Rundown (7/05/2026) Physical Gaming is DEAD!

• Post published:07/05/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Physical Gaming is DEAD!
• Crap, Sony and Microsoft Are Gonna Kill Discs, Aren’t They? (Discs Are DEAD!)
• The Plan to Eradicate The Game Console (Walled Gardens Must Die For the Future to Survive)
• Sentimental Graffiti Re Announced (Another Excuse to Babble About Japanese ADVs and SIMs)
• Studying is Hard, Studying is Serious (Study Too Much: You’re Gonna be Delirious!)

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Rundown (6/28/2026) Natalie Watched Goodwin’s Circus Show

• Post published:06/28/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Watched Goodwin’s Circus Show
• The Steam Machine Lives! (Starting At $1,050!)
• Tencent Ditches Investment in Marvelous (Marvy is FREE!)
• Grand Theft Auto VI Will Be A $80 Digital Only Game (Analysts in SHAMBLES!)
• Xbox Gets Another Price Hike (The RAMpocalypse is only Getting Worse!)

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Rundown (6/21/2026) Money on My Mind (Re;Finance Ver.)

• Post published:06/21/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:20 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Money on My Mind (Re;Finance Ver.)
• I Researched the Game Boy Advance Library (It Really Is as Bad as They Say It Is…)
• Xbox Hits Reset and Plans A New Wave of Layoffs (Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, and Double Fine are in Danger)
• Unreal Engine 6 Will Be A Slop Machine (Divest From Big Tech. NOW!)

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Rundown (5/31/2026) Natalie Does Not Like Life Sims!

• Post published:05/31/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:38 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Does Not Like Life Sims!
• My re:Dreamer Review Has Been Delayed (Because I’m Waiting for the Next Update)
• Unreal Engine 6 Announced (Because I Guess We Needed This)
• Dragon Quest XII Re-Announced (Also, Dragon Quest Monsters 4!)
• The Witcher 3 is Getting A New Expansion (Somehow, This 2015 Game Returned)
• Steam Deck Gets The Mother of All Price Hikes (More Like Steam DEAD)

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Rundown (4/19/2026) Mathalie Demands ALL The Statistics!

• Post published:04/19/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:20 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Mathalie Demands ALL the Statistics!
• Grand Theft Auto Online Has Made Over $5 Billion USD (It Really Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving…)
• Metro 2039 Announced (Return to The Metro; Kill The Fuhrer!)

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Rundown (4/12/2026) Natalie is Noncompetitive!

• Post published:04/12/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

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)

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Rundown (4/05/2026) Inefficient Crunch Time Continues…

• Post published:04/05/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:15 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Inefficient Crunch Time Continues…
• Eidos Montreal Cancels AAA Project After 7 Years (Eidos Montreal Continue to Crumble in Chaos)
• Shift Up Acquires Shinji Mikami’s New Studio (Do I Blame Him For Selling? NO!)

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Rundown (3/22/2026) Natalie is Afraid of Commitment!

• Post published:03/22/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Afraid of Commitment!
• Japan Established Indie Games Grant Program (Up to $62,000 USD for Indie Devs Goes A Long Way~!)
• The Subnautica 2 Situation is OVER! (Krafton Lied and Got Punished. Yay~!)
• DLSS 5 Will Turn Your Games Into AI Slop (The AI Enshittification of Life Continues)
• Neptunia Unlimited Announced (It Took A Decade for a New Numbered Neptunia… And It’s Not Even Numbered!)
• Shenmue III Enhanced Announced (You Can’t Enhance A Dead Dog!)

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Rundown (3/08/2026) Natalie’s Insufficient Queer Diversity

• Post published:03/08/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Insufficient Queer Diversity
• Natalie Muses About The Physical Media Resurgence (Because She Read an Article and Had THOUGHTS)
• Let It Die is Getting an Offline Version (I Love It When Online Games Get Offline Versions!)
• Sony Abandons PC Gaming Venture (PlayStation Games Are Only On PlayStation… Again)
• Humble Games is Reborn as Balor Games (A Subsidiary of MEP Capital!)
• The Next Xbox is Going to be a PC (Project Helix Will Hopefully Bring An End to Xbox)

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Rundown (3/01/2026) Natalie is Sexual Addicted

• Post published:03/01/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
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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!)

