Natalie Rambles About 2024
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(more…)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 (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)
- Pokémon v Pocketpair – A 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 (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 (7/07/2024) 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 (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 (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 (11/26/2023) The Quest for a Dream TF Metroidvania
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Quest for a Dream TF Metroidvania
- TSF Showcase 2023-39 Electric-Exchanger [Dengeki Exchange] by Neriwasabi
- Another Acquisition, And That’s It! (Aonic Acquires NDreams)
- Indonesia Powers Unite! (Toge Productions Acquires Mojiken Studio)
- Yo, What’s the Deal With All This Goblin Fucking in Hentai? (Natalie and Akumako Discuss Goblin Porn)
Rundown (11/19/2023) So Long Old Home! + The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: So Long Old Home!
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update
- TSF Showcase 2023-38 P(ossession)-Party by Asagiri (ts-complex2nd)
- Annapurna Bought 24 Whole Bits! (Annapurna Interactive Acquires 24 Bit Games)
- NetEase Still Won’t Stop! (NetEase Establishes New Studio Worlds Untold)
- **** The Children (Natalie Rambles About ‘The Child Question’)
- Oh Shit, Class of ’09 Really Blew Up (Natalie Looked At Her Site Stats and Found a Surprise)
- The Least Surprising Remaster Announcement Happened at 6:30 PM on a Friday (The Last of Us Part II Remastered Announced)
Rundown (11/05/2023) re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…
- TSF Showcase 2023-36 Shisutaabooi by Joe Six-Pack
- Digital Eclipse Is No Longer Independent (Atari Acquires Digital Eclipse)
- Devolver Digital’s Corporate Consumption Continues (Devolver Digital Acquires System Era Softworks)
- Sony is Buying Up A Video Delivery Company For Their Cloud Streaming (Sony Announces Acquisition of iSIZE)
- Net Ease is BACK with Another New Studio (After a 5 Month Hiatus, NetEase Announces Their Tenth New Studio Since 2020)
- Sonic Dream Team Looks Like An Official 3D Sonic Fan Game (This Is the Closest Thing We’ve Gotten to Sonic Adventure Since 2006)
- Fiery Red Passion (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Flash Filmic Fanworks)
Rundown (10/15/2023) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Akumu Kojou [Nightmare Factory]: Tax Tax Panic!
- TSF Showcase #2023-32 What Happens When You Gender Bend Close Friends With A Magic App lol by Ue ni Aru Mikan
- TSF Showcase #2023-33 Raiden Shogun Is My Wife?! by TadxSarah
- Microsoft Now 100% Owns Activision Blizzard (UK Gives the OK to the Activision Blizzard Acquisition)
- John Riccitiello is Getting a Golden Parachute (Unity is Still Doomed Though)
- PlayStation 5 Slim Stealth Dropped (NEW PlayStation 5 Announced)
- The Internet Is Dying By Design (Natalie’s Platform and Preservation Nightmare)
Rundown (9/10/2023) Money! Money! Money! Is What I Need!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Money! Money! Money! Is What I Need!
- TSF Showcase #2023-27 King’s Proposal by Tachibana Koushi and Kurio Nemo
- Tencent’s Indirect Consumption Continues (Sumo Group Acquires Midoki)
- One of the Most Bizarre Developer Switches of All Time (Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Will Be Developed by The Chinese Room)
- Miserable Suckful CRT (Natalie Muses About Resolution and Screen Differences)
- Quitting Twitter Was Wicked Easy (I Have Not Checked My Feed on 𝕏 in Over a Month)
Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers
- TSF Showcase #2023-24.1 BlazBlue Remix Heart Gaiden by Arc System Works
- TSF Showcase #2023-25 Doutei Ikki [Brotherhood of Virgins] by DOM
- The Behavior of a Juggernaut (Behavior Acquires Rotterdam-Based Developer Codeglue)
- Sony Gobbles Up An Audio Company (Sony Interactive Entertainment Acquires Audeze)
- PlayStation Portal Is a Bad PlayStation Vita (PlayStation Project Q Re-Announced As PlayStation Portal)
- New Auditory Era of Mario (Mario Voice Actor, Charles Martinet, Steps Down From Role)
- Nintendo is Bringing DRM to Consoles (Nintendo Partners With Denuvo to Fight Switch Emulation)
- Denuvo Is Trying to Prevent Mods on Unreal Engine Games (Denuvo Announces Unreal Engine Protection Software)
- Sacrifice Profits For Market Share For The Glory of Tencent (Epic Games Launches New Revenue Share Model for Timed Exclusives)
- The Plan to Eradicate Platform Identity (Natalie Rambles About Platform Identity and Media Formats)
Rundown (8/13/2023) Enrolled Agent of Chaos
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Enrolled Agent of Chaos
- TSF Showcase #2023-23 Muri na Kanojo | Impossible Girlfriend by Ura61318
- Natalie Got Sidetracked and Started Talking Girls with Penises (Natalie Rambles About Why Girl Dick Be Cool)
- Natalie’s Continued Adventures in Emulation Hell (Emulating Games is Cool… When Things Work)
- I Accidentally Plagiarized an Ecchi Anime By Stealing An Alias! (Anita Neukar is Basically Chacha Akaza from Maken-ki!)
