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.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - July 19, 2026
I will be moderating two panels at the Southern-Fried Gaming Expo from July 31-August 2nd in Atlanta!
Microsoft restores an unrestorable 25 year old account that was hacked after learning the user was a prominent content creator.
Valve has says that the RAM crisis is going to get worse, as they are seeing leading indicators that prices will rise even more for consumers in 3-6 months time.
A new update to SteamVR and a new Great On Frame page means that the Steam Frame release is imminent. (But not Tomorrow.)
Then we talk about the Donkey Kong LEGO set as well as talking to Jamie from OLR about how messy our office spaces are and home videos we have on analog media.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - July 12, 2026
EA Sports has reversed course and taken out unpopular singleplayer microtransactions from College Football 27 thanks to backlash from their own content creator network.
Xbox lays off most of iD Software, including many long time employees with deep institutional knowledge, and then says that the team is the same size as it was 10 years ago and this is good, actually.
Bethesda's employee union is protesting the layoffs, especially considering some employees who had been with the company for decades were laid off.
Then we talk to OLR about game collecting in this new era of digital-only distribution.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - July 5, 2026
A Steam Machine case based on the Companion Cube from Portal is no longer being made - because the company never had permission to make it in the first place.
Sony is going to stop producing physical discs starting in January 2028.
Sony is shutting down their PS3 and PS Vita digital stores over the next year.
Some game preservation groups have said what the only real option is to preserve the artform, and the publishers don't like it.
