Rundown (9/06/2026) Reject Live Services; Return to Piracy

• Post published:09/06/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Reject Live Services; Return to Piracy!
• The Valve Leak Happened (13 TB of Steam Data Circa 2013 Accessed and Examined)
• The State of Play September Slate (From Nippon with Love)
• More Like State of KONAMI (Revision Noir and Rhapsody in Scarlet, and Look Dope)
• Saudi Arabia MIGHT Want to Buy Square Enix (GOD, PLEASE, NO!)
• Victor Folmann Acquires SteamDB (Capital Consumes and Conquers)

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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
• Post comments:5 Comments

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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Rundown (8/09/2026) Devilman is DOPE!

• Post published:08/09/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:20 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Devilman is DOPE!
• Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner Now Own Electronic Arts (Because Of Course They Do)
• Beast of Reincarnation Patch Roadmap Announced (Guess I Gotta Delay My Review!)

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Rundown (5/17/2026) The Natalie.TF Schedule Update – May 2026

• Post published:05/17/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Natalie.TF Schedule Update – May 2026
• Natalie Muses About FMV Games (Blame The Saturn Panda Man!)
• Katsuhiro Harada Accepts Fat Check From Saudi Arabia (The Face of Tekken is Now Working for Saudi Arabia’s SNK)
• Sega Kills Their Super Game Initiative (A Hundred Billion Yen Down The Drain!)

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Rundown (3/29/2026) The Resident Evil Redemption

• Post published:03/29/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:52 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Resident Evil Redemption
• FlipWitch: Temples of Temptation Announced (That TSF Metroidvania is Getting a Sequel!)
• Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 People (Because Time Sweeney is a Small-Minded Man)
• OpenAI Kills Sora (I Cannot WAIT for the AI Bubble to Pop)
• What The Hell’s Going on With Acquisitions and Closures This Week? (Everything is Falling Apart! Aaaaaahhhh!!!)
• The PlayStation 5 Gets A $100 Price Increase (Budget Gaming is DEAD. Politics Killed It!)
• Nintendo is Charging More For Physical Games (This Was Inevitable, and Here’s Why!)

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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 (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 (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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