The Bobby Blackwolf Show - August 23, 2026
Sorry this took a while to get up (a month!) - between Dragon Con and illness, this episode and 993 sat in the queue to be edited for podcast. There were no live episodes in September until September 20th.
Nintendo is raising Switch 2 prices on September 1st, and we just learned how much they will be going up in the UK. This is because of components, not because of geopolitical financial situations.
Riot Games have announced that the live service fighting game 2XKO is ceasing development and no new content will be made after 2026. But, refunds are being offered and Riot is trying to do right by the players that did pay them for virtual items.
Then we talk to Jamie from OLR IIDX about development timelines and how they work in larger companies versus smaller companies.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - August 16, 2026
I am moderating many panels at Dragon Con in Atlanta this year - come say hi!
I built the LEGO Arcade Cabinet! Too many stickers...
Twitch is training Amazon's generative AI on streamers content - but they loudly told people how to opt-out, and the reason they loudly said it might surprise you.
Netflix has closed Night School studio, which developed Oxenfree and the recently released Unhinged, which overperformed on the service so much so it was praised on an investor call.
Then we talk to Jamie from OLR about California Extreme.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - August 9, 2026
EA is now completely owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF and partners, and is no longer publicly traded. Layoffs and shutdowns are incoming.
Indie publisher Devolver Digital has announced its intentions to become privately owned, saying that the responsibilities to shareholders do not align with being a good game publisher.
The CEO of Take Two says that we all will be streaming our games from the cloud in three years instead of playing them on local hardware.
We also touch on Flight Simulator 2024 on PS5 getting an update for an amazing PSVR2 experience. At the time of this recording, the new VR experience was only in the beta branch, but as of publishing, Sim Update 6 has been released and it is now available to all.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - August 2, 2026
The Southern-Fried Gaming Expo was this week, and I talk about the pinball and arcade games that were there.
I give my impressions on the new Sonic the Hedgehog pinball machine from Jersey Jack.
I also give my impressions on the new Bon Jovi pinball machine that was released at SFGE by Barrels of Fun Pinball.
I talk about Gen Con and Multimorphic's new Dungeon Crawler Carl and Ender's Game modules for their combo physical and virtual pinball platform.
I give my impressions of a pinball accessory called Pin-Pal - microphones you can affix to pinball speakers that connect to bluetooth headphones so you can actually hear the pinball sounds in crowded environments.
Then I talk to Jamie about California Extreme and expensive Neo-Geo games.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - July 26, 2026
On this show that turned 21 years old, we...just did a normal show and then it took a few weeks for it to hit the podcast feed. Sorry bout that!
The Steam Frame could wind up being even more expensive, as well as other mobile devices like other VR headsets, because Qualcomm is raising the price of it's Snapdragon line of chips.
Arcade1up was at San Diego Comic-Con with new versions of arcade cabinets it has already released, but maybe this is more to show game publishers that they are worthy of licensing their retro games.
Nintendo has stated in court that they are under no legal obligation to refund consumers after receiving a refund from the US government over the tariffs on the Switch 2.
Then we talk about the Video Game History Foundation's new E3 collection (and how they actually want some of my tapes) along with an interesting revelation about why E3's creation was so important for the industry after the scrutiny of the senate hearings on video game violence.
Then we talk to Jamie about what we have on old tapes.
