The Bobby Blackwolf Show - April 6, 2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 was announced on the same day the United States announced sweeping tariffs across every other nation on the planet. This caused the initial pre-orders for the Switch 2 to be delayed in the US.
Vietnam, where Nintendo moved production to from China, had come to the negotiating table as of the recording of this show, and after recording this show, the reciprocal 46% tariff has been paused for 90 days (however the initial 10% still remains.)
Board Games designed in the US are affected, too, because there just isn't the manufacturing capability or capacity in the US to do the specialty parts that many board games need. This means that board game prices will either soar, or people will just stop designing new board games.
Tabletop Game makers are also facing some tough decisions about how to go forward with their business when the only good manufacturing for their niche product is in a highly tariff'd country.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - March 30, 2025
Before the Switch 2 reveal, Nintendo revealed the Virtual Game Card system, a solution to a problem not many people were having - which caused confusion. We break down who it's for and why it might not be something you would use, since you can opt out of it.
Game Informer is back! At least the magazine and staff is - thanks to a crypto company. No word on the amazing Game Informer Vault, though.
Sony is preserving PlayStation history on tape backups in a cold storage vault at an undisclosed location, but it's not for researchers - only for internal company use.
Then we talk to Rob about the Virtual Game Cards and who they're for.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - March 23, 2025
Yakuza is leaving Game Pass and it's all one of our listener's fault.
The United Videogame Workers union has started to help the game industry unionize.
Standard accessibility labels are coming across several online storefronts.
SNES's are faster now, and it's because of Nintendo skimping on a resonator, so it speeds up over time.
Portal is getting a new pinball machine courtesy of the Multimorphic P3 platform.
Then we talk to Rob about Arcade1up and how it sounds like they are about to go under - and how our TRON cabinets are now worth a lot of money.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - March 9, 2025
Discord is in talks to go public, which means that we're nearing the time when the platform might become less usable as profits will become more necessary.
Forza Horizon 5 on the PlayStation 5 will require an Xbox account linked to your PSN account to play.
Classic game publisher Acclaim is returning! While everyone is talking about which games they could resurrect, the reality is only the trademark was purchased, and the new company doesn't own any of the former Acclaim catalog.
There's a lot of live investigation about who owns what rights to what games, with a lot of attention to Wizards & Warriors. We still aren't positive who owns it.
Then we took a call about Jeff Jarrett's involvement with Acclaim and why that is a red flag.
Then we talk to Rob about Acclaim and my old Flappy Bird clone that maybe Acclaim can publish.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - March 2, 2025
We start off talking about preservation of television video from the late 90's and 2000's - and why it looks a lot worse today than we remember when it first aired.
PEGI has reclassified Balatro and Luck Be A Landlord down to a PEGI-12 rating from a PEGI-18, which was given because it had elements of gambling. PEGI's statement described how it was modifying its rating rules to account for "fantastical elements" in games like Balatro.
EA has released the source code for many of their Command & Conquer titles, which are fun to go through and will help the modding community greatly, but won't really teach you how to make a game in 2025.
Warner Bros is closing Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB Games San Diego, and cancelling their projects, including a Wonder Woman game.
Monolith Productions had patented the "Nemesis" system from Shadow of Mordor, and now Warner Bros holds on to the patent until 2036, while most likely not using it in any more games - but will stop other games from incorporating the same mechanic.
Then we talk about how March is gonna have a lot of great game releases.
