Bobby Blackwolf

Pinned Post! Podcast host: "The Bobby Blackwolf Show" about the game industry since 2005 (!!) - recorded live Sundays at 8PM ET/5PM PT on VOGNetwork Twitch Panel moderator: Dragon Con, Southern-Fried Gaming Expo, DreamHack, and other cons I might have read your donation on Games Done Quick...

I probably clicked on it. The You Will TV campaign is the one set of ads I remember vividly from when they aired and I was hopeful they would be true someday. Then they pretty much all came true. The only false statement was that AT&T would be the ones who would bring them to us.

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

On Episode 998 of my video game podcast, I'll talk about the PHP Vulnerability that took a lot of the internet by surprise, and how EA's new owners shut down the exact game studio you thought they would. Also, I got the Steam Frame Ergonomic Kit and it should have been included. twitch.tv/VOGNetwork

You would think someone at the FOX NFL broadcast team would have double checked the generative AI football field they used in the background and said "wait a minute that's not right" GenAI doesn't know ball

Sports doubleheader part 2 Unlike this afternoon, I expect my team to lose this one.

Welp... Good news: this is a sports doubleheader for me today as I'm also going to a match tonight at the stadium across the street. Bad news: it's Atlanta United so it'll most likely mean I'll be double disappointed today.

REVENGE OF THE GATOR MY GOTY literally the only good gator fuck florida go dawgs

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

This is another reason why AI losers have gotten into retro decomp/recomp projects. Nobody wants to play AI slop games, so they have to reinforce the value of AI by producing something desirable, which in this case is just repackaging the work of actual talented people.

My oral history article about Sam & Max's War Song is free for one week! Check it out if you're a fan of these games, it's a fun conversation between the people who made this song (and many other memorable Sam & Max moments) a reality.

On Episode 997 of my video game podcast, I'll be talking about the canary in the coal mine for game dev communities that's happening in the decompilation scene, and how Epic Games declared that programming is too hard, so they're no longer gonna do it anymore. twitch.tv/VOGNetwork

So I was told by everyone local that Atlanta Dream WNBA Finals tickets would be so easy to get because nobody would go since nObOdY cArEs aBoUt wOmEnS sPoRtS. I forgot to get into the presale and just checked the public onsale. Sold out. Wife and I wanted to go to games 3 and 4.

The poison has been purged from our mighty war machine. Drink now, Chicken, the syrupy nectar of your people.

with the sunsetting of decomp.dev, people really need to come to terms with just how much damage vibecoders have done to our community and OSS in general. encounter is a fellow dusklight dev and friend, and seeing people treat him as replaceable in the scene is upsetting.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Nobody needs video games anymore now that we have agentic workflows.

le sigh

I worked at Blockbuster Video when this rolled out and they gave one employee at each store the modem. I have the Genesis version. Played NBA Jam on it. It still boots up, but the battery died so it basically factory resets every time you turn on the console.

On Episode 996 of my video game podcast, I'll give my early impressions of the Steam Frame VR headset that I very luckily was able to procure, and talk about Lord British's upcoming IP triumph in 2027, and how one of my favorite 90's games is getting a remaster. twitch.tv/VOGNetwork

I loved Wing Commander 3 (and 4) and can't wait to revisit WC3. When Tom Wilson was scheduled to come to Dragon Con and I was working Main Programming, I asked if I could just ask him questions about being Maniac in WC instead of BTTF stuff. I was (rightfully) denied, then he cancelled anyway.

Preview of tonight's podcast episode... 8PM ET/5PM PT at @vognetwork.com Twitch channel

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I'm not on the air tonight (or in the air tonight, cue a drum solo) but I'll be back next week with the 996th episode of my video game podcast. I have no clue what episode 1000 will be like next month... Anyway check out @orangeloungeradio.com at 9PM ET/6PM PT tonight @vognetwork.com !!

*ahem* phuck the phillies

The Speedrun Showcase I hosted at Dragon Con featuring @aneternalenigma.com running Silent Hill f (and me showing the credits warp party trick in Zelda: LTTP) is now up on YouTube! Relive the horror of the chapter 1 crash! Marvel at how others are celebrating us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3g...

The Speedrun Showcase I hosted at Dragon Con featuring @aneternalenigma.com running Silent Hill f (and me showing the credits warp party trick in Zelda: LTTP) is now up on YouTube! Relive the horror of the chapter 1 crash! Marvel at how others are celebrating us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3g...

May the odds be ever in your favor… Please note: we have made every effort to coordinate and harmonize the process as well prepare all our venue partners for these on-sale events.

We’re so ATL 🫰 Today, the NWSL’s 17th club unveiled it’s name and crest: Atlanta City FC. Sound off for ATL, coming in 2028!

On Episode 995 of my video game podcast, I'll talk about the public's surprising reaction to more closures at Xbox, Meta's Apple Vision Pro competitor, and another Sony patent that may or may not see actual production. twitch.tv/VOGNetwork

Look, my dad didn't want to bother with teaching me the birds and the bees, okay? my9games.net/en

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

After spending enough time in the speedrun community, you will come to realize that there is no group of people you should trust more as pilots and air traffic controllers than furries

They've been loyal for 8 months and are just helping to sell a children's card game for "fair market value instead of underpriced MSRP" and now they're mad that they're not special. So much so, they literally want to sue Pokemon for destroying their business model of keeping kids away from Pokemon.

After what seems like a month long break (but it was just a very long two weeks) I'm back with Episode 994 (!?) of my video game podcast to talk about the Steam Frame finally being real, and the latest vibe-coding battleground in hobbyist game dev. (And I'll recap Dragon Con!) twitch.tv/VOGNetwork

I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.

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