Rundown (11/09/2025) Natalie Goes International!

• Post published:11/09/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie.TF Goes International!
• A Quarterly Nintendo Sales Segment (Somehow, The Nintendo Switch Kept Selling)
• NetEase Says NO to North American Game Companies (It Was A Bad Idea Anyway!)
• Pokémon Legends: Z-A Mega Dimension DLC Was Properly Revealed (It Looks… Alright?)
• Grand Theft Auto VI Delayed to November 19, 2026 (Because of Attempted Unionization)
• Student Transfer Version 9 is Coming Out This December! (Oh Joy!)
• Cassie Gushes About Honkai: Star Rail’s Latest Update (Presented in the Language of the Fox)

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Rundown (9/01/2024) Nina Tendo Brain Problems

• Post published:09/01/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:69 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Nina Tendo Brain Problems
• Nina Tendo’s Double Direct Digest! (Nintendo Direct and Indie World Rundown)
• Tetris Really IS Forever (Digital Eclipse Announces Tetris Forever)
• Yo, Falcom’s TitS is No Longer Ugly As Hell! (Trails in the Sky 1st Remake Announced)
• We Are In The CapGod Era of Re-Releases! (Capcom Announces Capcom Fighting Collection 2)
• DominuS Without the Dual Screen (Castlevania DominuS Collection Announced)
• Corporatized Coziness Continues (EA Announces Remaster of MySims and MySims Kingdoms)
• Hitting the Switch LIKE A DRAGON! (Like a Dragon – Yakuza: Kiawami (2016) Announced for Switch)
• Tokimeki FUCKING Memorial is Back! (Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You Emotional Announced)
• Nintendo Direct: Dribs and Drabs (JRPGs I Didn’t Have Much to Say About)
• Live Services, Quality, Disdain, Bad Ideas, and Death (The Struggles of Foamstars, Concord, and Blue Protocol)
• Argonaut & Croc are BACK! (Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD Remaster Announced)
• Visions of Dissolution and Despair (NetEase and Tencent Are Reconsidering Japanese Game Investments)
• Hideaki Itsuno Leaves Capcom After 30 Years (Devil May Cry Shepard and Dragon’s Dogma Director Leaves Capcom)
• Nintendo Re-Whatever Rationale List (Moved to the End to Avoid Pace Breaking)

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Rundown (3/31/2024) Revenge of Editing Hell

• Post published:03/31/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:25 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Revenge of Editing Hell
• TSF Showcase 2024-13 A Gender-Bent Maiden and a Confession Under a Starry Sky [Nyotaika no Musume to Hoshizora no Kokuhaku] by Poriuretan
• The Embracer Fire Sale Continues! (Take Two Buys Gearbox Entertainment For $460 Million)
• SHOW ME WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF!!! (Sonic Heroes Remake/Remaster is Maybe Happening)
• Relic Entertainment Goes Indie! (Sega Lays Off 240 People, Sells Off Relic Entertainment)
• Credits Are Vital, Yet Often Suppressed (NetEase Announced Marvel Hero Shooter, Marvel Rivals)

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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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Rundown (11/19/2023) So Long Old Home! + The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update

• Post published:11/19/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:32 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: So Long Old Home!
• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update
• TSF Showcase 2023-38 P(ossession)-Party by Asagiri (ts-complex2nd)
• Annapurna Bought 24 Whole Bits! (Annapurna Interactive Acquires 24 Bit Games)
• NetEase Still Won’t Stop! (NetEase Establishes New Studio Worlds Untold)
• **** The Children (Natalie Rambles About ‘The Child Question’)
• Oh Shit, Class of ’09 Really Blew Up (Natalie Looked At Her Site Stats and Found a Surprise)
• The Least Surprising Remaster Announcement Happened at 6:30 PM on a Friday (The Last of Us Part II Remastered Announced)

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Rundown (11/05/2023) re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…

