Rundown (8/03/2025) How Square Enix Fumbled Final Fantasy

• Post published:08/03/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:80 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Why Don’t Zoomies Care About Final Fantasy?
• Atari Acquires Thunderful Group (It Was Either This or Bankruptcy, I Guess)
• Natalie Does Not Understand Gamindustri (She’s Also Nutso)
• Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase 2025 Happened (Bring On The Switch 2 Ports!)
• Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Announced (NOT The Monster Hunter People Crave)
• Once Upon A Katamari Announced (A Sequel 14 Years In The Making!)
• The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Announced (Cool, But What’s With That Name?)
• Octopath Traveler 0 Announced (Continent of Champions Redux!)
• Nintendo Switch Price Hike Announced (Bunk All This Tariff Ish Maaaaaan…)
• Darksiders is NOT Dead! (The 15 Year Dream Will Be Realized!)
• re:Dreamer Version 0.20.0 is FINALLY Done! (The Third Last Minute Addition)

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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 (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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re:Dreamer Version 0.18.1 Review

• Post published:06/03/2024
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:43 mins read
• Post comments:12 Comments

Don’t let the dream become a nightmare…

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Rundown (6/02/2024) It’s Gonna Be A Bangin’ TSF Summer!

• Post published:06/02/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:66 mins read
• Post comments:9 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: It’s Gonna Be A Bangin’ TSF Summer! (Also, Press-Switch v0.6b is OUT!!!)
• TSF Showcase 2024-21.1 Tenkôsei: Sayonara Anata (2007) [Transfer Students: Goodbye to You] or Switching: Goodbye Me 
• TSF Showcase 2024-22 The God Power by Gregor Daniels
• TSF Showcase 2024-22.1 The God Power Seeks Another by Gregor Daniels
• Awaiting The Inevitable Segmented Summer Showcases (A Preamble to S3 2024)
• The Obligatory State of Play Summary (Let S3 2024 Begin!)
• Monster Hunter Musings (Natalie Avoids Talking About Monster Hunter Wilds)
• Dynasty Warriors X – The New Zero (Dynasty Warriors Reboot, Dynasty Warriors Origins, Announced)
• Japan Studio Died So Astro Bot Can Live (Standalone Astro Bot 3D Platformer Announced)

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Rundown (5/12/2024) Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder

• Post published:05/12/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:63 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder 
• TSF Showcase 2024-19 Change Ring by Kawaii Tsun’aho
• TSF Showcase 2024-19.1 Change Ring the Manga by Kawaii Tsun’aho and MPZ
• Student Transfer V8 is Coming Soon! (The Murder Route is Finally Getting Replaced!)
• re:Dreamer is Back, Bay-Bee! (re:Dreamer Version 0.18.0 Releases After 7 Month Delay)
• Microsoft Murders Arkane Austin and Tango GameWorks (Technically They Also Killed Alpha Dog and Consolidated Roundhouse…)
• Another AI Generated Image Musing (No, I’m Not Going to Become An AI Pundit)
• Yes, Nintendo Switch 2 is Happening, But You Gotta Wait! (The Switch-2.0-Roadmap)
• Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Announced (Better Than Nothing, Worse Than You’d Expect)

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Rundown (11/05/2023) re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…

• Post published:11/05/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

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)

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re:Dreamer Version 0.15.0 Review

• Post published:06/03/2023
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

It’s like a dream come true… and it is simply beautiful.

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Rundown (5/21/2023) My re:Dreamer Panic Attack

• Post published:05/21/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:14 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: My re:Dreamer Panic Attack
• Natalie Complains About Fickle Things Nobody Should Care About (EXP Is A Superior Term to XP)
• Natalie Bemoans Tears of the Kingdom (Natalie Talks About The Latest Hotness – Loz TotK Edition)
• Build A World and Flip It! (Cygames ‘Slows Down’ Production on World Flipper)
• Overwatch 2 Was A Work From Day One (Overwatch 2’s Promised PvE Mode Has Been Scrapped)
• Mortal Kombat Twelve, Sans the Two (The Twelfth Mainline Mortal Kombat Title, Mortal Kombat 1, Announced)

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re:Dreamer Version 0.10.5 Review

• Post published:06/03/2022
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:23 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

It’s like a dream come true… but it has a LONG road ahead.

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re:Dreamer Version 0.8.1 Review

• Post published:06/03/2021
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:18 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

A year later, it’s still like a dream come true… and it’s still an alpha.

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Natalie Rambles About 2020

• Post published:12/30/2020
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:56 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

Because 2020 is finally at an end, and good riddance!

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re:Dreamer Version 0.3.5 Review

• Post published:06/03/2020
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:17 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

Like a dream come true… but it’s still in alpha.

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