Rundown (12/21/2025) Slop Unto Divinity

• Post published:12/21/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: More Like D-AI-v-AI-n-AI-ty and L-AI-r-AI-n!
• Ubisoft Acquires Amazon Games Montreal (Likely Due to Office Politics and Favors)
• GOG Wants You To Pay $5 To Help Them To Preserve Games (And I Say Do It!)
• The Hollow Knight Continues! (Silksong DLC and Hollow Knight Improvements Announced)
• Sega Channel Has Been Preserved! (Through the Power of BONDS!)
• US Video Game Hardware Had Its Worst November Since 1995 (Consoles Might Be Boned!)
• Missy Scrumptious Muses About Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension (Donut-Filled Review Appetizer)

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Fan Fiction Funsies: Pokémon Legends: Zygarde – Alternative – Mega Malamar’s Mega Takeover

• Post published:12/02/2025
• Post category:Miscellaneous
• Reading time:143 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Malamar is not your friend! It will brainwash your friend and steal your body if given the opportunity.

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Rundown (11/30/2025) The Pursuit of Optimal Play

• Post published:11/30/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Pursuit of Optimal Play
• An Impromptu Xbox 360 Retrospective (It Was The Best of Times; It Was The Worst of Times)
• The Embracer Divestment Continues (Cryptic Games and Arc Games Are Buying Themselves, Basically)
• Nintendo Buys Bandai Namco Singapore (This is the Good Kind of Acquisition)

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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 (10/26/2025) Open City Over Open World

• Post published:10/26/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:41 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Open City Over Open World
• The Depressing Reality of Decade-Long Sequel Gaps (That Feeling When Your Favorite Game When You Were 8 Doesn’t Get a Sequel Until You’re 18…)
• Kirby Air Riders Direct #2 (Modern Game Development is Not Sustainable)
• Halo: Campaign Evolved Announced (No 37-Year-Olds, This Won’t Make You Feel 12 Again…)

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Rundown (10/19/2025) If The Internet Dies, Then What?

• Post published:10/19/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: If The Internet Dies, Then What?
• Re-Whatevers Continue to Be a Nightmare (There Can Be No Order Without Vision)
• Idiots Like Natalie Are Keeping Gamindustri Alive! (Only 4% of Game Players Buy Games Every Month)
• Who Even Wants a PS6 Anyway? (Other The People With More Money Than Sense…)
• The Future of The Next Generation of Pokémon Got Leaked (TeraLeak 2: Da FreakLeak Just Dropped!)

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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 (7/27/2025) That Time I Spent $15,000 on Colombian Pussy

• Post published:07/27/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: That Time I Spent $15,000 on Colombian Pussy
• Pokémon Presents 2024-2 Happened! (Pokémon Champions and Legends Z-A Look Good)
• Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part V (Collective Shout Is Trying to Destroy Itch.io)
• A Natalie.TF Schedule Update (My 2025 Schedule Has Been Horrible!)

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Rundown (6/01/2025) Press-Switch Is on an Indefinite Hiatus

• Post published:06/01/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:15 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Press-Switch Is on an Indefinite Hiatus
• TF Artists Launch A Comic Storefront (A BSB NZFW, GTG, & JN Joint!)
• I Just Learned Front Mission 3: Remake Was Announced (Forever Entertainment Makes Me Pine for Ports, Not Remakes)
• Pokémon Legends Z-A Is Launching October 16th (Welp, Guess I GOTTA Buy A Nintendo Game Again!)
• Every Issue of Game Informer Has Been Archived (And You Can Freely Read Them on Their Website)

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Rundown (3/02/2025) Natalie Has Over 500 Steam Keys to Give Away

• Post published:03/02/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:293 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Has Over 500 Steam Keys to Give Away
• Pokémon Presents The Synapse Present (Pokémon Champions Announced)
• Pokémon Presents A Big Present (Pokémon Legends Z-A is Real!)
• Just Sell Your Damn Games Division, Warner Bros! (Warner Bros Closes Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego)
• I Finally Got Steam Deck Sales Numbers! (Don’t Believe The Hype!)

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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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