Meta announced the Meta Quest 3 a few weeks ago to be sold next to the Quest 2 and the Quest Pro.
Apple has finally invented AR and announced the Apple Vision Pro at WWDC this past week.
Mark Zuckerberg is not worried about Apple's expensive entry into AR.
Summer Games Fest and the Xbox Showcase had taken place before recording, and we talk about our highlights from them.
Then we talk to Rob about him coming out to Atlanta for the Southern Fried Gaming Expo in late July!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.
While the show focuses on recent news and events in the gaming industry, frequently it delves into the independent or barely mentioned gaming scene, as well as discussing gaming's history with classic games.
The show has covered six E3's, two GDC's and Independent Games Festivals, four Penny Arcade Expos and multiple Dragon Cons, as well as other gaming events in the southeast, like SIEGE and the Southern Fried Gaming Expo.
Some guests of the show during its long run have been: Video Games Live, Homestar Runner, Atari Flashback 2, Beggar Prince, MechCorps, The Silver Lining, PlayStation Home, Gearbox Software, Devolver Digital, Telltale Games, and the IGDA. Bobby has also interviewed voice actors AJ LoCascio (Back To The Future), Jessie Seely (Double Dragon Neon), Ellen McClain (GLaDOS), John Patrick Lowrie (Team Fortress 2 Sniper), and Jennifer Hale (Mass Effect FemShep), as well as musicians Tommy Tallarico (Everything), Ken Allen (Sierra On-Line), Jake "Virt" Kaufman (Shovel Knight and DuckTales Remastered), and GRAMMY award winner Christopher Tin.
The show does not work without YOUR live interaction, and each chatter is thanked personally at the conclusion of each episode. Come join us on Sundays at 8PM Eastern/5PM Pacific at the VOG (Voice of Geeks) Network Twitch Channel!
Meta announced the Meta Quest 3 a few weeks ago to be sold next to the Quest 2 and the Quest Pro.
Apple has finally invented AR and announced the Apple Vision Pro at WWDC this past week.
Mark Zuckerberg is not worried about Apple's expensive entry into AR.
Summer Games Fest and the Xbox Showcase had taken place before recording, and we talk about our highlights from them.
Then we talk to Rob about him coming out to Atlanta for the Southern Fried Gaming Expo in late July!I was one of the hosts for Summer Games Done Quick 2023, where we raised over $2.2million dollars for Doctors Without Borders!
I talk about what a live in-person GDQ event is like for attendees, talk about why that donation amount is lower than it used to be, and why the event was a month earlier than it usually is.
I also go through each speedrun I was a host for, as well as playing some of the pun donations I was fortunate enough to get to read while on stage.I'm hosting at Summer Games Done Quick 2023 next week! Check out when I'm on the air!
The European Union has approved the Microsoft Activision merger, even though the UK has denied it.
Pac-Man 99 is having its multiplayer shut down and is being delisted on the Nintendo Switch in August.
Take-Two has claimed that it's not seeing consumer resistance over $70 games, so other publishers have taken notice and have started raising their prices as well.
Then we talk about streaming services, content being pulled and why, people not paying attention to what's being said, and other things since OLR wasn't on after the show.I will be hosting at Summer Games Done Quick 2023 the week of May 28th!
Microsoft boss Phil Spencer participated in a podcast interview where he seemingly surrendered the console war to Sony and Nintendo - does he have a point?
Activision boss predicts how AI will be used in video games, including with technology that has been done many times before by more independent studios.
Then we take calls about Microsoft's platform vs. console strategy.I start off by showing off an old Heathkit catalog from 1978, and the way that we used to build electronics like you build Ikea furniture today.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has blocked the Microsoft and Activision merger on the grounds that it could create a monopoly in the cloud gaming space - and even made the decision assuming that Google Stadia failed because it didn't have Call of Duty on it.
We also discuss what the next steps could be, because not all is lost yet, but it is a large hurdle that was somewhat unexpected.
Then we talk to Rob about why we actually do want Microsoft to buy Activision.I'm one of the on-air hosts of Summer Games Done Quick 2023, and I talk about the games I will be hosting, including a meme category for a popular horror game.
I finally got the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters now that they have been released on Switch, and I'm really liking the quality of life improvements.
Xbox users can no longer share screenshots to Twitter directly from their console because Microsoft is not willing to pay $42k per month for Twitter API access.
Netflix is ending its DVD mailing rental business, opening the door for Gamefly, which embraced 4K UHD Blu Ray rentals when Netflix never did.
Then we talk to Rob about the Pixel Remasters.I share some historical computer game finds that I have found cleaning out my childhood home, including some advertisements about Commodore 64 adventure games and how much they would cost in 2023 dollars.
Sega is set to buy Rovio Entertainment, the makers of Angry Birds. (This has since been confirmed.)
However, a more interesting story is how Rovio is trying to run away from the original Angry Birds by delisting it and pointing people to more microtransaction-heavy sequels rather than the $1 original.
A new in-person event called "Nintendo Live" is coming to Seattle in September, which is something they've done in Japan over the past few decades but never in the US.
Then we talk to Rob about Rovio and Nintendo Live.We have a live interview with prolific video game remixer Mustin about his decades in music production.
He just released a 12-track solo album - Mario Mixtape - to coincide with the Super Mario Bros movie that was just released.
The album is available on Bandcamp but is best experienced on YouTube in a visualizer.E3 has been cancelled again, and possibly for good this time.
While E3 didn't have much relevance to consumers anymore, the idea of an industry-only trade show is still very powerful and is still very much needed.
Reedpop did announce that they will be working with E3 on future events, which I predict will be them either incorporating the E3 brand into their existing events (E3 at PAX!)
Then we talk to Rob about this and he actually predicts that PAX will just rename itself to E3 in the future!We start off talking a lot about the Diablo IV beta and impressions from someone who hasn't played a lot of Diablo recently.
The biggest hurdle has been cleared in the Microsoft-Activision merger, with the UK saying that it is not in Microsoft's best financial interests to make Call of Duty a console exclusive.
At Game Developers Conference, the buzzword was how GPT AI will start taking over tasks that entry level game developers currently do, like writing out the "NPC barks" that constitute world building.
But there's also interesting new tech like the Unreal Engine "Metahuman" real time facial animation that could be a game changer in democratizing game development.
Then we talk to Rob about Diablo IV and if I just need to play it multiplayer to really enjoy it.