Rundown (9/13/2026) Nattie Did The Walkin’

• Post published:09/13/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:78 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Nattie Did The Walkin’
• Nintendo Direct Double Digest – Part One (The Ocarina Remake Section)
• Nintendo Direct Double Digest – Part Two (The General Section)
• Metroid 6: Ravenous Announced (Samus is BACK and She’s Hungry Like The METROID!)
• Kirby and the World Beyond Announced (Kirby Breaks the Seal and Goes OPEN WORLD)
• Yo-Kai Watch 2 Remake Announced! (Knowing Level-5, It Will Be AI Slop!)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force 3 Remake Announced (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX is BACK! Let’s CHAZZ IT UP!)
• Romancing SaGa 3 Remake Announced (Bless The SaGa Sickos!)
• Torneko’s Mystery Dungeon is BACK (It’s Time For A REAL Roguelike!)
• Next: The Portopia Serial Murder Case Announced (The Mother of All Adventure Games is BACK!)
• Kojima’s Physint Switches From Sony to Microsoft (Old Sony is Dead, Just Accept It)
• Why is Final Fantasy VII LIKE THIS? (This Segment Was A Mistake…)
• A Whole Bunch of Steam Achievements Leaked (Because That’s How Modern Game Dev Works!)

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Rundown (8/30/2026) Infinitely Perpetual Intellectual Property

• Post published:08/30/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:59 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Infinitely Perpetual Intellectual Property
• Natalie Tried The Project; Virai: Doomer’s Life Escape Demo (Depressed Internet Girl Life Sim Action)
• Terranigma Re-Release Announced (Revealed via Pixel Arcadia)
• Ecstatica Re-Release Announced (Resident Evil With BALLS)
• Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection Announced (An Alien Breed History Lesson, I Guess)
• Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom 2026 Part One! (The Biggish Picture!)
• Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom 2026 Part Two! (The Dribs and Drabs!)
• Age Twisters Announced (Age TF is Not a Particularly Nifty Mechanic for a Co-Op Game)
• Mega Man 12: Dual Override Gameplay Reveal (Yes to Mega Man, But Why Like This?)
• Showa American Story Re-Revealed (Alt History Where Japan Colonized America, Envisioned by Chinese Devs)
• Heroes of Might and Magic III Remake Announced (That Heroes 3 Remake Looks Pretty Iffy)
• The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt – Remastered Announced (Because That’s How You End An Event!)
• The Grand Theft Auto VI Section (The Reality of Unreality)

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Natalie Rambles About the Modern Reality of Remasters, Remakes, and Re-Whatevers

• Post published:07/08/2026
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:116 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Because this topic has been looming over Natalie.TF for long enough…

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Natalie Rambles About The History of Remasters, Remakes, and Re-Whatevers

• Post published:07/01/2026
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:129 mins read
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Because I fell down a rabbit hole, and all I found was a bunch of dope gaming history…

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Rundown (6/14/2026) S3 2026: STOP! You’re Making A Mess!

• Post published:06/14/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:109 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Stop! You’re Making a Mess!
• Microsoft’s S3 2026 Festivities (No Games For Genocide, Bitch!)
• The Miscellaneous Microsoft Trough (Go Away, Xbox!)
• Gears of War: E-Day’s First Major Showing (The Return to Form Apology)
• Persona 4 Revival Was Properly Revealed (And I’m FINE With It)
• Crazy Taxi: World Tour Announced (Verified AI Slop Revival)
• Vivarium Re-Announced (A Hand-Drawn Boku no Natsuyasumi Like!)
• Persona 6 Announced (With A Nothing Trailer!)
• Spyro 4 is REAL! (It’s Been 18 Years…)
• Thief: The Dark Project Remastered Announced (The Next Nightdive Joint)
• The Nintendo Direct Section (Nat-Nat Will Never Sleep!)
• Nintendo Direct 2026-06-09: Minor Things of Note (Many Minors!)
• The Ocarina of Time Remake Announced (I’m Indifferent Until I Learn Literally Anything About It)
• Muramasa Revenant Blades Announced (After 11 Years of Waiting, Vanillaware Finally Brought A Game to PC!)
• Xenoblade Games Get Nintendo Switch 2 Editions (Xenoblade 1, 2, and 3 As God Intended)
• Xenoblade Genesis Announced (Neat, But What’s Going On?)
• Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Announced (This Should Have Been Nintendo Switch Sports 1)
• Final Fantasy Resonance Announced (From The Ashes of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius)
• Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic – the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Announced (Natalie FINALLY Talks About Touhou)
• Video Games This September Are Bonkers, Yo! (Wake Me Up When Septembergeddon Ends)
• Ubisoft Celebrates S3 2026 With LAYOFFS! (380 People Can No Longer Support Their Families!)

