71: The Cantakerous Weirdo

HammerCast

Activision Blizzard makes layoffs while posting record revenues. The Steam Award winners are weird. Abuse allegations roil TTRPGs. Todd builds a new computer.

WRUP

• Apex Legends
• Guild Wars 2
• ATLAS
• WarGroove
• Tetris 99
  • ...is the opposite of Tetris Effect, and it's amazing

NOTES

• Todd's new computer build
• Nintendo Direct 2.13.2019
  • Super Mario Maker 2
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• Activision Blizzard lays off 800 while posting record-setting revenues
• The Steam Awards 2018 winners
• 8K gaming is a long way off, and it's gonna be pricey
  • Dell's $5,000 8K PC monitor
  • Duane & Todd's Dell UltraSharp U3415W
• BioWare (allegedly) not done with Mass Effect
  • Polygon's BioWare studio profile
• Civilization VI: Gathering Storm reviews
  • Polygon
  • The Verge
  • Kotaku
  • IGN
• Multiple new abuse allegations against Zak Smith emerge; CW: sexual abuse, emotional abuse
  • DriveThruRPG's response
  • RAINN: Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
• Ars Technica's favorite two-player board games of 2019
  • Keyforge: Call of the Archons

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.