Rundown (1/25/2026) Natalie Vs CRTs

• Post published:01/25/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:64 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Vs CRTs
• Natalie’s Dumb Ocarina of Time Vs Twilight Princess Discourse (Because This Bitch Cannot Let Drama Die!)
• Life Is Strange: Reunion Announced (AKA Life Is Strange Volume 6: Life Is Strange 3)
• For Some Reason, Nintendo Updated Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (Playable Dixie Kong, Psychotic Time Trials, and Switch 2 Upgrades)
• Microslop’s Developer Direct (And Also Fable!)
• Beast of Reincarnation… Looks Good! (Game Freak Is ACTUALLY Making a AAA Action RPG!)
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake is Canceled! (Welcome to the Era of Ubisoft-Tencent!)
• An Impromptu Prince of Persia Retrospective (Why Prince of Persia Mattered!)

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Rundown (3/30/2025) Game Fighter Animard is Dope!

• Post published:03/30/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:71 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Game Fighter Animard is Dope!
• Geoff Keighley Launches The Game Business (Because Why Not At This Point?)
• Game Informer is BACK, BAY-BEE! (Fuck You, GME! We Got That Crypto Money!)
• The FINAL Switch 1 Nintendo Direct (Nina Tendo Works in Mysterious Ways…)
• Re-Release The Whole Saga of SaGa! (SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered Shadow Dropped)
• Monument Valley Trilogy is Coming to Switch (They Are Now REAL Games!)
• Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Announced (And it Is a Damn Remake!)
• Patapon 1+2 Replay Announced (Patapon Is BACK… On A Nintendo Console?)
• AI: The Somnium Files 3 – No Sleep For Kaname Date Announced (A Sequel To One Of My Favorite Games Ever!)
• Gradius Origins Announced (All Praise to the REAL Shooting Games, Ya Schmucks!)
• Another Story of Seasons Remake Announced! (Except This One Actually Looks Good)
• Everybody’s Golf is Back, BAY-BEE! (So is Hot Shots Golf, By Technicality!)
• Rhythm Heaven Groove Announced! (Not Even Cancer Can Kill This!)
• Tomodachi Life 3: Livin’ Da Dream Announced (For GTS Fans, It Is but a Dream)
• Ubisoft Opens Joint Subsidiary With Tencent (It Contains All Their Biggest IPs)
• Reflecting on Zenless Zone Zero With 6/10 Beats (My Backup Preamble if Animard Didn’t Go Live)

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Rundown (12/15/2024) Natalie Mustn’t Become Fatalie

• Post published:12/15/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:59 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Mustn’t Become Fatalie
• Change of Plans for TSF Showcase 2024-51 (No More Valkyrie Yuuki)
• Blue Protocol Is Being Resurrected as Star Resonance (Still a Generic Name, but Also Way Better)
• The Platform Agnostic and Self-Important Geoff Keighley’s Spike Video Game Awards X Advertisements (Leg’s Go!)
• Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound Announced (D@SH and R@GE!)
• Edgy Pac-Man Metroidvania Shadow Labyrinth Announced (What the Fuck?)
• Final Fantasy VII-2: Re;Birth is Coming to PC on January 23, 2025 (Hopefully People Buy It This Time Around)
• The Witcher IV Properly Announced (Thank You For the AWFUL CG, Now Leave!)
• Elden Ring Nightreign Announced (A Multiplayer Survival Elden Ring Spin-Off)
• Former Team Ico X Tencent Project Was Shown Off (It’s Sci-Fi… Good Night!)
• Hazelight Co-Op Venture #4: Split Fiction Announced (Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Crossing Over in Virtual Reality!)
• Virtua Fighter 6 Announced (We Basically Knew This Was Happening, But Whatever!)
• Turok Origins Announced (I Guess That’s A Functional Subtitle?)
• Onimusha: Way of the Sword Announced (No Clue What Flavor of Onimusha It’ll Be!)
• Okami Sequel Announced! (And It’s Directed By Hideaki Kamiya!)
• Sonic Racing 4: CrossWorlds Announced (I Miss When Games Were Announced Via Press Releases…)
• Project Century by Ryu Ga Gotoku Announced (Like a Dragon: 1915!)
• Dispatch Announced from Ex-Walking Dead Developers (Now THIS is Next Gen Telltale!)
• Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announced (Natalie Gets TOXIC Over the New Naughty Dog Game)

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Rundown (11/24/2024) How Natalie Would ‘Wreck’ The American Tax System!

• Post published:11/24/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: How Natalie Would ‘Wreck’ The American Tax System!
• Sony Is In Talks To Acquire Kadokawa (They are WAY More Than The Elden Ring Guys…)
• Final Fantasy XIV: Mobile Announced (Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Remobilized)

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Rundown (11/17/2024) Natalie Has Become a Witch!

