Rundown (6/14/2026) S3 2026: STOP! You’re Making A Mess!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Stop! You’re Making a Mess!
- Microsoft’s S3 2026 Festivities (No Games For Genocide, Bitch!)
- The Miscellaneous Microsoft Trough (Go Away, Xbox!)
- Gears of War: E-Day’s First Major Showing (The Return to Form Apology)
- Persona 4 Revival Was Properly Revealed (And I’m FINE With It)
- Crazy Taxi: World Tour Announced (Verified AI Slop Revival)
- Vivarium Re-Announced (A Hand-Drawn Boku no Natsuyasumi Like!)
- Persona 6 Announced (With A Nothing Trailer!)
- Spyro 4 is REAL! (It’s Been 18 Years…)
- Thief: The Dark Project Remastered Announced (The Next Nightdive Joint)
- The Nintendo Direct Section (Nat-Nat Will Never Sleep!)
- Nintendo Direct 2026-06-09: Minor Things of Note (Many Minors!)
- The Ocarina of Time Remake Announced (I’m Indifferent Until I Learn Literally Anything About It)
- Muramasa Revenant Blades Announced (After 11 Years of Waiting, Vanillaware Finally Brought A Game to PC!)
- Xenoblade Games Get Nintendo Switch 2 Editions (Xenoblade 1, 2, and 3 As God Intended)
- Xenoblade Genesis Announced (Neat, But What’s Going On?)
- Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Announced (This Should Have Been Nintendo Switch Sports 1)
- Final Fantasy Resonance Announced (From The Ashes of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius)
- Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic – the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Announced (Natalie FINALLY Talks About Touhou)
- Video Games This September Are Bonkers, Yo! (Wake Me Up When Septembergeddon Ends)
- Ubisoft Celebrates S3 2026 With LAYOFFS! (380 People Can No Longer Support Their Families!)
Rundown (3/29/2026) The Resident Evil Redemption
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Resident Evil Redemption
- FlipWitch: Temples of Temptation Announced (That TSF Metroidvania is Getting a Sequel!)
- Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 People (Because Time Sweeney is a Small-Minded Man)
- OpenAI Kills Sora (I Cannot WAIT for the AI Bubble to Pop)
- What The Hell’s Going on With Acquisitions and Closures This Week? (Everything is Falling Apart! Aaaaaahhhh!!!)
- The PlayStation 5 Gets A $100 Price Increase (Budget Gaming is DEAD. Politics Killed It!)
- Nintendo is Charging More For Physical Games (This Was Inevitable, and Here’s Why!)
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 (1/11/2026) The Internet is Working as Intended
Rundown (11/09/2025) Natalie Goes International!
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)
Rundown (9/14/2025) Find Yourself Within Silence
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Find Yourself Within Silence
- YouTube is Destroying The Livelihood of Its Creators (Thanks to Restricted Mode)
- How Many People Does It Take to Make a Game (And Who TF Counts as a Game Dev?)
- Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Unveiled (Forever Entertainment Biffed It Again!)
- Natalie Fell Down A Retro Game Influencer Hole Again (One More Mini Indulgence…)
- The Biggest Nintendo Direct EVAH! (Mr. Mario Just Turned 40~!)
- Super Mario Galaxy is Back Bay-Bee! (Back to SPACE!!!)
- Mario Tennis Fever Announced (Everybody Clap! NOW!!!)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is Getting Paid DLC for Switch 2! (Because Super Luigi Bros. Wonder Would be Too Cute!)
- Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Announced (What the Hell is the Yoshi Series?)
- Virtual Boy Games Are Back! (If You Pay Nintendo $100 for Some Plastic)
- Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined Announced (The Best/Worst Dragon Quest, But With 3D Scanned Doll and Dioramas)
- Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake Announced (Another Remake of a Remake!)
- Donkey Kong Bananza Paid DLC Announced (A Bastardized Childhood and Roguelike Mode for a Brisk $20!)
- Pokémon Legends: Z-A Is Getting Paid DLC! (And Stupid Natalie is Gonna Buy It!)
- Pokémon Pokopia Announced! (Pokémon X Dragon Quest Builders, I Guess?)
- Danganronpa 2×2 Announced (What a Needless Re-Whatever…)
- Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Announced (Here’s To Another Decade of Anime Genocide Discourse!)
- Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection Announced (How Is That Even Going to Work?)
Rundown (8/31/2025) What’s The Deal With Akumako?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: What’s The Deal With Akumako?
- Natalie Played The Trails in the Sky Remake (Hot TitS On A Platter)
- Nintendo is Withholding Switch 2 Dev Kits (Another Factor That Makes Modern Game Dev So Perilous)
- Natalie Muses About Live Services Some More (And How She Thinks It’s All Gonna Burn!)
- Duet Night Abyss Scraps Its Gacha and Stamina System (What Is a Gacha Without the Gacha? Good?)
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)
Rundown (8/03/2025) How Square Enix Fumbled Final Fantasy
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Why Don’t Zoomies Care About Final Fantasy?
- Atari Acquires Thunderful Group (It Was Either This or Bankruptcy, I Guess)
- Natalie Does Not Understand Gamindustri (She’s Also Nutso)
- Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase 2025 Happened (Bring On The Switch 2 Ports!)
- Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Announced (NOT The Monster Hunter People Crave)
- Once Upon A Katamari Announced (A Sequel 14 Years In The Making!)
- The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Announced (Cool, But What’s With That Name?)
- Octopath Traveler 0 Announced (Continent of Champions Redux!)
- Nintendo Switch Price Hike Announced (Bunk All This Tariff Ish Maaaaaan…)
- Darksiders is NOT Dead! (The 15 Year Dream Will Be Realized!)
- re:Dreamer Version 0.20.0 is FINALLY Done! (The Third Last Minute Addition)
Rundown (6/22/2025) I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home
- Should I Run Ads on Natalie.TF? (Strictly for Tax Purposes!)
- Donkey Kong Bananza Direct (As Expected, It Looks Great!)
- Natalie Tries to Figure Out What Dating Sims Are (And the Gap in Western Romance Games)
- Switch 2 Did Not Save Gamindustri… (BIG SHOCK!!!)
Rundown (6/15/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases – Slice 2
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: During My Vacation, I Wrote a Novel’s Worth of Stuff!
- Xbox Games Showcase Rundown (Games For Your Home Computer, TV, and Telephone)
- ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Announced (The Xbox Handheld is Finally Here!)
- Xbox Reasserts Play Anywhere As A Key Selling Point (But Do People Actually Want It?)
- Super Meat Boy 3D Announced Super Meat Boy is BACK in the Third Dimension
- Beast of Reincarnation Announced (Game Freak’s AAA Action Game is Real!)
- Clockwork Revolution Re-Revealed (And It Looks DOPE!)
- Don’t Nod Announces Aphelion (They Are Also Running Out of Money)
- No Ghosts At The Grand Is a Baffling Musical Mystery (Magical Musical Negro Jumpscare!)
- Aniimo Announced as the Latest Big Budget Critter Collector (Too Bad It’s a Damn Live Service!)
- Persona 4 Revival Announced (The Only Reason to Remake Persona 4 Is to Make It Gayer)
- The Xbox Showcase Dribs and Drabs (Stuff I Don’t FEEL Like Propping Up, or Have Much to Say About)
- Splatoon Raiders Announced (And Natalie Complains About PVP Games Being Bad)
- Nintendo Switch 2 Sells 3.5 Million in Four Days! (Nintendo Switch 2 Da Moon!)
- Bloober Team is Remaking Silent Hill (1999) (Try Not To Be Too Shocked)
- Metal Gear Δ: Snake Eater is Getting A New Online Mode! (RIP Metal Gear Online…)
Rundown (6/08/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases 2025 – Slice 1
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Segmented Summer Showcases 2025 – Slice 1
- The State of Play Rundown (And MORE Ranting About PlayStation’s Lack of Legacy)
- The State of Play Miscellaneous Announcements (It’s Silly Having 30 Subheaders, Aight?)
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Announced (STOP BLURRING SPRITES, IDIOT!)
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Announced (And It’s About Time Too!)
- Pragmata Re-Announced (Pragmata is NOT Dead!)
- Romeo is a Dead Man Announced (Grasshopper is NOT a Dead Studio)
- Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement Announced (Bloodstained 2 Bay-Bee!)
- 007 First Light Announced (Of Course It’s a James Bond Origin Story)
- Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Announced (Mahvel 4, Hold The Capcom)
- Switch 2 Bad Publicity (Switch 2 Came Out to Zero Reviews)
- Summer Game Fest Rundown (Keighley’s Summer Game Adverts VI)
- Sonic Racings CrossWorlds Is A Crossover Racer (And All The Children Screamed)
- Code Vein II Is REAL! (My Suspicions Were Right! RIGHT!)
- Killer Inn Announced (Where is My Deception V? I was Promised Deception!)
- Lego Voyagers and Lego Party Announced (Double Lego Toil & Trouble!)
- Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver Announced (Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ To Fuck Wit!)
- Project Century Is Stranger Than Heaven (And It’s (Probably) a 100 Year Saga!)
- Resident Evil 9: Requiem Announced (And Not Much Else)
- The Miscellaneous Announcements! (There are Too Many Games!)
Rundown (4/20/2025) I Did the Taxes. Now I Go to Bread.
Rundown (4/13/2025) Tax Xtender 2025
Rundown (4/06/2025) Swiitch 2 – 4 Mii & U
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!)
Rundown (1/19/2025) Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?
- Nintendo Switch 2 Announced (It’s Been SEVEN YEARS!)
- Video Game Generation Numbers Are Fine, Ya Old Farts (Another Tangent Before Bedtime)
- Nintendo Switch 2 Vs. The PC Handheld Market (Nat-Nat Bullies Silly-Billy PC Fans)
- Natalie Hates Age-Based Timestamps (A Machine Needs to Vent, and So Do I!)
- STOP KILLING GAMES Update! (UK Citizens, Sign This Petition!)
- Sony Cancels Another Two Live Services (This Venture Was a Boneheaded Waste…)
- Bad Person And Writer is a Cool Person and Wackadoo Writer (I Swear These Mini Showcases Won’t Be A Regular Thing)