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Rundown (6/07/2026) S3 2026: Let the Gorging Commence

• Post published:06/07/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:112 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: S3 2026: Let the Gorging Commence
• Natalie Does Not Like Trick Room in Pokémon (And Apparently I Need to Explain Why In Grave Detail!)
• Toy Story Games Are BACK! (At Least The Most Noteworthy Ones Are…)
• State of Play: BIG Edition (The S3 One!)
• Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine Acts Like It’s 15 Years Old (In Both Meanings of the Word!)
• Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends are BACK! (Two of My Favorite 2D Games Return*!)
• Tomb Raider #1 Remake #2 Looks Good (Too Bad About the AI Drama)
• Natalie Complains About Sony’s Classic Re-Releases (Because the State of Game Releases Annoys Me…)
• Kemuri is Cool Urban Fantasy! (So Much Better than the Multiplayer Thing It Used to Be)
• The Stuntman is BACK! (…What the Heck is Stuntman?)
• Until Dawn 2 Announced (Third Game; Third Developer)
• God of War 4.5 Gaiden: Laufey Announced (God of War, Faster, Slicker, and With A Woman!)
• Summer Game(s) Fest Happened (And Here’s What Happened!)
• Summer Game(s) Fest Riffraff Roundup (There are Too Many Segments Already!)
• Resident Evil: Veronica Announced (Because It’s Better to have an REV Remake Than An RE5 Remake…)
• Gen Atlas Announced (Project Shiico is Full of Robots!)
• Tupac’s Corpse Confirmed for Stranger Than Heaven (Because Hiring A Known Sexual Abuser Wasn’t Bad Enough…)
• Crossfire(?) Announced (Because Smilegate Does Not Believe in Subtitles!)
• Virtua Fighter VI: Crossroads Revealed in Earnest (A Cinematic Action Drama with a Fighting Game Mode?)
• 1666: Amsterdam Revealed (Time Traveling Cats and Witches!)
• Attack on Titan 3 Announced (Another Game That Should Not Exist…)
• Stellar Blade 2: Blood Rain Announced (More Like Stellar FIST!)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin Re-Announced (A Larry Ellison X PlatinumGames JOINT!)
• Final Fantasy VII Revelation Announced (After 21 Years, the Final Fantasy VII Remake Dream is Almost Over…)
• Hitman Classic Trilogy Remastered Announced (More Fodder for the Re-Whatevers Piece)
• Barbie Rewind Announced (Banger Galge Collection Dropping!)
• Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered Announced (They Massacred MY BOY with UE5!)

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Rundown (4/26/2026) Game Collection Imagination Fixation

• Post published:04/26/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:39 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Game Collection Imagination Fixation
• Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Announced (Because Ubisoft-Tencent Wants Money!)
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 Announced (Such A Boring Follow-Through…)
• Splatoon Raiders Gets A Proper Reveal (The Extraction Horde Schlooter Spin-Off)
• Xbox Game Pass Price Drop (Because I Guess Too Many People Canceled. Keep It Up!)
• There Are Too Many Games Showcases Nowadays! (Showcase Psychopathy)

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

• Post published:03/15/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

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 (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 (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 (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:17 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 (4/27/2025) The Pokémon Evolutionary Line Kerfuffle

• Post published:04/27/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:44 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

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!)

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Rundown (11/03/2024) Natalie Rambles About Psycho Shatter 1988

• Post published:11/03/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:50 mins read
• Post comments:11 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Psycho Shatter 1988 Is A Wack-Ass Mess, But I Love It
• Steins;Gate RE:BOOT is a Re;Make (The Terminology of Re-Whatevers Remains Inconsistent)
• Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete Overview Released (I Will Pay $500 For Dragalia Lost Complete, Nintendo…)
• Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Announced (The Switch Consolidation Continues)
• Nintendo Music Streaming Service Announced (Why The Frick Do Zoomies Use Streaming Services?)
• Sony Closes Down Concord Developer Firewalk Studios (Hopefully The Final Concord Segment)
• The REAL Reason Nintendo is Suing Palworld (A Lawyer Explains Nintendo v. Palworld!)
• Natalie Rambles About How Sports Games Were Ruined (What’s an Accolade?)

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Rundown (10/27/2024) Rushing to Completion!

