The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Demand has been 'very strong' and 'outpaced supply' for AMD's RX 9000-series cards according to CEO Dr. Lisa Su, as anyone who's tried to buy one can attest [49m]
- Microsoft's anniversary edition Windows XP-themed Crocs are definitely a look, but I'm not entirely sure I could carry them off [57m]
- UK politician unveils dead-eyed, Pixar-looking AI doppelganger, telling constituents to 'give AI Mark a try'—unsurisingly, it's rubbish [1h]
- 'I won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live': Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu 'huge breasts' when Pokémon first came to the US, and no, it wasn't a mistranslation [1h]
- Security researcher quips maybe it's time to get 'a real job' after being paid meagre $1,000 bug bounty by Apple [1h]
- Ryzens and Radeons revitalise AMD's revenues but export restrictions delete data center profits, causing share prices to slip [2h]
- German phone repair and insurance firm goes bankrupt after paying €200,000 to ransomware hackers despite reported revenue of 70 million [3h]
- It's only taken six months but at long last, AMD's Adrenaline driver has FSR 4 support for Cyberpunk 2077 [4h]
- The next videogame getting its own tabletop RPG is Diablo, an RPG that doesn't have any RP in it [7h]
- PSA: Persona 5 Royale is cheaper than it's ever been on PC right now, and you get 7 other games thrown in [8h]
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 6 (#1509) [9h]
- I thought it was a cute and casual little mining sim right up until it devoured my entire morning [13h]
- When the quality-of-life update fixes something that annoyed me, after I stop playing the dang game [13h]
- My speakers automatically go into standby mode and it's driving me mad [14h]
- After 10 years, there's a functioning Metal Gear Solid 5 co-op mod so you and a friend can be played like a damn fiddle together [14h]
- Indie horror game rejected by Steam releases for free instead: 'This is our response to being censored, and our rejection of the idea that horror can be defined as acceptable or not' [14h]
- After next week's Grafton Farmhouse rework, Phasmophobia is getting what I can only describe as 'haunted Waffle House' [14h]
- 'Touch grass, read a book, throw a ball, get tackled once in a while': Epic Games art director and OG System Shock 2 artist says the best-looking videogames are designed by people who don't just look at videogames [16h]
- Search sucks [16h]
- 'We didn't vote for ChatGPT': Prime Minister of Sweden admits he uses AI chatbots for 'second opinions' and an awful lot of people are not happy about it [17h]
- EA tosses a last-minute life preserver to fans who missed out on Battlefield 6 beta early access, offers one more chance to get in [17h]
- Thousands of people are so eager to blow stuff up in the Battlefield 6 beta they're idling in the main menu [18h]
- Kingmakers, the medieval combat sim with tanks and M16s, warns that guns don't always win knife fights: 'Not all of your bullets will have an easy time taking down all enemy types' [19h]
- No more deploy beacon clown cars for recon players in Battlefield 6—the assault class will get them instead: 'We're intentionally redefining it as a teamplay tool for frontline flanking' [20h]
- Intel's bad news year rolls on as new 18A chip manufacturing node is reportedly in trouble with 10% yields and doubts over profitability of the Panther Lake CPU [20h]
- TSMC fires several employees over the suspicion of stealing 2 nm process tech secrets, with Taiwan authorities investigating the matter due to national security fears [20h]
- Elden Ring Nightreign's Seamless co-op mod now allows up to 6 players, but won't add any more as 'the game just becomes comically easy' [21h]
- 'Btw, we recently found the Vine video archive' says Elon Musk after declaring Grok's video generation to be the AI equivalent [21h]
- All Fruit Battlegrounds codes and how to redeem [21h]
- DeepMind CEO makes big brain claims, saying AGI could be here within 'five to 10 years' and cause humanity to experience widespread change that's '10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10 times faster' [21h]
- Marvel Rivals 3.5 sneaks in one very minor change to appease those who hate the new end-of-match overview, and it works [22h]
- The official mod support of Baldur's Gate 3 is a heaving success with over 265 million downloads, 250,000 of which are Withers Big Naturals [22h]
- AMD's new AM6 socket has all the pins—2,100 of 'em—but don't worry, your old CPU cooler will apparently still fit just fine [22h]
- All Tennis: Zero codes and how to redeem [22h]
- Silent Hill f's director is breaking tradition by adding 'more entertaining and thrilling action' to appeal to younger audiences [22h]
- Battlefield 6 devs have been 'closely tracking player behaviour' to perfect maps and change objective layouts ahead of launch [22h]
- Cloudflare calls out Perplexity for hiding 'crawling activity' as AI bot scrapes websites that explicitly disallow it, Perplexity responds by calling them 'more flair than cloud' [22h]
- League of Legends' Wild Rift China posts AI slop that looks like a fever dream you'd have after watching KPop Demon Hunters, deletes it after backlash [23h]
- Battlefield 6 will introduce classic maps 'based on fan or player requests', and I can already see where this is going: 'we want to choose the best possible one to bring back the good old days of playing Battlefield' [23h]
- Need to clone your boot drive for your next PC upgrade? I've discovered my new favorite tool [23h]
- Ex-Intel and AMD graphics chief Raja Koduri promises a RISC-V based IP that 'rearchitects the GPU from first principles' but with few details in the startup word-salad [23h]
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