Rundown (3/29/2026) The Resident Evil Redemption

• Post published:03/29/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:52 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

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!)

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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 (1/11/2026) The Internet is Working as Intended

• Post published:01/11/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:39 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Internet is Working as Intended
• Natalie’s Insane Pokémon Project (That She Will Never Finish)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Holiday Sales Underwhelm (And What It Means for Gaming)
• Cygames Opens up AI Studio (More like Cyg-AI-mes!)

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Natalie Rambles About 2025

• Post published:12/31/2025
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:155 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

The Trial of Natalie Neumann!

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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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Pokémon Legends: Z-A Review

• Post published:11/04/2025
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

From the bottom to the top, from the north to the south, and back around again.

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Rundown (9/14/2025) Find Yourself Within Silence

• Post published:09/14/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:93 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

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?)

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Rundown (8/31/2025) What’s The Deal With Akumako?

• Post published:08/31/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:49 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

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?)

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

• Post published:08/17/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

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 (8/03/2025) How Square Enix Fumbled Final Fantasy

• Post published:08/03/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:80 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

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)

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Rundown (6/22/2025) I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home

• Post published:06/22/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

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!!!)

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Rundown (6/15/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases – Slice 2

• Post published:06/15/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:73 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

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…)

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Rundown (6/08/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases 2025 – Slice 1

• Post published:06/08/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:64 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

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!)

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Rundown (4/20/2025) I Did the Taxes. Now I Go to Bread.

• Post published:04/20/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Did The Taxes. Now I Go To Bread.
• Mario Kart DWT – Direct World Tour (Because Nintendo Needs A Win…)
• More Mild Musings About Pokémon – April 2025 Ver. (Natalie Needs to Buff Up This Rundown Somehow!)

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Rundown (4/13/2025) Tax Xtender 2025

• Post published:04/13/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:26 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Tax Xtender 2025!
• The Tariff Wars Continue (Divest From America and Let Her Rot)
• Nintendo $witch 2 Much $$$$$$ (Because Everybody Else is Talking About It!)
• More Mild Musings About Live Services (If Only to Pad This Rundown)

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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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Rundown (1/19/2025) Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?

• Post published:01/19/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:46 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

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)

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