Rundown (5/26/2024) I Got Robbed!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Got Robbed!!!
- TSF Showcase 2024-21 Tenkōsei [Exchange Students] or I Are You, You Am Me
- Nintendo’s Miami Shiver is Ret-2-Go! (Nintendo Acquires Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group)
- The Accursed Consolidation Continues! (Ziff Davis Acquires Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, and More)
- Abrazar La Muerte, Amico (Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand)
Rundown (5/19/2024) re:CPE:Dreamer
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: re:CPE:Dreamer
- TSF Showcase 2024-20 I Love Yuri and I Got Bodyswapped with a Fujoshi! by Ajiichi
- Bye-Bye Xbox, Hello Microsoft Gaming (Speculating on the Future of Xbox Part 3)
- Oh SNAP! Press-Switch v0.6b is Coming Soon! (Natalie’s Gonna Review The Big Three Back-To-Back)
Rundown (5/12/2024) Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder
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)
Rundown (5/05/2024) Natalie & Cassie Preserved An Anime Soundtrack!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie & Cassie Preserved An Anime Soundtrack!
- TSF Showcase 2024-18 Idol Pretender by Haruse Hiroki
- Burn It All, Square Enix! Burn It All! (Square Enix Cancels Multiple Game Projects)
- Sony’s First-Party PSN Records Leaked (The Insomniac Leaks Keeps on Giving)
- Miscellaneous Ramblings From a Tired Madwoman (Political Nonsense Natalie Wrote At 2 AM)
Rundown (4/28/2024) The Masturbation Conundrum
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Masturbation Conundrum
- TSF Showcase 2024-17 The Auto-Closet by Kristen O
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.1 One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.2 Two Sexy Errors by SapphireFoxx
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.3 Shifting Roommates: One Sexy Error by SapphireFoxx
- TSF Showcase 2024-17.4 One Sexy Error: Role Reversal by SapphireFoxx
- I Spent Too Much Time Playing PokéRogue, so Now I Gotta Contentize It (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Rogue of A Risky Rainy Randomness)
- Unembraced Entities (The Embracer Group Announces Disbandment)
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part III (Pixiv Restricts R18 Works For All US and UK Residents)
- The Game Industry Hates Games And Libraries Too (ESA Refuses to Assist Libraries With Game Preservation)
- Infogrames is Back Bay-Bee! (Atari Relaunches Infogrames Brand After 20 Years Because I Don’t Know!)
- Nintendo Hates You And Everyone Too (Nintendo Removes All Nintendo-Related Uploads From Garry’s Mod)
Rundown (4/14/2024) The Enigmatic Children
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Enigmatic Children
- TSF Showcase 2024-15 TS Boshi Techou by Seto Kouhei and Matsuzono
- Contemplating Console Cataclysm (Response to the Consoles Are Dying Discourse – Wave Two)
- Natalie Rambles About the Triple-A and Triple-i Naming Convention (A Tangent That Overtook the Original Topic)
- Eman Looc’s Possession Scroll is Divesting from Student Transfer (Add Another Great Standalone TF Game to The List!)
- Minor Musings About Unionization and Costs of Living (Avalanche Studios Starts Unionizing)
- The Illest Quote From 1951 (Natalie Hyperfixates on 30 Seconds From a 38 Hour Documentary)
Rundown (4/07/2024) Artificially Difficult Taxation
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Artificially Difficult Taxation
- TSF Showcase 2024-14 Ojou-sama Irekawari by Yuniba (TSuniverse)
- TSF Showcase 2024-REJECT_1 Watashi-tachi ha “Byplayer” [We Are Supporting Actors] by Harada
- April Fools Ain’t Cool, Except For When It Is (The April Fools Rundown)
- STOP KILLING GAMES!!! (Ross Scott Launches Legal Campaign Against Live Services)
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part II (DLSite Has Been Screwed By US Credit Card Companies)
Rundown (3/31/2024) Revenge of Editing Hell
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Revenge of Editing Hell
- TSF Showcase 2024-13 A Gender-Bent Maiden and a Confession Under a Starry Sky [Nyotaika no Musume to Hoshizora no Kokuhaku] by Poriuretan
- The Embracer Fire Sale Continues! (Take Two Buys Gearbox Entertainment For $460 Million)
- SHOW ME WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF!!! (Sonic Heroes Remake/Remaster is Maybe Happening)
- Relic Entertainment Goes Indie! (Sega Lays Off 240 People, Sells Off Relic Entertainment)
- Credits Are Vital, Yet Often Suppressed (NetEase Announced Marvel Hero Shooter, Marvel Rivals)
Rundown (3/24/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Has Been Drafted!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Has Been Drafted!
