Rundown (3/01/2026) Natalie is Sexual Addicted

• Post published:03/01/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Sexual Addicted
• Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Leave Xbox Pt. 2 (AI Yourself to Despair)
• Saudi Arabi’s Plan to Destroy Fighting Games (♫Let it Rot, Let it Rot♫)
• Marvel MaXimum Collection Announced (Licensed Re-Release Compilations Drive Natalie NUTS!)
• Paramount Skydance Outbids Netflix, Securing Warner Bros. Discovery Ownership (Stupid Rich Fascists Keep Trying to Consolidate Everything)
• Pokémon Presents Rundown (Finally! Some Good Beef!)

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Rundown (2/15/2026) How to Display Old Video Games

• Post published:02/15/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:58 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: How to Display Old Video Games
• What The Hell is Going on with Yakuza Kiwami 3? (We All Hate A Fall From Grace…)
• Sony Had A Banger State of Play! (Which Was A Pleasant Surprise)
• Legacy of Kain: Defiant Remastered Announced (They Skipped Blood Omen II!)
• Legacy of Kain: Ascendance Announced (WWWHHHHAAAAAAATTTT?!?!?!?!)
• Dead or Alive 6: Last Round and Dead or Alive 7 Announced (Dead or Alive is BACK!)
• Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Announced (It’s a Museum, Bay-Bee!)
• Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 2 Announced (Featuring MGS4, Peace Walker, and… Ghost Babel)
• Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Announced (A Proper Castlevania Game From the Dead Cells Guys)
• Silent Hill: Townfall Announced (Silent Hill is Annualized Again!)
• God of War Trilogy Remake Announced and Sons of Sparta Shadow Dropped (Greek God of War is BACK!)

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Rundown (2/08/2026) Natalie Writes Too Many Eating Scenes

• Post published:02/08/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:61 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Writes Too Many Eating Scenes!
• Nintendo Financials Update Q3 2026 (And Other Gaming Hardware Tidbits!)
• Nina Tendo’s Friends’ Switch 2 Showcase (Nintendo Direct 2026-01)
• Tokyo Scramble Announced (Japan’s Funniest Dino Crisis!)
• Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse Announced (It’s A Horror Series, Bay-Bee!)
• Another Eden Begins Announced (It’s Another Offline Gacha RPG! Yay!)
• Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok Announced (Granblue Fantasy: Relink With Endgame Content for Switch 2)
• Xanadu 6: Kyoto Xanadu Announced (Falcom Does What Gamindustri Don’t)
• A Bunch of Game Collections Were Announced (A Preface to Bomberman, Goemon, and Console Archives)
• Super Bomberman Collection Got Shadow Dropped (Classic Bomberman is BACK! …On a Budget!)
• Ganbare Goemon Daishuugo! Announced (Goemon is BACK! …But Only in Japan!)
• Hamster’s Console Archives Are Here! (Have Cool Boarders and Ninja Gaiden II NES)
• Overwatch 2 is Now Overwatch Again (And Natalie Still Hates It!)

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Rundown (12/07/2025) Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!

• Post published:12/07/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:50 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!
• Natalie Yaps About Video Game Piracy Culture (And Why It Changed!)
• Monotype is Screwing Over Japanese Devs (Their Rates Went Up Over 50x)
• Saudi Arabia Will Own 93.4% of EA (DO NOT BUY EA GAMES, EVER!)
• Somebody Hates HORSES (Why Is This Horror Game Banned on Steam?)
• Crucial is Dead, Thanks to AI (AI Companies Are Making RAM and SSD STUPID Expensive)
• Netflix Acquires Warner Bros. (Corporate Consolidation Cannot Be Stopped!)

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Rundown (11/23/2025) Natalie Crashes Back to America

• Post published:11/23/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Crashes Back to America
• The Emulated Re-Release Problem (We Need Open Source Emulators Yesterday)
• Tales of Berseria Remastered Announced (Further Frazzling The Natalie)
• Unity and Unreal Are Teaming Up! (Which Just Sounds Like Bad News For Everyone…)

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Rundown (9/07/2025) Hot Tax Tips for Digital Content Creators!

• Post published:09/07/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:38 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Hot Tax Tips for Digital Content Creators!
• FACT: Consoles ARE Getting More Expensive (And That’s Why They’re Stagnant)
• Natalie Hyperfixates on A Niche Re-Release Again! (Another Excuse to Gush About Falcom)

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Rundown (4/06/2025) Swiitch 2 – 4 Mii & U

• Post published:04/06/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:74 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Swiitch 2 – 4 Mii & U
• Switch 2: The Main Deets (Summary of the System Level Stuff)
• Switch 2: The Race World (Mario Kart World Announced)
• Switch 2: A Familiar Fable (Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster Announced)
• Switch 2: A New Zelda, Technically! (Zelda Musou – Hyrule Warriors 3: Age of Imprisonment Announced)
• Switch 2: A FromSoftware Multiplayer Switch 2 Exclusive (The Saga of Souls Chapter IX: The Duskbloods Announced)
• Switch 2: Sakurai’s Next Big Game! (Kirby Air Riders Announced)
• Switch 2: A Banana Bonanza (Donkey Kong Bananza Announced)
• Switch 2: The Riffraff (Games I Have Only A Paragraph of Stuff To Say About)
• Switch 2: The GameCube (Dolphin At Home!)
• Switch 2: The Money Zone (And the High Prices Brought to You by Trump Tax)
• Switch 2: The Tariffs (Fight the Power, With Your Fists!)
• Switch 2: The Verdict (Nah, Imma Gonna Pass This One)
• Random Tax Tip For American Gamers (I’m An Enrolled Agent, Trust Me Bro!)
• Oh, Right, April Fools Happened (And I Didn’t Get to Celebrate It!)

