Rundown (4/12/2026) Natalie is Noncompetitive!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Noncompetitive!
- The Backwards Compatibility of the Wii PS360 Era Ruined Games Preservation (And is Why We Have A Glut of Re-Whatevers)
- Amazon Kills Their Luna Game Store and Service (Its Impact Was So Subtle I Forgot It Existed)
- Level-5 Announced A Bunch of Things (I Don’t REALLY Care Because They Are In Their Slop Arc)
Rundown (3/01/2026) Natalie is Sexual Addicted
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Sexual Addicted
- Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Leave Xbox Pt. 2 (AI Yourself to Despair)
- Saudi Arabi’s Plan to Destroy Fighting Games (♫Let it Rot, Let it Rot♫)
- Marvel MaXimum Collection Announced (Licensed Re-Release Compilations Drive Natalie NUTS!)
- Paramount Skydance Outbids Netflix, Securing Warner Bros. Discovery Ownership (Stupid Rich Fascists Keep Trying to Consolidate Everything)
- Pokémon Presents Rundown (Finally! Some Good Beef!)
Rundown (1/11/2026) The Internet is Working as Intended
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.
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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 (4/27/2025) The Pokémon Evolutionary Line Kerfuffle
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Pokémon Generations and Evolution Lines
- ACTION BUTTON PICTURES PRESENTS “LOS ANGELES NOIRE” (Tim Rogers is Back, Bitches!)
- Oblivion Remastered Shadow Dropped! (And It’s An Aesthetic Downgrade)
- Natalie Muses About Re-Whatevers Some More! (She Just Can’t Stop It!)
Rundown (4/20/2025) I Did the Taxes. Now I Go to Bread.
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!)
Natalie Rambles About 2024
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(more…)Rundown (11/10/2024) Humanity Has Declined
Rundown (10/20/2024) Natalie Needs a NAS
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Needs a NAS
- The Pokémon Tera Leak (Possibly Bigger Than The Nintendo Gigaleak)
- Tribe Nine is a Perplexing RPG (I Played the Tribe Nine Demo and… What the Fuck?)
- All in Abyss is DOPE! (I Cast My Judgment, and This is The Real Shit)
- I Also Checked Out Ys X Nordics! (The ANOFO Vibe Remains Dead and Over)
- Out of the Frying Pan; Into The Firefox (I Switched to Firefox and Plugins Ruined My Site)
Rundown (9/22/2024) An Impromptu Vita Retrospective
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!)
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 (3/24/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Has Been Drafted!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Has Been Drafted!
- TSF Showcase 2024-12 Transformed Into A Busty Blonde [Kinpatsu x Kyonyuu ni Henshin de] by Ikuya Daikokudou
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans (Natalie Gets Political – March 2024 Ver.2)
- Ship Broken, Fix Maybe (There’s Nothing Remarkable About The Battlefront Classic Launch Disaster)
- A Relic Castle Reduced to Ruin (The Pokémon Company Killed A Fan Game Site)
- Steamy Family Funsies (Valve Announces Steam Families Overhaul)
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 (1/21/2024) Natalie the Pokémaniac is Hungry for Souls!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Shattered Locks and Strained Logistics
- TSF Showcase 2024-03 Fujoshi Trapped in a Seme’s Perfect Body by Seru and Jouvru
- After 15 Years of Sitting in the Dumpster, Indy’s Back Gamin’ (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Revealed)
- Fine, I’ll Talk About Online Drama… (Chuggaaconroy Was Being Creepy And Asking For Feet Pics)
Rundown (11/05/2023) re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…
- TSF Showcase 2023-36 Shisutaabooi by Joe Six-Pack
- Digital Eclipse Is No Longer Independent (Atari Acquires Digital Eclipse)
- Devolver Digital’s Corporate Consumption Continues (Devolver Digital Acquires System Era Softworks)
- Sony is Buying Up A Video Delivery Company For Their Cloud Streaming (Sony Announces Acquisition of iSIZE)
- Net Ease is BACK with Another New Studio (After a 5 Month Hiatus, NetEase Announces Their Tenth New Studio Since 2020)
- Sonic Dream Team Looks Like An Official 3D Sonic Fan Game (This Is the Closest Thing We’ve Gotten to Sonic Adventure Since 2006)
- Fiery Red Passion (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Flash Filmic Fanworks)
Rundown (10/29/2023) Horror Is Not Niche!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Horror ist Nicht Niche
- TSF Showcase #2023-35 Coffee Buns by Cinnamon Switch
- The Rule of 200 to 250 (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Part Luminescent DEX)
- Simping For That Celery (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Tangent Orchard)
- Ufouria is BACK, Bay-Bee (The Sunsoft Revival Arc Finally Bears Fruit)
Rundown (10/22/2023) Natalie is a Homeowner
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I’m A Homeowner!
- TSF Showcase #2023-34 Body Switched by Caleb Jones
- Computer Game Design Vs Console Game Design (A Half-Baked Ramble I Spent Too Much Time on to Cut)
- Touch Detective is Back And Localized! (Not To Be Confused With Touch DIC)
- A Crime Against Nature (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Part Luminescent NEVIV)
Rundown (8/06/2023) Nothing Like the First Time
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Nothing Like The First Time
- TSF Showcase #2023-22 Boku wa, Onnanoko (I am, a Girl) by Takako Shimura
- Never Go Back to No Quality of Life (Natalie Meanders About Pokémon Hacks & Fan Games)
- Nintendo Switch 2.0 Confirmed for H2 2024 (Natalie Complains About Nintendo Fans – July 2023 Ver.)
- Virtuos is Probably Remaking Oblivion (The Worst of the 3D TES Trilogy Is Gettin’ Gussied Up!)
Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Dude Whatever It’s Summer Is Back, Bay-Bee!
- Aiming For Unattractive! (Natalie The Eternal Enigma)
- Espeon is Back With The Lewd TSF Goodness! (Gender.tf is BACK, Bay-bee!)
- TSF Showcase #2023-15 TS o Suru. Seidorei ni Naru (Change Sex and Become a Sex Slave) by Tansan Protein no kai
- TSF Showcase #2023-16 JK Kuricha ni Sareta Otoko (High Schooler Who Got Turned Into a Creature) by Marialite
- TSF Showcase #2023-17 Slow Conversion by Onihidden
- TSF Showcase #2023-18 Joshikousei Sennyuu Repo ~Hanzaisha ga Onnanoko ni Hyoui shite mita~ [Schoolgirl Infiltration Report] by Marialite
- TSF Showcase #2023-19 Sexaroids vs. Reseller by Kouji
- TSF Showcase #2023-20 Professional Possession by Imp Underneath
- Screw it, Let’s Talk About the SAG-AFTRA Strike (Capitalism Ruins Everything – Part 37)
- Natalie is Confused by the New Game Pass Subscription Tiers (Xbox Live Gold is Now Game Pass Core)
Rundown (7/09/2023) Jump! Back! Glock! Cock! Aim! Shoot!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Have Negative Faith In The United States of America
- The FTC PlayStation & Xbox Showcase (Some Highlights From The FTC v. Microsoft Courtroom)
- Twitter Hit The Shitter and The Internet Is Collapsing! (Natalie Rambles About The Future Of The Internet)
- It’s Time To Show My Ass As A Casual VN Fan (Natalie Wafts About the Tsukihime Remake)
- Grab a Gun And Make The Baddies Go BOOM! (Natalie Rambles About The Name Boomer Shooters)
- Yuji Naka’s Prison Escape! (Yuji Naka Avoids Jail Time And Gets $1.2 Million Fine)
- When Pokéfans Are Stuck, They Should Try Logic (Natalie Rambles About Voice Acting in Pokémon )
- Read, Think, and the Solution Will Come To You (Natalie Analyzes The Broad Financials of The Pokémon Company)
Rundown (7/02/2023) Thanks Cap, You Made Me Write a Novel of Lore!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 – World Information Has Been Drafted
- The Most Powerful people Are The Most Common Slaves (Natalie Rambles About Oppressed Magic Users As An Allegory)
- Nintendorks and the Quest To Make History (Natalie Complains About Nintendo Fans – July 2023 Ver.)
- Create or Play (Playing Games Does Not Make You Creative)
- Read Dead Remastered – No Redemption is Possible (Korean Ratings Board Leaks Possible Red Dead Redemption Remaster)
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 (3/05/2023) Natalie Remembered SapphireFoxx
This week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-08 Natalie Remembered That SapphireFoxx Is A Thing
- Why Downloading All of SapphireFoxx’s Stuff Is A Hellish Experience (Natalie Spent 8+ Hours Downloading SapphireFoxx Videos)
- Pokémon Presents Dread & Chores (Pokémon Sleep Re-Announced and Pokémon Scarlet & Violet DLC Announced)
- Never Ever Remember To Play 7-17-11 (Never7 and Ever17 Remakes Announced)
- Natalie Rambles About The History of Luminous Productions (Luminous Productions Is Consolidating Into Square Enix)
- Back 2 Crypto Hell (Natalie Has Been Busy With Crypto Tax Work)
Rundown (2/26/2023) Natalie Talks About Some TSF Critiques
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-07 Various TSF Critiques
- Bergsala’s Thunderful Gets Even More Electric (Thunderful Acquires Studio Fizbin)
- Do the Sock Monkey, A2M! (Behaviour Interactive Acquires SockMonkey Games)
- Natalie’s Adventures in Subtitle Hell (Natalie Wasted Her Sunday Subtitling Pokémon Movies)
- A Delisting of One of the Most Culturally Significant Mobile Games Ever (Rovio Delists the Original Angry Birds)
- It’s Time For Shinji Mikami’s Head To Find A New Home! (Shinji Mikami Leaves Tango Gameworks)
- Natalie is Still Pissed She Gave Up Video Games (Elden Ring Selling 20 Million Copies Makes Natalie All Bitter)
- Natalie Got Too Ambitious, So She’s Pulling a The Hobbit (Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Will Now be a Trilogy)
Rundown (12/18/2022) Natalie’s Going In For Bottom Surgery!
This Week’s Topics:
- Tencent bought 20% of that anime booty game.
- The continued purging of HBO Max to avoid residuals
- A ‘remaster’ of 2005’s Ys: The Oath in Felghana
- The next retroactive adventure of Adol Christin
- Amazon’s next Tomb Raider game
- The END of the Pokémon anime (as we know it)
Rundown (11/13-11/19) You Kids Have Fun With Your Pokémons
Rundown (11/28-12/04) Passionless Pits of Pseudo-Pleasure
Wherein I discuss my search for passion, the fall of a much heralded titan, a Sony streaming subscription successor, and the DOPE-tier TSF Bunny Boy!
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Rundown (6/21-6/27) Everything is Complicated!
Wherein I discuss a problematic power paradigm, Smash getting the win-win, a massive temporal rewrite, the end of a mixer, the continued battles fo the EDF, a new digital expo, China’s budding influence, and the Bandai Namcos.
(more…)Rundown (6/14-6/20) Ramble Hiatus!
Wherein I discuss a schedule change, a spacefaring VR motive, and a preposterous pile of Pokémon projects.
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Fan Fiction Funsies: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon – Rescue Team HOT MILK
That Time I Hacked Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX and Got Isekai’d Into the World of Pokémon and Now I’m Trapped in an Existential Nightmare
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