Rundown (3/08/2026) Natalie’s Insufficient Queer Diversity

• Post published:03/08/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s Insufficient Queer Diversity
• Natalie Muses About The Physical Media Resurgence (Because She Read an Article and Had THOUGHTS)
• Let It Die is Getting an Offline Version (I Love It When Online Games Get Offline Versions!)
• Sony Abandons PC Gaming Venture (PlayStation Games Are Only On PlayStation… Again)
• Humble Games is Reborn as Balor Games (A Subsidiary of MEP Capital!)
• The Next Xbox is Going to be a PC (Project Helix Will Hopefully Bring An End to Xbox)

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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 (2/22/2026) Diversify Your Formative Experiences

• Post published:02/22/2026
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• Reading time:63 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Diversify Your Formative Experiences
• .hack//Z.E.R.O. Announced (But is This the Way Dot Hack Should Return?)
• The State of Video Gaming in 2026 (Matthew Ball is BACK!)
• Bluepoint Games is Dead, Killed by Sony (Because They Wanted a Remaster Studio to Make Live Services)
• Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Ports Announced for Nintendo Switch (Why Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Suck and Are Beloved)
• Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Leave Xbox (I Hope This Kills Xbox Faster)

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Natalie Rambles About 2025

• Post published:12/31/2025
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:155 mins read
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The Trial of Natalie Neumann!

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Rundown (11/02/2025) Globally Offensive Gambling Reform

• Post published:11/02/2025
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• Reading time:38 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Globally Offensive Gambling Reform
• Amazon (Basically) Gives Up On Gaming (The Line Has To Go Up Somehow!)
• The Console Wars Ended A Decade Ago… (And All Industry is DOOMED!)
• Animal Crossed To The Next Generation (Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gets An Update After Over 4 Years)

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Rundown (10/05/2025) Entertainment Excess

• Post published:10/05/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
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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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Rundown (7/13/2025) Data Storage Wars

• Post published:07/13/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:57 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Data Storage Wars
• Microsoft is Worse Than I Thought… (These Layoffs Get Worse and Worse!)
• Natalie Talks About Politics – July 2025 Ver. (I Had to Research the Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill for Work)
• Natalie Tried Umamusume (To See What the Hubbub Is!)
• The Subnautica 2 Situation is Exploitative Bonkers (Krafton Refuses to Follow Contract and Issue $250 Million Payout)
• The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is Getting DLC (Kodaka Wants The Game to Last 10 Years!)
• Progress Report 2025-07-13

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Rundown (7/06/2025) What Do People Do?

• Post published:07/06/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:36 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: What Do People Do?
• Europe Might Be Able to Save Gaming! (Stop Killing Games is At The Cusp of Success!)
• Microsoft Lays Off Over 9,000 People (The Xbox Project is DEAD!)
• Everything’s Expensive, Nobody Can Buy Stuff! (And That Includes Video Games!)
• Natalie Just Learned About Project Code M (The Next Game From The House in Fata Morgana People!)

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Rundown (6/15/2025) Segmented Summer Showcases – Slice 2

• Post published:06/15/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:73 mins read
• Post comments:13 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: During My Vacation, I Wrote a Novel’s Worth of Stuff!
• Xbox Games Showcase Rundown (Games For Your Home Computer, TV, and Telephone)
• ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Announced (The Xbox Handheld is Finally Here!)
• Xbox Reasserts Play Anywhere As A Key Selling Point (But Do People Actually Want It?)
• Super Meat Boy 3D Announced Super Meat Boy is BACK in the Third Dimension
• Beast of Reincarnation Announced (Game Freak’s AAA Action Game is Real!)
• Clockwork Revolution Re-Revealed (And It Looks DOPE!)
• Don’t Nod Announces Aphelion (They Are Also Running Out of Money)
• No Ghosts At The Grand Is a Baffling Musical Mystery (Magical Musical Negro Jumpscare!)
• Aniimo Announced as the Latest Big Budget Critter Collector (Too Bad It’s a Damn Live Service!)
• Persona 4 Revival Announced (The Only Reason to Remake Persona 4 Is to Make It Gayer)
• The Xbox Showcase Dribs and Drabs (Stuff I Don’t FEEL Like Propping Up, or Have Much to Say About)
• Splatoon Raiders Announced (And Natalie Complains About PVP Games Being Bad)
• Nintendo Switch 2 Sells 3.5 Million in Four Days! (Nintendo Switch 2 Da Moon!)
• Bloober Team is Remaking Silent Hill (1999) (Try Not To Be Too Shocked)
• Metal Gear Δ: Snake Eater is Getting A New Online Mode! (RIP Metal Gear Online…)

