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 (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 (4/09/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works Resumed

• Post published:04/09/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:14 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Version 3 of My Dreams
• Doink Has Been Devolved! (Devolver Acquired Doinksoft)
• The Saudis Snatched Scopely! (Savvy Games Group Acquires Scopely)
• Natalie Remembered The ‘Desktops Are Dead’ Argument (This Has Nothing to Do With the News, and Is Just a Ramble)
• Natalie Remembered The Gamification Predictions (Again, More Completely Unrelated Rambles!)

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