- TSF Showcase 2024-12 Transformed Into A Busty Blonde [Kinpatsu x Kyonyuu ni Henshin de] by Ikuya Daikokudou
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans (Natalie Gets Political – March 2024 Ver.2)
- Ship Broken, Fix Maybe (There’s Nothing Remarkable About The Battlefront Classic Launch Disaster)
- A Relic Castle Reduced to Ruin (The Pokémon Company Killed A Fan Game Site)
- Steamy Family Funsies (Valve Announces Steam Families Overhaul)
Rundown (3/17/2024) Fatigue Leaves The Body Erotic
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Fatigue Leaves The Body Erotic
- TSF Showcase 2024-11 Becoming Lindsay by CasualCraig69 & Someone From Internet Art
- Sweet Baby and the Most Disgustingly Sour Babies (Natalie Gets Political – March 2024 Ver.)
- An Anti-Cheat Conundrum (Natalie Rambles About Why Multiplayer Gaming Is Bad Part ⅓)
Rundown (3/10/2024) Wack-Ass Work Shifts
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Wack-Ass Work Shifts
- TSF Showcase 2024-10 Kizoku to Dorei no Irekawari ~Subete o Te ni Ireta Otoko~ [The Aristocrat and His Slave Switched Bodies ~The Man Who Got It All~] by Iwashita (Iwashita Shoten)
- Yuzu Surrenders to Nintendo, Pays $2.4 Million in Damages (Screw Nintendo, But Screw Yuzu More)
- The Only Answer Is Not to Play (Persona 3 Reload Is Getting The Answer as $35 DLC)
- Akira Toriyama Has Passed Away (Rest in Peace, You Absolute Legend)
Rundown (3/03/2024) Life Might Be a Waste of Time but It’s Nice!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Life Might Be a Waste of Time but It’s Nice!
- TSF Showcase 2024-09 Transjitter Ibitsu na Karada by Jirou Saku
- A Reminder That Apple Arcade Exists (Apple Arcade Is Undergoing Some Troubles)
- Pokémon Presents… Confusion! (Pokémon Legends Z-A Announced)
- Sony Lays Off 900 People (Also The Twisted Metal Live Service is Dead)
- EA Also Laid Off 670 People A Day Later (Also, Respawn Got Screwed Again)
- Saber Interactive is Free From The Embrace! (Saber Interactive Leaves Embracer Group)
- Bobby ‘n’ Da Tiki Boyz is Goin’ Indie (Toys for Bob Is Parting Ways from Microsoft Activision Blizzard King)
- NetEase is Opening Up An All-American Bullet Farm (NetEase Established LA-Based Studio, BulletFarm)
- I Get Why You’re Doing This Nintendo, But Fuck Off (Nintendo Is Suing the Developers of the Yuzu Switch Emulator)
Rundown (2/25/2024) First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!
- TSF Showcase 2024-08 Okitsune-sama de Chu♥ by Sumino Yuji
- Nintendo Direct 2024 – 1 of ??? (A Spoonful of Sugar To Numb The Mind)
- Monster Hunter Stories… Retold (Capcom Announces Monster Hunter Stories Remaster)
- Epic Disappointment Remastered (Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed Announced)
- SMT is BACK! …With A Vengeance! (Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Announced)
- Back to the Banana-Rama Again! (Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble Announced)
- Explore The Sea… With Friends! (Endless Ocean Luminous Announced)
- Pokémon Radical Insanity (First Impressions of Pokémon Radical Red v4.0)
Rundown (2/18/2024) Xbox Is Not Dead, Y’All Lied To Me!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Xbox Is Not Dead, Y’All Lied To Me!
