Rundown (6/02/2024) It’s Gonna Be A Bangin’ TSF Summer!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: It’s Gonna Be A Bangin’ TSF Summer! (Also, Press-Switch v0.6b is OUT!!!)
- TSF Showcase 2024-21.1 Tenkôsei: Sayonara Anata (2007) [Transfer Students: Goodbye to You] or Switching: Goodbye Me
- TSF Showcase 2024-22 The God Power by Gregor Daniels
- TSF Showcase 2024-22.1 The God Power Seeks Another by Gregor Daniels
- Awaiting The Inevitable Segmented Summer Showcases (A Preamble to S3 2024)
- The Obligatory State of Play Summary (Let S3 2024 Begin!)
- Monster Hunter Musings (Natalie Avoids Talking About Monster Hunter Wilds)
- Dynasty Warriors X – The New Zero (Dynasty Warriors Reboot, Dynasty Warriors Origins, Announced)
- Japan Studio Died So Astro Bot Can Live (Standalone Astro Bot 3D Platformer Announced)
Rundown (5/26/2024) I Got Robbed!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Got Robbed!!!
- TSF Showcase 2024-21 Tenkōsei [Exchange Students] or I Are You, You Am Me
- Nintendo’s Miami Shiver is Ret-2-Go! (Nintendo Acquires Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group)
- The Accursed Consolidation Continues! (Ziff Davis Acquires Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, and More)
- Abrazar La Muerte, Amico (Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand)
Rundown (5/19/2024) re:CPE:Dreamer
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: re:CPE:Dreamer
- TSF Showcase 2024-20 I Love Yuri and I Got Bodyswapped with a Fujoshi! by Ajiichi
- Bye-Bye Xbox, Hello Microsoft Gaming (Speculating on the Future of Xbox Part 3)
- Oh SNAP! Press-Switch v0.6b is Coming Soon! (Natalie’s Gonna Review The Big Three Back-To-Back)
Rundown (5/12/2024) Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder
- TSF Showcase 2024-19 Change Ring by Kawaii Tsun’aho
- TSF Showcase 2024-19.1 Change Ring the Manga by Kawaii Tsun’aho and MPZ
- Student Transfer V8 is Coming Soon! (The Murder Route is Finally Getting Replaced!)
- re:Dreamer is Back, Bay-Bee! (re:Dreamer Version 0.18.0 Releases After 7 Month Delay)
- Microsoft Murders Arkane Austin and Tango GameWorks (Technically They Also Killed Alpha Dog and Consolidated Roundhouse…)
- Another AI Generated Image Musing (No, I’m Not Going to Become An AI Pundit)
- Yes, Nintendo Switch 2 is Happening, But You Gotta Wait! (The Switch-2.0-Roadmap)
- Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Announced (Better Than Nothing, Worse Than You’d Expect)
Rundown (5/05/2024) Natalie & Cassie Preserved An Anime Soundtrack!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie & Cassie Preserved An Anime Soundtrack!
- TSF Showcase 2024-18 Idol Pretender by Haruse Hiroki
- Burn It All, Square Enix! Burn It All! (Square Enix Cancels Multiple Game Projects)
- Sony’s First-Party PSN Records Leaked (The Insomniac Leaks Keeps on Giving)
- Miscellaneous Ramblings From a Tired Madwoman (Political Nonsense Natalie Wrote At 2 AM)
Rundown (4/28/2024) The Masturbation Conundrum
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Masturbation Conundrum
- TSF Showcase 2024-17 The Auto-Closet by Kristen O
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.1 One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.2 Two Sexy Errors by SapphireFoxx
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.3 Shifting Roommates: One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.4 One Sexy Error: Role Reversal by SapphireFoxx
- I Spent Too Much Time Playing PokéRogue, so Now I Gotta Contentize It (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Rogue of A Risky Rainy Randomness)
- Unembraced Entities (The Embracer Group Announces Disbandment)
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part III (Pixiv Restricts R18 Works For All US and UK Residents)
- The Game Industry Hates Games And Libraries Too (ESA Refuses to Assist Libraries With Game Preservation)
- Infogrames is Back Bay-Bee! (Atari Relaunches Infogrames Brand After 20 Years Because I Don’t Know!)
