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 (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 (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!)
Natalie Rambles About 2024
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(more…)Rundown (11/03/2024) Natalie Rambles About Psycho Shatter 1988
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Psycho Shatter 1988 Is A Wack-Ass Mess, But I Love It
- Steins;Gate RE:BOOT is a Re;Make (The Terminology of Re-Whatevers Remains Inconsistent)
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete Overview Released (I Will Pay $500 For Dragalia Lost Complete, Nintendo…)
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Announced (The Switch Consolidation Continues)
- Nintendo Music Streaming Service Announced (Why The Frick Do Zoomies Use Streaming Services?)
- Sony Closes Down Concord Developer Firewalk Studios (Hopefully The Final Concord Segment)
- The REAL Reason Nintendo is Suing Palworld (A Lawyer Explains Nintendo v. Palworld!)
- Natalie Rambles About How Sports Games Were Ruined (What’s an Accolade?)
Rundown (10/13/2024) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic! – The Lost Levels
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic! – The Lost Levels
- Silent Hill 2 (2024) is… Actually Good? (Bloober Got It Right?)
- 343 Industries Is Now Halo Studios (Still Doesn’t Get Halo Out of Its Mess)
- Student Transfer FINALLY Got An Official YouTube Channel! (And Other Miscellaneous Tangents)
- Red Dead Re-Re-Re-Redemption! (Red Dead Redemption Is FINALLY Coming to PC)
- LittleBigDelisting (Sony is Delisting LittleBigPlanet 3)
- The Great Big Roblox Exposé! (Roblox Is an X-Rated Pedophile Hellscape)
- Raise the Alarmo! (Nintendo Reveals a Smart Clock to Watch You as You Sleep)
Rundown (9/01/2024) Nina Tendo Brain Problems
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)
Rundown (8/25/2024) Return to Inefficient Labor
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Return to Inefficient Labor
- Nintendo Direct 2 Da Museum (Natalie Is Confused By The Nintendo Museum)
- Wukong Does Big Bananas! (In More Ways Than One!)
- The Gamescom Rundown (Because I Didn’t Want To Cover Everything…)
- Take Two Interactive’s Gearbox Is Back To Money-Making (Borderlands 4 Announced)
- A Reminder: Tencent Owns Techland (Dying Light: The Beast Announced)
- Dirty Liar Peter Molyneux is Back! (Masters of Albion Announced)
- How The Hell Is This Series Still Alive? (Mafia: The Old Country Announced)
- Oh Snap, TSF Creators Are Noticing Me! (And Another Aside About SwapHouse)
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp EOS Announced (But It’s Getting an Offline Version!)
Rundown (6/23/2024) Pride Month and Transition Reflections
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Pride Month and Transition Reflections
- Student Transfer V8 is Out! (Get HYPE!)
- TSF Showcase 2024-25 True Stories From the Time of The Great Shift by Caleb Jones
- Embracer Group Shuts Down Pieces Interactive (Alone in the Dark (2024) Developer Crumbles Into Pieces)
- Nintendo Direct 2024-06-18 Rundown (Nindai Doko? Nindai Now!)
- The Denpa Boys Are BACK! (Live Service The New Denpa Men Announced)
- The Ace Attorney Saga is Now Complete! (Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Announced)
- Toy Zelda is Back… Unfortunately (Natalie Completely Loses The Plot in Her Latest Rant)
- Ho Hi Jamboree! (Mario Party 13: Super Jamboree Announced)
- Beyond The Emerald Beyond | Minstrel Song Successor (Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven Announced)
- This Looks Like a Marvelous Mishmash! (Farmagia Formally Unveiled)
- Mario & Luigi RPG is BACK! (Mario & Luigi: Brothership Announced)
- They Downgraded A Remake of an NES Game! (Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake Re-Announced)
- Versus Capcom is BACK! (Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Announced)
- Do I Want This Fantasy To Come True? (Fantasian Neo Dimension Announced)
- Donkey Kong Re-Re-Re-Returns With His First Game in 7 Years! (Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Announced)
- I want 100 Danganronpas, And I’m Not Kidding! (The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Announced)
- It’s Been 7 Years… (Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Gameplay Reveal)
- I Should Have Talked About This Two Weeks Ago… (Tribe Nine Looks Like The Coolest Shit*)
- Resident Evil… 1996! (PEGI Leaks a Possible PC Release of the Original Resident Evil)
- Limited Run Rundown! (Sonuva Finch! I Forgot This Was This Week!)