- TSF Showcase 2024-07 Bocchi de Shinda Ore ga Bishoujo Nurse ni Natta Hanashi [The Story of How I Died Alone and Became a Sexy Nurse] by Oden Ohgan (TuriSasu)
- ***SCRAPPED***
Nintendo Direct 2024 – 1 of 3(Don’t Be Glad The Switch Happened, Be Glad It’s Over) - Nintendo Switch Successor Delayed to Q1 2025 (Bad News Broke Friday Afternoon)
- Gacha RPG vs. JRPG (A Tangent For Cassie)
Rundown (2/11/2024) The Alleged End of Xbox
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Alleged End of Xbox
- TSF Showcase 2024-06 JK-ka Refle [JK-ification Salon] (Ch 1, 2, 3, and 4) by Kouji
- No Escape for Runescape! (Jagex Acquired by Private Equity Firms)
- The Wild Age of Yu-Gi-Oh! Games Returns(?) (Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection Announced)
- Metrics for Everyone (Natalie Complains About How Capitalism Won’t Give Her Sales Figures)
- The Unionization Effort Continues! (IGN is Unionizing!)
- Disney & Tencent’s Epic (Disney Invests $1.5 Billion in Epic Games)
Rundown (2/04/2024) Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Delayed Again!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Is Delayed Again!
- TSF Showcase 2024-05 Boku Tamasaburo by Ono Shinji (Yoshimura Tatsumasa)
- Deus Ex Capitalism (Embracer Canned a Deus Ex Game in Pre-Production)
- It’s Fate That You Stay Away! (Fate/Stay Night Remastered Is Getting An International Release)
- The Volition to Shapeshift! (Former Volition Staff Establish Support Studio Shapeshifter Games)
- State of Play Slurp Up! (The Un-Nintendo Direct)
- Sonic Generations is BACK! (Sonic X Shadow Generations Announced)
- Supermassive Games Got Done Dirty… (Sony is Having A New Studio Replace Until Dawn)
- The Open World Woes! (Natalie Rambles About Palworld – Week 2)
Rundown (1/28/2024) Palling Around in Palworld
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Palworld – Week 1
- No One Can Stop The Pokémadness (Palworld is a Global Sensation and Home to Massive Controversy)
- TSF Showcase 2024-04 Oto x Maho by Shirase Shuu and Suemitsu Dicca
- Microsoft’s Big Cuts! (Microsoft Layoffs, Cancellation, and War on Physical Games)
Rundown (1/21/2024) Natalie the Pokémaniac is Hungry for Souls!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Shattered Locks and Strained Logistics
- TSF Showcase 2024-03 Fujoshi Trapped in a Seme’s Perfect Body by Seru and Jouvru
- After 15 Years of Sitting in the Dumpster, Indy’s Back Gamin’ (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Revealed)
- Fine, I’ll Talk About Online Drama… (Chuggaaconroy Was Being Creepy And Asking For Feet Pics)
Rundown (1/14/2024) Natalie’s Sexual Binary
Rundown (1/07/2024) The Co-Op Conundrum
Rundown (12/31/2023) Christmas with Judas
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: A Review of Judas by Suu Minazuki
- TSF Showcase 2023-45 Irekawatte Modotta Joshikousei by Zaregoto Hitsuji
- TSF Showcase 2023-46 Queen Slime no Gyakushuu [The Queen Slime’s Counterattack] by Hiiragi Popura and Kuratsuka Riko
- TSF Showcase 2023-47 Boku no Milk o Meshiagare by Yoshida Gorou
- Rockstar Just Can’t Catch A Break… (Grand Theft Auto V’s Source Code Was Leaked)
Rundown (12/24/2023) How to Do Time Management?!?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: How To Do Time Management?!?
