Rundown (3/15/2026) American Wants to Destroy The World

• Post published:03/15/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: America Wants to Destroy The World
• NetEase Stops Funding Nagoshi Studio (I Was RIGHT to Not Trust NetEase!)
• Falcom is Bringing Back Dragon Slayer! (And Ending The Trails Series!)
• PEGI is Rating All Games With Loot Boxes 16+ (Not Enough, But It’s Something!)
• The Children Yearn for Real Gaming… (Or Maybe This is Just Copium)
• The 7th Guest Remake Announced (It’s Actually A VR Game Without the VR…)

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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 (2/08/2026) Natalie Writes Too Many Eating Scenes

• Post published:02/08/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:61 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Writes Too Many Eating Scenes!
• Nintendo Financials Update Q3 2026 (And Other Gaming Hardware Tidbits!)
• Nina Tendo’s Friends’ Switch 2 Showcase (Nintendo Direct 2026-01)
• Tokyo Scramble Announced (Japan’s Funniest Dino Crisis!)
• Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse Announced (It’s A Horror Series, Bay-Bee!)
• Another Eden Begins Announced (It’s Another Offline Gacha RPG! Yay!)
• Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok Announced (Granblue Fantasy: Relink With Endgame Content for Switch 2)
• Xanadu 6: Kyoto Xanadu Announced (Falcom Does What Gamindustri Don’t)
• A Bunch of Game Collections Were Announced (A Preface to Bomberman, Goemon, and Console Archives)
• Super Bomberman Collection Got Shadow Dropped (Classic Bomberman is BACK! …On a Budget!)
• Ganbare Goemon Daishuugo! Announced (Goemon is BACK! …But Only in Japan!)
• Hamster’s Console Archives Are Here! (Have Cool Boarders and Ninja Gaiden II NES)
• Overwatch 2 is Now Overwatch Again (And Natalie Still Hates It!)

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Rundown (1/18/2026) The 108 Genres of People

• Post published:01/18/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The 108 Genres of People
• Japan’s Game Preservation Society Goes International! (And the importance of Charitable Organizations)
• Facebooks Shuts Down Armature, Sanzaru, and Twisted Pixel (Facebook Buying Oculus Shot VR in the Legs…)
• Help! I’m Turning Into A Mermaid! Came Out Last Week (It’s A TSF Visual Novel!)
• New World Will Be Dead In A Year (Amazon Gaming Has Been A Huge Failure…)

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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 (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 (7/20/2025) 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 (6/01/2025) 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 (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
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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 (9/29/2024) Acknowledge ALL of Gaming History!

• Post published:09/29/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:78 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Acknowledge All of Gaming History!
• Metrics 4 Gamers (Gimme All The Sales Data!)
• Oops! An Unhinged Rant About Controllers (The Astro Bot Mind Virus Strikes Again!)
• Level-5 Is Still Alive(?) (TGS Rundown Part 1)
• Inazuma Eleven RE(make) Announced (Also Victory Road Looks DOPE!)
• More like Yok-AI Watch! (Yo-Kai Watch Next: Holy Horror Mansion Announced)
• Let’s Play Down State of Play! (TGS Rundown Part 2)
• Bring Back ALL The Great 90s RPGs! (Lunar Remastered Collection Announced)
• The Legacy Must Be Retold! (Legacy of Kain 1 & 2 Remastered Announced)
• Look Into The Horizon And See… A Pretty Game (Horizon I: Zero Dawn Remastered Announced)
• That’s Not Ghost of Two-shima! (Ghost of Yotei Announced)
• Behavior Gets Their Hooks In Another One! (Behavior Interactive Acquires Red Hook Studios)
• Every Day I Wish For The Live Service Industry’s Collapse… (Persona 5: The Phantom X is Coming to Japan)
• Classic Dungeons Are The Best Dungeons (Cladun X3 Announced)
• I Got Bamboozled by a Surprise Launch! (I’ll Review Class of ’09: The Flip Side Next Month)

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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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Rundown (1/14/2024) Natalie’s Sexual Binary

• Post published:01/14/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Sexual Binary
• TSF Showcase 2024-02 Ellie Skinsuit by Imp Undernearth
• Switch 2.0 Insanity + Natalie Rambles Some More (The Switch 2 Content Mill is Getting Bonkers)
• Dead End Rehashes (Natalie Complains About No Frills Re-Releases)

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Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers