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Rundown (2/22/2026) Diversify Your Formative Experiences

• Post published:02/22/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:63 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Diversify Your Formative Experiences
• .hack//Z.E.R.O. Announced (But is This the Way Dot Hack Should Return?)
• The State of Video Gaming in 2026 (Matthew Ball is BACK!)
• Bluepoint Games is Dead, Killed by Sony (Because They Wanted a Remaster Studio to Make Live Services)
• Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Ports Announced for Nintendo Switch (Why Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Suck and Are Beloved)
• Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Leave Xbox (I Hope This Kills Xbox Faster)

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Rundown (2/15/2026) How to Display Old Video Games

• Post published:02/15/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:58 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: How to Display Old Video Games
• What The Hell is Going on with Yakuza Kiwami 3? (We All Hate A Fall From Grace…)
• Sony Had A Banger State of Play! (Which Was A Pleasant Surprise)
• Legacy of Kain: Defiant Remastered Announced (They Skipped Blood Omen II!)
• Legacy of Kain: Ascendance Announced (WWWHHHHAAAAAAATTTT?!?!?!?!)
• Dead or Alive 6: Last Round and Dead or Alive 7 Announced (Dead or Alive is BACK!)
• Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Announced (It’s a Museum, Bay-Bee!)
• Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 2 Announced (Featuring MGS4, Peace Walker, and… Ghost Babel)
• Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse Announced (A Proper Castlevania Game From the Dead Cells Guys)
• Silent Hill: Townfall Announced (Silent Hill is Annualized Again!)
• God of War Trilogy Remake Announced and Sons of Sparta Shadow Dropped (Greek God of War is BACK!)

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Rundown (2/01/2026) Natalie Ditches The Dollar

• Post published:02/01/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:48 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Ditches the Dollar!
• Natalie’s History With Dragon Ball (Important Context For The Next Segment!)
• A Bunch of New Dragon Ball Projects Were Announced (A Deluge of Dragon Ball News)
• New Virtual Boy Games Are Coming in 2026 (Zero Racers and D-Hopper Live On!)
• Rayman 30th Anniversary Edition Got Leaked (Natalie Muses About The Rayman)
• Tomadachi Life: Livin’ Da Dream Direct (Don’t LIVE The Dream, BE The Dream!)
• More Than a Fourth of All Games Workers Have Been Laid Off (At Least Per GDC’s Polling)

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Rundown (1/11/2026) The Internet is Working as Intended

• Post published:01/11/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:39 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Internet is Working as Intended
• Natalie’s Insane Pokémon Project (That She Will Never Finish)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Holiday Sales Underwhelm (And What It Means for Gaming)
• Cygames Opens up AI Studio (More like Cyg-AI-mes!)

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Natalie Rambles About 2025

• Post published:12/31/2025
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:155 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

The Trial of Natalie Neumann!

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Rundown (12/28/2025) The Festivus Downtime!

• Post published:12/28/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Festivus Downtime!
• Everybody Has a Goal (Or At Least I Wish Everyone Did…)
• Anna’s Archive is Torrenting Pirated Music from Spotify (Circulate the Links and Maintain Music)

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Rundown (12/07/2025) Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!

• Post published:12/07/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:50 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Gotta Get Her Game On!
• Natalie Yaps About Video Game Piracy Culture (And Why It Changed!)
• Monotype is Screwing Over Japanese Devs (Their Rates Went Up Over 50x)
• Saudi Arabia Will Own 93.4% of EA (DO NOT BUY EA GAMES, EVER!)
• Somebody Hates HORSES (Why Is This Horror Game Banned on Steam?)
• Crucial is Dead, Thanks to AI (AI Companies Are Making RAM and SSD STUPID Expensive)
• Netflix Acquires Warner Bros. (Corporate Consolidation Cannot Be Stopped!)

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Rundown (11/23/2025) Natalie Crashes Back to America

• Post published:11/23/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Crashes Back to America
• The Emulated Re-Release Problem (We Need Open Source Emulators Yesterday)
• Tales of Berseria Remastered Announced (Further Frazzling The Natalie)
• Unity and Unreal Are Teaming Up! (Which Just Sounds Like Bad News For Everyone…)

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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 (10/12/2025) No Love For The Zoomies!

• Post published:10/12/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: No Love For The Zoomies!
• Natalie’s Big FAT Talk (Skillet Didn’t Ask For This, But She’s Getting It Anyway!)