- TSF Showcase 2023-44 Megu Miruku [Megu Milk] – Kusaka Shiroi
- A Review of Swapped by the Magic Mirror by Gregor Daniels (Natalie Wanted to Do a TSF Showcase on This, But It Wasn’t Good Enough)
- TimeSplitters 4 Post-Cancelation Interview (Former Free Radical Devs Lays The Deets on TimeSplitters 4)
- The Type of Leak That Makes You An Insomniac… (Insomniac Games Subjected to Ransomware Attack and Leak)
- Pontificating Posse Logs (Scope Creep Vs. Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 – Part 5?)
Rundown (12/17/2023) Year-End Hustle & Bustle
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Year-End Hustle & Bustle
- TSF Showcase 2023-42 Seitenkan Appli no Tadashii Tsukaikata [How to use Gender-Changing Apps Properly] by Mogetama (Tanakamori Yokota)
- TSF Showcase 2023-43 Jinzou Shoujo [Artificial Girl] by Natsume Satoru
- There Is No We or Us, Only Y’all and Me (Natalie Bitches About Being Lumped Into Groups)
- Don’t Worry, I Won’t Bitch About The Last of Us Again (The Last of Us Online Has Been Canceled)
My Mad Scientist Roommate Turned Me Into Her Personal Robotic Battle Maiden?!? Review
The Lachlanverse Episode III: Axon in Ashes My Mad Scientist Roommate Turned Me Into Her Personal Robotic Battle Maiden?!?
Rundown (12/10/2023) Good Night Gamindustri, See Ya Next Year!
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)
Rundown (12/03/2023) Yo! NTF Cribz
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Yo! NTF Cribs
- TSF Showcase 2023-40 Gyakujō Jigokuhen Kiwami by Byuu
- The December Drought is Here! (Natalie Doesn’t Have Stuff To Talk About Now!)
- TimeSplitters is Dead… Again! (Embracer Revived and Killed Free Radical)
- Hopefully Modders can make this Final Fantasy ForEver Crisis… (Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis is Coming to PC Next Week)
- Fandom the Social Escape (Natalie Harasses Akumako RE: Fandom)
- Razor Danger (Natalie Harasses Akumako RE: Razor Blades)
Rundown (11/26/2023) The Quest for a Dream TF Metroidvania
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Quest for a Dream TF Metroidvania
- TSF Showcase 2023-39 Electric-Exchanger [Dengeki Exchange] by Neriwasabi
- Another Acquisition, And That’s It! (Aonic Acquires NDreams)
- Indonesia Powers Unite! (Toge Productions Acquires Mojiken Studio)
- Yo, What’s the Deal With All This Goblin Fucking in Hentai? (Natalie and Akumako Discuss Goblin Porn)
Rundown (11/19/2023) So Long Old Home! + The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: So Long Old Home!
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update
- TSF Showcase 2023-38 P(ossession)-Party by Asagiri (ts-complex2nd)
- Annapurna Bought 24 Whole Bits! (Annapurna Interactive Acquires 24 Bit Games)
- NetEase Still Won’t Stop! (NetEase Establishes New Studio Worlds Untold)
- **** The Children (Natalie Rambles About ‘The Child Question’)
- Oh Shit, Class of ’09 Really Blew Up (Natalie Looked At Her Site Stats and Found a Surprise)
- The Least Surprising Remaster Announcement Happened at 6:30 PM on a Friday (The Last of Us Part II Remastered Announced)
TSF Series #018: Dæmon;Heäd
From the lingering remnants of bloodied cardboard, and manifested through a successive generation of delusions.
(more…)Rundown (11/12/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works is Done!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works is Done!