• Post published:11/17/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Has Become a Witch!
• Doom Spending and Financial Paranoid (Buy Assets and Invest in Stonks)
• Lawsuit Updates! (Palworld and The Crew Are Making Legal Waves)
• Hideaki Itsuno Joins LightSpeed Japan Studio! (Tencent’s Consumption Continues!)
• The GOG Preservation Program is Go! (GOG’s Fancy New Sticker and Promise)
• Tequila Works Announces Insolvency (Tequila Works Is All Outta Booze)
• Natalie Muses About The Success of Lollipop Chainsaw RePop (Lollipop Shadows of the Damned Chainsaw)
• Warcraft: Remastered and Warcraft II: Remastered Announced (Pulled Outta and Polished From The Vault!)
• Embracer Sells Easybrain to Miniclip for $1.2 Billion (The Unembrace Continues)

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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
• Post comments:5 Comments

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 (8/25/2024) Return to Inefficient Labor

• Post published:08/25/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Return to Inefficient Labor
• Nintendo Direct 2 Da Museum (Natalie Is Confused By The Nintendo Museum)
• Wukong Does Big Bananas! (In More Ways Than One!)
• The Gamescom Rundown (Because I Didn’t Want To Cover Everything…)
• Take Two Interactive’s Gearbox Is Back To Money-Making (Borderlands 4 Announced)
• A Reminder: Tencent Owns Techland (Dying Light: The Beast Announced)
• Dirty Liar Peter Molyneux is Back! (Masters of Albion Announced)
• How The Hell Is This Series Still Alive? (Mafia: The Old Country Announced)
• Oh Snap, TSF Creators Are Noticing Me! (And Another Aside About SwapHouse)
• Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp EOS Announced (But It’s Getting an Offline Version!)

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Natalie Rambles About 2023

• Post published:12/27/2023
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:127 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

IBNTEVI RJI SETLMIDD UG TIEKORP EMS IZYITOIMVI TI;NOTRJ!!!

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Rundown (12/10/2023) Good Night Gamindustri, See Ya Next Year!

• Post published:12/10/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:57 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Game Awards Happened!
• TSF Showcase 2023-41 Ame Nochi Hare [Clear Up After Rain] by Bikke
• A Prophecy Fulfilled, A Decade Later (Grand Theft Auto VI Announced)
• The Game Awards Had Too Many New Game Announcements… (The Big The Game Awards Rundown)
• Brothers: A Tale of Development Shenanigans (Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake Announced)
• Aw SHIT! The Genshin-Likes Are Here! (Natalie Learned What Arknights: Endfield Is)
• From Ragnarök , We Venture to Valhalla (God of War 5: Ragnarök – Valhalla DLC Announced)
• Don’t Fly Me to that Moon! It’ll CRUNCH Me! (Moon Studio Announces No Rest for the Wicked)
• SEGA IS BACK, BAY-BEE!!! (Sega Gives Natalie a Heart Attack by Announcing Five Reboots at Once)
• SPARKING! 4 Neo Zero (Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 Re-Revealed as Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero)
• 16 Years Later, Similar Vision (Visions of Mana Announced)
• Odd Overdose Overdrive (Kojima Productions and Xbox Game Studios Announce OD)
• The Dino Lore of Natalie & Cassie Ramble About The Jurassic Park Hexalogy Continues! (Jurassic Park: Survival Announced)
• Life is Strange is a Strange Entity… (Don’t Nod’s Life is Strange Successor, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Announced)
• My Love For You is Like a Truck… BERSERKER!!! (The First Berserker: Khazan Announced)
• The Gulags of Gun Games (An Obligatory Acknowledgement of A Nexon and Two Tencent Games)
• Marvel Continues to License AAA Game Projects (Arkane Lyon is Developing Marvel’s Blade)
• It’s a Wild World Out There, so Rise Up, Young Monster Hunter! (Monster Hunter Wilds Announced)
• From Sci-Fi To Fantasy… Shouldn’t It Be The Other Way Around? (Hello Games Announces Light No Fire)
• A Reminder That Digital Ownership is a Sham (Sony Steals Hundreds of Shows From Its Customers)
• A Pronoun Problem (A Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update and Preview)

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Rundown (9/10/2023) Money! Money! Money! Is What I Need!

• Post published:09/10/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:33 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Money! Money! Money! Is What I Need!
• TSF Showcase #2023-27 King’s Proposal by Tachibana Koushi and Kurio Nemo
• Tencent’s Indirect Consumption Continues (Sumo Group Acquires Midoki)
• One of the Most Bizarre Developer Switches of All Time (Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Will Be Developed by The Chinese Room)
• Miserable Suckful CRT (Natalie Muses About Resolution and Screen Differences)
• Quitting Twitter Was Wicked Easy (I Have Not Checked My Feed on 𝕏 in Over a Month)

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Rundown (7/30/2023) Hoarding Games I’ll Never Play!

• Post published:07/30/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s ROM Hole
• TSF Showcase #2023-21 Mahou Shounen Majorian by Ishida Atsuko
• Techland’s Dying Light of Independence (Tencent Will Acquire A Majority Stake in Techland)
• Tencent Bought One of the Most Important Visual Novel Developers of All Time (Tencent Acquires Visual Arts and Key)
• Capcom Snagged a Snack! (Capcom Acquires Swordcanes Studios Co., Ltd.)
• Screw Social Media, Make RSS 3.0! (𝕏 Is Here, And I Stopped Caring!)
• Official Game Collections Continue To Be Worse Than A ROM Folder (Double Dragon Collection Announced)

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Rundown (12/18/2022) Natalie’s Going In For Bottom Surgery!