• Post published:08/27/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers
• TSF Showcase #2023-24.1 BlazBlue Remix Heart Gaiden by Arc System Works
• TSF Showcase #2023-25 Doutei Ikki [Brotherhood of Virgins] by DOM
• The Behavior of a Juggernaut (Behavior Acquires Rotterdam-Based Developer Codeglue)
• Sony Gobbles Up An Audio Company (Sony Interactive Entertainment Acquires Audeze)
• PlayStation Portal Is a Bad PlayStation Vita (PlayStation Project Q Re-Announced As PlayStation Portal)
• New Auditory Era of Mario (Mario Voice Actor, Charles Martinet, Steps Down From Role)
• Nintendo is Bringing DRM to Consoles (Nintendo Partners With Denuvo to Fight Switch Emulation)
• Denuvo Is Trying to Prevent Mods on Unreal Engine Games (Denuvo Announces Unreal Engine Protection Software)
• Sacrifice Profits For Market Share For The Glory of Tencent (Epic Games Launches New Revenue Share Model for Timed Exclusives)
• The Plan to Eradicate Platform Identity (Natalie Rambles About Platform Identity and Media Formats)

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Rundown (8/20/2023) The Quest for Quantified Quality

• Post published:08/20/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:45 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Quest for Quantified Quality
• TSF Showcase #2023-24: BlazBlue – Remix Heart by Deko Akao, Toshimichi Mori, and Sumeragi
• NetEase Establishes Their 11th Foreign Studio (NetEase Establishes T-Minus Zero Entertainment)
• This is Why You Don’t Make Deals With Saudi Arabia! (Embracer’s $2 Billion Partner Revealed)
• The Xbox 360 Marketplace Will Die in 11 Months (Backwards Compatible Titles Will Be Preserved)
• Games Do Not Take Too Long To Make; Production Values Are Just Too High (Another Natalie Neumann Mnemonic Nitpick)
• Screw Region Locked Purchases! I Just Want Some City Pop! (Natalie’s Been Jiving to Some Anri While Writing Stuff!)
• How The Frick Should I Represent Body Swaps Via Text? (Mind(Body) or Body(Mind)?)

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Rundown (7/16/2023) Falling Down The Helly Tree!

• Post published:07/16/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Falling Down The Helly Tree!
• Microsoft Beat the FTC! (Judge Denies FTC Injunction Against Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard)
• Tencent Continues to Consume! (Tencent Bought Western Support Studio Lucid Games)
• Unsurprising But Sad, Official Game Preservation SUCKS! (87% of Games Released Before 2010 are Not Reasonably Available)
• Physical Games Are Not True Preservation + A Limited Run Games Summary (Limited Run Games’ Announcement Showcase Rundown Intro)
• Shantae’s Lost Chapter Has Been Revived! (After 19 Years, WayFroward is Finishing An Abandoned GBA Game!)
• Natalie Rambles About Clock Tower (Clock Tower (1995) is Getting Localized)
• The Lean, Green, Meme Machine is Back, Bay-Bee! (Gex Trilogy Announced)
• Get Pink, Toss Pigs, Help Dwarves! (Tomba! Is Coming to Modern Platforms)
• Shitposters Extraordinaire Are Making a Zelda CD-i Spiritual Successor (Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore Announced)
• The Koikatsu Devs Are Gonna Die! (Illusion Adult Games, Developers of Koikatsu, Are Shutting Down)
• Review Delays!!! (But I’ll Have Something Else Instead)

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Rundown (6/11/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: Let The Festivities Commence!

• Post published:06/11/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:26 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Same Old Song and Dance
• Physical Media is Not Preservation (Everything Digital is On A Physical Device, Ya Dummy!)
• Generic Brand E3 – Let’s Go! (Summer Game Fest Rundown Preamble)
• That’s Not Sonic Mania 2! It’s Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 3! (Sonic Superstars Announced)
• Imagine If You Will… A Land of Sand! (Sand Land Game Announced)
• Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis? More Like Final Fantasy VII: Fuck Corporations! (Get It, Because It’s AC, BC, CC, DC, EC, and Then FC?)
• Not a Rebirth, Not a Remake, Just a Re-Do! Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Got a New Trailer
• Prince of Persia is BACK, BLACK, and 2D! (People Dislike Prince of Persia The Lost Crown Because They’re Racist)
• Persona 3: Reload and Fire Your Evoker Into My Heart, You Bastard! (Persona 3 Reload Announced)
• Persona 5 Tactics but They Made a Typo and an Awful Aesthetic Decision (Persona 5 Tactica Announced)

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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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