The Bobby Blackwolf Show

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

I was in Indiana visiting in-laws last week, and this led to a discussion of "third spaces", and a third space I wish was near me - a coffee and board gaming space in Greenfield, Indiana called Hitherto Coffee & Gaming Parlour.

The Steam Controller went on sale the day after we went live (and sold out almost instantly) - but the trick is to get funds into your Steam Wallet beforehand so you're not hitting any payment processors.

There is a new DRM check for PS4 and PS5 online purchases - but it's not as bad as everyone might think, and it might actually be a good thing for another pro-consumer policy.

Xbox is dropping the price of Game Pass, with Ultimate going from $30 to $23 a month, and also removing the perk of having new Call of Duty's on the service from day one...but will people care?

There is a new LEGO set for the Sega Genesis - and for once, it is a video game set that is not expensive!

Then we talk to Jamie from OLR IIDX about Game Pass and third spaces.

Sorry this was uploaded weeks late - a lot of things happened. We're getting caught up very quickly, though!

I was at a tech conference this past week and it was a dystopia regarding agentic AI...and the agents didn't even work properly!

While I was in town, I visited the new Nintendo San Francisco store!

On the flight home, I started playing Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream, and I'm not as drawn into it as I was the original DS version.

There is a new retro console that plays the original cartridges - the Neo Geo+ AES - and is also coming with 10 cartridge rereleases that work on the original hardware.

An indie game trailer dealing with serious subjects was pulled from the BAFTA Games Awards while BAFTA talked about championing games dealing with serious subjects.

Then we talk to Jamie about the Neo Geo+ AES.