- Nintendo Hates You And Everyone Too (Nintendo Removes All Nintendo-Related Uploads From Garry’s Mod)
Rundown (4/14/2024) The Enigmatic Children
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Enigmatic Children
- TSF Showcase 2024-15 TS Boshi Techou by Seto Kouhei and Matsuzono
- Contemplating Console Cataclysm (Response to the Consoles Are Dying Discourse – Wave Two)
- Natalie Rambles About the Triple-A and Triple-i Naming Convention (A Tangent That Overtook the Original Topic)
- Eman Looc’s Possession Scroll is Divesting from Student Transfer (Add Another Great Standalone TF Game to The List!)
- Minor Musings About Unionization and Costs of Living (Avalanche Studios Starts Unionizing)
- The Illest Quote From 1951 (Natalie Hyperfixates on 30 Seconds From a 38 Hour Documentary)
Rundown (4/07/2024) Artificially Difficult Taxation
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Artificially Difficult Taxation
- TSF Showcase 2024-14 Ojou-sama Irekawari by Yuniba (TSuniverse)
- TSF Showcase 2024-REJECT_1 Watashi-tachi ha “Byplayer” [We Are Supporting Actors] by Harada
- April Fools Ain’t Cool, Except For When It Is (The April Fools Rundown)
- STOP KILLING GAMES!!! (Ross Scott Launches Legal Campaign Against Live Services)
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part II (DLSite Has Been Screwed By US Credit Card Companies)
Rundown (3/31/2024) Revenge of Editing Hell
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Revenge of Editing Hell
- TSF Showcase 2024-13 A Gender-Bent Maiden and a Confession Under a Starry Sky [Nyotaika no Musume to Hoshizora no Kokuhaku] by Poriuretan
- The Embracer Fire Sale Continues! (Take Two Buys Gearbox Entertainment For $460 Million)
- SHOW ME WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF!!! (Sonic Heroes Remake/Remaster is Maybe Happening)
- Relic Entertainment Goes Indie! (Sega Lays Off 240 People, Sells Off Relic Entertainment)
- Credits Are Vital, Yet Often Suppressed (NetEase Announced Marvel Hero Shooter, Marvel Rivals)
Rundown (3/24/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Has Been Drafted!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Has Been Drafted!
- TSF Showcase 2024-12 Transformed Into A Busty Blonde [Kinpatsu x Kyonyuu ni Henshin de] by Ikuya Daikokudou
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans (Natalie Gets Political – March 2024 Ver.2)
- Ship Broken, Fix Maybe (There’s Nothing Remarkable About The Battlefront Classic Launch Disaster)
- A Relic Castle Reduced to Ruin (The Pokémon Company Killed A Fan Game Site)
- Steamy Family Funsies (Valve Announces Steam Families Overhaul)
Rundown (3/17/2024) Fatigue Leaves The Body Erotic
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Fatigue Leaves The Body Erotic
- TSF Showcase 2024-11 Becoming Lindsay by CasualCraig69 & Someone From Internet Art
- Sweet Baby and the Most Disgustingly Sour Babies (Natalie Gets Political – March 2024 Ver.)
- An Anti-Cheat Conundrum (Natalie Rambles About Why Multiplayer Gaming Is Bad Part ⅓)
Rundown (3/10/2024) Wack-Ass Work Shifts
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Wack-Ass Work Shifts
- TSF Showcase 2024-10 Kizoku to Dorei no Irekawari ~Subete o Te ni Ireta Otoko~ [The Aristocrat and His Slave Switched Bodies ~The Man Who Got It All~] by Iwashita (Iwashita Shoten)
- Yuzu Surrenders to Nintendo, Pays $2.4 Million in Damages (Screw Nintendo, But Screw Yuzu More)
- The Only Answer Is Not to Play (Persona 3 Reload Is Getting The Answer as $35 DLC)
- Akira Toriyama Has Passed Away (Rest in Peace, You Absolute Legend)
Rundown (3/03/2024) Life Might Be a Waste of Time but It’s Nice!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Life Might Be a Waste of Time but It’s Nice!
- TSF Showcase 2024-09 Transjitter Ibitsu na Karada by Jirou Saku
- A Reminder That Apple Arcade Exists (Apple Arcade Is Undergoing Some Troubles)
- Pokémon Presents… Confusion! (Pokémon Legends Z-A Announced)
- Sony Lays Off 900 People (Also The Twisted Metal Live Service is Dead)
- EA Also Laid Off 670 People A Day Later (Also, Respawn Got Screwed Again)
- Saber Interactive is Free From The Embrace! (Saber Interactive Leaves Embracer Group)
- Bobby ‘n’ Da Tiki Boyz is Goin’ Indie (Toys for Bob Is Parting Ways from Microsoft Activision Blizzard King)
- NetEase is Opening Up An All-American Bullet Farm (NetEase Established LA-Based Studio, BulletFarm)
- I Get Why You’re Doing This Nintendo, But Fuck Off (Nintendo Is Suing the Developers of the Yuzu Switch Emulator)
Rundown (2/25/2024) First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!