- Real Rockstars Own Their Community! (Rockstar Games Acquires Roleplaying Community Cfx.re)
- Red Dead Redemption is… NOT Being Remastered! (Red Dead Redemption is Coming to PS4 and Switch)
Rundown (7/30/2023) Hoarding Games I’ll Never Play!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s ROM Hole
- TSF Showcase #2023-21 Mahou Shounen Majorian by Ishida Atsuko
- Techland’s Dying Light of Independence (Tencent Will Acquire A Majority Stake in Techland)
- Tencent Bought One of the Most Important Visual Novel Developers of All Time (Tencent Acquires Visual Arts and Key)
- Capcom Snagged a Snack! (Capcom Acquires Swordcanes Studios Co., Ltd.)
- Screw Social Media, Make RSS 3.0! (𝕏 Is Here, And I Stopped Caring!)
- Official Game Collections Continue To Be Worse Than A ROM Folder (Double Dragon Collection Announced)
Rundown (7/16/2023) Falling Down The Helly Tree!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Falling Down The Helly Tree!
- Microsoft Beat the FTC! (Judge Denies FTC Injunction Against Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard)
- Tencent Continues to Consume! (Tencent Bought Western Support Studio Lucid Games)
- Unsurprising But Sad, Official Game Preservation SUCKS! (87% of Games Released Before 2010 are Not Reasonably Available)
- Physical Games Are Not True Preservation + A Limited Run Games Summary (Limited Run Games’ Announcement Showcase Rundown Intro)
- Shantae’s Lost Chapter Has Been Revived! (After 19 Years, WayFroward is Finishing An Abandoned GBA Game!)
- Natalie Rambles About Clock Tower (Clock Tower (1995) is Getting Localized)
- The Lean, Green, Meme Machine is Back, Bay-Bee! (Gex Trilogy Announced)
- Get Pink, Toss Pigs, Help Dwarves! (Tomba! Is Coming to Modern Platforms)
- Shitposters Extraordinaire Are Making a Zelda CD-i Spiritual Successor (Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore Announced)
- The Koikatsu Devs Are Gonna Die! (Illusion Adult Games, Developers of Koikatsu, Are Shutting Down)
- Review Delays!!! (But I’ll Have Something Else Instead)
Rundown (6/18/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: Later Bitches, I’ll See Ya Next Year!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Welp, Nothing Much Happened!
- The Embracer Group REALLY Screwed Up! (Embracer Group to Announce Restructuring, Layoffs, Closures, and Cancellations)
- To Hell With Our 800+ IPs! We Just Need Lord of the Rings! (Embracer Plans to Exploit the Lord of the Rings License)
- A Brief Recollection of Shadows of the Damned (Shadows of the Damned Remastered Announced)
- You Cringe, But I Don’t (Natalie Explains Why She Dislikes A Contemporary Term Part VI)
Rundown (5/14/2023) Transition Speedruns and Slowruns
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Transition Speedruns and Slowruns
- The Support Studio Network Grows Even Bigger (Keywords Studios Acquires Hardsuit Labs)
- Project Gear Attempt #6 (Game Freak and Private Division Announce Publishing Partnership)
- Salvaged from Stadia & A Discussion on Games Streaming (Stadia Exclusive Gylt is Coming to Other Platforms)
- Cloud Gaming Vs Remote Play – Battle for Streaming Superiority! (Natalie Rambles About Games Streaming)
- Mild Musings About Game Difficulty (The Trinity of Challenge – As Defined By a Bad Player)
- No Patience For Those Without Patience (Natalie Rambles About Her Plentiful Paratransit-Powered Patience)
Rundown (4/23/2023) Spreadsheets Infinitum
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Hyper-Fix The Problems!