• Post published:10/27/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:28 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Rushing to Completion!
• Let’s Talk About Acquire Corporation! (Because They Made Mario & Luigi 6!)
• I Might Have Been Wrong About Unity (Unity Management Has Completely Changed Over The Past Year)
• Nintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program Has Slipped Through The Cracks (Nintendo’s Nintendo-some Nintendo-ing)
• More Musings About Re-Whatevers (Because I Didn’t Want to Go to Bed at 1 AM)

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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 (9/01/2024) Nina Tendo Brain Problems

• Post published:09/01/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:69 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Nina Tendo Brain Problems
• Nina Tendo’s Double Direct Digest! (Nintendo Direct and Indie World Rundown)
• Tetris Really IS Forever (Digital Eclipse Announces Tetris Forever)
• Yo, Falcom’s TitS is No Longer Ugly As Hell! (Trails in the Sky 1st Remake Announced)
• We Are In The CapGod Era of Re-Releases! (Capcom Announces Capcom Fighting Collection 2)
• DominuS Without the Dual Screen (Castlevania DominuS Collection Announced)
• Corporatized Coziness Continues (EA Announces Remaster of MySims and MySims Kingdoms)
• Hitting the Switch LIKE A DRAGON! (Like a Dragon – Yakuza: Kiawami (2016) Announced for Switch)
• Tokimeki FUCKING Memorial is Back! (Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You Emotional Announced)
• Nintendo Direct: Dribs and Drabs (JRPGs I Didn’t Have Much to Say About)
• Live Services, Quality, Disdain, Bad Ideas, and Death (The Struggles of Foamstars, Concord, and Blue Protocol)
• Argonaut & Croc are BACK! (Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD Remaster Announced)
• Visions of Dissolution and Despair (NetEase and Tencent Are Reconsidering Japanese Game Investments)
• Hideaki Itsuno Leaves Capcom After 30 Years (Devil May Cry Shepard and Dragon’s Dogma Director Leaves Capcom)
• Nintendo Re-Whatever Rationale List (Moved to the End to Avoid Pace Breaking)

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Rundown (7/07/2024) Student Transfer Ad Infinitum

• Post published:07/07/2024
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• Reading time:23 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Transfer Students Ad Infinitum
• DRDR: Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Gameplay (We’ve Got Nothing To Discuss This Holiday Week!)
• A Lost Planet History Rundown… Because I Don’t Know (Gotta Bulk Up The Word Count)
• Keywords Studios Has Been Acquired (Private Equity Wants To Ruin The Games Industry For £2.2 Billion)

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Rundown (6/16/2024) S3 2024 is Done and Dusted

• Post published:06/16/2024
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• Reading time:77 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: S3 2024 is Done and Dusted
• TSF Showcase 2024-24 Sekainohate de Aimashou [Meets True Love on the World End] by Sun Takeda
• Microsoft Gaming’s Summer Showcase (Xbox is the Schrödinger’s Cat of Gaming)
• Doom: The Dark Ages Announced (Doom 666: Gettin’ Medieval)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Announced (Nothing Obscure About This, No Claire Farron In Sight)
• South of Midnight Gameplay Reveal (4 Minute Trailer, 3 Minutes of Cutscene)
• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Gameplay Reveal (Little Changes Beyond Aesthetics, But That’s Okay)
• Perfect Dark Reboot ‘Gameplay’ Reveal (I Think This Is a Vertical Slice Covering a Disaster)
• Life is Strange: Double Exposure Announced (They REALLY Wanted to Call This Life is Strange 2…)
• Atomfall Announced (More Details Required to Form Proper Reaction)
• Gears of War: E-Day Announced (Gears of War 0: Please Forget About Judgment)
• The Adorably All-Digital Xbox Series X is REAL! (Natalie Almost Rambles About Xbox Storage Prices)
• Ubisoft’s Summer Showcase (Ubisoft Forward Happened)
• Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP? More Like ReNOT! (Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP Gameplay Reveal)
• EPIC LEAKS (Epic Games Store Leaks Unannounced Titles)
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Been Formally Unveiled (Natalie’s History with Dragon Age)
• Cassie’s First Impressions of Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Cassie’s Corner Returns)

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Rundown (6/09/2024) Natalie Got A New Shower!

• Post published:06/09/2024
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• Reading time:44 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Got A New Shower!
• TSF Showcase 2024-23 Shimai ga Nakayoshi Kara Ryouomoi ni Naru Hanashi [How Sisters Go from Friendship to Romance] by Sebire
• Take-Two Shutters Private Division Label (Take-Two Botches It Again!)
• Avalanche Studios Shutter Suddenly (Just Cause Developer Closes North American Studios)
• 7-Year-Old Platformer, Yooka-Laylee, is Getting a Remaster (And it Looks Worse The The Original)
• Remaster, Remake, Re-Release, Repeat (A Tangent I Wrote While on the Phone with IRS)
• Summer Game Fest Rundown (The Bits ‘N’ Pieces Before The Big Stuff)
• Lego Horizon Adventures Announced (Much to Natalie’s Confusion)
• Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind Announced (It’s Not Natsume, But It’s Close Enough)
• Slitterhead Gameplay Reveal (Split ‘Em All 1995! I am Possession Man! 1 Billion Dead Yo-Kais!)
• Killer Bean Revealed to the Broader Gaming World (Grand Theft Potato Looks DOPE!)
• Natalie Learned About Unknown 9: Awakening (It’s A Possession Stealth Action Game!)

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