- TSF Showcase 2024-08 Okitsune-sama de Chu♥ by Sumino Yuji
- Nintendo Direct 2024 – 1 of ??? (A Spoonful of Sugar To Numb The Mind)
- Monster Hunter Stories… Retold (Capcom Announces Monster Hunter Stories Remaster)
- Epic Disappointment Remastered (Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed Announced)
- SMT is BACK! …With A Vengeance! (Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Announced)
- Back to the Banana-Rama Again! (Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble Announced)
- Explore The Sea… With Friends! (Endless Ocean Luminous Announced)
- Pokémon Radical Insanity (First Impressions of Pokémon Radical Red v4.0)
Rundown (2/18/2024) Xbox Is Not Dead, Y’All Lied To Me!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Xbox Is Not Dead, Y’All Lied To Me!
- TSF Showcase 2024-07 Bocchi de Shinda Ore ga Bishoujo Nurse ni Natta Hanashi [The Story of How I Died Alone and Became a Sexy Nurse] by Oden Ohgan (TuriSasu)
- ***SCRAPPED***
Nintendo Direct 2024 – 1 of 3(Don’t Be Glad The Switch Happened, Be Glad It’s Over) - Nintendo Switch Successor Delayed to Q1 2025 (Bad News Broke Friday Afternoon)
- Gacha RPG vs. JRPG (A Tangent For Cassie)
Rundown (2/11/2024) The Alleged End of Xbox
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Alleged End of Xbox
- TSF Showcase 2024-06 JK-ka Refle [JK-ification Salon] (Ch 1, 2, 3, and 4) by Kouji
- No Escape for Runescape! (Jagex Acquired by Private Equity Firms)
- The Wild Age of Yu-Gi-Oh! Games Returns(?) (Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection Announced)
- Metrics for Everyone (Natalie Complains About How Capitalism Won’t Give Her Sales Figures)
- The Unionization Effort Continues! (IGN is Unionizing!)
- Disney & Tencent’s Epic (Disney Invests $1.5 Billion in Epic Games)
Rundown (2/04/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Delayed Again!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Delayed Again!
- TSF Showcase 2024-05 Boku Tamasaburo by Ono Shinji (Yoshimura Tatsumasa)
- Deus Ex Capitalism (Embracer Canned a Deus Ex Game in Pre-Production)
- It’s Fate That You Stay Away! (Fate/Stay Night Remastered Is Getting An International Release)
- The Volition to Shapeshift! (Former Volition Staff Establish Support Studio Shapeshifter Games)
- State of Play Slurp Up! (The Un-Nintendo Direct)
- Sonic Generations is BACK! (Sonic X Shadow Generations Announced)
- Supermassive Games Got Done Dirty… (Sony is Having A New Studio Replace Until Dawn)
- The Open World Woes! (Natalie Rambles About Palworld – Week 2)
Rundown (1/28/2024) Palling Around in Palworld
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Palworld – Week 1
- No One Can Stop The Pokémadness (Palworld is a Global Sensation and Home to Massive Controversy)
- TSF Showcase 2024-04 Oto x Maho by Shirase Shuu and Suemitsu Dicca
- Microsoft’s Big Cuts! (Microsoft Layoffs, Cancellation, and War on Physical Games)
Rundown (1/21/2024) Natalie the Pokémaniac is Hungry for Souls!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Shattered Locks and Strained Logistics
- TSF Showcase 2024-03 Fujoshi Trapped in a Seme’s Perfect Body by Seru and Jouvru
- After 15 Years of Sitting in the Dumpster, Indy’s Back Gamin’ (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Revealed)
- Fine, I’ll Talk About Online Drama… (Chuggaaconroy Was Being Creepy And Asking For Feet Pics)
Rundown (1/14/2024) Natalie’s Sexual Binary
Rundown (1/07/2024) The Co-Op Conundrum
Rundown (12/31/2023) Christmas with Judas
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: A Review of Judas by Suu Minazuki
- TSF Showcase 2023-45 Irekawatte Modotta Joshikousei by Zaregoto Hitsuji
- TSF Showcase 2023-46 Queen Slime no Gyakushuu [The Queen Slime’s Counterattack] by Hiiragi Popura and Kuratsuka Riko
- TSF Showcase 2023-47 Boku no Milk o Meshiagare by Yoshida Gorou
- Rockstar Just Can’t Catch A Break… (Grand Theft Auto V’s Source Code Was Leaked)
Rundown (12/24/2023) How to Do Time Management?!?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: How To Do Time Management?!?
