I'm going to be at ATL Comic Convention on Saturday, July 19th, running a panel with the performance actors from Red Dead Redemption 2 at 2PM!
Last week, I was at Summer Games Done Quick 2025, reading donations and helping raise over $2.4million for Doctors Without Borders.
The SAG-AFTRA strike against video game companies is now officially over, and everyone is back to work with better pay and more AI protections.
Subnautica 2 was delayed despite being ready, the founders of the studio outsted, and a $250million bonus not hit because they will not make their revenue targets by the contracted deadline due to the delay.
Then we talk to Rob about the news I missed while I was at SGDQ.The Bobby Blackwolf Show
The Bobby Blackwolf Show is a weekly internet radio show and podcast discussing the latest news in gaming as well as sometimes reminiscing about gaming's history. It records LIVE on Sundays at 8PM Eastern/5PM Pacific on the VOG (Voice of Geeks) Network Twitch Channel while taking live calls via Discord and including chat room interaction. The show began in October of 2004 as an internet radio only show, taking a hiatus in December of that year. It relaunched on July 24, 2005 and has been broadcasting new content every weekend ever since. On December 18, 2018, it moved from radio to video on Twitch.
While the show focuses on recent news and events in the gaming industry, frequently it delves into the independent or barely mentioned gaming scene, as well as discussing gaming's history with classic games.
The show has covered six E3's, two GDC's and Independent Games Festivals, four Penny Arcade Expos and multiple Dragon Cons, as well as other gaming events in the southeast, like SIEGE and the Southern Fried Gaming Expo.
Some guests of the show during its long run have been: Video Games Live, Homestar Runner, Atari Flashback 2, Beggar Prince, MechCorps, The Silver Lining, PlayStation Home, Gearbox Software, Devolver Digital, Telltale Games, and the IGDA. Bobby has also interviewed voice actors AJ LoCascio (Back To The Future), Jessie Seely (Double Dragon Neon), Ellen McClain (GLaDOS), John Patrick Lowrie (Team Fortress 2 Sniper), and Jennifer Hale (Mass Effect FemShep), as well as musicians Tommy Tallarico (Everything), Ken Allen (Sierra On-Line), Jake "Virt" Kaufman (Shovel Knight and DuckTales Remastered), and GRAMMY award winner Christopher Tin.
The show does not work without YOUR live interaction, and each chatter is thanked personally at the conclusion of each episode. Come join us on Sundays at 8PM Eastern/5PM Pacific at the VOG (Voice of Geeks) Network Twitch Channel!
I'm going to be at ATL Comic Convention on Saturday, July 19th, running a panel with the performance actors from Red Dead Redemption 2 at 2PM!
Last week, I was at Summer Games Done Quick 2025, reading donations and helping raise over $2.4million for Doctors Without Borders.
The SAG-AFTRA strike against video game companies is now officially over, and everyone is back to work with better pay and more AI protections.
Subnautica 2 was delayed despite being ready, the founders of the studio outsted, and a $250million bonus not hit because they will not make their revenue targets by the contracted deadline due to the delay.
Then we talk to Rob about the news I missed while I was at SGDQ.I will be hosting at Summer Games Done Quick 2025 on Thursday and Saturday! I'll be hosting a Super Metroid race, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Super Mario 3, and a Kirby Super Star Ultra TAS!
I will also be at the ATL Comic Convention on July 19th to moderate a panel with the performance actors of Red Dead Redemption.
I was at Southern-Fried Gaming Expo and played some games (including a dual screen Commodore 128 game!), helped run a panel about obscure games, and moderated a panel with video game voice actors.
It was rumored (and proven true after recording) that Microsoft was going to lay off thousands of people in their Xbox division.
Beat Saber is ending support for PlayStation platforms, and will only allow multiplayer and new DLC for the Steam and Meta Quest platforms going forward.
Then we talk to Rob about SFGE and Fantasy Life i.I'll be at the Southern-Fried Gaming Expo speaking on a panel about obscure games and hosting a panel with video game voice actors!
A PSA if you have a Nintendo Switch 2 - update your controllers firmware! There is a firmware update and the console does NOT automatically update your controllers.