- TSF Showcase 2023-37 The Legend of Zelda: Tale of the Fourth Goddess by Unknown Creator
- Nintendo’s Quest For Another Billion Dollars… (Nintendo Announces Live-Action Legend of Zelda Movie)
- A Preemptive Musing About the Inevitable GTA VI Reveal (Grand Theft Auto VI Will Be Revealed Soon)
- Surprise! Steam Deck 1.5, Bitches! (Steam Deck OLED Model Announced)
Rundown (11/05/2023) re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…
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)
Rundown (10/29/2023) Horror Is Not Niche!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Horror ist Nicht Niche
- TSF Showcase #2023-35 Coffee Buns by Cinnamon Switch
- The Rule of 200 to 250 (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Part Luminescent DEX)
- Simping For That Celery (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Tangent Orchard)
- Ufouria is BACK, Bay-Bee (The Sunsoft Revival Arc Finally Bears Fruit)
Rundown (10/22/2023) Natalie is a Homeowner
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I’m A Homeowner!
- TSF Showcase #2023-34 Body Switched by Caleb Jones
- Computer Game Design Vs Console Game Design (A Half-Baked Ramble I Spent Too Much Time on to Cut)
- Touch Detective is Back And Localized! (Not To Be Confused With Touch DIC)
- A Crime Against Nature (Natalie Rambles About Pokémon – Part Luminescent NEVIV)
Rundown (10/15/2023) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Akumu Kojou [Nightmare Factory]: Tax Tax Panic!
- TSF Showcase #2023-32 What Happens When You Gender Bend Close Friends With A Magic App lol by Ue ni Aru Mikan
- TSF Showcase #2023-33 Raiden Shogun Is My Wife?! by TadxSarah
- Microsoft Now 100% Owns Activision Blizzard (UK Gives the OK to the Activision Blizzard Acquisition)
- John Riccitiello is Getting a Golden Parachute (Unity is Still Doomed Though)
- PlayStation 5 Slim Stealth Dropped (NEW PlayStation 5 Announced)
- The Internet Is Dying By Design (Natalie’s Platform and Preservation Nightmare)
Rundown (10/08/2023) If You Don’t Like ‘Em, Kill ‘Em!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: If You Don’t Like ‘Em, Kill ‘Em!
- TSF Showcase 2023-31 Crossed Signals by Cinnamon Switch
- Bury The 3DS and Wii U Before the Switch 2 is Even Announced (3DS and Wii U Online Services Will End in April 2024)
- How The Frick is Epic Games In Trouble? (Epic Games Announces Pricing Changes Amid Financial Problems)
Rundown (10/01/2023) How Are ‘Real’ Video Games Profitable?
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: How Are Real Video Games Profitable?
- TSF Showcase #2023-30 sWitch Time by TSFSingularity & MassivePinkZombie
- Platinum Never Loses Its Luster… But It Can Lost Its Heart (Hideki Kamiya Announces His Departure From PlatinumGames)
- Spin Through Time Yet Again (Timespinner 2: Unwoven Dream Announced)
- Ransomware Warriors Strike Again! (Sony Got Hacked, Like It’s 2011 Part II)
- Bring back the Good PlayStation! (Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO, Jim Ryan, To Retire in March 2024)
- EPIC DIVESTMENT! (Epic Sells Bandcamp and Lays Off 900 Employees)
- Ownership vs. Possession (Natalie Complains About People Crying About ‘The Death of Ownership’)
TSF Series #017: Cassandra – The Cuddly Demon Empress
From the wishes of a kyuubi cutie, but executed by a psycho bitch! It is Venturers of Radiant: The Next Dimension!