- The Hedgehog Snatched Up An Angry Bird (Sega Sammy Acquired Rovio for $773.8 Million)
- Didn’t I Already Talk About This A Year Ago? (Epic Games Acquires Brazilian Mobile Developer Aquiris)
- The Trains Are Under New Management! (Focus Entertainment Acquires Dovetail Games)
- Walk The Fire With A Fiancé (Sony Acquires Firewalk Studio)
- CyberConnect2: A Retrospective For Context (CyberConnect2 Montreal is Shutting Down in July 2023)
Rundown (4/09/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works Resumed
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Version 3 of My Dreams
- Doink Has Been Devolved! (Devolver Acquired Doinksoft)
- The Saudis Snatched Scopely! (Savvy Games Group Acquires Scopely)
- Natalie Remembered The ‘Desktops Are Dead’ Argument (This Has Nothing to Do With the News, and Is Just a Ramble)
- Natalie Remembered The Gamification Predictions (Again, More Completely Unrelated Rambles!)
Rundown (3/26/2023) One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident is DOPE!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-11 One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident by KPmouse
- TSF Showcase #2023-12 Ranma Video Essays
- Ranma ½ Changed Me by Mathwiz
- The Anime That Cracks Your Egg – Ranma 1/2 & Queerness by ShaggyJebus
- Atari’s Tentacles Gobbled Up The Dive Boys! (Atari Acquires Nightdive Studios)
- Honor Your Rights, Or Your Rights Don’t Mean Shit! (Natalie Complains About Nintendo’s Continued Destruction of Their History)
- EA Continues to Excel At Executions (EA Announces Delisting of Mirror’s Edge and Three Battlefield Games)
- Valve Is Re-Upping Their Cash Cow (Counter Strike 2 Will Replace Counter-Strike: Global Offensive This Summer)
- Instead of Supporting an Overpriced Sonic Compilation, Sega Is Charging An Extra $10 (Sonic Origins: The Better Version Announced)
- Make My Nep-Nep Grow! (Neptunia: GameMaker R:Evolution Announced)
- Oh Shit Son! It’s Tax Time: The Visual Novel! (Tax Heaven 3000 Announced)
- Unity AI Slipped Under My Radar! Embrace AI or Die For JUSTICE! (Unity AI Announced & More Calls For Revolution and Heroic Sacrifice)
- Video and Recording Is A Nightmare! (Natalie Finished Saving 200+ GB of SapphireFoxx Content)
Rundown (2/26/2023) Natalie Talks About Some TSF Critiques
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-07 Various TSF Critiques
- Bergsala’s Thunderful Gets Even More Electric (Thunderful Acquires Studio Fizbin)
- Do the Sock Monkey, A2M! (Behaviour Interactive Acquires SockMonkey Games)
- Natalie’s Adventures in Subtitle Hell (Natalie Wasted Her Sunday Subtitling Pokémon Movies)
- A Delisting of One of the Most Culturally Significant Mobile Games Ever (Rovio Delists the Original Angry Birds)
- It’s Time For Shinji Mikami’s Head To Find A New Home! (Shinji Mikami Leaves Tango Gameworks)
- Natalie is Still Pissed She Gave Up Video Games (Elden Ring Selling 20 Million Copies Makes Natalie All Bitter)
- Natalie Got Too Ambitious, So She’s Pulling a The Hobbit (Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Will Now be a Trilogy)
Rundown (1/08/2023) Dash & Write!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Did Natalie Do This Week?
- Let’s (Net)Ease Into Another Acquisition! (NetEase Acquires Support Studio SkyBox Labs)
- Success in the East; Obscurity in the West! (PUBG Mobile Reached $9 Billion in Revenue)
- A PlayStation For All Peoples (Sony Announces Accessibility Controller with Project Leonardo)
- A Decade-Long Generation (How Much Longer Will Games Be Released For PS4 and Xbox One?)
Rundown (12/18/2022) Natalie’s Going In For Bottom Surgery!
This Week’s Topics:
- Tencent bought 20% of that anime booty game.
- The continued purging of HBO Max to avoid residuals
- A ‘remaster’ of 2005’s Ys: The Oath in Felghana
- The next retroactive adventure of Adol Christin
- Amazon’s next Tomb Raider game
- The END of the Pokémon anime (as we know it)
Rundown (12/11/2022) Hormonal Hiatus
This Week’s Topics:
- The acquisition of the originator of visual novels
- Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard
- Yuji Naka’s return to jail
- Nancai Banco’s trademark oopsies
- The Game Awards’ announcements (a 3,000 word ramble)
Rundown (11/13-11/19) You Kids Have Fun With Your Pokémons
Rundown (11/06-11/12) My First Exposure to Trans Characters Was Family Compo
Wherein I discuss: Some deep Natalie lore. Some pretty boring acquisition stuff. And modern Americana politics.
