The Brutalist Report

Shotgun Cop Man [2d]
Rusty Lake celebrates 10 years of strangeness with a free game, a new game announcement, a short film, and a big sale [2d]
Gearbox is 'making rarity matter again' in Borderlands 4 after dropping too many legendaries in Borderlands 3 [2d]
Todd Howard is hiding in Oblivion Remastered, and you can find him and make him fall in love with you [2d]
Every house you can buy in Oblivion Remastered, including upgrades and freebies [2d]
'Be more like Larian, less like Activision': Ex-Call of Duty producer takes his old employer to task for prioritizing FOMO over quality [2d]
New Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix patches a rare case of 'teeny tiny legs' syndrome and ensures Charisma gives polearm users the clout they deserve [2d]
EA says Codemasters won't be making any more rally games: 'We've reached the end of the road working on WRC' [2d]
Evil Dead: The Game is being removed from sale just three years after it launched [2d]
You can get 74 indie games for a scant $16 in this eSims for Gaza Itch.io bundle [2d]
Blizzard is making a huge change to WoW: combat add-ons will be eliminated, with new features coming to replace them [2d]
Outraged Redditors discover they have been subject to a secret chatbot experiment that found AI posts were 'three to six times more persuasive' than humans [2d]
Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4's new release date 'is literally 0% about any other product’s actual or theoretical launch date,' and you know he's talking about Grand Theft Auto 6 [2d]
A murder-mystery horse MMO baffled me so much that I spoke to gaming's resident horse expert—turns out they've been holding out for their Stardew Valley moment for years, and I'm on their side [2d]
Ex-GTA dev says PC makes scads of cash now so hopefully GTA 6's 'PC version will be closer behind' consoles—that is if 'decision-day' at Rockstar doesn't give us a last-minute delay [2d]
Turns out Janet Jackson's laptop-crashing cursed bassline was the scourge of notebook makers for at least half a decade [2d]
Intel is trying out on-chip water cooling too and I'm just happy I'm not the one having to place liquids so close to expensive electronics [2d]
'We were literally held hostage': Overwatch 2 players are finding the matchmaking in Stadium tough, but the devs say they're working on a couple of solutions [3d]
Eric Barone's been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk's 'tech tree' idea isn't awful: 'What if someone did a Balatro treatment… a chess roguelike?' [3d]
ChatGPT's latest build is such a pathological ass-kisser OpenAI decided to roll it back: GPT-4o is 'overly supportive but disingenuous' [3d]
Ubisoft, Devolver Digital, Failbetter Games and Astra Logical are among the first partners confirmed for this year's PC Gaming Show [3d]
How to kill will-o-the-wisps in Oblivion Remastered [3d]
Looks like the first RTX 5060 laptop benchmark results are in and show pretty much what we expected [3d]
Yennefer's voice actor not only knows nothing about what's happening with The Witcher 4, she seems only vaguely aware she was in The Witcher 3: 'I didn't know what I was doing' [3d]
'Please give us one more chance': Infinity Nikki developer grovels in lengthy apology letter following disastrous launch of its newest patch [3d]
'Don't leave trash on Arrakis'—Dune: Awakening creative director implores players to 'clean up your old bases' [3d]
How to complete the Chaos in the Kitchen quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley [3d]
If you ever thought Vampire Survivors was missing gore, lore, and buckwild nudity, then do I have a game for you [3d]
Eric Barone has regrets about not fleshing out Stardew Valley's characters more, but likes that it's so open ended since it makes things 'more personal' for each player [3d]
Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like [3d]
'A lot of people hate it, but I think it's fun': Eric Barone backs Stardew Valley's fishing minigame, but does admit that 'it starts too hard' [3d]
You can watch the first two episodes of Star Wars' new animated miniseries early… if you hop on Fortnite [3d]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI generates 'fantastic' Python code, and that it now creates 'maybe 20 - 30% of the code ... in some of our projects' [3d]
'I kind of failed in that particular aspect': Eric Barone doesn't understand all the Pierre hate and wishes that he'd been 'a little bit more nuanced' when it came to creating JojaMart [3d]
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone hasn't 'really' played a lot of other farming and life sims, but he appreciates the impact the game has had on the genre—'it seems to have inspired a lot more people to consider this kind of game' [3d]
A little power management goes a long way in the latest Intel drivers giving a free 10% fps boost to the MSI Claw AI+ handheld and any other Lunar Lake device [3d]
Google's dominance in decline as its overall share of online search dips below 90% for the first time in a decade, and its desktop PC share is now below 80% and falling fast [3d]
Here are all the partners Intel announced at its 2025 Foundry Direct Connect event but big new customers are notably absent [3d]
Intel outlines new Foundry roadmap with strong AI focus for new nodes [3d]
Intel introduces its newest employee, Chip the robotic inspector, just after announcing mass human layoffs [3d]
Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 30 [3d]
Wagon is a 1-bit card-based spiritual successor to survival classic The Oregon Trail, and wastes no time getting right into the cannibalism [3d]

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