Rundown (5/17/2026) The Natalie.TF Schedule Update – May 2026

• Post published:05/17/2026
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• Reading time:34 mins read
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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!)

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Rundown (5/10/2026) Neverness to Ever Less

• Post published:05/10/2026
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• Reading time:81 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (5/03/2026) Vampire Crawling to My Grave…

• Post published:05/03/2026
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• Reading time:35 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Vampire Crawling to My Grave…
• The Pokémon Remake Dilemma (Because All I Think About These Days is Re-Whatevers, lol)
• Spiders is DEAD (And It’s All Nacon’s Fault)

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Rundown (4/19/2026) Mathalie Demands ALL The Statistics!

• Post published:04/19/2026
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• Reading time:20 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Mathalie Demands ALL the Statistics!
• Grand Theft Auto Online Has Made Over $5 Billion USD (It Really Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving…)
• Metro 2039 Announced (Return to The Metro; Kill The Fuhrer!)

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Rundown (2/22/2026) Diversify Your Formative Experiences

• Post published:02/22/2026
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• Reading time:63 mins read
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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)

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

• Post published:02/08/2026
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• Reading time:61 mins read
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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 (2/01/2026) Natalie Ditches The Dollar

• Post published:02/01/2026
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• Reading time:48 mins read
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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)

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Natalie Rambles About 2025

• Post published:12/31/2025
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:155 mins read
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The Trial of Natalie Neumann!

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Rundown (12/21/2025) Slop Unto Divinity

• Post published:12/21/2025
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• Reading time:45 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (11/16/2025) Nurse Natalie and Comforting Cassie

• Post published:11/16/2025
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• Reading time:34 mins read
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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!)

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Rundown (10/26/2025) Open City Over Open World

• Post published:10/26/2025
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• Reading time:41 mins read
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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…)

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Rundown (10/19/2025) If The Internet Dies, Then What?

• Post published:10/19/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

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!)

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

• Post published:09/07/2025
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• 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 (8/24/2025) What Would My Dream TF Game Be?

• Post published:08/24/2025
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• Reading time:60 mins read
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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!)

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Rundown (8/17/2025) Natalie Got A Switch 2!

• Post published:08/17/2025
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• Reading time:42 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (6/29/2025) The Video Game Canon!

• Post published:06/29/2025
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• Reading time:38 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Video Game Canon!
• So, I Played Tokimeki Memorial (And I Didn’t Like It, As Expected)
• Viral Misfit Multiplayer Mayhem (Natalie Continues To Not Understand The Children…)

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