Rundown (9/28/2025) The Natalie Who Leapt Through Time

• Post published:09/28/2025
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• Reading time:49 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Natalie Who Leapt Through Time
• Palworld: Palfarm Announced (Because I Guess Palworld Didn’t Have Enough Farming?)
• Ananta Looks Like What I Hoped Games Would Look Like 15 Years Ago (But It’s Still A Damn Live Service)
• Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Announced (Because We Need a New Like A Dragon Game Every Year!)
• Deus Ex Remastered Announced! (Peak Narrative is BACK!)
• Dynasty Warriors 3 Complete Edition Remastered (Peak Action is BACK!)
• State of Play Scraps #1 (Housemarque’s Saros Was Showcased)
• State of Play Scraps #2 (Marvel’s Wolverine Was Showcased)
• Fire Emblem Shadows Announced (Because We Needed TWO Fire Emblem Mobile Live Services)
• Forza Horizon 6 Announced (I Still Want Microsoft to Be Erased…)

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Rundown (11/17/2024) Natalie Has Become a Witch!

• Post published:11/17/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Has Become a Witch!
• Doom Spending and Financial Paranoid (Buy Assets and Invest in Stonks)
• Lawsuit Updates! (Palworld and The Crew Are Making Legal Waves)
• Hideaki Itsuno Joins LightSpeed Japan Studio! (Tencent’s Consumption Continues!)
• The GOG Preservation Program is Go! (GOG’s Fancy New Sticker and Promise)
• Tequila Works Announces Insolvency (Tequila Works Is All Outta Booze)
• Natalie Muses About The Success of Lollipop Chainsaw RePop (Lollipop Shadows of the Damned Chainsaw)
• Warcraft: Remastered and Warcraft II: Remastered Announced (Pulled Outta and Polished From The Vault!)
• Embracer Sells Easybrain to Miniclip for $1.2 Billion (The Unembrace Continues)

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Rundown (11/03/2024) Natalie Rambles About Psycho Shatter 1988

• Post published:11/03/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:50 mins read
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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?)

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Rundown (10/06/2024) Natalie Vs The Medical-Industrial Complex

• Post published:10/06/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Vs The Medical-Industrial Complex
• CaptainCaption Posted Another Life Update! (It’s A Cascade of Bullshit!)
• Natalie is Anti Hardware Innovation (On The Wrong Side of History Yet Again…)
• RIP RyujiNX (Nintendo Shuts Down Ryujinx, the Other Switch Emulator)
• Palworld Mobile Announced! (That’s All!)
• Epic Royalty Discount! (Release Games on Epic Games Store, Save 30% on Unreal Fees!)
• Keep It Peashy, Nippon! (Japan’s PC Game Market Grew 260% In 4 Years!)

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Rundown (9/22/2024) An Impromptu Vita Retrospective

• Post published:09/22/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:56 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: An Impromptu Vita Retrospective
• ♫FREEEEEDOM WAAAAARS!♫ (Freedom Wars Remastered Announced)
• So Long Touch Arcade (Massive Gaming Publication Shuts Down After 16 Years)
• Playtika Acquires SuperPlay for $700 Million (We Need Better Reporting on Mobile Games…)
• Starlight Re:Volver and the Financial Landscape of Games (You Can’t Fund a REAL Games Nowadays…)
• Interest Rates Dropping Affects The Gamindustri, You, and Natalie (♫Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gotta Get The Money!♫)
• Another Console Data Tangent! (You Gotta Have One Every Week!)
• Who is the REAL Master of Pokémon? (Natalie Talks About A Video Essay She Watched Twice)
• Pokémon v Pocketpair – A Palworld Patent Panic (Nintendo Sues Pocket Pair for Patent Infringement)
• How Do You Solve The Final Fantasy Problem? (Or Why Didn’t FFXVI and FFVIIR2 Do Well?)
• Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Announced (Yar Har, Fiddle De Dee! Being a Pirate Is What We Wanna Be!)
• The Annapurna Interactive Exodus Explained! (IGN Reveals The Full Story!)

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Rundown (7/14/2024) Go Rush, Get Flow!

• Post published:07/14/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:26 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Go Rush, Get Flow!
• Piranha Bytes The Dust (Gothic, Risen, and ELEX Dev Piranha Bytes Closes)
• Natsu-Mon: 20th Century Summer Kid Is Getting Localized (Summer’s Not a Bummer Cause We’re Kid’s Just Being Kids!)
• Subscribe To Nonsense (Natalie Does Not Understand Game Pass Pricing Tiers)
• The Palworld Expands! (A Sony X Aniplex X Pocketpair Joint!)
• Double Dragon Revive Announced (The Fifth Revival?)
• Class of ’09: The Flip Side Announced (Catch Ya On Da Flip Side, Fucklo!)
• Nintendo Announces Emio (A Trashcore Bloober Team Joint)

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Rundown (4/07/2024) Artificially Difficult Taxation

• Post published:04/07/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Artificially Difficult Taxation
• TSF Showcase 2024-14 Ojou-sama Irekawari by Yuniba (TSuniverse)
• TSF Showcase 2024-REJECT_1 Watashi-tachi ha “Byplayer” [We Are Supporting Actors] by Harada
• April Fools Ain’t Cool, Except For When It Is (The April Fools Rundown)
• STOP KILLING GAMES!!! (Ross Scott Launches Legal Campaign Against Live Services)
• Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part II (DLSite Has Been Screwed By US Credit Card Companies)

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Palworld Review

• Post published:02/28/2024
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:19 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Hand in hand, we’ll venture worth and pal around in this brave new world!

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Rundown (2/04/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Delayed Again!

• Post published:02/04/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Delayed Again!
• TSF Showcase 2024-05 Boku Tamasaburo by Ono Shinji (Yoshimura Tatsumasa)
• Deus Ex Capitalism (Embracer Canned a Deus Ex Game in Pre-Production)
• It’s Fate That You Stay Away! (Fate/Stay Night Remastered Is Getting An International Release)
• The Volition to Shapeshift! (Former Volition Staff Establish Support Studio Shapeshifter Games)
• State of Play Slurp Up! (The Un-Nintendo Direct)
• Sonic Generations is BACK! (Sonic X Shadow Generations Announced)
• Supermassive Games Got Done Dirty… (Sony is Having A New Studio Replace Until Dawn)
• The Open World Woes! (Natalie Rambles About Palworld – Week 2)

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Rundown (1/28/2024) Palling Around in Palworld

• Post published:01/28/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Palworld – Week 1
• No One Can Stop The Pokémadness (Palworld is a Global Sensation and Home to Massive Controversy)
• TSF Showcase 2024-04 Oto x Maho by Shirase Shuu and Suemitsu Dicca
• Microsoft’s Big Cuts! (Microsoft Layoffs, Cancellation, and War on Physical Games)

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Rundown (6/05-6/11) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2022: Finding Frustrations

• Post published:06/12/2022
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• Reading time:26 mins read
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Wherein I discuss my quest for dope Dutch beatz, the worrisome MENA acquisitions, the posthumous return of Gattz and the Griff, the return of a leaked remaster, Nintendo’s next disaster, rudimentary game compilations, a ‘bad’ game getting re-re-mastered, and the diet E3 alternative that’s sweeping the nation of Earth!

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Rundown (6/06-6/12) E3 2021: The Sweet Summer Treat Nat Can’t Eat

• Post published:06/13/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:19 mins read
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Wherein I discuss the first burgeoning birthings of E3 2021!

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