Rundown (3/29/2026) The Resident Evil Redemption

• Post published:03/29/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:52 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Resident Evil Redemption
• FlipWitch: Temples of Temptation Announced (That TSF Metroidvania is Getting a Sequel!)
• Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 People (Because Time Sweeney is a Small-Minded Man)
• OpenAI Kills Sora (I Cannot WAIT for the AI Bubble to Pop)
• What The Hell’s Going on With Acquisitions and Closures This Week? (Everything is Falling Apart! Aaaaaahhhh!!!)
• The PlayStation 5 Gets A $100 Price Increase (Budget Gaming is DEAD. Politics Killed It!)
• Nintendo is Charging More For Physical Games (This Was Inevitable, and Here’s Why!)

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Rundown (9/29/2024) Acknowledge ALL of Gaming History!

• Post published:09/29/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:78 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers

• Post published:08/27/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (2/26/2023) Natalie Talks About Some TSF Critiques

• Post published:02/26/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

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)

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Rundown (5/15-5/21) Outage Outrage (Or Lack Thereof)

• Post published:05/22/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:11 mins read
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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.

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