Rundown (1/04/2026) The Most Confusing Name In Gaming…
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natsume Atari Is Now Winning Entertainment Group
- Student Transfer Version 9 is Out! (Enjoy and Rejoice in The Swappings!)
- GOG is Under New Ownership! (Which Could be Good or Bad)
- Granblue Fantasy is Coming to Steam! (Which is Weird and Confusing!)
- Rance is Coming to Steam! (Steam, Clarify Your Damn Guidelines!)
- Natalie Muses About Chinese RPGs (Because She’s Ignorant But Wants to Care)
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 (5/21/2023) My re:Dreamer Panic Attack
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: My re:Dreamer Panic Attack
- Natalie Complains About Fickle Things Nobody Should Care About (EXP Is A Superior Term to XP)
- Natalie Bemoans Tears of the Kingdom (Natalie Talks About The Latest Hotness – Loz TotK Edition)
- Build A World and Flip It! (Cygames ‘Slows Down’ Production on World Flipper)
- Overwatch 2 Was A Work From Day One (Overwatch 2’s Promised PvE Mode Has Been Scrapped)
- Mortal Kombat Twelve, Sans the Two (The Twelfth Mainline Mortal Kombat Title, Mortal Kombat 1, Announced)
Rundown (4/30/2023) TSF Visual Novel Fiesta!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Review Plans & Scheduled Hopes
- NetEase Expands With Ease (NetEase Opens A New Studio in Barcelona and Seattle)
- Cygames Expands Beyond The Cyber (Cygames Established Cygames America and Cygames Europe)
- The Unionization Wave Continues! (Sega of America Establishes Union)
- For Validity to Exist, Invalidity Must Also Exist (Natalie Complains About Moral Subjectivity)
- Nintendo Hates Nintendo, So I Hate Them (Nintendo Destroyed A Prolific Fan Site)
- Natalie is Going to Sell Her Old Video Games (And Natalie.TF Readers Could Get a 15% Discount)
- BONUS: SECRET NATALIE LORE
Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost: 2021 Remix – Ch 5: Petty Quibbles and Miscellaneous Desires
Because while I love this game, there are a litany of little things that have been chipping away at my very soul!
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Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost: 2021 Remix – Ch 2: Play and Progression
Because when you engage with a live service, extensive tutorialization and external information gathering is a necessity to ensure an even remotely optimal play experience.
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Rundown (5/16-5/22) Crash and Die
Wherein I discuss a Chinese currency conundrum, some surprisingly restrained gams, the re;birth of a studio after a decade of darkness, and the death of one of the greatest mangaka.
(more…)Rundown (1/31-2/06) 95% Plague Immunity
Wherein I discuss the encroaching demise of Stadia, the revengeance of Judgment, a beloved remaster, even more acquisitions, capital alliances, and a decade-old remaster revived!
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Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost – Chapter 5: Love, Loss, and Gripes
Because when you pour 1,000 hours into something, your thoughts on it become all kinda of mixed and muddled!
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Rundown (9/09-9/15) Bonk This Bank!
This is such a petty thing, but the way Pokemon Bank subscriptions are handled really bothers me. At first I thought that if your subscription lapsed, you could more or less indefinitely recover your stored Pokemon, but no, they are erased from the server after a while, and then they are gone forever, which is utter nonsense, especially considering how renewing one’s subscription works. You need to wait until you have 14 days or less left on your pass before you can extend the subscription, and if you forget, say goodbye to whatever is in there. No email notifications, no nothing. I have a near complete Pokedex (I missed Marshadow a while back), a box of shinies, alternate forms, and a Ditto with 3 perfect IVs in there. Do you know how upset and fundamentally broken I would be if I were to lose all of that? More than a goldarn smidget.
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Rundown (8/14-8/20) We Are All the Gamindustri
So, I managed to revise two of my most recent stories this week, and next week I am both ending a job and attending school at a big girl’s university. Life is going to get hard and hectic, according to my mother who never attended university. Though, I’m not worried about that. I am sorta worried about getting out content regularly, but I think I should be able to publish 52 game reviews this year and finish up Psycho Bullet Festival 2: Bury My Children. Oh, and publish a Rundown every Sunday. Header image is by NSFW artist ModeSeven. (more…)