- Two PS1 Games, Emulated Decently, For a Premium Price (Fighting Force Collection Announced)
- Fear Effect Reinvented is Dead, Take This Re-Release (Fear Effect Port Announced)
- Limited Run Should Not Have This Power! (The Carbon Engine Was A Mistake…)
- A Good Remaster Example (Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition Formally Announced)
Rundown (5/26/2024) I Got Robbed!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Got Robbed!!!
- TSF Showcase 2024-21 Tenkōsei [Exchange Students] or I Are You, You Am Me
- Nintendo’s Miami Shiver is Ret-2-Go! (Nintendo Acquires Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group)
- The Accursed Consolidation Continues! (Ziff Davis Acquires Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, and More)
- Abrazar La Muerte, Amico (Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand)
Rundown (5/12/2024) Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder
- TSF Showcase 2024-19 Change Ring by Kawaii Tsun’aho
- TSF Showcase 2024-19.1 Change Ring the Manga by Kawaii Tsun’aho and MPZ
- Student Transfer V8 is Coming Soon! (The Murder Route is Finally Getting Replaced!)
- re:Dreamer is Back, Bay-Bee! (re:Dreamer Version 0.18.0 Releases After 7 Month Delay)
- Microsoft Murders Arkane Austin and Tango GameWorks (Technically They Also Killed Alpha Dog and Consolidated Roundhouse…)
- Another AI Generated Image Musing (No, I’m Not Going to Become An AI Pundit)
- Yes, Nintendo Switch 2 is Happening, But You Gotta Wait! (The Switch-2.0-Roadmap)
- Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Announced (Better Than Nothing, Worse Than You’d Expect)
Rundown (4/28/2024) The Masturbation Conundrum
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Masturbation Conundrum
- TSF Showcase 2024-17 The Auto-Closet by Kristen O
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.1 One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.2 Two Sexy Errors by SapphireFoxx
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.3 Shifting Roommates: One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.4 One Sexy Error: Role Reversal by SapphireFoxx
- I Spent Too Much Time Playing PokéRogue, so Now I Gotta Contentize It (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Rogue of A Risky Rainy Randomness)
- Unembraced Entities (The Embracer Group Announces Disbandment)
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part III (Pixiv Restricts R18 Works For All US and UK Residents)
- The Game Industry Hates Games And Libraries Too (ESA Refuses to Assist Libraries With Game Preservation)
- Infogrames is Back Bay-Bee! (Atari Relaunches Infogrames Brand After 20 Years Because I Don’t Know!)
- Nintendo Hates You And Everyone Too (Nintendo Removes All Nintendo-Related Uploads From Garry’s Mod)
Rundown (3/03/2024) Life Might Be a Waste of Time but It’s Nice!
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)
Rundown (2/25/2024) First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!
- TSF Showcase 2024-08 Okitsune-sama de Chu♥ by Sumino Yuji
- Nintendo Direct 2024 – 1 of ??? (A Spoonful of Sugar To Numb The Mind)
- Monster Hunter Stories… Retold (Capcom Announces Monster Hunter Stories Remaster)
- Epic Disappointment Remastered (Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed Announced)
- SMT is BACK! …With A Vengeance! (Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Announced)
- Back to the Banana-Rama Again! (Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble Announced)
- Explore The Sea… With Friends! (Endless Ocean Luminous Announced)
- Pokémon Radical Insanity (First Impressions of Pokémon Radical Red v4.0)
Rundown (6/25/2023) A Gray Day Is DOPE!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-14 A Gray Day by Maideneir
- Trans-Sexual Fantasy Ja Nai (What is and is not TSF?)