(more…)Rundown (10/09-10/15) Tax Hell + COVID
Wherein I discuss: The COVID woes. A Triple Threat of acquisitions. AI art. And ‘Console Gaming on the Go.’
(more…)Rundown (10/02-10/08) Little Ado About Horror
Wherein I discuss: My mundane thoughts on the most popular genre of autumn. An absolutely awful acquisition. The eternal mixing up of re;makers and re;masters. The fifth Super Mario movie. CDPR Expansion. A game that thinks it should be more invasive than a game. One Last Scarlet and Violet splurge sesh. And the surprise Steam release of Chaos;Head Noah.
(more…)Rundown (9/25-10/01) Dope Skinsuit Comic. BIG Inspiration. Inferior Official Distribution.
Wherein I discuss: A sick skinsuit TSF comic. The end of ownership. Saudi Arabia’s continued influence over Gamindustri. Atlus trying to double-kill their own games. The re;birth of E3. The racist tendencies of one of the most lucrative games of the modern era. A peashy PC port. And the end of a non-subscription streaming service.
(more…)Rundown (8/28-9/03) Cute Oppressed Lady Of Uniquely Remedial Styles
Wherein I discuss: The next maiden in the DOPE TSF canon. The (partial) acquisition of Souls. The resurgence of an investment laid in the sand 3.5 years ago. Further Payments and Quibbles. A glorious gacha gutting. The Date of Death of Dragalia. And some pedantic Pokémon prattle.
(more…)Rundown (8/21-8/27) Extra Hard & Extra Wet & Extra Ouch
Wherein I discuss an erotic discovery, a tiny building block in an acquisition empire, the failings of Saints Row 5, another vaporware revival, a re-remake that isn’t much of a remake, and inflation.
(more…)Rundown (8/14-8/20) Natalie’s Changing Her Schedule Again…
Wherein I discuss my new Nigma Box work balance, The Embrace of another neggest of Gamindustri, the resurrection of a thrice-killed corpse, Steam’s purity policy, the return of Bop Louie and friends!
(more…)Rundown (8/07-8/13) Natalie Neumann is a Crypto Scumlord
Wherein I discuss a moral conundrum, an unremarkable acquisition, the hatching of one of the… ten(?) trans characters in games circa 2013, and the OG survival horror series.
(more…)Rundown (7/31-8/06) Blazing Edits!
Wherein I discuss the completion of a beta I’m releasing on time, the encroaching anime apocalypse, Ubisoft’s potential new owners, why Pokémon is bad, DiSCoBoMBs, a ruinous remaster, a Plain-o rename-o, and a new gothic metroidvania action platformer.
Rundown (7/10-7/16) Nats & Arts & Crafts!
Wherein I discuss my artistic inabilities, a pair of semi-pleasant acquisitions, Kirby’s cake rolls, and how games keep on dying.
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Rundown (6/05-6/11) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2022: Finding Frustrations
Wherein I discuss my quest for dope Dutch beatz, the worrisome MENA acquisitions, the posthumous return of Gattz and the Griff, the return of a leaked remaster, Nintendo’s next disaster, rudimentary game compilations, a ‘bad’ game getting re-re-mastered, and the diet E3 alternative that’s sweeping the nation of Earth!
(more…)Rundown (5/15-5/21) Outage Outrage (Or Lack Thereof)
Wherein I discuss how RCN screwed me over for 19 hours, murky non-acquisitions, a lackluster launch library, and the next (alleged) resurrection of Silent Hill.
(more…)Rundown (5/01-5/07) Ret-2-eScape TSF Hell
Wherein I discuss the 10th anniversary project’s progress, the Square Enix separation, and an ARG with a zero chance of escape.
(more…)Rundown (4/17-4/23) Crisis is Ended – Now Work Like a Beeeeee!
Wherein I discuss the growing Gearbox Empire, the Definitive(?) Classic Sonic Collection, some crazy and jammin’ GaaS, Nintendo being frustratingly eccentric, and one of my favorite concepts.
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Rundown (3/13-3/19) Nigma Box Got A $445.59 Makeover!
Wherein I discuss the dev costs of Nigma Box 2.0, Tencent’s Tequila, the struggles of modern game development, a ghastly song of yore, and an unfortunate fall.
(more…)Rundown (3/06-3/12) Procrastinating the Busty Police Quest
Wherein I discuss why I’m not putting out TSF VN reviews, Atari continuing to ruin video games, a legendary localization, the success of Souls, and a pleasantly plump PlayStation presentation.
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