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Rundown (10/05/2025) Entertainment Excess

• Post published:10/05/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Entertainment Excess
• Electronic Arts is Going Private! (Saudi Arabia and Other Callous Dastards Are Buying EA)
• Natalie Complains About Private Equity (A ‘Scrapped’ Segment)
• Microsoft Price Hikes Game Pass by 50% (CANCEL YOUR GAME PASS! NOW!!!)

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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 (8/10/2025) Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!

• Post published:08/10/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Goon Out To Your Thoughts, Bro!
• Yuke’s Bought Aquaplus! (WWE Developer Buys The Inventors of Modern Visual Novels)
• Natalie Rambles About REAL Online Censorship (Because I was Bored During A Meeting)
• Microsoft Killed Contraband (Because They NEED to Invest More in AI)

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Rundown (7/20/2025) Natalie’s Software Suite! (And Alternatives)

• Post published:07/20/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:47 mins read
• Post comments:12 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Software Suite! (And Alternatives)
• Publishers LOVE Selling Games to People Who Don’t Play Them (Sell to Hoarders and PROFIT!)
• I Played The Mindwave Demo (Per Skillet’s Request)
• Acquire Snatches United Arab Emirates Funding (Acquire X Red Dunes Games Venture Announced)
• Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part IV (Steam Goes After Sexual Content Because of Malicious Payment Processors)
• Microsoft Kills Their TV and Movies Storefront (Another Reason to NEVER Give Them Your Money)

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Rundown (7/06/2025) What Do People Do?

• Post published:07/06/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:36 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Do People Do?
• Europe Might Be Able to Save Gaming! (Stop Killing Games is At The Cusp of Success!)
• Microsoft Lays Off Over 9,000 People (The Xbox Project is DEAD!)
• Everything’s Expensive, Nobody Can Buy Stuff! (And That Includes Video Games!)
• Natalie Just Learned About Project Code M (The Next Game From The House in Fata Morgana People!)

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Rundown (6/22/2025) I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home

• Post published:06/22/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Want to Leave America, But Not My Home
• Should I Run Ads on Natalie.TF? (Strictly for Tax Purposes!)
• Donkey Kong Bananza Direct (As Expected, It Looks Great!)
• Natalie Tries to Figure Out What Dating Sims Are (And the Gap in Western Romance Games)
• Switch 2 Did Not Save Gamindustri… (BIG SHOCK!!!)

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Rundown (5/25/2025) Natalie.TF Hit 2 Million Lifetime Views!

• Post published:05/25/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie.TF Hit 2 Million Lifetime Views!
• Power to the Payment Processors (The Biggest Winner In Modern Gaming)
• Fortnite’s Back on The Apple App Store! (The Epic v. Apple Battle Has Finally Ended)
• Scroll to Infinity & Natalie’s Horse-Blinders (Akumako Explains Why Natalie’s a Dumb-Dumb)
• Shuten Order Formally Announced (Too Kyo Games X Neilo Multi-Genre VN Joint)

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Rundown (5/18/2025) Should Self-Employment Tax Be Abolished? (No!)

• Post published:05/18/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:48 mins read
• Post comments:17 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Love Social Security, Hate Social Security Tax!
• Giant Bomb is Independent (Fuck The Corpos, Stay Indie, Die Indie!)
• Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link Was Canceled (And Natalie Misses The Art of the B-Game Spin-Off Point, Just in General)
• Tribe Nine EOS Announced After 3 Months (The Mobile Games Industry is BRUTAL!)
• Persona 5: The Phantom X Announced For Global Release (The Mobile Games Industry is Nasty!)
• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Bombed (Natalie Rambles About SNK History, Because Why Not?)

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Rundown (5/11/2025) Is Crossdressing TSF?

• Post published:05/11/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:54 mins read
• Post comments:14 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Is Crossdressing a Form of TSF?
• Rundown Preamble Ramble Append: Futanari is Sometimes TSF, But Mostly it’s Own Thing
• Gears of War Reloaded Announced (Natalie Rambles About Gears of War, I Guess)
• The Video Game Industry of Money-Making (And How It’s Broken!)
• AI vs Education (Natalie Rambles About School From Afar!)