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Natalie Rambles About 2024

• Post published:12/30/2024
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:155 mins read
• Post comments:1 Comment

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Rundown (10/06/2024) Natalie Vs The Medical-Industrial Complex

• Post published:10/06/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Vs The Medical-Industrial Complex
• CaptainCaption Posted Another Life Update! (It’s A Cascade of Bullshit!)
• Natalie is Anti Hardware Innovation (On The Wrong Side of History Yet Again…)
• RIP RyujiNX (Nintendo Shuts Down Ryujinx, the Other Switch Emulator)
• Palworld Mobile Announced! (That’s All!)
• Epic Royalty Discount! (Release Games on Epic Games Store, Save 30% on Unreal Fees!)
• Keep It Peashy, Nippon! (Japan’s PC Game Market Grew 260% In 4 Years!)

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Rundown (4/07/2024) Artificially Difficult Taxation

• Post published:04/07/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

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)

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Rundown (3/10/2024) Wack-Ass Work Shifts

• Post published:03/10/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:33 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

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)

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Rundown (3/03/2024) Life Might Be a Waste of Time but It’s Nice!

• Post published:03/03/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:49 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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)

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Natalie Rambles About 2023

• Post published:12/27/2023
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:127 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

IBNTEVI RJI SETLMIDD UG TIEKORP EMS IZYITOIMVI TI;NOTRJ!!!

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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 (8/20/2023) The Quest for Quantified Quality

• Post published:08/20/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Quest for Quantified Quality
• TSF Showcase #2023-24: BlazBlue – Remix Heart by Deko Akao, Toshimichi Mori, and Sumeragi
• NetEase Establishes Their 11th Foreign Studio (NetEase Establishes T-Minus Zero Entertainment)
• This is Why You Don’t Make Deals With Saudi Arabia! (Embracer’s $2 Billion Partner Revealed)
• The Xbox 360 Marketplace Will Die in 11 Months (Backwards Compatible Titles Will Be Preserved)
• Games Do Not Take Too Long To Make; Production Values Are Just Too High (Another Natalie Neumann Mnemonic Nitpick)
• Screw Region Locked Purchases! I Just Want Some City Pop! (Natalie’s Been Jiving to Some Anri While Writing Stuff!)
• How The Frick Should I Represent Body Swaps Via Text? (Mind(Body) or Body(Mind)?)

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Rundown (8/13/2023) Enrolled Agent of Chaos

• Post published:08/13/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:32 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (7/30/2023) Hoarding Games I’ll Never Play!

• Post published:07/30/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (3/26/2023) One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident is DOPE!

• Post published:03/26/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

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)

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Rundown (2/12/2023) Natalie Reviews Rintarou Panic! (And Other Assorted Treats)

• Post published:02/12/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:70 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-03 Rintarou Panic! is DOPE!
• TSF Showcase #2023-04 About Sex: Understanding the Body Swap and The Transformation Fetishes by Sr. Estranho
• Libraries and Media as a Public Good (Natalie Rambles About Digital Public Libraries)
• Out With The AAA; In With The Old (Natalie Rambles About The State of AAA & Retro Gaming)
• Are First-Party Nintendo Games AAA Titles? (A Bridge Between Two Segments)
• Nintendo Direct 2023 – 1 of 2 (Rundown of the February 8, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
• Pikmin 4 is Real-er! (Pikmin 4 Gameplay Reveal)
• From Latin With Love 2 – 23 Years Later (Samba de Amigo is BACK!!!)
• Two Dope Looking Remasters Announced After Being Leaked! (Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie Announced)
• Yggdrasil Odyssey – OG Remaster! (Etrian Odyssey I, II, and III are Getting Remastered)
• Nintendo Switch Online Still Sucks, But It Has More Stuff Now (GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and GameBoy Advance Titles Added to NSO)
• Metroid Prime is BACK! (Metroid Prime Remastered FINALLY Releases for Switch)
• As Requested By 500 People, Here’s A Baten Kaitos Remaster! (Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster Announced)
• LEVEL-5 IS BACK BAY-BEE!!! (Developer Level-5 Announces 3 New Titles)
• Fantasy Life III, but with Only One I (Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Announced)
• We Ain’t Deca Sports, We Deca COPS! (DecaPolice Announced)
• Layton’s Back, BAY-BEE!!! (Professor Layton and The New World of Steam Announced)
• Paranormal Sights and Big Confusion (Square Enix Announces Horror Adventure Game Coming Out Next Month)
• Boku no Natsuyasumi VII, BAY-BEE!!! Natsu-Mon! 20th Century Summer Vacation Announced
• Atelier Remake Saga Begins! (Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg Announced)
• Nintendo Direct 2023 – 1 of 2 – Das Ende (Other Announcements From the February 8, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
• Ayesha Erotica And The Quest For Moral Purity (Natalie Rambles About Shunning And Moral Perfectionism)

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