The Bobby Blackwolf Show - May 4, 2025
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 Bobby Blackwolf Show - April 20, 2025
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.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - April 13, 2025
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.
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.