- The GameCube Handle Was Worthless, Stop Revising History (This Is a Pointless Comment, but I Just Slid It in Here)
- Ah Shaz, I Guess We’re Getting 3 Nintendo Directs This Year! (Rundown of the June 21, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
- Detective Pikachu 2 ACTUALLY Looks Like It Belongs On 3DS (Detective Pikachu Returns Announced)
- Monster Catching Is Back, Bay-Bee! (Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince Announced)
- WarioWare is Back… AGAIN… AGAIN! (WarioWare: Move It! Announced)
- The Pikmin Quadrilogy is Complete! (HD Ports of Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 2 Announced and Stealth Dropped)
- Collect That Shit Like A Master! (Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Volume 1 is Lookin’ Good!)
- The Best Star Ocean is Now EVEN BETTER! (Star Ocean: The Second Story R Announced)
- Natalie Hated This Remake Until She Re-Watched The Trailer (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Remake Announced)
- New Super Mario Wonderworld! (Super Mario Bros. Wonder Announced)
- More Mario Coming In 2024! (Nintendo Sorta Announces Two Mario Games)
- Other Nintendo Direct Coolsies (Neat Games That Don’t Warrant Their Own Section)
- The 2023 Schedule – Q2 Update (Natalie Provides Her TENTATIVE Plans For The Rest of 2023)
- A Demon In Human Skin (A Rundown Post-Script)
Rundown (4/30/2023) TSF Visual Novel Fiesta!
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
Rundown (4/02/2023) Darcy’s Transformation Nightmare
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-13 Darcy’s Breeder’s Guide to Alola Nuzlocke by Jamsnjellies
- Stores Die, Offline Games Don’t (Natalie Rambles About The 3DS and Wii U eShop For the Nth Time)
- All I Want Is 1280×1280 Images of Every Pokémon (Natalie Spent Too Much Time Searching For High Resolution Pokémon Art)
- E3 Is DEAD — NOW AND FOREVER!!! (After Everybody Bailed, the ESA Canceled E3 2023)
- Princess Disconnect!: Re:Die (Princess Connect! Re:Dive’s English Version Ending Service on April 30th)
Rundown (3/26/2023) One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident is DOPE!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-11 One Year After Body Swap Terrorism Incident by KPmouse
- TSF Showcase #2023-12 Ranma Video Essays
- Ranma ½ Changed Me by Mathwiz
- The Anime That Cracks Your Egg – Ranma 1/2 & Queerness by ShaggyJebus
- Atari’s Tentacles Gobbled Up The Dive Boys! (Atari Acquires Nightdive Studios)
- Honor Your Rights, Or Your Rights Don’t Mean Shit! (Natalie Complains About Nintendo’s Continued Destruction of Their History)
- EA Continues to Excel At Executions (EA Announces Delisting of Mirror’s Edge and Three Battlefield Games)
- Valve Is Re-Upping Their Cash Cow (Counter Strike 2 Will Replace Counter-Strike: Global Offensive This Summer)
- Instead of Supporting an Overpriced Sonic Compilation, Sega Is Charging An Extra $10 (Sonic Origins: The Better Version Announced)
- Make My Nep-Nep Grow! (Neptunia: GameMaker R:Evolution Announced)
- Oh Shit Son! It’s Tax Time: The Visual Novel! (Tax Heaven 3000 Announced)
- Unity AI Slipped Under My Radar! Embrace AI or Die For JUSTICE! (Unity AI Announced & More Calls For Revolution and Heroic Sacrifice)
- Video and Recording Is A Nightmare! (Natalie Finished Saving 200+ GB of SapphireFoxx Content)
Rundown (2/12/2023) Natalie Reviews Rintarou Panic! (And Other Assorted Treats)
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-03 Rintarou Panic! is DOPE!