• Post published:12/18/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:13 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Tencent bought 20% of that anime booty game.
• The continued purging of HBO Max to avoid residuals
• A ‘remaster’ of 2005’s Ys: The Oath in Felghana
• The next retroactive adventure of Adol Christin
• Amazon’s next Tomb Raider game
• The END of the Pokémon anime (as we know it)

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Rundown (8/14-8/20) Natalie’s Changing Her Schedule Again…

• Post published:08/21/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:17 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

Wherein I discuss my new Nigma Box work balance, The Embrace of another neggest of Gamindustri, the resurrection of a thrice-killed corpse, Steam’s purity policy, the return of Bop Louie and friends! 

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Rundown (7/31-8/06) Blazing Edits!

• Post published:08/07/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:22 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

Wherein I discuss the completion of a beta I’m releasing on time, the encroaching anime apocalypse, Ubisoft’s potential new owners, why Pokémon is bad, DiSCoBoMBs, a ruinous remaster, a Plain-o rename-o, and a new gothic metroidvania action platformer.

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Rundown (5/01-5/07) Ret-2-eScape TSF Hell

• Post published:05/08/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:7 mins read
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Wherein I discuss the 10th anniversary project’s progress, the Square Enix separation, and an ARG with a zero chance of escape.

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Rundown (3/13-3/19) Nigma Box Got A $445.59 Makeover!

• Post published:03/20/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:11 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

Wherein I discuss the dev costs of Nigma Box 2.0, Tencent’s Tequila, the struggles of modern game development, a ghastly song of yore, and an unfortunate fall.

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Rundown (2/20-2/26) The TSF Well Is Deep, Dank, and Viscous

• Post published:02/27/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:22 mins read
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Wherein I discuss how I wanna make more TSF stuff, a premature sequel, a sequel 25 years in the making, two collections of disproportionate quality, and how you can make super emulation machines if you are smart enough.

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Rundown (12/12-12/18) I Need to Edit 139,000 Words in 40 Days…

• Post published:12/19/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:8 mins read
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Wherein I discuss my upcoming novel, why I thin NFTs have no place in gaming… again, and MMO so popular it is not allowing new players, and Tencent’s latest acquisition.

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Rundown (12/05-12/11) Midnight Grillz: Hot Gacha Dailies

• Post published:12/12/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:18 mins read
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Wherein I discuss my ‘addiction’, a PlayStation predator, Tencent’s new pseudonym, The Spike Video Game Announcement XIX, Android coming to home computer (for real this time), and the expanding veil of PlayStation.

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Rundown (7/18-7/24) Surprise Face Reveal!

• Post published:07/25/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:11 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

Wherein I subject you folks to my wretched face and voice, discuss an un-deadening of Dead Space, another accursed acquisition, the struggles of a ship of scallywags in Singapore, and how Activision Blizzard is a truly wretched company based on a lawsuit filed by the state of California. 

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Rundown (6/20-6/26) Happy Hormone and Sonic Anniversary

• Post published:06/27/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:11 mins read
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Wherein I discuss an embarrassing anecdote, the future of Sonic, the future of Windows, the downfall of Yager, and the Trails celebration.

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Rundown (4/11-4/17) Meandering Musings About Money

• Post published:04/18/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:8 mins read
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Wherein I discuss making mad dochy, a remake of dubious soulfulness, a Konami game, and the continued downfall of Sony.

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Rundown (1/24-1/30) Saturday Morning Robbery

• Post published:01/31/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:15 mins read
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Wherein I discuss another Tencent acquisition, more industry consolidation, playing the rich man’s game, a baffling mobile adaptation, and a tech company failing to enter the game industry! 

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Rundown (1/17-1/23) Strife Stifler!

• Post published:01/24/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:11 mins read
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Wherein I discuss the stifling of political strife, the highs and lows of a grand village, corroborated creative conflicts, the vanishing of a vision, and another cool cat giving into the corporate machine.

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Natalie Rambles About 2020

• Post published:12/30/2020
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:56 mins read
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Because 2020 is finally at an end, and good riddance!

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Rundown (5/17-5/23) Oops, All Weeaboo!

• Post published:05/24/2020
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:8 mins read
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Wherein I discuss my national bias, the organization or organized crime, and an immersive sim funded by the power of China!

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Rundown (8/16-8/22) Forever A Failure

• Post published:08/23/2015
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• Reading time:5 mins read
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Another week, another one-fifth-second of a year gone down the drain, and another series of days where I feel like I have been a worthless POS, as I am not keeping my shit organized well enough. I’ll hopefully get better once I return to a school based schedule this week, and hopefully my first semester of full-time college does not cause me to dive down the despair drenched drain to the dirty and dingy darkness. Alliteration is fun… (more…)

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