(more…)Rundown (9/24/2023) Ai’s Time Warp and Premise Predicament
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Ai’s Time Warp And Premise Predicament
- TSF Showcase #2023-29 Watashi no Karada, Okashi Shimasu [Rent My Body] by Fujiya (Nectar)
- FTC Leaks Are the Coolest E3! (Boatload of Xbox Internal Documents Leak Via FTC)
- If Gaming Goes Online Only, Fuck It, I’m Done (Natalie Rambles About Killing Ownership In The Name of Innovation)
- What’s a Toaplan, and Why’s It Getting a Revival Arc? (Tatsujin Announces Revivals of Toaplan Games)
- Izuna the Unemployed Ninja Has a New Job (Success Announced Izuna: The Unemployed Ninja Reboot)
- Hell is a City Connection (Natalie Tries to Unravel City Connection’s TGS Lineup)
- Under Unity, We Fail (Unity Executives Apologize, Give People Another Shitty Deal)
Rundown (9/17/2023) Natalie is a TOS Violation
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is a TOS Violation
- TSF Showcase #2023-28 Kikaishikake no Eve [Clockwork Eve] – Haruno Suzune
- TF Discussions and Drama (Natalie Rambles About a TF React Podcast)
- The Tour is Over! (Nintendo Will Stop Producing Mario Kart Tour Content)
- Gearbox (May) Escape the Controlling Embrace (Embracer Group is Weighing Options to Sell Gearbox)
- We Must Stand Unified Against Unity (Unity Will Charge Royalties for Game Installations)
- Franchise and Series – A Pet Peeve of Peeves! (Natalie Defines a Franchise and a Series)
- Nintendo Direct 2023 – 3 of 2 (Rundown of the September 14, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
- Minis Go Home! The Boy Is Back And He Don’t Look Like Ass No Mo’ (Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Remake Announced)
- Trace to Another Code to Recollect Two Memories of Cing (Another Code Recollection Announced)
- Peach Game is a Genre Mashup, and That’s Sparklin’ Cool! (Princess Peach: Showtime! Fully Announced)
- We Sold Enough Remasters to Continue Da SaGa! (SaGa Emerald Beyond Announced)
- Tomb Raider’s Getting Re-Re-Remade! (Tomb Raider I II III Remastered Starring Lara Croft Announced)
- Konami Refuses to Give Contra, or Any Game, A Proper Budget(?) (Contra: Operation Galuga Announced)
- Is That Freaking Grand Knights History II? …No. It’s BETTER! (Unicorn Overlord Announced)
- Nintendo, This is Just a Straight 3DS Port… (Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD Fully Revealed)
- After 19 Years, F-Zero is BACK… in 2D! (F-Zero 99 Announced)
- One of Nat’s GOATS is BACK! (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Remake Announced)
- Moon: RPG Remix Adventure Part 4, Bay-Bee! (Onion Games Announces Stray Children)
- The Original Mystery Dungeon is Back, Bay-Bee! (Shiren the Wanderer 6: Toguro Island Expedition Record Announced)
- Shin-Chan Did Well Enough To Get A Sequel? (Shin-chan: Shiro of Coal Town Announced)
- Double Direct Debauchery (A Narrow Rundown of the September 14, 2023 State of Play)
- Wizardry Is Back… Except It Never Left! (Digital Eclipse Announces Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord)
Rundown (9/10/2023) Money! Money! Money! Is What I Need!
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)
Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers
- TSF Showcase #2023-24.1 BlazBlue Remix Heart Gaiden by Arc System Works
- TSF Showcase #2023-25 Doutei Ikki [Brotherhood of Virgins] by DOM
- The Behavior of a Juggernaut (Behavior Acquires Rotterdam-Based Developer Codeglue)
- Sony Gobbles Up An Audio Company (Sony Interactive Entertainment Acquires Audeze)
- PlayStation Portal Is a Bad PlayStation Vita (PlayStation Project Q Re-Announced As PlayStation Portal)
- New Auditory Era of Mario (Mario Voice Actor, Charles Martinet, Steps Down From Role)
- Nintendo is Bringing DRM to Consoles (Nintendo Partners With Denuvo to Fight Switch Emulation)
- Denuvo Is Trying to Prevent Mods on Unreal Engine Games (Denuvo Announces Unreal Engine Protection Software)
- Sacrifice Profits For Market Share For The Glory of Tencent (Epic Games Launches New Revenue Share Model for Timed Exclusives)
- The Plan to Eradicate Platform Identity (Natalie Rambles About Platform Identity and Media Formats)