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Rundown (5/04/2025) There Will Be No 2025 re:Dreamer Re-Review

• Post published:05/04/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:46 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: There Will Be No 2025 re:Dreamer Re-Review
• Body Swap Story – Aunty Yui & Yuto is Out (Well, That Was Fast…)
• Natalie is in… The Money Zone! (Mo’ Like Natalie.Dochy)
• The Japanese Game Preservation Society is On The Verge of Shutdown (So Please Give Them Money)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Doing Big Numbers (And There’s Some Dumb Discourse About It!)
• Microsoft Indulges in Price Hikes Thanks to Trump Tariffs (Nintendo Helped Too!)
• Bye Bye Giant Bomb and Polygon (The Video Games Press is FUCKED!)
• Grand Theft Auto VI Delayed to May 26, 2026 (There Goes the Biggest Game of the Generation…)

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Natalie Rambles About 2024

• Post published:12/30/2024
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:155 mins read
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Rundown (6/16/2024) S3 2024 is Done and Dusted

• Post published:06/16/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:77 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: S3 2024 is Done and Dusted
• TSF Showcase 2024-24 Sekainohate de Aimashou [Meets True Love on the World End] by Sun Takeda
• Microsoft Gaming’s Summer Showcase (Xbox is the Schrödinger’s Cat of Gaming)
• Doom: The Dark Ages Announced (Doom 666: Gettin’ Medieval)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Announced (Nothing Obscure About This, No Claire Farron In Sight)
• South of Midnight Gameplay Reveal (4 Minute Trailer, 3 Minutes of Cutscene)
• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Gameplay Reveal (Little Changes Beyond Aesthetics, But That’s Okay)
• Perfect Dark Reboot ‘Gameplay’ Reveal (I Think This Is a Vertical Slice Covering a Disaster)
• Life is Strange: Double Exposure Announced (They REALLY Wanted to Call This Life is Strange 2…)
• Atomfall Announced (More Details Required to Form Proper Reaction)
• Gears of War: E-Day Announced (Gears of War 0: Please Forget About Judgment)
• The Adorably All-Digital Xbox Series X is REAL! (Natalie Almost Rambles About Xbox Storage Prices)
• Ubisoft’s Summer Showcase (Ubisoft Forward Happened)
• Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP? More Like ReNOT! (Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP Gameplay Reveal)
• EPIC LEAKS (Epic Games Store Leaks Unannounced Titles)
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Been Formally Unveiled (Natalie’s History with Dragon Age)
• Cassie’s First Impressions of Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Cassie’s Corner Returns)

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Rundown (5/19/2024) re:CPE:Dreamer

• Post published:05/19/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (2/18/2024) Xbox Is Not Dead, Y’All Lied To Me!

• Post published:02/18/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:23 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (2/11/2024) The Alleged End of Xbox

• Post published:02/11/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:34 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (9/24/2023) Ai’s Time Warp and Premise Predicament

• Post published:09/24/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:56 mins read
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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)

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Rundown (6/13/2023) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2023: I’d Rather Be Doing Anything Else!

• Post published:06/13/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:31 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Title Is Hyperbole
• The Rise of 3D Games And Devaluation of 2D Games (Natalie Rambles About Game History – 3D Edition)
• Still Waiting For The Xbox Redemption Arc… (The Preamble Before The Xbox Showcase)
• An Avowed Take (Avowed Gameplay Trailer Released)
• Like A Dragon 8: Infinit¥ Like A Dragon 8 Retitled to Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• I Was Promised a Goddess, and You Gave Me a Kamen Rider Samurai (Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Announced)
• Reincarnation of the Goddess: Re;Fantazio – Metaphor of the Worlds Project Re Fantasy Revealed as Metaphor: ReFantazio
• The Games Industry Really Is Like Clockwork… InXile Announced FPS RPG Clockwork Revolution
• Starfield or Starfail – The $100 Million Dollar Question! (Starfield Direct Happened)
• I’m Not Covering Ubisoft Forward, Because Ubisoft Protected Abusers (Natalie.TF Will Not Discuss Ubisoft’s Games as Games)
• Mega Man Gacha is PRESERVED! (Mega Man X Dive Offline Announced)
• Ace Attorney Trilogy II, Bay-Bee! (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy Announced)

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