The Bobby Blackwolf Show - June 14, 2026
Valve will no longer sell physical gift cards in retail locations because of scammers using the cards to steal innocent people's money.
Xbox has said that more layoffs and studio closures are coming to "reset" the business.
The ESA says that the No Fakes act that is currently going through congress to regulate "digital replicas" will "destroy the game industry". This leads into a discussion of how much actors get paid - even in TV and film.
Then we talk to Jamie from OLR about Dead by Daylight announcements.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - June 7, 2026
Summer Game Fest was this week, so we talk about the games that Sony, Microsoft, and third parties showed at this Not-E3 week. Included in this is the whiplash of 1666: Amsterdam between the trailer and the playable prologue, the difference between Tupac's estate and his family, and my hopeful take on Persona 6's direction.
Crazy Taxi: World Tour was also announced, but has a disclaimer that generative AI was used in the assets, which makes it a non-starter for many fans.
The Switch 2 will get a redesign in Europe that allows for an easily replaceable battery due to new EU regulations. Don't expect this design to come to the US, but any new Switch (such as a lite or OLED model) will most likely have the same feature.
Then we talk to OLR about Summer Game Fest.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - May 24, 2026
The Doom soundtrack has been inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry!
Stern Pinball has announced their new pinball machine based on the Transformers cartoon series, and why you don't need to spend thousands of dollars to play it.
Sony has announced that they will no longer be porting their single-player games to PC, keeping them PS5 exclusive.
Then we talk about more thoughts on Forza Horizon 6 as the seasonal objectives start coming in.
Then we talk to Jamie from OLR about Momocon's vtuber meet and greet setup and the Transformers Pinball.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - May 17, 2026
I played through Mixtape via Xbox Game Pass and I enjoyed it - but it's not going to be my GOTY and it didn't really reflect on my personal experience growing up in that time period.
But you can wait for a sale - Mixtape's music licenses were agreed to in perpetuity, so the game will not be delisted.
I then talk a lot about Forza Horizon 6, and how we've started to enter the roster update phase of one of my favorite game series. (But I'm still loving it)
A bill in California has passed committee that will make it illegal for games to be sold that will be unplayable when the publisher shuts down online servers.
Then we talk to Brad from OLR IIDX about Forza Horizon 6 and how it scales its difficulty levels.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - May 10, 2026
I got the Steam Controller, and give my early impressions, as well as bemoan the fact that it can only be used in Steam and not in any other PC gaming content, such as games from Xbox Game Pass or Play Anywhere.
Valve is implementing a reservation queue for future shipments of the Steam Controller due to the popularity of the first wave of orders.
Nintendo has increased the price of the Switch 2 due to the AI infrastructure roll out - memory and storage is more expensive now than it was when the Switch 2 was initially manufactured.
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Xbox Copilot for Consoles is being discontinued, so there will not be an AI chatbot added to Xbox consoles as originally planned.
Then we take a call from a blind gamer sharing how Civilization V is now completely playable for blind players thanks to a recent mod.
Then we talk to Jamie about accessibility and how Dolby Atmos audio works.
