The Bobby Blackwolf Show - October 18, 2020
Let Me Show You My Pokeymans - I found some Pokemon cards from E3 1998 while going through my things at my childhood home, and some are worth thousands of dollars???
I got Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and I was surprised at how effective it actually is, and how much promise it shows Alternate Reality gaming for more than just having fun with your pets.
The Oculus Quest 2 has a requirement that you must have a Facebook account in good standing, which means if Facebook decides you shouldn't have an account for whatever reasons, you now have a paperweight of a VR device.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - October 11, 2020
I went back to my childhood home this week and pulled out some interesting finds from my past.
Intellivision had a stream on 10.10.2020 (their original launch date) to show games and the hardware, as well as release a PC version of Breakout, made by the bit.trip developers.
There's a new book on Sierra On-Line written by Ken Williams - it just came and I hope to finish reading it soon.
ScummVM has merged with ResidualVM, allowing for both 2D and 3D adventure games to be preserved and enjoyed by modern audiences.
Amazon Games has cancelled their free-to-play shooter Crucible after a buggy launch and needing to reallocate resources.
Chinese free-to-play open world RPG Genshin Impact, however, made $100 million in it's first two weeks, recouping its development costs.
Then we take a call from a blind gamer to talk about the "accidentally accessible" games Hades and 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - October 4, 2020
We talk about some of the games that came out this week that we've been playing - Hades, Super Mario Bros. 35, and Star Wars: Squadrons in VR.
Nvidia has released drivers to fix the crashing RTX 3080 cards - and it has nothing to do with capacitors.
CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk 2077 developers will be facing mandatory crunch time for the next six weeks after saying that they will no longer be doing crunch time.
Then we talk to OLR about Minecraft Steve in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and who will get to sleep first - Sakurai or YoshiP from Square Enix.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - September 27, 2020
The Xbox Series X preorders went live this week - and they were just as bad as the PS5 and RTX 3080's were. But at least people bought Xbox One X's!
The RTX 3080 DID make it into the hands of some humans who then reported crashing issues due to some aftermarket cards using cheap components.
Amazon has entered the game streaming space with Luna, complete with their own Stadia-like controller.
Microsoft bought ZeniMax Media for $7.5 Billion, which includes Bethesda, id Software, and more. Are they making a play in a console war or are they aiming somewhere higher?
Then we talk to OLR about ZeniMax, Xbox Series X ordering, and how orange is looking kinda sus...
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - September 20, 2020
We first read some viewer comments from previous episodes about Microsoft Flight Simulator and Apple's game streaming policy for iOS.
We launched a new initiative at VOG - VOG Roundtables - where we bring on a panel of content creators to discuss a single news event in gaming.
Twitch tested mid-roll ads to be played randomly during live streams, muting the audio and shutting people out of exciting moments. The test concluded after three days, and we have some suggestions on middle ground that could be done.
The PlayStation 5 Reveal event was this week, and preorders went live immediately, and left many people not getting one.
The next morning, Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 3080 video card went on sale, and sold out before you could buy it, thanks to bots buying all the stock and putting them up on eBay for thousands of dollars. Nvidia says they will make more available soon.
Xbox Series X and S preorders will go live on Tuesday morning. The bots are ready to snag all of those as well.
Then we talk to OLR about preorders and about the Nintendo 3DS family of handhelds finally ending their production run.
