Rundown (7/26/2026) Natalie Has Spent Over $12,000 On Video Games in 13 Years

• Post published:07/26/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:49 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Has Spent Over $12,000 On Video Games in 13 Years
• Natalie Will NOT be Reviewing Class of ’09: Puzzle Showdown (It Was Too Bloody Hard!)
• Xbox Backwards Compatibility Comes to PC! (Play 4 Original Xbox Games on Your Windows Machine!)
• HUGE Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Development Details Just Dropped (Thanks to Lewtwo and Friends!)
• Are Video Games A Millennial Medium? (No, But Not For The Reasons You Think)
• Natalie Watched Eddington (Politically Prescient in the Worst Way (Complimentary))

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Rundown (7/19/2026) Creating A Post-TF Setting

• Post published:07/19/2026
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• Reading time:48 mins read
• Post comments:2 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Creating A Post-TF Setting
• Natalie Muses About Digital Game Prices (She Just CANNOT STOP!)
• S&P Predicts The Future of Game Consoles (And Here’s Why I Think They Are Wrong)
• Once Upon a Katamari + Rolling Live Highlights Announced (Re-Whatever Brainrot Strikes Again!)
• Natalie Muses About Game Console Legacy (Natalie Complains About Scott The Woz)

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Rundown (7/12/2026) Microsoft Slaughters ‘Em Up

• Post published:07/12/2026
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• Reading time:39 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Microsoft Slaughters ‘Em Up!
• Physical Versus Digital: The Price Discourse (Beat That Sucker To Death Uh-Huh-Huh!)
• Fakku Acquired Fairytale’s PC-98 Catalog! (PC-98 Games in ENGLISH on STEAM!)
• Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis End of Service Announced (Another Final Square Enix Live Service is DEAD!)
• Mario Kart Tour End of Service Announced (No Offline Version – CONFIRMED)

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Rundown (6/28/2026) Natalie Watched Goodwin’s Circus Show

• Post published:06/28/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:37 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Watched Goodwin’s Circus Show
• The Steam Machine Lives! (Starting At $1,050!)
• Tencent Ditches Investment in Marvelous (Marvy is FREE!)
• Grand Theft Auto VI Will Be A $80 Digital Only Game (Analysts in SHAMBLES!)
• Xbox Gets Another Price Hike (The RAMpocalypse is only Getting Worse!)

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Rundown (6/21/2026) Money on My Mind (Re;Finance Ver.)

• Post published:06/21/2026
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• Reading time:20 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Money on My Mind (Re;Finance Ver.)
• I Researched the Game Boy Advance Library (It Really Is as Bad as They Say It Is…)
• Xbox Hits Reset and Plans A New Wave of Layoffs (Compulsion Games, Ninja Theory, and Double Fine are in Danger)
• Unreal Engine 6 Will Be A Slop Machine (Divest From Big Tech. NOW!)

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Rundown (6/14/2026) S3 2026: STOP! You’re Making A Mess!

• Post published:06/14/2026
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:109 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Stop! You’re Making a Mess!
• Microsoft’s S3 2026 Festivities (No Games For Genocide, Bitch!)
• The Miscellaneous Microsoft Trough (Go Away, Xbox!)
• Gears of War: E-Day’s First Major Showing (The Return to Form Apology)
• Persona 4 Revival Was Properly Revealed (And I’m FINE With It)
• Crazy Taxi: World Tour Announced (Verified AI Slop Revival)
• Vivarium Re-Announced (A Hand-Drawn Boku no Natsuyasumi Like!)
• Persona 6 Announced (With A Nothing Trailer!)
• Spyro 4 is REAL! (It’s Been 18 Years…)
• Thief: The Dark Project Remastered Announced (The Next Nightdive Joint)
• The Nintendo Direct Section (Nat-Nat Will Never Sleep!)
• Nintendo Direct 2026-06-09: Minor Things of Note (Many Minors!)
• The Ocarina of Time Remake Announced (I’m Indifferent Until I Learn Literally Anything About It)
• Muramasa Revenant Blades Announced (After 11 Years of Waiting, Vanillaware Finally Brought A Game to PC!)
• Xenoblade Games Get Nintendo Switch 2 Editions (Xenoblade 1, 2, and 3 As God Intended)
• Xenoblade Genesis Announced (Neat, But What’s Going On?)
• Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Announced (This Should Have Been Nintendo Switch Sports 1)
• Final Fantasy Resonance Announced (From The Ashes of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius)
• Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic – the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Announced (Natalie FINALLY Talks About Touhou)
• Video Games This September Are Bonkers, Yo! (Wake Me Up When Septembergeddon Ends)
• Ubisoft Celebrates S3 2026 With LAYOFFS! (380 People Can No Longer Support Their Families!)

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Rundown (4/26/2026) Game Collection Imagination Fixation

• Post published:04/26/2026
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• Reading time:39 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Game Collection Imagination Fixation
• Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Announced (Because Ubisoft-Tencent Wants Money!)
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 Announced (Such A Boring Follow-Through…)
• Splatoon Raiders Gets A Proper Reveal (The Extraction Horde Schlooter Spin-Off)
• Xbox Game Pass Price Drop (Because I Guess Too Many People Canceled. Keep It Up!)
• There Are Too Many Games Showcases Nowadays! (Showcase Psychopathy)

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

• Post published:03/08/2026
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• 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
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• 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
• Post category:Rundowns
• 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
• Post comments:9 Comments

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
• Post comments:6 Comments

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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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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