Rundown (3/30/2025) Game Fighter Animard is Dope!
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)
Rundown (6/27-7/03) Abyssal Depths of the Human Imagination
Wherein I discuss my weird fixations, some honorary hall of famers, an acquisition blitz, a pair of monkey paw situations, and a sequel to one of my GOATs.
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Rundown (7/01-7/07) Natalie is Nuts
So, I recently did a log of all of the stories I wanted to write, coming up with the basic concepts, and telling myself that I should be able to put one out a year. Or in other words, the thing I did back in 2015 before I had a change of plans, yet I am trying it again now, a mere 3 years later, and after I spent two years on a single novel. It is because of this that I am utterly nuts, and to prove just how nuts I am, I made a simple little schedule of what I am going to try and write and when. It’ll only take me a decade or so to get through it…
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Rundown (2/26-3/04) Welcome to the Future, Kid
So, at GDC this past week, some Nintendo developers showed off Hyrule Wars From The Legend of Zelda, a scrapped concept for Breath of the Wild that had aliens invading the land of Hyrule, also called Legend of Zelda: Invasion. It’s a very peculiar concept to say the least, and featured concept art of what looks to be Ganondorf in a Metallica shirt, and concept sketches of Link in modern clothing riding on a motorcycle. I know people are giving Breath of the Wild all the felacio its bulbous appendage can handle, but I would be far more interested in playing a Zelda game with a differing aesthetic rather than one I am am more likely to hate than love due to mechanical changes that freak me the flip out. (more…)