Description

We say goodbye to Peter Mayhew, cackle at China's Game for Peace, chide Bethesda's TTRPG plagiarism, and marvel at CRYTEK's software ray tracing.

WRUP

• ATLAS
• Anno 1800
• Tropico 6
• Idling to Rule the Gods
• Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
• Tom Clancy's The Division 2
• World of Warships

NOTES

• Peter Mayhew, 1944-2019
• China's PUBG replacement makes people wave goodbye after they die
  • Chinese government burns all copies of The Sassoon Files
• Microsoft says acceptable Xbox Live trask talk includes 'get wrecked' and 'potato aim'
  • Community Standards for Xbox
• Bethesda's latest Elder Scrolls adventure taken down amid claims of plagiarism
  • The Elsweyr adventure module from Bethesda (via Ars Technica)
  • The Black Road adventure module at the DM's Guild
  • Paige Leitman: "How They Plagiarized Our Adventure"
• EA: The "old way" of releasing games doesn't work anymore
  • Anthem Subreddit: "Can we all just agree that Anthem is dead?"
• Massive walks back release of The Division 2's 515-level gear following player backlash
• CRYTEK shows off hardware-agnostic ray tracing demo on 2-year old AMD GPU

THIS WEEK'S HOSTS

• Todd Chartier
• Joe Hollis
• Duane Sibilly

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.