Rundown (12/21/2025) Slop Unto Divinity
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)
Fan Fiction Funsies: Pokémon Legends: Zygarde – Alternative – Mega Malamar’s Mega Takeover
Malamar is not your friend! It will brainwash your friend and steal your body if given the opportunity.
(more…)Rundown (11/30/2025) The Pursuit of Optimal Play
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)
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 (10/26/2025) Open City Over Open World
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…)
Rundown (10/19/2025) If The Internet Dies, Then What?
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!)
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 (7/27/2025) That Time I Spent $15,000 on Colombian Pussy
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!)
Rundown (6/01/2025) Press-Switch Is on an Indefinite Hiatus
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)
Rundown (3/02/2025) Natalie Has Over 500 Steam Keys to Give Away
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!)
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)