The Brutalist Report

PC Gamer

• 'Our presence on PC isn't strong enough,' Xbox bosses admit [43d]
• Peter Molyneux has made a proper game again rather than a monetization experiment, and I really hope he finishes it [43d]
• 'The exhaustion on screen is 100% real': the solo dev of this 'live-action' survival game spent 40 grueling days alone in the wilderness to create it [43d]
• Turkiye passes legislation to tighten its grip on Steam and other gaming platforms, but it's social media companies that really get it in the neck [43d]
• Everything you need to know about the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake [43d]
• Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred has a special gift for necromancers who want to be surrounded by 28 skeletons and druids who hate being bears [43d]
• Crypto-scammers are offering cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz safety for Bitcoin, and Iran's already fired on at least one [43d]
• Unlock these Vampire Crawlers upgrades first to blast through the hardest stages [43d]
• The Ubisoft studio that spent 10 years making Black Flag spinoff Skull and Bones comes full circle by remaking Black Flag [43d]
• Big Tech openly wants to manipulate us with AI. That seems bad to me [43d]
• I thought I was playing a cute little city builder about managing a fairytale town in a tree, but it turns out it's a brutal roguelike and now all my gnomes are getting eaten by ghosts [43d]
• 'I have 100% Crimson Desert': Palword's community manager completes every achievement after just 189 hours, and honestly, I'm surprised that's even possible [43d]
• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced revealed, coming in July [43d]
• Elon Musk's aerospace and AI company reportedly plans to make its own GPUs, though I doubt you'll one day be enjoying a SpaceX graphics card in your rig [43d]
• After 18 years of beating roguelikes, I think I've finally found my kryptonite [43d]
• Blizzard's buffed my favorite WoW spec in the most monkey paw way it possibly could [43d]
• 'Players don’t realise that their favourite games right now were already built with AI', says Google exec making AI tools [43d]
• This vibe-coded tool helps you find missing Lego pieces for your old sets, and now I think the AI revolution might not be such a bad thing after all [43d]
• 'I know a bubble when I see one': US senator's grave warning about the AI industry [43d]
• Despite the negativity, Marathon was one of last month's best-selling games, though there's a catch [43d]
• 'Many employees are leaving for SK hynix': 40,000 Samsung workers are marching outside its factories to protest pay levels [43d]
• YouTuber goes 'invisible' to America's army of cameras with his $2,000+ anti-surveillance device [43d]
• Slay the Spire 2 dev says an early idea was to actually reduce the card pool, but players hated it: 'We need new stuff!' [43d]
• Upscaling issues continue to plague Crimson Desert post-patch, but Pearl Abyss isn't throwing in the towel [43d]
• Is smellovision the future of VR gaming?: 'Projectile vomiting as your headset psychically projects the scent of yeast-infected rotting fish from the pregnant fox OC on the other side of the room' [43d]
• The latest Crimson Desert patch is finally the reason I needed to turn my once-useless house into a cosy haven [43d]
• Tesla to use Intel 14A for AI chips as Musk says it will be 'ready for prime ​time' when the multi-billion dollar Terafab project scales up [44d]
• I'd buy this Intel 270K Plus, RTX 5080 gaming PC over anything with a Ryzen 9800X3D and no, I'm not joking [44d]
• Sony's terrifyingly fast robot arm is finally beating pro-level table tennis players at their own game [44d]
• Tarkov lead vows to make the upcoming Fragmentary Order the opposite of Arc Raiders, which he calls an 'extraction shooter for casual people' [44d]
• WoW's latest patch is drowning in bugs, with players worried that Blizzard is struggling to keep its head above water [44d]
• Making your own DRAM cells in a garden shed isn't the most practical solution to the RAMpocalypse, but it's still awesome to watch [44d]
• 'We’ve been getting around two days of normal work out of it': Proton GE dev GloriousEggRoll and CachyOS offer early praise for Framework 13 Pro's 'freakishly good battery life' [44d]
• 'Increasingly the distinction between bots and humans is moot' says one of the biggest web-infrastructure companies [44d]
• How to tame the Abyss Heuklang in Crimson Desert [44d]
• Leaked behind-the-scenes footage from the upcoming Elden Ring movie sees the Loathsome Dung Eater take centre stage [44d]
• Former head of FSR development at AMD posts 'big trouble' meme when asked why the company won't release the INT8 version of FSR 4 for older GPUs [44d]
• How to get the Baltheon Armor in Crimson Desert [44d]
• PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred [44d]
• Seagate FireCuda X Vault review [44d]
• I bought every ship in Windrose – here's what you should spend your pirate gold on first [44d]
• AI is 10 to 20 times more likely to help you build a bomb if you hide your request in cyberpunk fiction, new research paper says [44d]
• Amid tech shortages and price hikes, the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally keeps getting cheaper in Australia [44d]