• Post published:11/05/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…
• TSF Showcase 2023-36 Shisutaabooi by Joe Six-Pack
• Digital Eclipse Is No Longer Independent (Atari Acquires Digital Eclipse)
• Devolver Digital’s Corporate Consumption Continues (Devolver Digital Acquires System Era Softworks)
• Sony is Buying Up A Video Delivery Company For Their Cloud Streaming (Sony Announces Acquisition of iSIZE)
• Net Ease is BACK with Another New Studio (After a 5 Month Hiatus, NetEase Announces Their Tenth New Studio Since 2020)
• Sonic Dream Team Looks Like An Official 3D Sonic Fan Game (This Is the Closest Thing We’ve Gotten to Sonic Adventure Since 2006)
• Fiery Red Passion (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Flash Filmic Fanworks)

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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 (6/04/2023) Natalie Needs to Sell Her Old Game Collection

• Post published:06/04/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:14 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: How Do You Sell Old Video Games?
• Oh My God, NetEase! Stop Establishing New Studios! (NetEase Establishes Their Fifth Tokyo-based Studio)
• And the Love-de-Lic Fragmentation Continued… (Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash Developer Vanpool Shut Down)
• Arkane Austin’s Bloody Fall (Redfall Development Deets Just Dropped)
• Nintendo Is Releasing A Shitty Game Nobody Liked Because Fuck It (Everybody 1-2 Switch Announced)
• White Album is Coming Out in English, Bay-Bee! (Another Classic Visual Novel Is Getting Localized)

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Rundown (5/28/2023) The 6 Month Post-Surgery Update

• Post published:05/28/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:30 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The 6 Month Post-Surgery Update
• Net Ease Into Another Studio (NetEase Opens Bad Brain Game Studios)
• The Embracer Group Screwed Up and Lost $2 Billion in Revenue (The Knights of the Old Republic Remake Was Probably Canceled)
• Nintendo Hates You and They Can Go Fuck Off (Nintendo Made the Nintendo 3DS Harder to Hack)
• Let The Segmented Summer Showcases Begin! (PlayStation Showcase Roundup)
• The Metal Gear Solid Rumors Were REAL! (Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 1 & Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater Announced)
• Natalie Just Wanted An Excuse to Talk About Dragon’s Dogma (Dragon’s Dogma II Announced)
• Bungie Digs Up A Classic IP To Murder It (Marathon: The Live Service Announced)
• Natalie Rants About Live Services Revision 2023-05-28 (Because Marathon: The Live Service Upsets Me On A Fundamental Level)
• Silly Sony, That’s Not a PlayStation Vita 2! (Sony Announces Project Q Streaming Handheld)
• Marvy’s Next Gen Upgrade! (Marvelous Games Showcase Rundown)

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Rundown (4/30/2023) TSF Visual Novel Fiesta!

• Post published:04/30/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:15 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

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

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Rundown (1/08/2023) Dash & Write!

• Post published:01/08/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:12 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Did Natalie Do This Week?
• Let’s (Net)Ease Into Another Acquisition! (NetEase Acquires Support Studio SkyBox Labs)
• Success in the East; Obscurity in the West! (PUBG Mobile Reached $9 Billion in Revenue)
• A PlayStation For All Peoples (Sony Announces Accessibility Controller with Project Leonardo)
• A Decade-Long Generation (How Much Longer Will Games Be Released For PS4 and Xbox One?)

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Rundown (11/20-11/26) Student Transfer Version 7.0 is Out!!!

• Post published:11/27/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:20 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Student Transfer V7 is Good; Review Coming Before December 7th
• These Wolves Ain’t Rebels No More! (NetEase Invests in Polish Studio Rebel Wolves)
• The ‘Kdicarus’ Will Rise Again (Masahiro Sakurai Teases Kid Icarus: Uprising Port)
• There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Hybrid Home Console Handheld’ (Natalie Complains About the Switch’s Classification for the nth Time)
• More Like T.E.X.T. Troopers (E.X. Troopers Has Been Fan Translated)
• AI-licia Erotica (Alicia’s The Great Shift TG Captions is Back!)
• Video Deliberations (Should Natalie Start Recording Gameplay and Making Videos?)
• End & Updates: Goodbye Dragalia Lost…

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Rundown (5/01-5/07) Ret-2-eScape TSF Hell

• Post published:05/08/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:7 mins read
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Wherein I discuss the 10th anniversary project’s progress, the Square Enix separation, and an ARG with a zero chance of escape.

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