Description

Google gets into game streaming. Oculus announces a new VR headset. Nvidia to shoehorn ray tracing onto old cards, and Old Man Wuerthele gets skeptical.

WRUP

• Sea of Thieves
• Overwatch
  • Battle medic Baptiste officially joins Overwatch
• Satisfactory
• Destiny 2 Forsaken
• Tom Clancy's The Division 2
• Kerbal Space Program

NOTES

• Google announces Stadia game streaming service
• Rift S is Oculus' second generation PC VR headset
• Google+ is going away, leaving indie tabletop culture in a lurch
  • itch.io
    • Tracy Barnett's games
    • Summoner's Fate
    • Mutants in the Night
    • Games created as part of the Sad Mech Game Jam
• RPG and TV writer Larry DiTillio dead at 76
• Nvidia bringing ray tracing to older GTX graphics cards
• Hello Games announces No Man's Sky's next summer update, Beyond

MUSIC CREDITS

Music for this episode of HammerCast is Mega Hyper Ultrastorm by Kevin McLeod of incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.