I Watch
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)
Rundown (7/28/2024) Update to Devastation
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!)
Rundown (7/21/2024) Prepping for Four Months of Agony…
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!)
Rundown (7/14/2024) Go Rush, Get Flow!
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)
Rundown (7/07/2024) Student Transfer Ad Infinitum
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)
Rundown (6/30/2024) Psycho Shatter The Psycho Bullet
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)
Rundown (6/23/2024) Pride Month and Transition Reflections
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)
Rundown (6/16/2024) S3 2024 is Done and Dusted
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)
