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
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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 (7/09/2023) Jump! Back! Glock! Cock! Aim! Shoot!

• Post published:07/09/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Have Negative Faith In The United States of America
• The FTC PlayStation & Xbox Showcase (Some Highlights From The FTC v. Microsoft Courtroom)
• Twitter Hit The Shitter and The Internet Is Collapsing! (Natalie Rambles About The Future Of The Internet)
• It’s Time To Show My Ass As A Casual VN Fan (Natalie Wafts About the Tsukihime Remake)
• Grab a Gun And Make The Baddies Go BOOM! (Natalie Rambles About The Name Boomer Shooters)
• Yuji Naka’s Prison Escape! (Yuji Naka Avoids Jail Time And Gets $1.2 Million Fine)
• When Pokéfans Are Stuck, They Should Try Logic (Natalie Rambles About Voice Acting in Pokémon )
• Read, Think, and the Solution Will Come To You (Natalie Analyzes The Broad Financials of The Pokémon Company)

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Rundown (10/30-11/05) Trash the Twitter

• Post published:11/06/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:19 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: The downfall of social media. An ample assortment of acquisition anecdotes. And one of the best DS adventure games returning from the otherworld.

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Rundown (4/24-4/30) Re;Brander Ruminations

• Post published:05/01/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:9 mins read
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Wherein I repurpose a bit from Natalie Rambles About TSF (coming May 25th), ruminate over how the worst people are buying everything, and muse about half-formed kerfuffles.

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