Rundown (6/21/2026) Money on My Mind (Re;Finance Ver.)
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Money on My Mind (Re;Finance Ver.)
- I Researched the Game Boy Advance Library (It Really Is as Bad as They Say It Is…)
- Xbox Hits Reset and Plans A New Wave of Layoffs (Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, and Double Fine are in Danger)
- Unreal Engine 6 Will Be A Slop Machine (Divest From Big Tech. NOW!)
Rundown (5/17/2026) The Natalie.TF Schedule Update – May 2026
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Natalie.TF Schedule Update – May 2026
- Natalie Muses About FMV Games (Blame The Saturn Panda Man!)
- Katsuhiro Harada Accepts Fat Check From Saudi Arabia (The Face of Tekken is Now Working for Saudi Arabia’s SNK)
- Sega Kills Their Super Game Initiative (A Hundred Billion Yen Down The Drain!)
Rundown (5/10/2026) Neverness to Ever Less
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Neverness to Ever Less
- Rundown 2 Preamble 2 Ramble: Neverness to Ever Less is Bad at Storytelling
- Gaming Generation Wars (No, The Worse Kind of Generations)
- Star Fox (2026) Announced (It’s The Third Remake of Star Fox 64)
- Atari Bought The First Five Wizardry Games (Somehow, Some Way, And It’s CONFUSING!)
- Nintendo Hikes Their Prices (Again) (Affordable Gaming is DEAD)
Rundown (4/19/2026) Mathalie Demands ALL The Statistics!
Rundown (2/22/2026) Diversify Your Formative Experiences
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Diversify Your Formative Experiences
- .hack//Z.E.R.O. Announced (But is This the Way Dot Hack Should Return?)
- The State of Video Gaming in 2026 (Matthew Ball is BACK!)
- Bluepoint Games is Dead, Killed by Sony (Because They Wanted a Remaster Studio to Make Live Services)
- Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Ports Announced for Nintendo Switch (Why Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Suck and Are Beloved)
- Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Leave Xbox (I Hope This Kills Xbox Faster)
Rundown (2/08/2026) Natalie Writes Too Many Eating Scenes
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!)
Rundown (2/01/2026) Natalie Ditches The Dollar
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Ditches the Dollar!
- Natalie’s History With Dragon Ball (Important Context For The Next Segment!)
- A Bunch of New Dragon Ball Projects Were Announced (A Deluge of Dragon Ball News)
- New Virtual Boy Games Are Coming in 2026 (Zero Racers and D-Hopper Live On!)
- Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Got Leaked (Natalie Muses About The Rayman)
- Tomadachi Life: Livin’ Da Dream Direct (Don’t LIVE The Dream, BE The Dream!)
- More Than a Fourth of All Games Workers Have Been Laid Off (At Least Per GDC’s Polling)
Rundown (12/21/2025) Slop Unto Divinity
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: More Like D-AI-v-AI-n-AI-ty and L-AI-r-AI-n!
- Ubisoft Acquires Amazon Games Montreal (Likely Due to Office Politics and Favors)
- GOG Wants You To Pay $5 To Help Them To Preserve Games (And I Say Do It!)
- The Hollow Knight Continues! (Silksong DLC and Hollow Knight Improvements Announced)
- Sega Channel Has Been Preserved! (Through the Power of BONDS!)
- US Video Game Hardware Had Its Worst November Since 1995 (Consoles Might Be Boned!)
- Missy Scrumptious Muses About Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension (Donut-Filled Review Appetizer)
Rundown (11/16/2025) Nurse Natalie and Comforting Cassie
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Nurse Natalie and Comforting Cassie
- State of Play Japan Edition (And Why It Is What It Is)
- The ARC Raiders Bit (Natalie Will Probably Regret This Rant, But Fuck It!)
- Valve Announced A Bunch of Steam Hardware (And Most of It Looks Cool!)
- Cassie’s Corner 2025-11 (Verbalising the V!)
Rundown (10/26/2025) Open City Over Open World
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Open City Over Open World
- The Depressing Reality of Decade-Long Sequel Gaps (That Feeling When Your Favorite Game When You Were 8 Doesn’t Get a Sequel Until You’re 18…)
- Kirby Air Riders Direct #2 (Modern Game Development is Not Sustainable)
- Halo: Campaign Evolved Announced (No 37-Year-Olds, This Won’t Make You Feel 12 Again…)
Rundown (10/19/2025) If The Internet Dies, Then What?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: If The Internet Dies, Then What?
- Re-Whatevers Continue to Be a Nightmare (There Can Be No Order Without Vision)
- Idiots Like Natalie Are Keeping Gamindustri Alive! (Only 4% of Game Players Buy Games Every Month)
- Who Even Wants a PS6 Anyway? (Other The People With More Money Than Sense…)
- The Future of The Next Generation of Pokémon Got Leaked (TeraLeak 2: Da FreakLeak Just Dropped!)
Rundown (9/07/2025) Hot Tax Tips for Digital Content Creators!
Rundown (8/24/2025) What Would My Dream TF Game Be?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Would My Dream TF Game Be?
- Time Marches On, So Just Accept It! (“WHAT? How is Y Turning X Years Old?”)
- Kirby Air Riders Direct (Masahiro Snackurai Returns!)
- Tales of Xillia Remastered Announced (Natalie Complains About Inefficient Re-Release Schedules)
- Keighley’s 2025 Part 2 of 3: Gamescom Ver. (Another Wet Barrage of Announcements!)
- Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Announced (I Really Miss Gen 7 Gamindustri)
- Bubsy 4D Announced (Neither the Bubsy We Want nor the Bubsy We Deserve)
- Zero Parades Revealed (Natalie Talks About The Disco Elysium Situation)
- Black Myth 2: Zhong Kui Announced (Fine, I Guess Black Myth is the Series Name)
- Hollow Knight Silksong Is Finally Coming Out (Arriving September 4th)
- PlayStation 5 US Price Hike Enacted (PlayStation? More Like PayStation!)
Rundown (8/17/2025) Natalie Got A Switch 2!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Got A Switch 2!
- An Alt Girl For Skoof Review (Because A Reader Gave Me A Copy)
- Natalie Rambles About Japanese to English Localization (Because I Felt Like It!)
- I Also Played The Adventures of Elliot Demo (It’s Alright, But Needs Some Tweaking)