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Rundown (5/04/2025) There Will Be No 2025 re:Dreamer Re-Review

• Post published:05/04/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:46 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: There Will Be No 2025 re:Dreamer Re-Review
• Body Swap Story – Aunty Yui & Yuto is Out (Well, That Was Fast…)
• Natalie is in… The Money Zone! (Mo’ Like Natalie.Dochy)
• The Japanese Game Preservation Society is On The Verge of Shutdown (So Please Give Them Money)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Doing Big Numbers (And There’s Some Dumb Discourse About It!)
• Microsoft Indulges in Price Hikes Thanks to Trump Tariffs (Nintendo Helped Too!)
• Bye Bye Giant Bomb and Polygon (The Video Games Press is FUCKED!)
• Grand Theft Auto VI Delayed to May 26, 2026 (There Goes the Biggest Game of the Generation…)

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Rundown (4/20/2025) I Did the Taxes. Now I Go to Bread.

• Post published:04/20/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Did The Taxes. Now I Go To Bread.
• Mario Kart DWT – Direct World Tour (Because Nintendo Needs A Win…)
• More Mild Musings About Pokémon – April 2025 Ver. (Natalie Needs to Buff Up This Rundown Somehow!)

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Rundown (4/13/2025) Tax Xtender 2025

• Post published:04/13/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:26 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Tax Xtender 2025!
• The Tariff Wars Continue (Divest From America and Let Her Rot)
• Nintendo $witch 2 Much $$$$$$ (Because Everybody Else is Talking About It!)
• More Mild Musings About Live Services (If Only to Pad This Rundown)

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Rundown (4/06/2025) Swiitch 2 – 4 Mii & U

• Post published:04/06/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:74 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

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!)

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Rundown (3/23/2025) Natalie is Depressed!

• Post published:03/23/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is Depressed!
• The Sonic Unleashed Effect (Natalie Muses About… More Gaming Ephemera)
• United Videogame Workers Union is Open For Membership! (ALL AMERICAN GAME DEVS! UNIONIZE! NOW!!!)
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows… is Doing Pretty Well? (Natalie Just Wanted To Ramble Bout AssCreed)

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Rundown (3/16/2025) Work This Sucker to Death

• Post published:03/16/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:24 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Work This Sucker to Death
• The Saudis Really Did Buy Pokémon Go… (Niantic Games Acquired by Scopely, Subsidiary of Saudi Arabia d.b.a. Savvy Games Group)
• Another Excuse to Dunk on Roblox (As a Reminder, Natalie is Anti-Roblox)
• Microsoft, Stop With The AI Gaming Nonsense (Microsoft Announces Copilot for Gaming)
• Silent Hill f Formally Revealed (And It Looks Pretty Darn Good!)

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Rundown (2/23/2025) But I Don’t WANT To Be Part of a Community

• Post published:02/23/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: But I Don’t WANT To Be Part of a Community
• Marvel Rivals Dev Team Has Been Laid Off (Security Through Success is a Logical Fallacy)
• Natalie Is Gonna Give Away Hundreds of Steam Keys (Because Ziff Davis Enshittified Humble Bundle!)
• Saudi Arabia’s Pokémon Go is A-Go! (Niantic Is Selling Their Games Division to Saudi Arabia’s Scopely)
• Microsoft Pivots into AI Gaming (Forgetting That AI is Too Stupid to Remaster Classic Games)
• Nobody Expects The… Samurai Pizza Cats? (Samurai Pizza Cats: Blast from the Past Announced)

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Rundown (2/16/2025) The Future Is as Black as Obsidian

• Post published:02/16/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:41 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Future Is as Black as Obsidian
• State of Play Happened Again (And It Had a Few Things!)
• Shinobi: The Art of Vengeance Fully Revealed (It Sure Looks Like Shinobi IV)
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Fully Revealed (It Actually Looks Better Than I Thought It Would)
• Digimon Story: Time Stranger Announced (I Really Need to Play Cyber Sleuth)
• Warriors: Abyss Announced (Roguelike X Musou, But For PSP)
• People Want to Play Better Versions of Games They Loved When They Were 12 (They Want UE5 Remasters, Not Basic Re-Releases)
• I’m A 30-Year-Old Stuck Writing Stories About Teenagers (And It’s My Own Damn Fault)

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Rundown (2/09/2025) A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Act 3 Update

• Post published:02/09/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Act 3 Update
• Natalie Needs to Ditch Google Docs (But She Dunno How!)
• What’s An Earnest Evans and Anett Returns? (The Obligatory Retro Game Fixation To Cleanse the Soul)
• Nintendo Switch Hits 150 Million Units Sold (It Might Just Beat The PS2 At This Rate!)
• Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny Remaster Announced (Better Late Than Never, I Guess)

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Rundown (2/02/2025) Increasing A Long on AI Generated Anime Girl Titties

