The Bobby Blackwolf Show - February 23, 2014
Have you tried my Flappy Bird clone Flappy VOG? It's my first "published" game that I coded. It's pretty simplistic.
Someone remade The Legend of Zelda for the Oculus Rift, and I learned that I was a VR Hipster when I didn't like it.
Irrational Games laid off 100 people who won awards for Bioshock Infinite, but all the Internet can talk about is how excited they are for what Ken Levine's next project is. But is it really his fault?
Then we take calls about Steam Machines and Gabe Newell's Cult of Personality.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - February 16, 2014
The Evil K has crushed another indie developer, this time taking down CandySwipe, a game remarkably like Candy Crush Saga except for the fact it was released and trademarked two years earlier.
The Titanfall Beta was out, and was declared great for people who sucked at FPS's...What does someone who ACTUALLY sucks at FPS's think?
An activist investor is trying to convince Microsoft to dump all of it's consumer divisions, such as Xbox, Bing, and Surface.
The music break is a song I wrote in 1999 called Resurrection, made in Impulse Tracker by Jeffrey Lim - He's going to release the source code this year, the 20th anniversary of IT starting development.
Then we take calls about Titanfall and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes.
During the OLR call, we talk about Flappy Bird clones flooding the market, and then announced our own clone called Flappy VOG - where you can play as podcasters who never shut up. Play it NOW absolutely free on VOGNetwork.com!
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - February 9, 2014
The most popular mobile game of the month, Flappy Bird, is no longer available on the app store because the developer had a mental breakdown due to the success.
Ubisoft's game about hacking got hacked, when someone spoofed a request to have one of the trademarks for Watch Dogs abandoned.
Then we take calls about Flappy Bird, and an indie developer taking a quote from a reviewer's Twitter account out of context.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - February 2, 2014
This is all about online games before you even realized there was an online. We talk with Josh Renaud, proprietor of Break Into Chat, to talk about Bulletin Board Systems and their asynchronous multiplayer games that were the precursor to today's social games. We talk about how online worked back in the day, define some terms that might be thrown about, and talk about the general culture of the BBS scene.
After the interview, there is a little bit of personal information regarding the latest weather event to hit Atlanta, and what the REAL story should be, rather than the one that's making headlines.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - January 26, 2014
Social game maker King has trademarked the word Candy, and has started going after other app developers for using the word in the titles of their games, citing that it causes "brand confusion."
They are also in the process of trademarking the word Saga, and have gone after Stoic, the creators of The Banner Saga, stating that their viking epic also causes brand confusion with their casual games.
All this amongst a backdrop of King stealing another game years ago, which they have since removed.
Then we take a call about if all this litigation is a sign that the video game industry is maturing.
