The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• Hades 2's latest patch drops the nerf hammer on everyone's favorite overpowered build, but players are surprisingly cool with it [671d]
• Ultrakill dev says it's fine to pirate his game if you don't have money to spare: 'Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it' [671d]
• Wild Bastards takes every ingredient that made up BioShock's Irrational Games and blends it with cowboy beans [671d]
• After two years of silence, Metal Slug Tactics returns with a new trailer and a promise that it's coming this fall [671d]
• Hot on the heels of its hit Fallout show, Amazon is releasing a 'gritty' series based on the Yakuza games later this year [671d]
• The future of gaming belongs to weird, little games [671d]
• Team Fortress 2 plummets to Mostly Negative on Steam as its biggest fans stoke the righteous flames of anti-bot outrage [671d]
• Less than 6 months after laying off 40 employees, Dead by Daylight studio Behaviour Interactive drops another 95 [671d]
• I tried to recreate Marvel's Iron Man in this movie studio sim, and my version was so bad my own father stormed out of the theater [671d]
• The reason Framework laptops just keep getting better: 'We're blind to none of the feedback and we absorb it all' [671d]
• I was feeling a little needy so I sought reassurance from Jen-Hsun Huang and he told me it's all okay: 'I love PC gamers' [671d]
• This is not a drill: Noctua's best fan yet is actually coming out this June [671d]
• Nvidia's CEO reckons that millions of AI GPUs will reduce power consumption, not increase it [671d]
• Qualcomm's CEO on AI performance in laptops: 'People talk about TOPS but they should be talking watts' [671d]
• 'It's our way of making a statement in the face of targeted harassment': Tales of Kenzera: Zau director lowers the price of the game on Switch [671d]
• Guild Wars 2's next expansion will add its first new raid in five years, as well as 'the most player-friendly housing system in an MMORPG' [671d]
• World of Warcraft's latest The War Within trailer has players simping hard for big baddie Xal'atath—and I'm not exactly surprised [671d]
• A flood of reported privacy incidents from Google confirms, incidentally, that a Nintendo game leak from 2017 happened thanks to a YouTube contractor [671d]
• A liquid cooler with no pump: Noctua is working on a prototype targeting 'AIO level performance' [671d]
• Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang reflects on how AI already creates pixels and entire frames, before saying that 'games will be generated with AI' [671d]
• Genshin Impact Clorinde build—The best artifacts and weapons [671d]
• Genshin Impact Sethos build—The best artifacts and weapons [671d]
• Ikea is hiring workers for its online Roblox store for £13.15 per hour, and you can even serve virtual meatballs [671d]
• Hidetaka Miyazaki says Shadow of the Erdtree had to be big, because he wanted Elden Ring players 'to experience that sense of discovery and that sense of wonder' all over again [671d]
• Here's how Shadow of the Erdtree's new leveling system works [671d]
• After 3 hours with Shadow of the Erdtree, I can already tell it's going to deliver on my favorite thing about FromSoftware's games: Exploration [671d]
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's new martial arts moveset let me spin kick a boss so fast it felt like I was in Sekiro [671d]
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is PC Gamer's next cover story: Here's a sneak peek [671d]
• MrBeast is now Mr Has The Most YouTube Subscribers [671d]
• Hyte is claiming its new AIO CPU cooler to be the quietest and coolest ever made [671d]
• Pax Dei, the new MMO from EVE alumni, is attempting a magic system that makes you feel special, where 'you might be the only one' who's discovered a new spell [671d]
• Hyte's updated Y70 PC case range, with more colours and a better touchscreen, looks pretty darn lovely [671d]
• Pax Dei is an exciting 'social sandbox' from EVE alumni where you can be a medieval monarch, pope, or just make trousers all day—and it's out soon [672d]
• Tactical Breach Wizards, a turn-based strategy game about spec-ops casters with a habit of throwing people out of windows, has a free demo after years in the cauldron [672d]
• Developer of the latest anime gacha hit apologises 5 times for launch issues in a single letter and doles out in-game treats like candy [672d]
• 'The Flame is lit': Dark Souls is getting a new manga and all I'm hoping for is something more horrifying than Elden Ring's one [672d]
• Intel says it's happy to make the very Arm chips that threaten its x86 hegemony [672d]
• Sony's PSVR 2 virtual reality headset will get an adaptor for PCs this summer but its best features will remain exclusive to PlayStation [672d]
• Qualcomm CEO says 'you should expect to see Qualcomm in every PC form factor: From desktop to mini PCs, to tablets' [672d]
• Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is the next open-world racer that seems destined for live service Hell [672d]
• This irritating robot yelled at me repeatedly at Computex, forcing me to resist the urge to kick it over [672d]
• Team Group showed me some blazingly fast Gen 5 SSDs, pink DDR5, and a host of wacky cooling solutions to keep it all in check [672d]
• D&D's Wizards of the Coast come under fire for AI (again) after advertising for a 'principal AI engineer', but insists 'our stance on AI hasn't changed' since videogames don't count [672d]
• Witness the mighty Noctua power supply [672d]
• Intel's latest processor is mostly made by its biggest manufacturing rival because it had 'a better process technology at that point in time' [672d]
• Kingston gave me my first glimpse of CAMM2 DDR5 desktop RAM at Computex 2024, along with some AI-gen race drivers and a very heavy F1 theme [672d]
• Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, June 4 [672d]
• It's on: our first look at Intel Battlemage comes from Lunar Lake's new graphics silicon with its redesigned Xe2 architecture [672d]
• One thread per core: 'we can deliver better than Hyper-Threading performance without Hyper-Threading' claims Intel for Lunar Lake [672d]
• Intel talks shop about next-gen Lunar Lake processors: 'We will win in performance, we will win in graphics, we will win in AI' [672d]
• Intel has made 'a tremendous amount of fixes for compatibility' in its Battlemage GPU architecture to ensure games run as they should [672d]