- TSF Showcase 2023-44 Megu Miruku [Megu Milk] – Kusaka Shiroi
- A Review of Swapped by the Magic Mirror by Gregor Daniels (Natalie Wanted to Do a TSF Showcase on This, But It Wasn’t Good Enough)
- TimeSplitters 4 Post-Cancelation Interview (Former Free Radical Devs Lays The Deets on TimeSplitters 4)
- The Type of Leak That Makes You An Insomniac… (Insomniac Games Subjected to Ransomware Attack and Leak)
- Pontificating Posse Logs (Scope Creep Vs. Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 – Part 5?)
Rundown (12/17/2023) Year-End Hustle & Bustle
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Year-End Hustle & Bustle
- TSF Showcase 2023-42 Seitenkan Appli no Tadashii Tsukaikata [How to use Gender-Changing Apps Properly] by Mogetama (Tanakamori Yokota)
- TSF Showcase 2023-43 Jinzou Shoujo [Artificial Girl] by Natsume Satoru
- There Is No We or Us, Only Y’all and Me (Natalie Bitches About Being Lumped Into Groups)
- Don’t Worry, I Won’t Bitch About The Last of Us Again (The Last of Us Online Has Been Canceled)
My Mad Scientist Roommate Turned Me Into Her Personal Robotic Battle Maiden?!? Review
The Lachlanverse Episode III: Axon in Ashes My Mad Scientist Roommate Turned Me Into Her Personal Robotic Battle Maiden?!?
Rundown (12/10/2023) Good Night Gamindustri, See Ya Next Year!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Game Awards Happened!
- TSF Showcase 2023-41 Ame Nochi Hare [Clear Up After Rain] by Bikke
- A Prophecy Fulfilled, A Decade Later (Grand Theft Auto VI Announced)
- The Game Awards Had Too Many New Game Announcements… (The Big The Game Awards Rundown)
- Brothers: A Tale of Development Shenanigans (Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake Announced)
- Aw SHIT! The Genshin-Likes Are Here! (Natalie Learned What Arknights: Endfield Is)
- From Ragnarök , We Venture to Valhalla (God of War 5: Ragnarök – Valhalla DLC Announced)
- Don’t Fly Me to that Moon! It’ll CRUNCH Me! (Moon Studio Announces No Rest for the Wicked)
- SEGA IS BACK, BAY-BEE!!! (Sega Gives Natalie a Heart Attack by Announcing Five Reboots at Once)
- SPARKING! 4 Neo Zero (Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 Re-Revealed as Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero)
- 16 Years Later, Similar Vision (Visions of Mana Announced)
- Odd Overdose Overdrive (Kojima Productions and Xbox Game Studios Announce OD)
- The Dino Lore of Natalie & Cassie Ramble About The Jurassic Park Hexalogy Continues! (Jurassic Park: Survival Announced)
- Life is Strange is a Strange Entity… (Don’t Nod’s Life is Strange Successor, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Announced)
- My Love For You is Like a Truck… BERSERKER!!! (The First Berserker: Khazan Announced)
- The Gulags of Gun Games (An Obligatory Acknowledgement of A Nexon and Two Tencent Games)
- Marvel Continues to License AAA Game Projects (Arkane Lyon is Developing Marvel’s Blade)
- It’s a Wild World Out There, so Rise Up, Young Monster Hunter! (Monster Hunter Wilds Announced)
- From Sci-Fi To Fantasy… Shouldn’t It Be The Other Way Around? (Hello Games Announces Light No Fire)
- A Reminder That Digital Ownership is a Sham (Sony Steals Hundreds of Shows From Its Customers)
- A Pronoun Problem (A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update and Preview)
Rundown (12/03/2023) Yo! NTF Cribz
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Yo! NTF Cribs
- TSF Showcase 2023-40 Gyakujō Jigokuhen Kiwami by Byuu
- The December Drought is Here! (Natalie Doesn’t Have Stuff To Talk About Now!)
- TimeSplitters is Dead… Again! (Embracer Revived and Killed Free Radical)
- Hopefully Modders can make this Final Fantasy ForEver Crisis… (Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis is Coming to PC Next Week)
- Fandom the Social Escape (Natalie Harasses Akumako RE: Fandom)
- Razor Danger (Natalie Harasses Akumako RE: Razor Blades)