Vivendi is making a play to do a hostile takeover of Ubisoft, prompting owners and employees to implore shareholders that they like things the way they are. Steam changed the way they show reviews, now prioritizing reviews from people who purchased the game directly from Steam over those who got keys from other means. A side effect of this is that some games that we thought were hated were maybe not as hated by actual consumers than originally thought... Steam has also pulled the games from a developer who is suing reviewers (both professional and Steam reviewers) for saying bad things about their game. Then we take calls about developers throwing tantrums, why the PS4 Pro meeting was less exciting than their Tokyo Game Show press conference, Persona 5 streaming, and the Forza Horizon 3 demo.
Dragon Con 2016 is in the books, and I talk about the expanded video game presence as well as the fun in the VOG Suite. Apple announced the iPhone 7 featuring Super Mario Run from Nintendo and the lack of a headphone jack. Sony announced the PS4 Pro featuring 4K and HDR gaming but the lack of 4K Blu-Ray playback. Then we take calls about sports games on PC and Dragon Con.
We have a live interview with Michel Monty, Director, and Andrew Kemp, Writer, of the brand new YouTube comedy series Dice Lords, about a magical land seeking Earth's finest heroes, and finding a terrible D&D group instead. There's a new NES emulator available for the Hololens - but nobody realizes that it doesn't actually accept input. Then we take calls about Discworld, abandonware, and our upcoming Dragon Con appearances.
I don't talk about Nintendo NX rumors because I feel that's not a positive discourse - and I wish others followed suit. Square Enix took a look at the reaction to the No Man's Sky day one patch, and delayed Final Fantasy XV to November so they could include their patch on the disc. Then we take a call about why patches don't fix all bugs, and our first video game soundtracks.
No Man's Sky is out, and so that's all I talked about. I enjoy it, but wish the sentinels weren't so omnipresent. Then we take calls about PC games from the early days that people might have missed, and more No Man's Sky.
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LIGHTLY EDITED: This is a previously unreleased episode of The Bobby Blackwolf Show, and is released with minimal editing (removing the music break.) Please keep this in mind when you hear long awkward pauses that are typically edited out of the podcast. In this episode, we talk about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, how it set records on Steam, and how Steam's forums were hacked.
We start off by giving our review of Two Worlds II for the Xbox 360. Find out if it makes up for the first game as well as why it was one of the most difficult titles for Bobby to review. Sony announced the successor to the PSP - working title "NGP" (Next Generation Portable) - this week in Japan. Mainstream media is bashing Microsoft for banning an 11 year old autistic child from Xbox Live for cheating, because the mother insists he's just "that good" at games. Find out the truth. Then we take calls about the NGP, both in Next Generation Portable form as well as Neo Geo Pocket form.
Nintendo really needs to send Sony a thank you card. For the past few weeks, I, any many others in the independent gaming media, have been covering the recent downtime of the PlayStation Network. Meanwhile, folks at the Free Software Foundation have uncovered some possibly scary terms that you must agree to in order for your Nintendo 3DS to be fully functional.
On the cusp of his 15th straight E3, Bobby Blackwolf was rejected for not meeting the new requirements for bloggers, even though he is a podcaster. However, he feels that the new rules are okay...Mostly. In this editorial, he describes why GDC went the same route and survived, what E3 exhibitors are thinking, where E3 can improve their quality control standards, and what an independent journalist can do if they get rejected from covering the most important event in the video game industry.
The first item we talk about probably won't help you listening on the podcast, but you could have gotten Midnight Club 2 on PC for free by joining the official Rockstar Group on Steam. But, you can join the VOG Network group on Steam even after May 15th! Minecraft 360 has broken sales records on Xbox Live Arcade, but announcing that has shown there might have been some preferential treatment. We also talk a little bit about the game (impressions from the demo) and how it is different from the PC version. If you want to buy games on Steam, but don't want to use your credit or debit card, you now have an alternative...And neither side is too happy about it. The Xbox 360 is rumored to get Internet Explorer 9 with Kinect support. Information about the real money auction house in Diablo 3 has been released...And we talk about how much money Blizzard will take in from each successful sale. We don't take many calls because we were recording on Mother's Day, but one person called in just to call, so we talked about The Pirate Bay telling Anonymous to stop censoring other people.