- TSF Showcase #2023-04 About Sex: Understanding the Body Swap and The Transformation Fetishes by Sr. Estranho
- Libraries and Media as a Public Good (Natalie Rambles About Digital Public Libraries)
- Out With The AAA; In With The Old (Natalie Rambles About The State of AAA & Retro Gaming)
- Are First-Party Nintendo Games AAA Titles? (A Bridge Between Two Segments)
- Nintendo Direct 2023 – 1 of 2 (Rundown of the February 8, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
- Pikmin 4 is Real-er! (Pikmin 4 Gameplay Reveal)
- From Latin With Love 2 – 23 Years Later (Samba de Amigo is BACK!!!)
- Two Dope Looking Remasters Announced After Being Leaked! (Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie Announced)
- Yggdrasil Odyssey – OG Remaster! (Etrian Odyssey I, II, and III are Getting Remastered)
- Nintendo Switch Online Still Sucks, But It Has More Stuff Now (GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and GameBoy Advance Titles Added to NSO)
- Metroid Prime is BACK! (Metroid Prime Remastered FINALLY Releases for Switch)
- As Requested By 500 People, Here’s A Baten Kaitos Remaster! (Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster Announced)
- LEVEL-5 IS BACK BAY-BEE!!! (Developer Level-5 Announces 3 New Titles)
- Fantasy Life III, but with Only One I (Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Announced)
- We Ain’t Deca Sports, We Deca COPS! (DecaPolice Announced)
- Layton’s Back, BAY-BEE!!! (Professor Layton and The New World of Steam Announced)
- Paranormal Sights and Big Confusion (Square Enix Announces Horror Adventure Game Coming Out Next Month)
- Boku no Natsuyasumi VII, BAY-BEE!!! Natsu-Mon! 20th Century Summer Vacation Announced
- Atelier Remake Saga Begins! (Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg Announced)
- Nintendo Direct 2023 – 1 of 2 – Das Ende (Other Announcements From the February 8, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
- Ayesha Erotica And The Quest For Moral Purity (Natalie Rambles About Shunning And Moral Perfectionism)
Rundown (11/06-11/12) My First Exposure to Trans Characters Was Family Compo
Wherein I discuss: Some deep Natalie lore. Some pretty boring acquisition stuff. And modern Americana politics.
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Rundown (7/10-7/16) Nats & Arts & Crafts!
Wherein I discuss my artistic inabilities, a pair of semi-pleasant acquisitions, Kirby’s cake rolls, and how games keep on dying.
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Rundown (2/20-2/26) The TSF Well Is Deep, Dank, and Viscous
Wherein I discuss how I wanna make more TSF stuff, a premature sequel, a sequel 25 years in the making, two collections of disproportionate quality, and how you can make super emulation machines if you are smart enough.
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Rundown (2/13-2/19) Natalie is Full and Content
Wherein I discuss acquisitions (get used to me saying that every week, folks), and Nintendo’s war on games preservation.
(more…)Rundown (2/06-2/12) Bluetooth Frustrations
Wherein I discuss Platinum’s painful pivot, another acquisition, a definitive failure’s grand success, and the oodles of delights from Nina Tendo’s happy time press release showcase!
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Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost: 2021 Remix – Ch 5: Petty Quibbles and Miscellaneous Desires
Because while I love this game, there are a litany of little things that have been chipping away at my very soul!
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Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost: 2021 Remix – Ch 2: Play and Progression
Because when you engage with a live service, extensive tutorialization and external information gathering is a necessity to ensure an even remotely optimal play experience.
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Rundown (6/16-6/19) Formatting Frustrations
Wherein I discuss an accepted mundanity, ample cash left on the table, the next generation in gacha tech, and a leak for a DOPE collection.
(more…)Rundown (5/02-5/08) Back 2 Da Office Lyfe
Wherein I discuss the legal revelation of a clash of industry titans, the continued consolidation, and a tool for the next generation of game devs.
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Rundown (12/06-12/12) Cyber Dump
Wherein I discuss the aesthetic failures of the hottest game of the moment, Nintendo being Nintendo, the return of the Metatron, and Mr. Keighley’s latest trailer festival.
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Natalie Rambles About Dragalia Lost – Chapter 5: Love, Loss, and Gripes
Because when you pour 1,000 hours into something, your thoughts on it become all kinda of mixed and muddled!
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