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.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - June 28, 2026
We talk more about the FIFA World Cup and the matches I attended in Atlanta.
Jersey Jack Pinball has announced a new pinball machine based on Sonic The Hedgehog, and the headlines once again focus on the high price of owning pinball. Find a pinball arcade near you and request it so you can play it for just a dollar or two!
The Steam Machine has launched with a price much higher than Valve initially intended due to the RAM and storage shortages.
Valve has released a new version of SteamOS that can now run on any AMD desktop - for free.
Grand Theft Auto VI will not release with a physical edition on consoles, and it came out later that it will NEVER launch with a physical edition.
Then we talk to Jamie from OLR IIDX about Transformers Pinball and the 24th anniversary of Orange Lounge Radio.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - June 21, 2026
I went to two World Cup matches this week, so we start the show talking about sports and the cultural exchange that is happening.
We remember Bobby Prince, the composer who worked on many 90's era DOS games like Doom and Commander Keen. He passed away at the age of 81.
Xbox is possibly closing Double Fine, Compulsion Games, and Ninja Theory, in order to "reset" the business.
Unreal Engine 6 will be removing blueprints and C++ and replacing them with new technologies that are more friendly for LLM's. They are also wanting to bring every UE6 game into the Fortnite ecosystem.
Then we talk to Jamie about Pokemon and Transformers pinball.
