The Brutalist Report - gaming
- People are flipping out over recoil in Battlefield 6 because of one gun specifically designed to have no recoil in real life [2d]
- Larian celebrated a 'probably this time really maybe' defeat of Baldur's Gate 3's Zoom grandpa portrait glitch too soon, with the beloved bug already rising from the dead like a slasher villain [2d]
- Battlefield 6 producer says Bad Company 2 was a 'huge inspiration' for the new game, and you can't argue with his logic: 'When you look for excellence in our legacy, that's where you find it' [2d]
- System Shock 2's alien 'sphincter doors' were made with photos from a dev's colonoscopy [2d]
- After 3 years of bargaining with Microsoft, the Raven QA workers have secured their first union contract: 'Ratifying this contract is a win for game workers everywhere' [2d]
- The 'Compiling Shaders' screen is the worst screen in gaming: here's how to make it suck less [2d]
- It's 2025 and my PC still has no idea what audio devices are connected to it [2d]
- McFarlane is making the Fallout: New Vegas NCR Ranger figure I wish I had 15 years ago [2d]
- Corsair Vengeance a7500 review [2d]
- Nvidia claims H20 chips do 'not have backdoors' after reportedly being summoned by 'Beijing authorities' for a quick word [2d]
- Intel's new Core Ultra 120 will be DOA if stores sell them at anything like these prices [2d]
- Silksong fan uses electrons to draw the 'world's smallest Hornet', which is 'about 1/5 the width of a strand of silk', '2 bacteria long', and '8,000 times smaller' than the actual insect [2d]
- A gaming benchmark face-off between AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme and Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V is surprisingly close, proving once more that Lunar Lake is the best chip Intel has made in years [2d]
- ChatGPT removes the ability for conversations to be displayed by search engines as 'nearly 4,500 conversations' indexed by Google [2d]
- 'I’d prefer working as a small team'—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs think their studio is 'just the right size', with no real plans to expand it yet [2d]
- We deserve better than the boring carry capacity systems 90% of RPGs give us, but games like Death Stranding 2 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show the way forward [2d]
- Blade is Marvel Rivals' answer to an intentionally broken meta, though he may usher in a whole new issue [2d]
- Microsoft yanks the plug on Windows 11 SE, giving school and college IT techs a little over a year to find a suitable replacement [2d]
- Everything that grinds our gears about PC gaming in 2025 [2d]
- I thought audio driver troubleshooting hell was a thing of the '90s until I tried using Bluetooth headphones with my laptop [2d]
- Linus Torvalds is still on the 'same old boring Radeon RX 580', which is a sign I probably don't need that upgrade I've been eying up [2d]
- Can a graphics card be 2.5x faster than an RTX 5090 in path tracing and use 80% less power? Bolt Graphics claims its Zeus GPU-powered does just that [2d]
- Grow a Garden's newest update has introduced cooking, alongside a feature that players have been begging for [2d]
- Marvel Rivals is finally giving more competitive compensation to players struck down by rage-quitting teammates or friends with hamster-powered Wi-Fi [2d]
- Peak's latest patch fixes invisible chicken bodies crashing the game and lets you toggle off the ability to eat your friends: 'Now that you've all had your fun we're introducing some changes to cannibalism' [2d]
- Dimension 20's Brennan Lee Mulligan will DM Critical Role's next campaign, bravely sacrificing his budding American Girl Doll shoes career and presumably a lot of sleep [2d]
- Huge news for base organisers and decorators, Minecraft's next drop will add shelves [2d]
- Asus TUF A14 (2025) review [2d]
- Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 4 (#1507) [3d]
- Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 4, 2025) [3d]
- Choose to be an upstanding burgher or a criminal mastermind as The Guild series of medieval life choice simulators returns [3d]
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