The requirement for Helldivers 2 requiring PC players to link a PlayStation Network account has been reversed - for now.
The 2024 World Video Game Hall of Fame inductees have been announced!
Microsoft closes four studios from the Bethesda/ZeniMax side of the house, including ones that released smaller scale award winning games.
They say this is because they can't actually afford to run all of the studios it bought.
Xbox says that they need more smaller scale award winning games coming out of their studios.
There is a new John Wick pinball machine coming out - look for it in a local barcade (if you have any) in the next few months!
Then we talk to Rob about the fact that it's my birthday and how I want to retire the running joke of me being only 29 years old.The Bobby Blackwolf Show
The Bobby Blackwolf Show is a weekly internet radio show and podcast discussing the latest news in gaming as well as sometimes reminiscing about gaming's history. It records LIVE on Sundays at 8PM Eastern/5PM Pacific on the VOG (Voice of Geeks) Network Twitch Channel while taking live calls via Discord and including chat room interaction. The show began in October of 2004 as an internet radio only show, taking a hiatus in December of that year. It relaunched on July 24, 2005 and has been broadcasting new content every weekend ever since. On December 18, 2018, it moved from radio to video on Twitch.
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The requirement for Helldivers 2 requiring PC players to link a PlayStation Network account has been reversed - for now.
The 2024 World Video Game Hall of Fame inductees have been announced!
Microsoft closes four studios from the Bethesda/ZeniMax side of the house, including ones that released smaller scale award winning games.
They say this is because they can't actually afford to run all of the studios it bought.
Xbox says that they need more smaller scale award winning games coming out of their studios.
There is a new John Wick pinball machine coming out - look for it in a local barcade (if you have any) in the next few months!
Then we talk to Rob about the fact that it's my birthday and how I want to retire the running joke of me being only 29 years old.We start off with some clarification from a listener about using the Meta Quest 3 wirelessly with Virtual Desktop to play PCVR games.
Dave & Busters is going to be introducing a new feature that may or may not be legal in all states.
Helldivers 2 was supposed to launch on PC with a requirement to link your PlayStation Network account, but was put on hold - until this weekend. (This decision was reversed three hours after this episode was recorded.) There was review bombing and even the game being pulled in 177 countries.
Then we talked to Rob about Pikmin Bloom, of all things.After the first six hours of Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes, there are some early impressions...And why I may not continue.
Meta Quest has once again partnered with Microsoft and the Xbox brand, but it does not mean that VR is coming to the Xbox console.
Valve has closed a refund loophole with regards to games in Advanced Access.
Then we talk to Rob about Eiyuden Chronicles and how it is very much an old school JRPG, for both better AND worse.The Game Boy has turned 35 years old in Japan! I try my old Game Boy, as well as discuss how my entire Game Boy library was stolen by a classmate and we never caught him or got any of it back. (And also nobody believed me.)
We talk about a viewer comment about having high fidelity VR in an untethered headset - as long as you have high quality equipment.
Target is scaling back how much physical media it carries in stores - but it's not eliminating them entirely yet.
Arcade1up has partnered with TaskRabbit to build your Arcade1up cabinets for you. Anyone who has tried to install a monitor in an Arcade1up cabinet understands why this is a good thing.
Then we talk to Rob about our memories of the Game Boy.Indie gaming studio Possibility Space has closed its doors, claiming it's because of questions from a journalist for an article that hasn't even been published yet.
Star Wars: Outlaws will require an online internet connection to install the physical disc - which makes the game preservation aspect of physical media useless.
We're still raising money for Make-A-Wish Georgia - we've smashed the original goal, so we just made the goal bigger.
Then we talk to Orange Lounge Radio about their historic 1000th episode!I'm helping raise money for Make-a-Wish Georgia with the Stream Atlanta meetup group this month - let's make some kids wishes come true!
Gaming has reportedly fallen to pre-pandemic levels, meaning we aren't playing games as much as we were just a few years ago.
Are emulators coming to iOS? Yes, but no - not in the way the media headlines want you to believe.
Then we talk to Rob about our playing time and more about him not starting Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (and me not continuing with it often enough)Kotaku is deprioritizing news in favor of guides - which leads into a discussion of "Evergreen Content" vs "Topical Content" when it comes to content creation.
We go over the Game Developers Choice Awards - which is the awards show everyone wants when The Game Awards happen, but nobody actually watches.
Sony halts production on the PlayStation VR2 headsets because nobody is buying them.
Then we talk to Rob about evergreen vs. topical content.We revisit the emulator settlement from last week with some clarifications from someone who is more knowledgeable in the inner workings of that scene than we are.
Some emulator developers have gotten spooked enough to take their emulators offline, others have more resolve with more safeguards.
Digital Eclipse's second entry in the Gold Master Series is out - Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. It shows that Jeff is a master of the VIC20, but ends abruptly in 1994 - even though Jeff's story is still being told.
The Museum of Play has announced the 2024 World Video Game Hall of Fame finalists - who would you vote for?
Then we talk to OLR about Llamasoft games that we might have played as kids, and who we would pick for the World Video Game Hall of Fame.We start off this episode by remembering Akira Toriyama and all of his contributions to gaming and anime.
Happy MAR10 Day! Several Mario themed announcements were made, such as adding more Mario games to Nintendo Switch Online, and bringing some Gamecube and 3DS titles to Switch, and a LEGO Mario Kart set (a building set, not a video game) coming in 2025.
However, earlier this week Nintendo and the Yuzu emulator team settled for $2.4 million, shutting down the emulator team that worked on Yuzu and Citra for the 3DS.
Warner Bros Discovery has informed independent developers that published through Adult Swim Games that their games will be delisted, and the publisher has informed them that they will just delete the Steam pages rather than do the three clicks to transfer ownership to the indie developers. (The indie developers still own the IP and can republish, starting from scratch.)
Then we talk to Rob about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and why I'm now burned out on it.I finished Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth and moved on to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and no, you don't actually know the story, so be wary of spoilers. (Not from me, though!)
Octopath Traveler has been delisted temporarily from the Nintendo eShop, most likely due to the change in publisher.
Toys For Bob, the studio that brought us Skylanders, is leaving Microsoft after the Activision merger.
Sony Interactive performed a Reduction in Workforce this week, closing several studios and canceling other projects in flight.
EA has also performed layoffs this week, cancelling several licensed games that were in development. The interesting part of their announcement is how much it actually costs to lay off employees and cancel license deals.
This leads to a discussion about if games are really more expensive to the consumer or not, and if the rising game budgets are sustainable given inflation.
Then we talk to Rob about how he hasn't started Final Fantasy VII Rebirth yet.