The Brutalist Report - gaming
- Mavrix is a promising sim about riding pushbikes down dangerously steep hills, but it shows the limits of open world design [3d]
- Bungie continues to fire into its feet with both barrels: A new armor set in Destiny 2 has just been disabled because it makes the player who wears it completely invisible [3d]
- YouTube will no longer demonetize videos with 'strong profanity' in the first 7 seconds, but you'll still need to 'choose your f**ks carefully' [3d]
- For better or worse, a new single-button way to play World of Warcraft is changing the game: 'We've received overwhelmingly positive feedback' [3d]
- You can tour the entirety of Silent Hill 2 in Roblox now, but the creator recommends playing the real thing first: 'This is not the best way to experience Silent Hill 2' [3d]
- How to get flower petals in Grounded 2 [3d]
- I'm a haunted Mad Max muscle car with 2 shotgun turrets in this early access vehicle combat game, and it's just as rad as it sounds [3d]
- Call of Duty is finally freeing some of the older games from the CoD HQ launcher nobody likes [4d]
- Game developers association decries 'financial censorship' amidst payment processor crackdown on NSFW games, calls for 'greater transparency and fairness in how adult games are moderated' [4d]
- Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate review [4d]
- It's a golden age for weird Eastern European games—you can tell because I'm in love with a horror puzzler about 2 old men trying to find evil in the woods [4d]
- As the Chinese game industry flocks from mobile to AAA blockbusters, Phantom Blade Zero's director says the quiet part out loud: 'Good games are good. It's not 'big games are good.'' [4d]
- Nacon Rig 900 Max HS review [4d]
- Bad vibes only: A zero-day flaw in popular sex toy app Lovense can leak usernames, email addresses, and other, err, intimate details [4d]
- After losing $200 million on Suicide Squad, WB Games has another live service game in the works 'based on one of the iconic IPs from the vast Warner Bros. and DC Comics catalog' [4d]
- Happy birthday, Windows 10—one of Microsoft's most popular operating systems ever reaches its 10-year milestone, just three months before it gets hoofed off to OS heaven [4d]
- One of Tales of the Shire's biggest disappointments is its characters, which seems pretty significant for a life simulator [4d]
- Where to find raspberries in Tales of the Shire [4d]
- How to get better quality crops in Tales of the Shire [4d]
- How to unlock new recipes in Tales of the Shire [4d]
- Judge sends hangdog lawyer to AI school after he's caught using ChatGPT to cite imaginary caselaw: 'Any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with fire is living in a cloud' [4d]
- 'This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot' says agentic AI as it reportedly clicks the 'I am not a robot' button [4d]
- Peak releases a 'temporary solution to the fall damage bug' in the latest patch, but doesn't have any new features: 'Let us cook' [4d]
- Microsoft rolls out 'experimental' AI mode for the Edge browser you can ask to spy on all your internetting and lend a helping hand. Yikes! [4d]
- Total War: Warhammer 3's removal of ass ladders is a great start, but it's got a far bigger gate problem to contend with [4d]
- Internet Starlink satellites aren't just messing up visible light images of the universe, they're unintentionally interfering with radio astronomy as well [4d]
- Capcom smashes second, larger pane of emergency glass—pulling a big endgame Monster Hunter Wilds update from September and getting it ready for next month instead [4d]
- Where to find thistle needles in Grounded 2 [4d]
- She's unreal: Fashion ad seen in Vogue stokes controversy by featuring AI-generated model, but the creators say 'we don't create unattainable looks' [4d]
- How to break cracked rocks in Grounded 2 [4d]
- Ayaneo confirms a Strix Halo handheld gaming PC is on the way, but if you think the powerful AMD chip is overkill, wait until you see the M.2 slots [4d]
- Philips Evnia 27M2N3800A gaming monitor review [4d]
- 7 Grounded 2 tips to survive Brookhollow Park [4d]
- Where to find Milk Molars and Mega Milk Molars in Grounded 2 [4d]
- Where to find dandelion tufts in Grounded 2 and how to use them [4d]
- Where to find water in Grounded 2 [4d]
- How to get blueberry leather in Grounded 2 [4d]
- How to get spine nubs in Grounded 2 [4d]
- How to build a workbench in Grounded 2 [4d]
- How to get the Grounded 2 briefcase code [4d]
- Grounded 2, even in early access, is one of the best survival games I've ever played [4d]
- Where to find northern scorpion stingers in Grounded 2 [4d]
- Where to find grass seeds in Grounded 2 [4d]
- Where to find stinkbugs in Grounded 2 [4d]
- How to get food in Grounded 2: Best early game snacks to satisfy your hunger [4d]
- Where to find the red soldier ant egg in Grounded 2 [4d]
- Where to find acorn tops and acorn shells in Grounded 2 [4d]
- How to get weed stems in Grounded 2 [4d]
- How to get bombardier parts and boiling glands in Grounded 2 [4d]
- How to get brittle whetstones and plating in Grounded 2 to upgrade your weapons and armour [4d]
- How to get lingonberry leather in Grounded 2 [4d]
- How to reach the O.R.C. transmitters for the Signals and Stashes mission in Grounded 2 [4d]
- Team Group joins the mega memory kit clan, launching a set of 256 GB DDR5-6000 for gamers and creators who just never have enough RAM [4d]
- UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology says you're on the side of 'extreme pornographers' and 'predators' if you want the Online Safety Act walked back [4d]
- Itch.io releases list of the adult content you can't put on its store anymore after anti-NSFW crackdown, including stuff that's not illegal but just icky [4d]
- The UK Government say it has 'no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act', in response to 380,000 strong (and counting) petition [4d]
- Intel's next-gen Panther Lake mobile chip will be a portable gaming beast with 50% more Xe cores than Lunar Lake, according to the latest shipping manifest leak [4d]
- A Tyler, The Creator single 'leak' turned out to be an AI-generated fake and points to a whole cottage industry in misleading fans of games, music, and movies [4d]
- Robots and heavy metal should be a match made in music heaven, but this collab in China is as exciting as your grandma moshing to Megadeth on metoprolol [4d]
- How to get the corrupt mutation in Grow a Garden [4d]
- 'I didn’t want just another black box', says hobbyist who customised their PC to look like an aged terracotta pot [4d]
- Xbox is rolling out age verification in the UK with some social features blocked for young users, and no, you can't use Death Stranding to get around this one [4d]
- Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 29 [4d]
- Some lucky souls will get hands-on with Silksong within weeks, with the Hollow Knight sequel confirmed to be playable at Gamescom 2025 [4d]
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