The Switch 2 is now officially Nintendo's fastest selling device, and is most likely the fastest selling video game console ever.
The SAG-AFTRA voice actors strike over AI protections has been suspended, which means voice actors are now returning to work.
Then we take suggestions from chat about obscure video games that you might have missed, none of which we actually used in the presentation, but it was good hearing them!We attempt to do two hours of gaming talk in one hour, so buckle up!
The ROG Xbox Ally is the handheld Xbox, announced at Summer Game Fest.
Geoff Keighley misled at the Summer Game Fest Kickoff Showcase by claiming that dev teams were smaller than they actually were - erasing the many outsourced parts of the game development process.
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection is coming from Digital Eclipse, but is not Gold Master Series #4.
The Nintendo Switch 2 is both plentiful and hard to find, depending on who you ask.
We then talk about the transfer process, gameshare, clip sharing, the official carrying case, and what I played first.
Then we talk to Rob about the Nintendo Switch 2.I was at MomoCon working with the Momentum 2025 speedrun marathon!
I will be back at Summer Games Done Quick 2025 as a host!
SAG-AFTRA is now pushing back over Fortnite's use of James Earl Jones' voice to say generative AI voice lines instead of trying to work with existing voice actors who have taken over the Darth Vader character in other games.
There are a few games that can't run on the Switch 2, but it's really not as surprising or bad as you think.
Then we talk to Rob about how we're going to be at the Southern-Fried Gaming Expo in Atlanta on June 18-20th and also running a panel about overlooked classic games.We start off remembering friend of the network Kurt Boutin, who went by "VOByKurt" in our community and on TikTok.
Fortnite introduced Darth Vader and utilized an AI trained on James Earl Jones's voice with permission - however this made Vader say some very naughty things.
Hideo Kojima wants a game that forgets what it was doing the longer you step away from it as a player.
Then we talk to Rob about forgetting things after putting games down, and how to effectively parry in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.We start talking about what was actually leaked regarding the internet cult film Kung Fury, and why you shouldn't be holding your breath for it to come to theaters anytime soon.
Giant Bomb has bought itself from Fandom and has become an independently owned media outlet once again.
Nintendo has released a new EULA that gives them more power to go after people who engage with piracy.
Then we talk to Rob about Super Nintendo World and the Mario Kart ride's seat sizes.I spent a week on the Virgin Voyages Scarlet Lady cruise ship, which actually has an impressive board game collection on board.
Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed to May of 2026 in a tradition that has been happening since GTA3.
EA lays off 300 employees and cancelled the upcoming game in the Titanfall universe.
Polygon has been sold from Vox Media to Valnet, and lays off 2/3rd of their staff. Valnet claims that it will still be the quality that is best for Polygon, despite all of its other sites being click-farms.
Fandom abruptly shut down all Giant Bomb livestreaming after sending new brand guidelines making everything PG, which caused some influential people to leave the outlet.
Unfortunately, my DNS servers went down half way through the show so the show is a little bit shorter and disjointed. (I merely rebooted my router right after going off the air and everything was fine.)The Nintendo Switch 2 Preorders will finally go live, and while the console hasn't gone up in price, the accessories have.
Greater Than Games, the producer of the board games Sentinels of the Multiverse and Spirit Island, is suspending operations in the face of tariff uncertainty in the US.
An Atlanta-area game developer is finally entering early access with their retro-styled platform brawler, so take a look at Elemensional Rift.
Then we talk to Rob about the Switch 2 prices and preorders.Nintendo is assessing the tariff situation, and made a statement that the Switch 2 price was not made with the tariffs in mind. The 46% tariffs on Vietnam were paused for 90 days, but the 10% tariff went into effect.
If you ask Google and Reddit, the physical version of Mario Kart World is $90 in the US - however, if you ask Nintendo, it is only $80. The confusion is because the internet is broken.
Then we ask the multi-million dollar question - how could Mario Kart World's price have been lowered? You probably wouldn't like the answer as a consumer - but it's a reckoning a lot of AAA titles that are feature-filled or take innovation and risks will have to come to grips with.
Then we talk to Rob about the price of everything gaming related, even though our wages haven't gone up to pay for it.