• Post published:02/02/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Increasing A Long on AI Generated Anime Girl Titties
• Dino Crisis Has Been Re-Released! (Thanks to the Dedication of GOG!)
• The Sims 1 and 2 Re-Released! (Because Anything’s Better Than The Sims 4!)
• MultiVersus’s Not So Sudden Death (MultiVersus’s End of Service Announced)
• Shit Sucks, But Here Are Some Good Things I Saw This Weeks (A Last Gasp While Wrapping Up This Rundown)

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Rundown (1/26/2025) The Straight Dope On Gamindustri

• Post published:01/26/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:50 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Straight Dope On The Current State of Gamindustri
• In a Final Act of Excellence, The FTC Goes After Loot Boxes! (Specifically, Genshin Impact)
• Time For The Quarterly-ish Xbox Thing! (A Rapidly Written Xbox Developer Direct Recap)
• Ninja Gaiden 4 Announced (Natalie Rambles About the History of Team Ninja)
• Ninja Gaiden II Black Shadow Dropped This Week (It’s Not As Good As It Sounds…)

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Rundown (1/19/2025) Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?

• Post published:01/19/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:46 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Why Are Games So Expensive to Make?
• Nintendo Switch 2 Announced (It’s Been SEVEN YEARS!)
• Video Game Generation Numbers Are Fine, Ya Old Farts (Another Tangent Before Bedtime)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Vs. The PC Handheld Market (Nat-Nat Bullies Silly-Billy PC Fans)
• Natalie Hates Age-Based Timestamps (A Machine Needs to Vent, and So Do I!)
• STOP KILLING GAMES Update! (UK Citizens, Sign This Petition!)
• Sony Cancels Another Two Live Services (This Venture Was a Boneheaded Waste…)
• Bad Person And Writer is a Cool Person and Wackadoo Writer (I Swear These Mini Showcases Won’t Be A Regular Thing)

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Rundown (1/12/2025) Pedantic Porn Problems

• Post published:01/12/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:32 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Pedantic Porn Problems
• Video Game Movies Are Go! (Sony Pictures Needs Hits Badly)
• Nvivida Wants You To Use AI to Beautify Women in Games (Nvidia Will Un-DEI Femoid Faces!)
• SteamOS is Evolving! (And The Cheap PC Market is Kinda Bonkers)
• The House of the Dead 2 Remake Properly Announced (Because People Need Another Bad Remake…)
• Warui Slime Janai yo by Pandanuki is… Deranged (I Guess This Counts as a TF Showcase)

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Natalie Rambles About 2024

• Post published:12/30/2024
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:155 mins read
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Rundown (12/29/2024) Humdrum Holiday and Flaccid Festivities

• Post published:12/29/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:13 mins read
• Post comments:1 Comment

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Humdrum Holiday and Flaccid Festivities
• Natalie’s Latest Story Idea She Will Never Pursue (Project: Trillionaire Re;Start)
• PANIC MODE is ON! (Natalie Is Running Out of Time!)

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Rundown (12/08/2024) I Want to Do Everything!

• Post published:12/08/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Want to Do Everything! 
• Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete is Just An Offline Gacha Game (And It Sucks Because of It)
• Tetris: The Grand Master 4: Absolute Eyes Announced (An Offline Competitive Tetris Game in 2025?)
• Year-End Recaps Should Be at the END of the Year (December Is the Un-Month)
• World End Politico (What the Hell Is Going On in the World?)

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Rundown (12/01/2024) TG and Turn Into A Girl

• Post published:12/01/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:10 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TG and Turn Into A Girl
• Never 7 and Ever 17 Remasters Revealed (It’s Not a Remake Like They Said It Would Be!)
• Sony is Planning a Portable PS5 (The PlayStation Portal Was a Test Project)
• Natalie Fixates on Collection Contents (The Early GAMEBOY Days)
• Tariff Turmoil (Fear The Rulers Who Want to Destroy The Economy)
• Tencent Bought Kuro Games (They Develop Punishing: Gray Raven and Wuthering Waves)

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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
• Post comments:3 Comments

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 (11/10/2024) Humanity Has Declined

• Post published:11/10/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Humanity Has Declined
• Natalie Rambles About Pokémon TCG Pocket (This Poison Takes Like Fruit Punch!)
• Sega is Delisting Their Classic Games Library (They Probably Just Want to Re-Release ‘Em for the Thirteenth Time)

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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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